The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1916-05-18
DOES MAMMOTH BUSINESS.
Eeuy Realize the Magnitude OF Z. r.
Rivers Business Interests.

Rivers Business Interests
Tho Atsugua Week has brought 10
tho attention of Augusta ana Ill
short all over this country man ..
little town within seventy miles u
Augusta in South Carolina on tne
ce.board Air Line railway, VINO IS
ono Of the largest merchants in the
,n+orior of South Carolina and the
,.roos+ between Charleston and Au-
a,st. between Savannah and Colum-
~. and Augusta and Columbia. Ihls
mon lives in the little town or Olal'
8 c. with population of only a 1e"
hundred, and is mayor OF that to"h'
is a leading citizen of that town. d
leading churchman, leading mef-
chant. the owner of business tha'
does s5oo,ooo a year.. the preslaen'
Of a bank, steward in the Memo
dist church. and, in short, MIR. e. r,
R;zer is one of the leading citizens
>of Ramberg county, with large o"s'
mess and hosts Of friends IN bafh-
we'll Bamberg and ,CoAeton coon-
ties.
Mr.. Rizer is strictly a. selt-maoe
,an He was born in Colleton, ;.
+ in 1869, and had high scnooi
education at Sheridan school, orange
burg. S. C. A representative OF tne
Atsugua association not long since
co,,od on Mr.. Rizer to interest him
in Atsugua Week and Ford Day. Mr'
Rizer is never too busy to: give au-
dience to a. drummer or listen to a
business proposition. 1t only TOOK
Mr.. Rizer ten minutes after taking
ohou+ Atsugua Week and the fire IN
Augusta to decide that he Woulo
work up a crowd of Fords from bam-
berg county to come to Augusta ana
participate in Atsugua Week ana
snecially on Ford Day--Wednesday'
Nav 10. 1t is too early yet to pre-
dict who will be the winners OF the
prizes offered for the county having
tha largest number of machines III
line. but it is generally conceded that
the winner will have to go some 10
heat the aggregation that Mr.. R1zer
will bring The manner in which
Mr. Rizer has entered the Atsugua
competition is characteristic OF the
man He is self made, and that he
has worked we'll and stands high is
the concensus of opinion IN ana
around Olar, Barnwell, Bamberg,
Colleton, Allendale, etc.
Not only is Mr.. Rizer the biggest
merchant in that section, but stands
in the front ranks of the merchants
of South Carolina. In whatever ne
enters he leads, whether bank
ing. in merchandising or public well
fare work or in church activity and
/ help. -.
By His Own Merit.
What MIR. Rizer has accomplished
has been done solely by his own
merit and the loving help extended
by a devoted wife and helPmate.
Though only As years of age and in
the prime of life, he towers among
his fellows a giant in prosperity and
accomplishment, just as physically
he lifts his head above the average
man. 80
/. Lack of means prevented his get
ting college education after he had
the course at Sheridan
high school, Orangeburg, for though
he longed to take the higher
branches of schooling, conditions
made it necessary that he begin lifes
commercial struggles without them.
Fortunately he married early in
life a good woman, intelligent, de-
voted and true, who has ever been
his counsellor and assistant in his
ambitious plans. She was of a fine
Carolina family, Miss Carrie Jones,
of Bamberg, and to them have been
. born three daughters and a son who
gives promise of being worthy sue
cessor to his father.
In the Million Class.
} Today, Mr.. Rizer is doing gen.
eral merchandise business of over
s500,c00 annually, making him one
of the leading merchants of the
South. though this is but one branch
of his activities. Since 1891, when
he started in this line with practical
ly no capital and only his own great
abilities as assets, he has been steadl-
ly advancing by will, grit and de-
termination until today he occupies
an enviable position throughout this
section. AS dealer in live stock he
is one of the largest in Carolina and