The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-01-08
NEW YEAR GREETINGS.

VIC LhC OIL lOu0 ltCulo VI ANGMo VI
Local Happenings from over the
County Greeting:
1t is with genuine pleasure that l
send, through the columns of The
ings. To the one who sounds forth
the praises of Hillside, the garden
spot of the county Tin his estimation)
though I'd like here to inform him
there are others! Though he has
but recently entered our ranks, yet
since he came with his CHEEKY week
ly letter (even though he does blow
the horn for Hillside rather loudly) 1
letter before. From Hillside to the
pretty little town Of Cross Hill is
right good sweep but from that good
ly little city there has come a weekly
letter. and If l mistake not, by the
same correspondent since The Adver-
tiser was founded) that is ever worth
the reading-and in things that per-
tain to the uplift of all that is good
III SlNlN lIIC-yOu VIII ilIlu IuC CIOSS
Hill correspondent standing square to
front Though / don't mind telling you
dear fellow quill driver, that once in
the long ago | considered you on the
wrong sideD
Just a short step to the husting
town of Mountville-though the go
ings and comings of her citizens are
very nicely chronicled, yet we can
but miss the versatile writer OF 9TH
er days and we dream of "the harp
that once through Tara's halls"-we
will gladly welcome this genial soul
among us again from the little town
Of Waterloo.
And here's to the ever faithful lit
tie lady Q don't know really, but
don't any one try to convince me
that any mere man" could so grace
fully and fluently chronicle events as
does the one who halls from the am
bilious sister city of Clinton) Dear
staid old town! How could you ever
get it into that steady head OF yours
that it was time you were being
capitol of a county and that Mus
grove Methinks when the voting
time comes, you will hear in no un-
certain tones from the Sovereign Yot-
ers" Of the Independent state of
Jacks. The verdict will be-"While
we love Clinton some yet we love
Laurens more! And so it goes all
over the county. From Poplar Springs
to Tylersville, from Princeton to EXON
there comes weekly letters that tell
us of friends and their going out
and coming in"
There is no use waiting till the
grave closes over one before voicing
the appreciative word Personally and
believe | voice the sentiment of all
local correspondents, wish to tell
the editor that he is giving us a pa
per worth while. In all his editorials
he has proven himself to be the up
holder of all that is for the good of
South Carolina. I for one do not be-
lieve that "all newspapers are liars!"
To the editor, to each and every
one OF you who give us weekly let
ters may the year 1913 be generous
and kindly and friendly. Let each of
us as we give the little bit of neigh
DorhOOd news, also give push now
and then TO uplift the state feel we
all love. There's very important
subject now before us-one that
should be agitated till it ceases to be
thing hoped for" but one that real
ly "is"-that is compulsory education
The Hillside booster has already yot-
ed aye-bless him! Can't we make it
unanimous?
To accomplIsh anything, little fell
Iowa like ~, must do the agi:atlng
Oh, the dignity, anA the power in
that phrase I'VE, the sovereign peo-
plc".-to educate our citizens up to
realize It.
Let us accomplish something in the
year 1919 ard then II the seasons fail
US not ven have banquet next New
Year-the long suffering editor (that
has 70 read for 81 weeks such scrawl-
Ing as mlne) can sit at the head while
the gentle little lady G'm sure not OF
NAM from Clinton can be on his right
The dean Of the correspondents-
Cross Hill--on his left---the versatile
one now OF Waterloo. can be master
Of ceremonies and the rest OF us lit