The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-08-09
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1912.
WANTED: 200 FRIENDS.

NOW tHdt the smoke OIL the IlmeS
burning has cleared away, and | am
able to take careful look at the en-
terprise as | have reconstructed it,
find that l am going to need more
sue | have not spared myself in the
efforts to get the enterprise in shape
to be good producer. The plant is
one of the best i'm the State. Every
thing is new and up-tO-date. Every
available dollar that l could save
from the wreck of the former plant
has been put into the new. l now see
future for the enterprise that is en-
cOuraging. But to get the best re-
suits, | need more money. To get
this money want to sell $4,000
worth of the stock which l hold in
the enterprise. That will put it
thoroughly on it's feet and make it
Bit edged investment. / purpose
selling 200 of my friends one share
each of the capital stock in the con-
cern.- The stock is in certificates of
$40 per share, par value. With the
200 single certificates sold, and the
sum of $4,000 received therefrom,
paid on the present plant, the stock
will be worth considerably above par.
The money will be as safe as it is in
any enterprise in Union, and it will
pay reasonable dividend-Of the lat
ter | now feel confident, for | know
just what the plant will do.
| believe | have 200 friends in I'm
ion county, to each one of whom |
can sell one share of this stock. There
is nothing ''watered" about it; il is
bona fide, gilt edged, and will pay
reasonable RETURN In the mean
time. | will have reached a secure
footing with the undertaking. The
fact that the friends of the Times,
many of whom | count as my own
personal friends, have so nobly shown
that friendship in the past, and have
so often expressed in word and deed
the good will and confidence which
they have in me, leads me to feel
confident that this call for help will
not go unheeded. / believe you will
help me and in doing so, | promise
that you will not hurt yourself. I
will guard as sacred trust the mon
ey thus entrusted to my care and will
pay reasonable premium for its use
in the business. One or two years
hence, if you desire to take the money
out of the enterprise, | will buy back
the stock paying the face value and
all accrued interest, should you desire
to sell.
| could possibly find four or five in
diyiduals who would take mere than
one share; indeed there might be
found few who would take the
whole load of $4,000; but | prefer to
have il otherwise. [ wan: 20C friends
to help me over a rough place, and
promise that the kindly aid will be
appreciated by me to the fullest ex-
tent.
am, God being my helper, going
to conduct a newspaper that stands |
for clean manhood, pure womanhOOd,
civic righteousness, purity in politics
and in all matters of public concern.
l believe that righteousness exalted |
a nation; that truth will triumph; |
that a man is of more value than |
a sheep; that the future is brighter
and that God is the ruler of nations. |
| shall, so long as strength is in me,
stand for moral values first, believ-
ing that moral values are necessary
if we are to have any real values in
material affairs. will count it a
great joy to have 200 men and women
in Union county stand with me in
these principles and to show in a tan
gible way that they do so stand.
With best wishes, and with an abid-