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1 (J su/JfJiy y t tatoes that a I in Garden . J?/)/!, jl feed for hen A Complete Line ( I A fresh shi] Teas and Ex I of Wheat, Flakes, and a * .1 i that the nmi mention. K I, The The T1 Iine ]k_ Reminiscences b_ i\eart Incidents \in The Every-Da News During The 1 (By Jno. K. AulJ.) To give a detailed sketch of my connection, direc'cly and indirectly, with s The Herald and News, would be to give a sketch in detail of my life, which is at best very commonplace and uninteresting. I shall attempt simply to ? give a few recollections covering the j time I have been associated with the I paper. And that time, by comparison, ic nnt verv Inns. This issue commem morales th-e rounding out of a quarter of a century since the present editor became connected with the paper as part owner and editor. A quarter of a JXO. K. AULL. century ago I was less than a month more than three years of age, and my recollection of events transpiring at that time is somewhat hazy and indistinct. I grew older, however, as everybody does, with the passing of the years. Sometimes I have wished I had never grown any older?as everybody does sometimes. My memory refuses to carry me back further than the year Mr. W. H. Wallace, the editor of the Observer, iras elected president of the South BBBBDSBESBHQBBffiBHOS iu with the best Se in he found. Best Seeds, Onion Seti d, Park and Poll an s. ){Fruits and Vegetables oment of White 1 tracts. Shredded V Wheat Hearts, i store full of GOC ted space will not } Telephone No. St and No. is R Town is Newb< Name is ^ (] ^"a inwfiirti imiT^T iATw-.n-^ of One id in the Office y Life of The Herald and uast Twenty Years. Carolina State Press association. The Herald and News office was then in a frame building which stood on the northwest corner of the pres-ent Central Methodist church property. The Herald and News made great preparations to welcome the triumphal return of the editor of its cotemporary from the meeting which had chosen him ? - ? tTa rt-f froin presiueiu. at; ?mci ao ?.*? *? ! with a carriage, drawn by horses with flags on their heads, and with other paraphernalia of pomp and circum| stance, and was driven in state over ! to The Herald and News office, where i he was told how prond Newberry newspaperdom was of the honor which had been heaped upon him. Following the public ceremonies, the m-echanical j force of The Herald and News retired to the rear office and opened a keg of j beer, which they had ordered in honor ' of the occasion. I don't know whether the editor of The Herald and News or the editor of the Observer ever knew ! anything about that keg of beer or not. Xor do I know whether or not they would have taken a small glass, had they known. The "boys" didn't bother themselves to inquire into those details. j A few years later The Herald and News office was burned, and what was saved of the plant was moved into the J two store rooms on the west side of the two rooms now occupied by the Southern Express company and t.he Newberry Coca-Cola oBttlings works. Th? building put up by Mr. T. C. Pool aTi-1 used by Mr. L. M f peers his undertaking business was erected after that time. The Newberry ObserI ver occupied the two rooms now ocj pied by the Southern Express com pany and the bottling worKS, ana Newberry's two newspaper plants for a good many years were side by side, forming a miniature "Park Row." For a time, while the mechanical plant of ! The Herald and News was on this "Park Row," the business and editorial offices were in the little red brick building which stood across the street ? I EES ed Irish Po- jj of everything I 5, Hen Feed, | A/T rtclht ^ o js n y i tj. uoi i, Fresh and Canned | !^os? Coffees, I 7 heat * Cream Force, Corn | >D THINGS 1 oermit me to | is 202 Aain, 1305 2rrv I. WILSON | in front of the Newberry hotel. This | little building afterwards gave way before the march of improvement. I ! was then attending the graded schools I /Annao{An.'jjj?*i. ?A anfvnST as Office 1 Vuvv^aoiv/uauj j y ana uv?w ?? boy and errand boy and "devil"?most- j ly "devil"?around the printing office.. The business had a peculiar fascination for me, and I dreamed dreams of future greatness, when I should take rank with the Greeleys and the Danas and Wattersons of the profession?and about that time I smoked the stump of a cigar, and decided that life, after all, was a very stern reality. It was about that time I learned to i set type. The Lutheran Visitor was being published in The Herald and J Xews office, by Aull & Houseal, and | ' Mr. Wm. P. Houseal, in addition to | remembering dates and names and I making weather prophecies and building a house over in High Point, and doing a thousand other things, was I the general factotum in what we called the "back office." Mr. E. H. Aull was editing The Herald and Xews, and attending Lutheran synods, and doing tho nthpr thousand thinss of the more than two thousand which were at- j tempted by the partnership. Both partners were always trying to collect money. Mr. Houseal would sometimes work telepathy on the subscribers to the Visitor. He would sit down and think, and think hard, and then think some more, that such and such people were going to send in a check, and sometimes the check would come?and very often it wouldn't. Gus Fulmer was foreman of tfoo me- ] chanical department. .John Wicker j and Hosea M. Barger were the old j "war horses" who had been sticking type since the days when the memory of man ran net to the contrary. Kuhns j Blats and Pearl Rikard were the "swifts" on the case, and Sam Cannon was an A No. 1 typesetter. Will Werts was "devil No. 1"?being one degree higher than I was, who was "devil No. 2." While we were in that office Willie Davis, the present colored generalissimo in The Herald and News office, I and chief gardener and valet to the ! editor, blew in one day from Lexing- j tn. H-e. told us Mr. Harmon, of the j Lexington Dispatch, had "raised" him in his printing office, and he told us what a great man Mr. Harmon was. He gave no reasons for leaving th^j happy home of his boyhood, and non^ ; i was asked. He was put on the job, j and there be bas remained faithful I since. In those days only Mr. Barger and Sam Cannon, of the "boys" were marriff] r:n^ Piilmor was fho first rn takp unto himself a help-meet. He is now in Columbia, holding th-e. responsible position of foreman of the press room or the Daily Record. When the linotype came into general use, Kuhns Bints and Pearl Rikard went off to !?arn to operate it, and both became ! xports and are among tne oest operal I tors in the South. Pearl came back to Prosperity for his bride; Kuhns i married in North Carolina. Sam Can: non learned the linotype in Columbia, and is now a live operator. Will _ + rsfC ?nrl fVl O 1 1 T1 ft w Ci Lfc went Vy'il U.11VA OLUVii^vA ~ *A..w type, and came back and operated the machine in The Herald and News office, after its installation, for several years. He married in Greenvill, where ' he is now engaged in the printing busi[ ness. Mr. Barger is still with the paper, as vigorous as ever. John Wicker ha* nassed from the burdens and cares : of earth, and here's a wreath of re| membrance for his memory. There are many in Newberry who will recall old John Wicker as he was when he brought them the paper every week, acting as city carrier. He was faithful to the end, and he bore up under circumstances and afflictions which required g. good and a brave heart. I trust that in another and brighter world he has found that true happiness and everlasting peace which I believe must be vouchsafed to the weary and heavy-laden of earth. Mack Davis and Bob Bass came into the office later. Both of them after wards sought other fields. Mack is now with the Columbia State as linotype operator and night make-up, and the last I heard from Bob he had fallen from grace?that is, had fallen out of the prilling business, and was following the alluring foot-lights. John Lee Davis began to learn the trade in the office comparatively a few years ago. He became a "swift" on the linotype, and then he, too, left. He went to Columbia, and is now one of the fastest operators who ever graced the machine. Billy Hunter, printer and fireman, and general all-round man, was with the office offhand on ever since I can recollect There is no better job printer than Billy Hunter, and there ? I I Get I FARM H/ GARDEN I alsi Sherwir and Vai BE SURE Wn "77 is none who takes greater pride in his j work. For a good while he held down with credit a responsible position in the government printing office in i vv adiiui.il tun* Since I have known the paper, Mr. ! Jno. W. Earhardt, new with the ObI server, lias a'so served The Herald and I News, well in the reportorial and nie: | chanical d partments. j With the passage of time and the rej moval of The Herald and News office j to its present quarters, I began to | dabble in the editorial department of ! the paper. I positively refuse to read ' in the files such editorial and local; effusions of mine in those days as j were allowed to find themselves in print. I know they are there, however, for I have a distinct recollection of the unpardonable pride witn wmcn 1 read them at the time. I was great on poetry in those days. I have the proud satisfaction, however, of knowing that I never attempted to write any. But when I would read a piece of poetry that struck me as being especially pretty, I would rack my brain to hit upon something to write so that I could bring in a verse of that poetry. But The Herald and News managed to survive?it printed that kind of rot only occasionally?and, in this instance, let the dead past bury its dead, and don't rake over the files. The Herald and News up until October 20, 1903, was a four-page, sevencolumn paper, semi-weekly. Some years before that it had been changed from an eight-column weekly into a j seven-column semi-wekly. On OctobI er 20, 1903, the first issue of the eight page semi-weekly made its appearance. At that time there were five columns to the page. Since then the size has been increased to six columns to the page. With the four-page paper, it was necessary to print the "outside" first, and the "outside" embraced the first and fourth pages. Under this arrangement, the latest news?all local happenings, and any late happenings of state or nauonai importance, v*oic placed on the inside pages. The assassination of a president would have to go on the second or third pages, if it happened after the first form went to press. I was in Columbia, in the door of Governor McSweeney's office, when Lieutenant Governor James H. Till-! -R f-ViQ oVinf in frrvnt nf tllP ILKIH in CU luc OUV(/ JU'. wj. mpiaiiaaaw^ )aa?]?t m i\1/* ( VCdUJf 1UI I We have on hand IRDWARE, POULTRY SEED, CUTLERY AJi o a stock of the fam< i-Wlams Faints, i? r? .11 n rmsnes, ior aii r TO SEE US WHEN IN i. John ie Briahten Up Sto 4/ t ' transfer station which resulted in the death of the brilliant editor of the Columbia State. It was "press-day" for The Herald and News, and I immed1 <- U ~ VirvU lately wirea ror my paper iu ue uviu until details followed. That afternoo* the story, as far as the facts couid be learned in Columbia that day, was wired to Newberry. A happening of such importance had to be placed o* an inside page of the paper. I reported the Tillman trial in Lexington for The Herald and News. I went to Lexington to do some stenographic work for the Columbia State, which renorted the trial verbatim, working about a dozen men on it. We would come to Columbia every night on a special train run by th- Columbia State, and go back to Lexington next morning. During the days the trial continued there was hard work and plenty of it. In fact, I did then some of the hardest worK wmcn uas ever fallen to my lot. That was in 1903, nearly nine years ago. Looking back to that trial, the thing which strikes me as most remarkable is that th? people of Lexington seemed to take very little interest in it Here was a trial upon which the interest of the whole United States was centred, reported by a special representative of the Associated Press and by special representatives of many New York and other Northern newspapers, and yet during the whole trial, my recollection is that the little court house was never filled. The issue of The Herald and News, bearing date October 16, 1903, but printed the night before, carried the story of the acquittal of Tillman, which had come on "pressday" also. The day I returned from Lexington tipwc reached Newherrv that trouble with the negroes was feared at Vaughanville. To show how quickly newspapers get "on to" a story, it may be stated that within an hour after I heard of the threatened trouble at Vaughanville, I had a telegram from a New York newspaper asking for a story of the "race Tiot." I suppose the Columbia correspondent of this newspaper had heard something of the supposed trouble, and had wired his paper to get in communication witk us. There wasn't much of a story to it. The sheriff and his posse and & ! good many of us went. We spent the I | night in B. Whit Goodwin's store? and it was an awful night, from a B Swing I. Ul JJUOtd TUC riTV IIILi VII 1 son r re" I