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a( five or six rooms, designed by for the hundreds who were em of the South anu Uiu traditions.- [ ers who gathered here last year Soli and built by his huge con ployed in his plants. A retiring, al in my more than 76 years ]i to honor nim as he was presented struction department most timid man, he never became have seen the South rise Phoenix- the Man of the South scroll. James C. Self, SC Self spent millions of dollars in too big to treat personally with like from defeat and become an His life as a college student end those whom he employed. Plain building schools, churches and oth Important segment of the nation. ed, Mr. SeU turned to his own er facilities in the villages. He in his tastes, Mr. Self drove around The South is being reborn. Many brought the carillon bells from The area for employment, and look a often in old automobiles of modest in other sections are seeing in the job paying $100 a year as clerk Netherlands© World©s Fair exhibit costs. South a great potential that can at a country store operated by Industrialist, Dies and installed them in a tower at Homes for Workers inaugurate a new era. J. M. Gaines. This store hurned. Callie Self Church, named for his He was particularly proud of (he "Today, no one who knows the however, and he began work as Urer of the company. mother. fine brick homes he provided for facts doubts that the South has a clerk in the Durst and MaUiews Was a Giant SeU was a member of the first "I learned a long time ago that the employees of his mills. These become the nation©s greatest front store at Kirksey. class at Clemson College 61 years you can©t take it with you," Self homes, set in their well-kept lawns. ier. The South has playtxi an im This store was owned by S. P.] In Economy; ago, digging ditches at eight cents said two years ago. "And I don©t were considered models for mill portant part in this nation©s his Mathews and W. L. and J. K. an hour and waiting on tables to think much of a man who makes workers. A great deal of Mr. Self©s tory. Let us ever be grateful to Durst. Two of this group have been Rites Saturday help pay his expenses. After one money In a community and then personal time was given to these our forefathers, those hardy pat honored by Mr. Self in naming car he had to drop out and go to forgets all about it." homes. Also, outside of Greenwood, riots who established this great textile plants. Grendel No. 2 was GREENWOOD, July 21 (Special! work. Clomson College awarded him there were small farms for those country", he added. changed to Mathews in honor of James C. SeU, 79, a towering "I made W a month In a general j the honorary degree of Doctor of workers who preferred to live in Mr. SeU was born at Kirkscy S. P. Mathews when Mr. Self ac figure in the economic life ol South store and had to take half of the| textile industries in 1951, compen that fashion, and Mr. Self was par in 1876 a scant dozen years be quired control of it in 1930. and Carolina, died today. year©s pay out in a horse," Self sating in a way for the degree he ticularly interested in these. yond Appomatox the son of Dr. now the new print cloth mill is The president ol Greenwood Mills once recalled. That store burned, had to forego in his youth. "Success has come to him in James Andcrson SeU and Mrs. named Durst Plant in honor ol died at SeU Memorial Hospital, snd he found a job in another Reared as a Democrat, Self vot unusual degree. He has used that Callie Holloway Sell W. L. Durst. This store continued which he gave to Greenwood, ol one. There he worked for three ed for Eisenhower in 1952. He re success to bettor the lot of his He was deprived of paternal sup in operation as one of the chiel what Ms doctors termed a "blow* years and saved $150. With that he marked at the time that the Demo associates in overalls, in white col port, however, in an accident rare mercantile cstablisnrnents .n the deformity." trailed in a business college at cratic Party "has gotten away lar jobs, and the fellow citizens to this section. Dr. Self, then only Kirksey area until it burned last! Death came at 9:50 a. m. foi Richmond, Va. from us." of his community. He has dreamed 36 years old, fractured his skull year. Self remained optimistic about skating on the frozen surface of ; lowing ill health of several months. ©I came back to Greenwood in the future of the textile industry dreams, but had the practical skill Enters Business School ^©--lier this year, Mr. Self was a 3898 with nothing in the world but and perseverance to make those a pond one cold winter day and Mr. Self stayed at Durst and! f*nt at Duke Hospital in Dur- :wo suits of clothes and 515, and nd the South. dreams come true." died from the injury in 1S86. ey to go to Richmond, Va.t and got a job as clerk and bookkeeper When he accepted the Man of Country doctors, particularly In | Ham, N. C, but responded well to the South award he declared: These words, spoken of Mr. Self enroll in a business school. With treatment and rettirned here three in a hardware store," Self said. as he received the Man of the South the struggling South of that day, a business school diploma in hand, The next year I went to -the "I have seen the South rise from received few lucrative fees, and he refused employment in Virginia weeks ago. ashes and defeat to become an scroll for 1952, told a lot about Funeral services will be con* Bank of Greenwood as a book the man. not any large part of the smaller and returned to Greenwood, a move Important part of the nation . . . ones due them. Dr. Self left his he has never regretted and for ducted at 3:30 p. m. Saturday at keeper and In 1903 it made me If Horace Grerley were living to Dreams, practical skill and per th* Callie SeU Memorial Baptist cashier." family chiefly a farm and a heri which this community can be pro day, he probably would say, ©Go severance were all needed in the tage of character, courage and Chun-h, a church he built to the Soon afterward he got into the young man." foundly grateful. memory of his mother. Burial textile business, in which he was climb of a fatherless lad of 10 in sense of public duty that his wife His first job in Greenwood was Self returned here from Durham impoverished post-war Edgefield shared with him. as bookkeeper in the W. G. Gam- be in Edgewood Cemetery. to become one of the South©s rich three weeks ago and had been County to the assemblage in Green Officiating ministers will be: The est men. Mrs. Self, who had attended Due brell Hardware Store. A little later hospitalized since then. wood where his fellow townsmen, ,Wcst Female College as a young he applied for and got the job as Rev. J. E. Willis, pastor f Callie The Greenwood Cotton Mill owed Survivors in addition to his son men high in public life and finance Self; the Rev. James A. Brown, the bank 540,000 and couldn©t pay girl and who had been a school bookkeeper at the Bank of Green Include his widow, the former Lau and in his own field of textiles teacher, took over the task of rear wood, where J. K. Durst, one of pastor of the First Baptist Church H. In 1908 he was made president ra Mathews of Kirkscy and four met to do him honor. and the Rev, J. F. Lupo, pastor of of the mill, with the goal of making ing three fatherless boys. his former employers at the store grandchildren, James Self, III, Vir Provides Better Life BuIldH Memorial Church at Kirksey, was president. Main Street Methodist Church. enough money to pay the debt. ginia, William Matthews and Sally A short distance in space sepa The body will be taken to the The machinery was obsolete and Callie SeU Memorial Baptist J. K. and W. L. Durst had come] Self, all of the home. They are rates the two points and very little Church, at the entrance to the to Greenwood to try their fortunes. church at 10 o©clock Saturday prospects were so poor that an the children of the younger Self of Mr. Self©s life was lived beyond morning. engineer he hired advised him to Mathews Mill village, stands today J. K. turned his interest eventually] forget about the project. Instead, and the former Virginia Turner, them. And yet, within their con as a tribute to the devotion which to formation of a bank in the ham Pallbearers will b*: J. B. Harris, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. P. fines, he grew to such stature that, Mrs. SeU gave to her sons. The L. V * J ns. Dan Hammett, Joe Sell went to New England mach let of Greenwood, and W4 L. Durst] inery manufacturers- and persuad Turner of Greenwood. as one speaker said on that same long years of practice which Dr. organized the Greenwood Mill of F. 5, Horace Brinson, C occasion, "future generations will SeU never had also are com D. EUIock, Lewis Harrison and ed them to sell him new spindles which Mr. SeU became president and automatic looms for stock and TOP INDUSTRIALIST nave a better life as they dwell in pensated for in some manner by in 1908, six years after the cieath John Harris, Jr. The death of Mr. Sclt has re tne lengthened shadow of this the 179-bed Self Memorial Hospital The Chamber of Commerce pres notes instead ol cash. of the man who had organized it. For eight years Self tried to re moved a distinguished and tower man." which Mr. Self buiit and contribut Mr. Self was promoted to cashier ident, the Merchants Association ing figure from the structure of The story of James C. Self has ed without cost to this community president and the mayor of Green vive the mill, while continuing his at the bank and held that post work at the bank. But he kept South Carolina©s economic life. He been told many times and In many One of the sons, J. H. SeU, be at the time he was elected pres wood asked that the stores be clos* rose from the strained circum ways, as each writer sees a dif- came a doctor like his father, and 1 ed during the service hour out of remembering a piece of advice ident of Greenwood Mill in 1908, from James B. Duke, founder ol stances of the early death of his frent facet of the subject. But the other brother, W. O. Self, was a turning point in his life. ! respect to the memory of Mr. Self father to the ownership and direc through them all runs a central a banker. Mr. Self©s mills will be closed the Duke Power Co. He was only 32 vears old at that© "You©ll never get anywhere lend tion of a tremendous inoHistrial theme of confidence in the future There was work on the family time, but he had with him the during the service hour. ing 530 on a blind mule," Duke enterprise, built entirely under his the big dreams of which Reuben (arm, but there was schooling, too confidence of youth. He needed it. SeU Memorial Hospital was his direction. B. Hobortson spoke at the Man gift to the Greenwood community had told him. Self resigned from and when Clemson College was A consultant engineer called In to the bank and became a full-time Mr. Self©s industrial creation pre of the South banquet and the per opened in the summer of 1893, J. C look over the plant advised him in 1951, honoring his lather and ceded the very large expansion of severance and skill to make those Self was one of the 446 young men i brother, both doctors. It cost textile executive, that the best thing that could hap By that time the mill had added the textile industry in this state dreams come true. enrolled. Times were hard, and pen would be to have it burn down. three and a half million dollars. In the last quarter-century. He was These ingredients were the warp he, like many other students, help Mr. SeU headed one of the larg a second plant. Five years later The mill owed more than It was he bought and enlarged the Ninety one of those pointing the way for and woof of his life, intermingled ed finanace their college expenses worth, O per spindle., est privately-owned textile com Six Cotton Mill. In 1930 he bought this expansion. But he also kept as are the yarn and filling in the by digging ditches on the raw new panics in the world. cloth which comes from the many Mr. SeU i rnoderniza- the No, 2 plant of G rondel Mills, pace with the growth of the indus campus for eight cents an hour tion of the equipment was the only I While at Durham he received i .am ing it Mathews Mill and doubl try to the north of him, Jn the looms in the textile establishment When he went home in Septem one of the annual Horatio Alger Piedmont area of the State. he headed. Giving warmth and hope, so with an issue of preferred Awards sponsored hy the Ameri ing Its size. His mills went to three ber of 1804 and found that four stock, he began negotiating with] shifts daily in 1935. His era as an industrial builder strength and color to the fabric bales of cotton from his mother©s can Schools and Collages Assn. ii snd operator spanned the period of his life were such things as his equipment concerns in the East. recognition of "rags to riches" sue In IMS Self announced a 20- farm brought less than $100 in New Machinery million-dollar expansion program, of the making merely of "gray intense devotion to the South, the Greenwood, he accepted the inevit cess stories. He was unable/fee at cloth" in South Carolina to print section from which he sprung; his How he wangled the new ma-| without outside financial help, and able his college days were over. chinery and put the mill on its i tend the ceremony. iLMcK York©s in 1950 he opened the six-million- ing and finishing, and he entered love of a good story and his con His was not an unusual case in Waldoirf-Astona Hotel ana a spe those fields, too. achieving success cern for thr men and women who feet is a story which has been eial presentation wat made a dollar Harris filament rayon mill. that time, however, for when dip told many times. In looking back Greenwood Mil Is manufactures proportionate with that be had make up the operating force of lomas were given out in Decem-J Puke Hospital. Greenwood Mills. over those days, Mr. SeU stilt does fabrics of filament and spun rayon achieved in the days of mere cloth- ber, 1896, only 36 of the original not know how he got up the nerve In 1952 the former farm boy and and carded and combed cotton. making. Known as a Doer store clerk wat named Man of th number graduated. to face the equipment men with Cotton goods are finished outside, AM Mr. Self built more and more He was known as a doer, rather Hodored by Ctemson nothing but the stock of the run South by the magazine Dixie Bus/ and then sold directly by the New [plants In the Greenwood area, that than as a speaker, but in his re Iness. Founder of the South©s Hal Fifty-seven years later Clemson down mill and the confidence that ©York Selling house. Greenwood area reflected it with its general sponse to the Man of the South College conferred on Mr. SeU the he could do the job. p{ Fame for the Living. Mills, Inc. economic growth. Greenwood©s de award, he let shine through in velopment is largrly grounded in honorary degree of Doctor of Tex- The little mill got its equipment Greenwood Mills hag five plants The Greenwood Mill employe vil warm fashion one of the guiding tile Engineering, and one of the however, the first step i n- 11 In Greenwood County, employ lages are regarded as models the development of the Self textile lights of his life. industries. fortunate members of the gradual- ending succession of rep; Ing more than 6,000. Self©s onl} throughout the industry. Most of "I love the South," he said on ing class, Dr. B. Rhctt Turnipseed, I whenever better and more Hlk-ient son. James C. Self Jr., is treas thfi- b£UK8-jir£ jinelfctamilY. jim©ts The industrialist provided well t occasion, "T Jove the people was amoner tho distinguished lead-1 tr-xtiln mnrhlnrrv has brim avail able. The confidence that saw him Lady Aslor of England, Virginian through that first crisis enabled by birth, addrd her congratulations Simple Last Rites in Church him to resign as bank cashier in last April. 1916 and devote his entire attention was riding in tne bacK, while Mr to the mill. "It is grand to have our Beloved He Built Held for James C. Self Self did the driving. I noticed thatj In March 1921, having acquired South go so far ahead." she wrote. GREENWOOD, July 23 (Spe-i "Onward Christian Soldiers." lead the car wobbled a bit and one time I have been reading in the Mnnil/T er of the choir is Jan Kwist, whom I thought it was going in the ditch. control of Ninety Six Cotton Mill about your splendid work. Softie cial) Simple ceremonies in thei Mr. Self was elected president of church he built and dedicated to Mr. Self brought from Belgium to Mr. Self was fceUng for something ithat mill. In 1930 he bought Grendel day I shall come and see it, and play the Carillon Bells which he in his pocket. At length he said: No. 2 and named it for S. P, Mat- if you come to England, please his mother marked the final rites had purchased from the New,York "Mr. Adams, what is that truck come to see me a passionate today for James C. Self, Green yonder doing here? According to hews of the old Kirksey store. Rebel." World©s Fair and installed In the He announced plans for a new wood Mills president who died here tower at the rear of the church©. the book it hasn©t any business filament rayon weaving plant in This story means beyond the con Thursday. The Rev. J. E. Willis, pastor of here." That was told to prove Mr. 1948 and completed it two years fines ol Greenwood County anH the church, prayed that others Self©s intimate knowledge of every South Carolina, what it has meant The main sanctuary of the Callie detail. later. Durst Plant was the fifth Self Memorial Baptist Church was might catch up the torch of use unit In the Greenwood Mill* sys- to the whole textile industry, wha* fulness and service and carry it on. So, far away from home, all the lCH© it means to the world as a shining filled a full 30 minutes before the 3:30 service hour and the balcony Dr. J. Foster Lupo. pastor of conversation was about Mr. Self. example of the heart and soul of Mr. Self honored me with many industry under a system of tree overflowed soon after. Several hun Main Street Methodist Church, read dred olhcr persons stood on the the 23rd Psalm and the first Psalm, Invitations io spend the night in citizens of this community and enterprise, a system which ! > a s his hospitable home. My last over given us standards that make us spacious lawn of the church at the which contains the passage "and he from outside the community and entrance to the Mathews Mill Vil- shall be like a tree planted by the night visit was just after the Harris State. the envy and the hope of the mill had been finished. We went world," lege and listened to the short rivers of water that bringelh forth He was elected "Colonel of In service. his fruit in his season." there: in fact we tramped all over dustry" by the Greenwood City The list would be endless. But The Rev. James A. Bowers, pas all his Mills. Then Mr. Self wanted for people in Greenwood these Only Ihe family and officials Council "in recognition of his were present for the interment tor of First Baptist Church, closed to show the interior of a new cot philanthropic work, his industrial statements would be superfluous. the service with prayer. tage. The young housewife admit developments and innumerable Evidence of his good works are sen-ice at Edgewood Cemetery ted us and Mi Self pointed out to completed just before a sudden Mr. Self was carried to his rest civic achievements and gifts to his on hand in the model mill com ing place by eight men who repre me features in each room. In the community and the City of Green munities, Self Memorial Hospital. hard rain swept the city. kitchen his eagle eye detected Earlier in the day several thous sented almost 200 years of service wood." Callie Self Memorial Baptist with the company. They were J. something wrong (like a leak) in In 1949 he was elected Green Church and many other community and persons had filed through the B, Harris, L. B. Adams, Dan Ham- the ceiling. "Ob, Oh", he said to wood "Man of the Year" by the assets In which he has had a hand. church to pay their final respects the young iad>. "What is that"? to the textile leader as his body melt, Joe Chalmers, Horace Brin- Rotary dub. That same year he Mr. Self has devoted most of son, C. D. Blalock, Lewis Harrison "You ought to know", she said: was presented a Chamber of Com his time to the operation ol his lay in state before a mass of floral "You are Ihe plumber, aren©t tributes. and John Harris, Jr. merce resolution honoring him for varied activities in connection with DIEvS: Jtrae* C. Self, Included in the group which you"? I thought I©d fall through "using his industrial genius to Greenwood Mills. He has given IndiutrlflUit, died yesterday »t the Others continued to pass through filled the church and stood on the the floor, out Mr. Self didn©t seem benefit hw fellow man in his own time to some outside activities, age * ft. Ihe filled church until shortly be church lawn during the services to notice it; so I whispered to the country and for his cooperation in however, serving as one of the nine fore the service hour. were a good number of men from lady "This .s Mr. Self", and then every movement and enterprise for commissioners of the Qark Hill The Mathews choir of about 50 New York. Boston and other cities she nearly fainted. the best interest of the people of Authority and as chairman ol the voices sang "Rock of Ages" to Since "genius is the infinite ca this section of South Carolina." in the East and South representing pacity for taking pains", as Car- State Board of Conciliation, as open the services and later sang banking and textile interests^ The Lion©s Club elected him Man member of the World War 1 War lyle says, or the unwearied study of the Year in 1949, in recognition Finance Coporation Board of of detail, in grappling with big of "his benevolent genius which South Carolina, on taxation Com 9 I gation; he was always master problems, I may tell of my ride bas built in this community a busi mittee of the National Association ft,! cause he always grasped all the with Mr. Self from his home to ness organization which serves as of Manufacturers, and a director Letter Tells oi Mr. Self- factors and all the implications] his office one morning. When we a model for his industry and a of the National Association of Man from them. came in sight of the Mill Mr. source of never-ending benefits for ufacturers and the P. and N. Rail A year or two ago I told Mr. Self©s acute perception saw a prac his feJlowman." road. As a Close Personal Friend tical detail at once. "Look," he At Ninety Six To the Editor of The State In the early 30©s The said. 1 looked, but didn©t know for In October 1915, Mr. Self mar and Taxpayers© a moment what he was looking at. The Ninety Six Lions named him ried Miss Lura Malhews, daughter Mr. Self, Mr. James C. Self, "first citizen" that same year. well known industrialist of Green gani/ed to restore a facturers Club (or was it The "See that ihm smoke; fine com or Simeon Pierce and Sallie Cade fiscal sanity, at a time when thou The South Carolina Department Mathews of Kirksey. They have wood and New York, but cherished Manufacturers Trust Company). bustion". of the American Legion presented by m* as a friend of the years, sands of our people were not able He notified the gentleman in I have been singularly fortunate one son, James C. Self. Jr., treas to pay their taxes; when thousands in splendid friendships: I have him its Distinguished Public Serv urer of Greenwood Mills, whose has gone to the Great Beyond. charge of nis New York sales of ice Award for the greatest individ I regard Mr. Self as the greatest were in arrears ten years; when been inspired by able men of af ual contribution J wife is the former Miss Virginia m some counties men promised fice to look out for me. To my fairs in all walks of life; and I Turner, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. man ever born in South Carolina. ©ine friend, B. M. Edwards and during 1951. Earlier that fame It U no pertervid eulogy of the to thwart any effort to sell out a have felt deeply the IOSH of many W. P. Turner of Greenwood. They Mr. Self. I owe the invitations to of those men. though I have been 1C month he had received from the have four children, Jim Self, III, moment; I have said and written liberal contributor. No one knows lunch at several New York banks. IO University of South Carolina a de that several years. how much or how often Mr. Self favored beyond my merits by new Virginia, William Mathewi and contributed to good causes: he was Mr. Self had bought, modernized friendships. Within two or three gree of Doctor of Humane Letters Sally. The man m uniform, with gold and air-conditioned a building on en epaulets, or astride a fine horse, always responsive, when convinced Worth Street for his sales opera years I have lost two friends and in November of 1952 he was Gov. George Bell Ttmmerman with martial aspect and glittering of the merit of the appeal. But whose gracious consideration made! t- Jr., in a speech at The Citadel on Mr. Self did not indulge only in tions. A young man showed the me forever their debtor. One was e* awarded the Doctor of Textile En sword; he may catch the eye as building to me with much pride the occasion of its 112th anniver a glamorous figure exciting the sporadic helpfulness: his mills, the William H. Regnery of Chicago gineering degree by Clemson Col sary last March referred to Mr. beautiful villages, the laundry, the and told me a story. One day Mr. who became my friend, through lege. imagination; or the orator, in im Self visited the building, just be Self©s achievements. Gov. Tim- passioned speech, dramatically conditions of work all told of the the kindly offices of the late Wil Lander College conferred on Mr. merman said, "Since South Caro master mind, whose heart and fore renovating it. As he talked to liam A. Moorhead, himself a firm |Self the degree of DoctorToTiTu- gesticulating, as his deep voice my young acquaintance Mr. Self lina WHS a younfc, colony, it has '•* sounds the moving sentiment, he head labored constantly for the and fast friend. Mr. Regnery was ] inanities last June. highest promotion of all his many d: "Young man, where is North so quiet and thoughtful one would been the local leadership which frl may appeal tremendously: nor from here"? The young fellow said Last April Mr. Self received from has enabled us -to develop and would I disparage either the heroic interests. not think he was the dynamic spirit Let me relate a few Incidents, "About here. sir". To his surprise of great accomplishment. But he 5 [Reuben B. Robcrtson of Canton, move forward.© figure or the political leader; both Mr. Self pulled out a small com Q JN. C., a scroll as "Man of the may have their day and both may even disjointediy: was. I never knew any man for "Jt was the local leadership of A few years ago Mr. Self thought pass and said "Not quite; North is whom I had greater respect, ad [South for 1952" this being the first I serve the Stale immeasurably. there", slightly deviating. The time a South Carolinjan had been James C. Self of Greenwood that Mr. Self rame into the world of building a textile plant in Chile. miration and affection; how won resulted in better working condi Becaus« of my ten years in South young fellow said to me; "I had derfully his life blessed thousands so honored. in old Edgelield; son of a country lived here all my life and he came tions, better housing, better medi physician and a Godly mother, both America he asked me to explore of our people: and now passes Mr. Roberfson, winner the year cal care, higher wages, and a bet the general field, including Mexi here and showed me up". James C. Self. Those two men before, said on that occasion: of whom Mr. Self commemorated One day I called at The Hanover ter standard of living. His pioneer in the chimes and church at the co. I don©t know from what sources were alike in this: they studied, "Model villages, contented work ing gave the industrial worker a Mr. Self drew his information, but Bank. One of the vice presidents they thought, and they acted, al men, a wonderful hospital and an Mill and the magnificent Hospital is a very able man from Green U new set of basic minimums, not in the City of Greenwood. he always sought the truth and ways constructively, always re industry which will continue to pro only in South Carolina but acted when be had all the facts. ville. He was expecting me ©be membering the men and women vide comfort, security and happi James C, Self was a man of cause of a letter from Mr. Self. vi throughout the South." ! fruitful genius: He was capable of Mr. Self abandoned the idea of a who operated their mills. ness for thousands of workers in Latin-American mill. Instead of In a little while four of us, includ- Someone has suggested that tow * the South, creates a lasting me Infinite pains, unwearied assiduity ftng the president, were in conver- In carrying out the plans of his that I urged him to consider Clar ering figures blaze the path of s morial to the career of an indus endon county, my home county. progress; and we lesser spirits trial statesman who richly deserves practical imagination. sation. We talked about Mr, Self, Someone else may give the data Mr. Self sent me a sheet from a all thp time. The president said: merely walk the path laid out. this very slight token of respect, study of our population and said William H. Regnery and James [admiration and affection." oi that remirkable life, but I want ©I called on Mr. Sell a year or so to tell just what I know and how "In a few years the situation there ago and be took me to see his C. Self! Supernal figures, unfor .J An altrmpt In quote from the I was so fortunate as to know Mr. may be unfavorable". That was in mills in Greenwood and Ninety- gettable men of rare quality. articles in publications and the with hi* thorough investi- Six. The secrctary (Mr. Adams) J, K. Breedin & U n/ .v,en jn hjch places who Manning. - d the work of Mr. Self