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RECOLLECTIONS OF PARTNER OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGIO 3Ir. >Y. P- llouseal, Member of Firm of Anil &' H?u*eal, Who Purchased i he I'ijper in lss7. (Bv V?\ P. Houseal.) ii is most appropriate that the anniversary occasion which calls forth :hc experiences of former associates among the workers of twenty-five \vars ago. who helped to make Tiie Herald and News a weekly occurrence in the life and history of the people of Newberry, should be observed in some fitting manner. The form which has been chosen is also in keeping . . . . .. - . W. P. HOUSEAL. with the spirit of the celebration of the'* quarto-centennial of the present management of The Herald and News. The bare mention of any single fact connected with the inauguration of that period brings forth a troop of events which throng the halls of memory, and these crowding, insistent images of the past impel one to betake himself even farther into the more inmost recesses of the past in search of a quieter retreat in which to muse and mediaate. So if a digression is apparent just at present, from the real event to be celebrated, the reason has already been given therefor. Newberry did not enjoy a newspaper of her own as early as Laurens, her neighbor. It was not until about the middle of the past century that a ?11 mm ? ? ?i?i? mm It's Ar when youn a savings b; their mone; This ban! iti cn r\&rc in uuvii J^VIL v in every po It has paic pay you, y r f fcerore you, I Save and your accoui how; SAVE The Nev "TBI newspaper was published in the town. Of course, this is not a record of my own memory, for my first recollection of a newspaper was the Newberry Herald in 1SG6, and then its existence was 1 ; brought vividly to mind by the burning of its office by the destructive lire of June of that year. The Herald had been started the year before by T. F. and R. H. Greneker, the partnership continuing until February, when | R. H. Greneker, Sr., withdrew and * * ' " HM T> i formed a partnersnip wun mus. x. Slider in the publication of the Progressive Age. Newberry had two i newspapers then until 1S76, when, afj ter being the first newspaper .n the Si ate to announce the nomination of Tilden and Hendricks for the presidency, the Progressive Age ceased its bright and newsy career, all too soon in July, 1876. The Herald again held j the field alone until January, 1878, ' ' 1 vr ? + ? ^,1 ! wnen tne i\ewuen,y was awiwu i I by R. H. Greneker, Jr., and the writer. The News was consolidated with the Herald in August, 1S85, under its present name. It has been the writer's privilege to have been connected with all the newspapers of Newberry in one capacity or another since his boyhood in 1S73, when on the morning of January 9, he having entered the Heraia on that day as an apprentice. Previous to that day he recalls a familiar scene which was a regular weekly recurrence in the family circle when the pater familias would seat him comfortably at the fireside to peruse the Herald, with three or four of the younger members of the circle eagerly yearning to see into whose hands the paper would'next be placed. The Herald was dated Wednesday, but was always orinted at 12 o'clock noon on Tuesday, and the weekly arrival of that evening was always anticipated with feelings of intense interest that the "locals" might be perused before the hour of bedtime, leaving the selected poem, followed by the story regularly in their accustomed place on the first page, together with articles of a miscellaneous character, generally pertaining to agriculture, science, wit and humor, to be read the next day. The Herald was the first weekly paper in the State to separate the editorial and local matter and classify ' " ' rrsl. _ J* ? them on ainereni pages, me iurm ot the Herald was the old familiar quarto?after the fire of 1866, twice i Importan g men and young v ank account ancl b v: has always taken 4 4 sons ana has encou ssible way. I hundreds to save ou young folks, wi fa Ar\ IiL-pwicp WU UV/ XXXV W YT Xl^Vt . bank your mone it. VBOUT NUMBEF YOUR M Aerry Savini S BANK FOR YOUR SAVIN t f the size of an ordinary sheet of letter j paper, and gradually increasing in size to six columns, then to eight columns to the page, and in 1ST4 to nine columns, being one of the best' ' ~ ~ C? f o r r\ \ 1 niAf-f [ COUI1LV ill tut? Okiu:. miiiuoi J all the county papers soon adopted the j sfv]o set by the Herald in the apJ pearance of the local a id editorial pages. The life of a country newspaper man has always been strenuous and j exacting if he devoted any energy or talent at all to his work. This fact is an expression of an experience wrought in a long series of years. Neither the material progress nor prosperity of the country has lessened tlie burden 01 worn wnicii must ue performed by the country editor today. Xo country editors ever labored more' assiduously than the newspaper men of Newberry, who have been actively; on the scene in the past twenty-five | years. When the editor of The Herald and | News and the writer formed a part-: nership in March, 1887, and purchased j the newspaper and plant from Mr. A.: C. Jones, about the first they did was to nrint a iob on the Campbell press,' one member of the firm having "set! up" the job and "fed" the sheets while j the other member turned the big hand-! power wheel. This was not the last J time in their association of more than j seven years when they united their muscular energy to produce desired j results. Work of this character hasj ilways been considered the common' lot of country editors and if they are j to the manner born, they readily ac-1 cept the situation and make the most: of it I said awhile ago that it was the la era +<-? liflVA hoPn r? fqf> V> " d ?> piiTllV/JjV tV V /? vii I* tor in the newspaper activities , of1 Newberry in the past; and. I said just now that newspap-er life means work i and plenty of it. Well, nobody can do 1 any honest work in any trade or pro- j fession who watches the clock con-; tinually and thinks only of "pay-day. j This statement is true today of the j newspaper men of Newberry. They; have always taken pride in publif.hing t papers equal to any in the State, andj so far as success goes in this respect j i havp snmeedad most admirably, I I am at a tolerably safe distance to; make this statement, and can not bej readily apprehended for stating a truth which the constituents of the Newberry papers know and which they j - I EsaaHBiHHimiHi! I ! t Time I fomen open egin saving an interest j raged them | ii and it will I ith your life I y; we want I t. ONE? f I I UiM C, Y i j n i gs Bank ; CS" ! r I ; I I * ? CON iIil or % 01 % To State Bank ? ^ Loans ? Overdrafts, Secured an Real Estate ^ South Carolina Bond ? Cash on hand and in B ? Capital Stock || Surplus an Undivided F H Dividends Unpaid Deposits, Individual @ Deposits, Banks S T1 . D?J_ TL ine miik in | JNO. M. KINARD, President | DEPOSITORY FOI * Four per cent ought to appreciate more thoroughly. On this point of remunerative appreciation, I do not think that I am telling tales out of school, when the statement is made that the subscription lists of the Newberry newspapers are on a better basis than at any oth- j er time in their history?tne casu-madvance plan, the only business-like, basis on which newspaper subscriptions can stand with any satisfaction to papers and patrons. Of course, I do not know how many subscribers there are to the newspapers of Newberry, but I will say that, considering the quality of the newspapers, the number ought to be a third more or twice as much even, than j they do number. 1 remember when Auli and Houseal purchased The Herald and News in 18S7 the subscription list did not numran Wornlrl in p!1 its history I UCi 4 w. xnc ? w never issued a larger number than I 800, until its consolidation with the i News in 38Sr?. The News itself b-egan j with four subscribers, and the New- r berry Observer in 1883 with less than, a hundred. However, the newspaper workers of Newberry have always possessed a: mmntitv nf srood srace and! guuui; ? w gumption, and their constituency have j always realized and appreciated such j an important combination. The Herald and News was the pioneer in the introduction of steam power in the operation of its plant? first a kerosene engine and later the stationary stea mengine. Hand power was slow and uncertain, and the introduction of steam, later followed by electricity, solved a vexatious problem at a time when it was impossible to j secure a darky to "turn the press." j In these days of rush and crush, no j progress would be possible if the press j had to wait until the aforesaid darky | could come from the cotton patch or j his round of wood-chopping to start j the press a-moving. Yet it seems so i near to those simple ways that the | progress of the world seems to de-! pend upon hard work after all?the j principle being the same; only a dif-: ferenoe of method. The old Herald office always had a j "printer's devil." His inkship has en- ! tirely disappeared from the modern! printing office, which does not re- j quire water to be carried through heat; and cold from the only well, three to fiv? blocks distant, which had a sup- j ply fit to drink. The aforesaid char- : i DF.NSED REPORT _ q ? F NEWBERRY, S. ( Examiner9 Februa RESOURCES d Unsecured anks LIABILITIES Profits $38 lat Always Treal 0. B. MAYER, Vice-President. \ STATE, COUNTY A . 1 c interest pain on oav A AAA AAAAAAAAAAAi ? ? WVWWWVWWWVWV acter vanished with his occupation and th? introduction of waterworks and tho, Mere-enthaler. No doubt the printer's devil is glad that he got relief so easily from arduous duties. The printer's devil's lot was a hard one, and neither his antecedents nor those who would have succeeded to the position under the continuance of the old regime regret the change. ? *-* ftTTTc nonoTi VlQC TYl QTlV rne me yi a ?, human characteristics. The close connection of this observation with the preceding paragraph is not intended to be facetious. There are many secrets in the life of a newspaper which should remain sacred in its own bosom. The H-erald and News had its trials in one of the most eventful periods, especially in politics, which the State has ever seen, and the writer barely mentions this in passing. It had its compensations, for on primary election night it was a jolly good crowd which surrounded The Herald and Xews office and watched the returns, the most intense partisan in opposition to the conservative policy of the paper viewing with its most ardent frr-ends in bringing in the returns from the distant and most inaccessible W?>n thp VmmhlA nosition piCUlllV>tO. V/H, tiiv ? x of headline artist fell to the lot of the writer in that memorable period, and he finally toned down his skill in the interest of peace and harmony. So mote it ever be. FORMER "COMPOS" GOES BACK TO DATS OF TORE Tells of the Good Old Times of the . Stick and Kule and "Printer's . Devil" ' ' "v (By H. S. Cannon.) The "handset compos" of 25 years ago on The Herald and News were a co-operative set. They did not take long to set aside column after column of good "live stuff" and the paper had a fine reputation for the sp'onaia amount and the character of local news and its well arranged news. The "inside" of the paper was always set up in one day. It was nip and tuck to work alongeside such "swifts" as -Tim Deaton and Dolph Boger, two Tar Heel imports who always made good. Mr. Boger has been a full-fledged South Carolinian ever since those happy old days with The Herald and News. Jim ueaton, wnoiesouled, impulsive, passed in his stick ? OF 5 ? g ?=?&> <a rv 20th, 1912 2 ? H $365,395.48 * 3,756.12 ^ 9,750.00 J 1.000.00 127,103,89 Z $507,005.49 ? A $ 50,000.00 ? 68,318.49 J 1,478.00 a 1 on a o a U, X 6U.*tO w 1,088.52 387,209.00 J $507,005.49 $ 4 rl -t ts You Right ! J. Y. McFALL, f Cashier, f ND CITY FUNDS m 'ings Deposits. VTVTWVV? W W?PVw and rule not very many years after returning to his home in the old North State, and entered the great beyond. My pen wanders off in these personal allusions because there was fl a spirit of loyalty on the part of the force of The Herald and News that f ! " 1 4 H. S. CANNON. was most commendable. So if work was to be done, it was done first and play afterwards. Ten years of such experience on a county newspaper like The Herald and Vfi U'G i n-/~> y+Yi n ryrod t rl AO 1 ond T nut ui a unu x look back with pleasure to those days, and have always rejoiced in the prog- v 4 ress and enterprise which has been the policy and scope of the paper in / later years. NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEtfEYT Notice is hereby given that the undersigned will make a final settlement of the estate of N. P. Abrams, deceased, in the Probate Court of Newberry County, on Tuesday, the 26th day of March, 1912, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, and will immediately thereafter apply for his final discharge as Administrator of the said estate. All persons indebted to the said estate will make payment forthwith, and all persons holding claims against the said estate will present the same, proved according to law, to the undersigned, or to his Attorney, Eugene S. Blease. H. H. Abrams, Administrator. Dated Newberry, S. C., Feb. 20, 1912. Now is the time to cubscribe to Tha Herald and Nevg, $1.50 a year. ( y ,