The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, March 08, 1912, PART TWO Pages 9 to 16, Page SIXTEEN, Image 16
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
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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
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own memory, for my first recollection
of a newspaper was the Newberry Herald
in 1SG6, and then its existence was
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; 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
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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,
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! wnen tne i\ewuen,y was awiwu
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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
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them on ainereni pages, me iurm ot
the Herald was the old familiar
quarto?after the fire of 1866, twice
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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'
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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- :
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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.
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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
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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"
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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