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> - . " fFIFTY-THREE YEARS WITH THE STICK AND THE RULE ? * rr> ^ O.li. n Dean oi ->ewoerry lype-aeuers wi'? Experience Beginning Before 3Iost of Us Were Born. ? (By H. M. Barger.) "Rom in Hickorv. X. C., on May 29, 1845, I found myself working in a printing office in Newberry fourteen years later. Almost continuously since that time?the exception being the four years I followed the Stars and Bars in the sixties, and short pet 1 ?^,1 th? o^rDenter's nous 1 na.ve lunuvt ~? ^ trade?I have worked as a printer in 1 printing offices in Newberry. My service with the Xewberrv newspapers has covered a space of nearly fiftythree years?more than half a century. My first employment in a printing: j 1 I -.ritSlftfev i. H. M. BARGER. i i ? 1 office was with John Blats and Burr j Johns publishers of the Newberry j Sentinel, which was located up-stairs 1 in a wooden building on the site of or I near the site of the present building occupied by Blaustein. I went on the j Sentinel in the summer of 1859. I . worked there a few months, and th m went on the Rising Sun, published by Thos. P. Slider and Thos. F. Grenekel*, up-stairs over where the Mower company is now located. I worked there during the fall and winter of 1859 and during a part of 1860. The; latter part of the year 1860 I went to j work on'tne uonsej.~va.Lioc, fcv Silas Johnstone and James D. j Nance, in Law Range. I worked on | the Conservatist during the remainder! of I860, and during 1861 until the time ,1 J I enlisted in the Confederate States | army. I J I serv-ed the Confederacy in Co. D., j 3rd S. C. Battalion, for the four years of the war. ? +/-> VoTrherrv in the vjomnio uctv-tt. iu ? spring of 1865, I went to work on the!, Newberry Herald, published by Thos.! P. Greneker, on the corner where the | Mower company is now located, and 1 continued on the Herald for several years. 1 then went to work on the Progressive Ag?, published by Thos. P. Slider and R. H. Greneker, the . plant being located up-stairs on the j site of where is now Lea veil's under taking establishment. me nu5ivssive Age had a comparatively short existence, and I went to work on the Newberry News, which was located over where is now Pelham's drug, I < store. After I had worked on the News two. i ears I quit the printing business and 1 ; oaoved to Laurens. After engaging in the carpenter's trade in Laurens for , about thirty-two months, I came back j Vpwh^rrv. Bv that time the New- < 'berry Herald and the Newberry News 1 had consolidated. ' When I came back to Newberry, I 1 jursued the carp-enter's trade for a < while, and then went back to the ( printer's trade, on The Herald and ' News, then owned by Thos. F. Grene- j1 \ ker, and later by Aull and Houseal, j and then by the present management. : I have been on this paper practically ' ever since. 1 ! ] I wras with the Newberry Herald in , * " ' " j mv ~ ! 1866, wnen me Dig nre occurreu. mei Herald was then located over where the Mower company now is. What was ! left of the Herald plant was moved 1 into what was known as the Brown building in lower Main street. The next issue and the next several is-j sues, until the plant could be replaced, were printed on the old army reversible press. Not a single issue was naissed. More than a half century is a good long time. Looking back over that c period, memories of the goodly company of thd knights of'the stick and ( rule crowd round about me. Most of i those whom I knew in the younger t days of my life have passed to their s final reward. I trust they have found (r that perfect rest which I believe they deser\ ed. The newspaper has kept pace with the progress of the years, and the business today is very little akin to the business of a half century ago. -f x'u 1??~ ~~ -a mi TT?? AS one oj. uie emyxuvccs 01 i ue xiciald and News it remains only for me, on this the editor's quarto-centennial, to wish for the editor and the old Herald and News long years of usefulness and prosperity. HAS FOUND HIS CONNECTION WITH THE PAPER PLEASANT Kind Words From One of The Younger Correspondents of '''lie Herald and News. (By J. M. Wilson.) In complying with Editor Aull's request to write something for the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his connection with The Herald and Xews as eidtor, what I write will rot be assigned to any special subject, as toe editor failed to give one. My connection, as a correspondent with The Herald and Xews (though >nly a few years)- has been very pleasant. I have always found the editor and his staff of co-workers pleasant and attentive to their work. Mr. Editor, I've found, in looking j J. M. WILSON. through som? "clippings," a piece of poetry headed "Post Mortem Praises," and wish to copy just one verse o:.' it I hope the readers won't tire in read ing these few lines of it: "I've noticed when a fellow axes, Xo matter what he's been, A saintly chap, or one whose life Was darkly steeped in sin, His friends forget the bitter words They spoke but yesterday, And now they find a multitude Of pretty things to say. I fancy when I go to rest, Some one will bring to light Some kindly word or goodly act T n-ntr hnriAd mil nf But if it's all tbe same to you, Just give to me instead, The bouquets while I'm living And the knocking when I'm dead." So if we haven't any bouquets to give the editor who has toiled day and night for so long a time, giving out the news regularly to his subscribers, I think we can speak some "words of praise" in his behalf while he has the privilege of hearing them. As the author of "Post Mortem Praises" says, let's leave some of the knocking off and see if we can't find some "p:rettv things to say." If we would do unto Dthers as we would have them do unto us we would very often leave off some of this knocking, or unkind words, as Fou may call it. If you remember, in the beginning 3f this article I called to your memory :hat I wouldn't be assigned to any one subject, but I must say something before I close about the promptness of rhe Herald and News in furnishing the news while it is news, regardless :)f time and expense. Tins is wormy special mention; as all of you readsrs will agree that you enjoy reading the news better while it is fresh. While on this subject I desire to call your attention to the awful tragedy Df the small girl near Little Mountain, the victim of a brutish, beastly aegro man, which occurred on Friday afternoon, November 25, 1910. As you remember, The Herald and News printed a four-page extra in order to ?ive an account of this crime. The | lynching of the negro occurred at 16 ninutes after 10 o'clock Friday night. Sow, bear in mind the distance that :he newspaper man had to travel that light in order to gather the full de-! :ails of crime and return to Newjerry, and by day-light next morning i he extra was printed and being circulated. All of the subscribers received a copy on Saturday. This kind of feats should linger in )!!r memories for quite a while ana emind us that if we will just stop and hink for a moment when about to ; ;peak "bitter words" about our fellow-! nan, we could find some "pretty things i I ( k/X t ' ItT'rOVSC ? PRO* | || I naiiu wax I stamp ar choice-? I "HIGH. SI Fore I wear is worn the result of Han I! tlemen \> money c; exact size Sumn II Newberry, KaHHnBBBBBnHBBMI _bhh wmm I to say" about them just as easily. The growth of The Herald and News ??rw,10-Vi iT'ithin iteelf fn shOW I ; 15 pi UUL -.? that Mr. E. H. Aull has made a suc| cessful editor for it. The change from a weekly to a semi-weekly still rej maining at same price of $1.50 a 3rear, i together with a yearly increased "paid i up" subscription list, are certainly points of success. You can, as I stated before, by readins: The Herald and News, depend cyi getting the news while it is (as the "sandwich-man" on the street says about his lunches) "red hot." This is an assured fact Many changes have occurred during these past 25 years now in review, and since I've been reading The Her- ! aid and News (which has been as long, | I think, as I've known how to read anything) I have always found it ad- J vocating that which it thought to be j for the best interests of its readers. I think it is needless for me to take tip any more space in mentioning theso facts. You readers know them as well, as I do. I just wanted to mention a few I "pleasant things" in regard to the sue- j mi n i ne op \ Of V \ * | Clothe f traits of ai questioned J expert era ^ m i the basic fine wool loring?Cloth e the Clothe, v ART" AND "EFF-EFF' C * ioe De] most in popula * " LL the tamous "< : world over, the most scierft an Shoes are tl s4to are satisfi m buy. Y our i is here. ier Brotl Clothing I cess of The Herald and News under its present management. The twenty-fifth year of a man and wife's journey through life together is known as "the silver occasion," isn't it? I don't know just what would be the most up-to-date name for an editor's twenty-fifth anniversary. Paper rm ? Well if he's nounded with the right kind, he's 0. K. May Editor Aull be spared to continue (if this work is his desire) to reap the harvest of another twentyfifth anniversary as editor of The Herald and News, and also may The Herald contine to prosper under his management. May we all strive to live a life that we will not be ashamed to j have reviewed at any time?oi*s ftiat,j when this earthly life is over, will j make us worthy of the following re-j * ' ? - C1L ATTf I ward, -vvivicn is xounu in 01. .viauurrt,, 25:21: "His Lord said unto him, well j done, thou good and faithful servant: i thou hast been faithful over a few things. I will make thee ruler over many things, enter thou into the joys of thy Lord." The Herald and >*ews, 1 year, $1.50. j J : )rina Clot} _ 7our Prefi :s that possess ithentic style; quality of ftsmanship, worth of I ! Si . /, ^ fabrics and 1 \c es of this s of your 4 :lothes partmen rity in Wome f/1/1VI ill ? V^UUI/ A modern pre ;ific up-to-date le quality Shoe Led with the particular styl< lers Com / )epartment. Soi | RICHARD H. GREXEKER, SR., j PIOXERR IX PROFESSION! I I , : Fitting Tribute to Memory of One "Who i Lived and Labored and Loved in >~ewberry >ewspaperdom. * (By Miss C. C. Greneker.) Richard Howard Greneker, Sr., a j native of Charleston, S. C., coming to | Newberry in 1859, to go into partner- | j ship with his brother, Thos. F. j | Greneker, as one of the editors and j j proprietors of the old Newberry Her- I I aid, and, after it had passed into otheT I j hands, never losing his interest in thej I paper, or his love for it, being a fre! quent contributor to its pages all through the years following, until very ; shortly before his death, which oc- j curr-ed on the 21st of March, 1900, in ! his 6Sth year; all too soon it seemed j for a life so useful to cease from its : nr-rivities. I Possessed of high ideals and lofty purpose, with deep-rooted reverence for God and love for his fellow-man, his pen was ever weilded in a right eous cause. Loving "the good, the; 1 true, and the beautiful," -with duty as ' * J les I irence I the fine | the un~ I llipf I B///'/ A if?// 1 ' i " } * 5 . ?3 THoyss a flRGa. ) j t j; p ?*iT?tio?c * In t. i n's Foot- I y" Shoe, I )duct, tne || methods. 11 s for gen- | * best that I ^ in your I pany, I ith Carolina ^ _ \ lite watch-ward. lie followed his Guid ing Star along the "onward and up ward" way, leaving behind, when the R. K. GREXEKER, SR. road wound out of si,ght, tlie priceless legacy of a good name, and the memDry and inspiration Oj! a noble and unselfish life.