The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1908-04-01
INTRODUCING EDITOR BONEY.

Mr.. Blackwell, who is one of the stock
holders of the company, continues in
his present capacity.
When | moved away from Laurens,
four years ago, it was with the inten-
ton of continuing as editor of THE
ADVERTISER only until the services of
a capable and tested newspaper mar Of
character could be secured for its
general management. While the prop
erty was never before in so good and
strong a copdition as it has been during
the last three years, and is now, it was
recognized that a newspaper in a grow
ing city required the presence Of an cdi-
tor who would live in Laurens, study
the needs of the county and city and be
an energetic worker among the people.
THE ADVERTISER has been edited for
more than seventeen years by myself
or the late Col. b. w. Ball, and /
would like to remain its editor, but that
is impracticable. The newspaper must
have a home man at its head, if it is to
continue to be the force in the com
munity and the county that it has al
ways been. Mr.. Boncy is placed in
charge because the company owning
the property believes that the town
and county are entitled to the services
of a resident editor.
For more than a year Mr. Bonoy, who
is a native of York county, has been
m of the travelling agents Of the News
and Courier, and in that position he
proved of the highest value to his en-
ployers. They do not like to give him
up. Before his connection with the
News and Courier he was assistant edi-
tor of the Union Times, and helped con
~siderably in the improvement of that
newspaper. He is n graduate Of Fur
man University, where in his college
career he acquitted himself with dis
tinction. He is, therefore, a trained
newspaper man and is one of our peo-
pie. He to Laurens resolved to
make Laurens his home, and his own
future depends upon the prosperity of
Laurens and of THE ADVERTISER. [
need scarcely say that the management
Of THE ADVERTISER would not be
turned over to a mar in whose charac-
ter and ability the owners did not place
implicit and unrescrved trust.
1t should be understood that Mr.. Bo-
ney will not write for The ADVERTISER
under my direction or any other per-
sons dictation. If THE ADVERTISERS
views in future coincide with mine the
coincidence will be accidental. The be-
lief is that MIR. Boncy is a man who
will make good, both as an editor and
business man, and he can do that the
more easily with the responsibility
wholly upon himself. | hope to write
sometimes for the paper, but it will be
over my own name or initials, and Mr..
Boney can print what | send or not, as
he wishes.
THE ADVERTISER has a larger paid
circulation today than it has ever had.
Its Job and newspaper outfit is worth
four times in money what it was
worth four years ago. Much as some
of my friends have disagreed with il,
they have always believed it to be a
free newspaper, whose opinions were
its own. | have every reason to be
grateful for the support which the pa
per has constantly received since my
association with it, beginning in Au~
gust, 1890. | bought it when it was
fighting a boycott, but it had a number
of good friends worth more than a host
of lukeWarm subscribers. Many of
them are dead, but Albert Darlington
and Mr. w ID Sullivan opI a., I,,,L,