The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1912-11-20
Help the glass factory.

Help the glass factory.
II cotton keeps on going up we may
expect another big crop next year.
There is ne doubt about the frost
being on the pumpkin these mornings.
Just $4,000 would start wonk at the
glass factory. but $4,000 is needed.
Greenville. Columbia and Spartan
burg have just raised $500 each for
advertising purposes, from which no
direct dividend is expected. Surely
Laurens can raise 100000. when a
reasonable guarantee of interest
charges is given.
Ever thought about this? A glass
factory naturally draws medicine
manufacturers to a town. Look at
Chattanooga. Tenn, built up by it's
glass factories and the first one too
lost $1,000 the opening year Laurens
factory broke even the first year.
cotton mill in a nearby town yot-
ed and sold preferred stock before a
wheel ever turned in it. The company
started off with too email a capital
and more had to be raised. just as the
glass works is trying to do. That town
is famed for its progress and growth.
The state of South Carolina must
be hard pressed for money when the
department of agriculture must send
out under one-cent stamp, an i'm
portant report blank to be filled in
and returned by certain date with a
penalty attached for failure to fulfill
the requirements.
1t Is stated on good authority that
a large" per cent of business fail
ures are due To lack of capital than
to any other one cause. Are the peo-
pie Of Laurens going to let such an
enterprise as the glass factory get in
to this class of failures from lack of
community support?
80
1t Is a pleasure to have contractors
like Messrs. Rounds e. Son. work in
the city. They are always very care
ful that the public be not inconve-
nienced by the WORK being done by
them Whenever practicable, they see
to IL that the streets and sidewalks
are kept open without having other
folks to jog their memory.
$4,000 plant cannot be run on
$4,000 capital. 1t takes money to pay
for the completion of the plant and
financing after the wheels begin to
turn Banking capital is absolutely
necessary in a manufacturing or any
other enterprise and credit cannot be
secured unless reasonable amount
OF capital has been invested.
1t seems that the Clinton people are
ready to hand over to Representative
George A. Browning, Jr., most any
thing in the gift of the proposed Mus
grove comfy. Mr.. Browning seems to
have made quite a hit in Clinton. They
say George made the Clintonians fine
speech on the new county subject,
however. Probably 1t will be Senator
Browning after the new county is
formed
While there is no doubein our mind
or probably In the mind OF any one
but that the killing OF the negro
gambler by Policeman owlngs was ac-
cidental. 1t appears to us to be the
better part Of wisdom to have trial
of the case. 1t Is a duty owed both
20 the county and to Mr. owings that
ne be legally exonerated Of any in
tent to kill. while 1t is highly i'm.
probable that any effort will be made
TO convict Mr.. 0wlngs of Intentional
1y killing this negro. still 1t were bet
ter for the county to have the matter
legally disposed of and better for him
TO have the law declare him innocent
There 10 40 telling what the future
might bring Ia the way OF trumpcd