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/ #NE OF THE "OLD CH AMP RECOUNTS EXPERIENCES He Was One of the Founders of the Xewberry >*ews, Later Consolidated With The Herald. (By R. H. Greneker.) I can "write of some things and about ther people, but when it comes to myself I don't know what to say or how to begin. Better begin when I was A hahv?and least said the soonest mended. I wasn't born quite in a printing offce, but when I wore frocks I played in. one: made railroad tracks and grains of block type and fixtures and . . ; BSBSiliBL R. H. GRENEKBR, JR. "built air castles, dreaming that I was to be an engineer or a conductor. I inherited my love for the printing ffice, hence it came naturally. The two families tried to keep all the boy members in line, but one of my brothot>^ nr,^ rwf mv omisins said that O AUU vuv Vi. ??- ?V ? there were enough Grenekers in the business, .and they quit Both got to lie prominent railroad conductors. I grew up, that is I grew up some. - J 1- T Before I grew up, tnougu, i mucu the roller for that same Guilford Snowden, who is now and for a long time has been janitor at the National bank. He was pressman and kept me busy as he called for "ink, more ink." x Those were my halcyon days, ushering me into the spring-poet time of life. My curiosity to pry into the setrets of the profession 'at such an arly age got me into service at 50 cents a week. They thought I was worth 50 cents a week because I had to climb up onto a dry goods box to 4e my work at the case, as I was such a. little (there was then not a kid that wasn't a goat) boy. I was a miser at that time and saved ?ty 50 cents a week until I had $40.00 in a'little money box. The pile never got any bigger, because a fire that destroyed the office and the home in the dead hours of the night was the ?ause of my having to spend the , - t Xf XT-AX ? _ Mioney. AH tnat i savea irom mm, me iras my box of money and a little yellow dog named Penny with a curl in ?>i kis tail and a hop in his left hind foot. I didn't have time to do anything but dress and grab my money nd'my dog and rush down-stairs and ?ut into the street in a hurry; and I iave been in a hurry ever since. I don't know why I gave my little dog the name of Penny, but it must have 1 ? 1- T % n OT? t Q DffcJIl UCCclUStJ I was xiia.n.iii'g, t?v wuw a week. I played all the roles in a printing office from trash mover and ink-dauber and up, graduating with distinction as a mover from the trash department, receiving honorable mention as a firstelass dauber and taking first honor in a class of one as a circulator when ttip nfliwvr wa? out Many recollect the ?airier of The Herald before the conjunction. But to skip and make a long story short. At one time Bill Houseal and I thought we were not sufficiently paid 4 fcr our services. We struck for increase. The strike failed. We left the ?Id Herald. Hence the News. That - " - - ? a _ 1 ? o.t x _ j little sheet was started wiuiuul a uuilar of capital. It was launched on faith, hope and tenacity. Houseal set fine niachanical and weatherprophet head to work and I canvassed the town for subscriptions. I was not turned down. That is one great reason why I like Newberry. Newberry was "good to us." Vfe set a date foT the first issue and eLeniiinea W gee IL vui uu umic ui ?tand convicted. Worked day and might, and all night long before the trst day of publication. The dark kour preceding the dawn found us there. So did sun up. And the New1*erry News went to press and was issued by the two of us, with the help o[ Billie Hunter, without mention of ^ hom this sketch would not be coni piete. Man never had a better business "pard" than I had in Bill Houseal. What he liked to do I didn't like to do. What I liked to uc he didn't like to do, sc we divided the work and went at if. ! " i It is local history recorded in the An- I nals of Newberry, except that the his- j ! tory doesn't record how we once mov- j ed the office from one building to an- | ; other across a flat roof and through j the windows. Let it rest at that?the history, I mean. I The News sprea-d for a w?hile. Then j it merged. I was in at the merging.; Was in and out later. Am in again, j So long. I ? HOW HE BECAME READER OF THE HERALD AND NEW* ? i Mr. T. E. Wicker, for Sometime a Cor. | respondent of The Herald and News, Writes Interestingly. (By T. E. Wicker.) fin thck twAntv-fifth anniversary 1 V-TXA ? | of your connection with The Herald and News, it may not be out of place to relate when and under what cir: cumstances I became a reader of your I paper. One drizzly, foggy day, twenty-four j years ago my father, W. W. "Wicker, ; and myself, a bare-foot sunburned lad, the proud wearer of a pair of homeI i ; made suspenders, were driving in a j one-horse wagon on the Pomaria road just this side of the old Pat Derrick place when we were overtaken by a i handsome and stylishly dressed young ! man, who gave his name as Nathan ! E. Aull and lost no time in saying that ' he was canvassing for the Newberry Herald and News. Before we reached I fj| ' " , : . T. E. WICKER. |_ 1 Cannon's creek, a^ehort distance from j where he overtook us, h-a had secured 1 my father's subscription for the paper | and was. out of sight?shows how; quick the trick was turned. At that time my library consisted of Hostetter's almanac, Guy's astromony and a copy of the Bible given toj ; me by the venerable and sainted Thos. j W. Holloway. I had finished reading i through the Bible, and then I set out j : tr? ronH thrmiP'h Th? "H"pralri and XfWS ; and lo, I have been reading it these ! 24 years and I am not through it yet, ''and judging from the way it has grown and prospered it is not likely ! that I will ever finish it. I am not going to give up, however, but am going to read right on until the end?of one or the other of us. > i A few years later I became one of i fV? ^ cAVArnl iTnoVl/vrvrrocnanrlonfc? i LUC i ai \y\j jl i to wv i your paper?Chips, Xita. K., Lola, I Josh Trump, etc.?a constellation of} literary lights that dazzled the world j with their brilliance. The editor soon J became impressed with the tremendous i magnitude of our power and worth -and invited us to dinner at his beau! tiful home and' of course in order to ; perpetuate in the minds of future generations so important an event we rvn tlio. fr/vnt ru-irvh flnd allnwfvd f ourselves to be photographed. Beginning with this dinner we had annual dinners for several years. As soon ! as we quit meeting, the Grid Iron j Club of Washington sprang into prom! inence. Mr. Editor, your space in this issue is precious so I will bring this article to a close. Here's wishing you another twenty-five years with The Herald and News and as a reward for your faithful efforts to upbuild" the town ! anH /wiintv m?v th? eranrl nld narvfrr i ; one day become a flourishing daily. BROWN'S Q LITTLE TABLETS Cures Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Heartburn 50C PACKAGE Gilder & Weeks. CHICHESTER 3 FILLS Ttiil JJlAMO.Slt n'iANI). A Ln?!i<-Ht A -?u VO'IP >'r /A ! I'J'ls in I?c<l rnij v.ot'i :vVill:c\VJ ! b'.xc , sea''- ! with Blus. Kil>bon. \/ V.vj Tukc* no uthor. TJiiv of rour " 7 ~ r/f f <r< Ctl-CHjES-TEBa , W l?lLL.?,for*? 1 \"5* j&f * ? >>, Kao v;... . jt,S3fest,AlwaysRehV 1? , ^-r SO?r-QV P!" ;:r:{5TS FVERVWHFR^ I WAS THE TRAiMNt; SCHOOL FOR PRIMERS Mr. Jno^ W. Earhardt Tolls of Many Associates Who Started Life With Us. I i (By Jno- W. Earhardt) On this, the quarto-centennial cele- ' bration of the connection as editor, j manager and owner, cf the present! editor of The Herald and News, with i that paper, he has done all who have i during that time been connected in i any way with the paper the honor to have something to say in the issue of the paper celebrating this event Col. Aull is first to he congratulated! on the many improvements he has J made on the paper from time to time? j JNO. W. EARHARDT. i , The Herald and News now ranking among the best semi-weeklies, not only in this State, but in the South. I sometimes think that if the people of Newberry county could see all of the county papers of the State and compare them with their own county pa-1 pers, they would appreciate and con- I tribute the more to the means of their j home papers. It can be said without successful contradiction, that with probably three or four exceptions, there is not a county in tho State, whose papers will anything like comnnrp fnvnra.hlv with thp Xewllftrrv na pers. They are simply not in their i class. But, do our people realize it? j Buf I am about to divert. I came to Newberry in 1833, and during the years since have sep-sawed among the i Newberry papers. During that time I ' traveled along with The Herald and j News, under Col. Auli, from, the old; Campbell press with negro power, one j jobber and a few cases of body and ! old-style job type, through two fires and other misfortunes and disasters, up to the installation of the up-to-date Mergenthaler type-setting machine, modern presses and folders and elecric power, until now he has one of the most thoroughly equipped country, offices in the South. The Herald and News has not only! ? progressed as a newspaper, but hasj the distinction of having turned out more thoroughly expert printers, start- j ing tt^m on the road to success, than! any other office within my knowledge. \ How could it be otherwise, when bade j in the eighties, or just after the pres- j ent editor took charge of the paper, j such a man as Mr. R. H. Greneker, Sr., j ' i *** * . i * n. j r \ (.uoi. ureneKer, tue Doys caueu uim;,j who had given his life to the study of the business, was connected with the office, and imparted his knowledge and j influence over the boys for what was right and proper and thorough. Col. Greneker was one of those men of i whom it can truthfully be said, the world is the better for his having lived j in it. His was a noble life of devotion j1 and his thoughts always of the beautiful. I have in my possession to this j day a little box of dried violets with a j ribbon on which he printed in .Febru- j1 ary, 1888, the words, "Blest be the tie j that, "hinds." whirVh T nrize among: my I most sacred possessions as in this instance the giver making the gift so j much more previous. Would that the | world had more such men as Col. j Greneker.. In the day of the old Campbell press?then The Herald was a weekly paper, shortly afterwards becoming a! semi-weekly?Col. Aull would never: think of bringing in a line of copy for j the paper until the morning of publi- j cation. Of course, the boys had to! pull out! But, what was impossible j with Gus Fulmer on the make-up; I Jolm Wicker to feed the presses, Hosea j Barger to Tegulate the mailing list and mail the papers, and such printers as Peail Rikard, Kuhns Blats, Jesse; Coats, John Aull, Herman Aull, Sam Pnnnnn .Tnhn T.pa T>avis_ SlirTV Shock- ! ley and your humble servant, at the! case. (Not all of these at the same j time, but at different times in the his- j tory of the paper.) I shall n-cver forget: 'Twas back in ' the eighties or early in the nineties; | one warm spring morning, Capt. Eu-j gen Greneker, about 10 o'clock in the j iday, placed his stick about half full of j ? Exchar I OF NEWB Pays four per cent per Lends money terms, on sath We are the Farm Bank, People's Ban] Bank. We do all t the people we can, a folks, the people w invite you to come a your friends about tl I Prompt and Court The Exch OF] H. L. Parr, Pres. M. L. Spe W. G. Houseal, V-Pres. W. B. Wa DIR H. L. Parr. Geo. C W. T. Brown. Jno. G Geo. B. Cromer.* J. D. V 1866 | ! a U 1 ^ Uis 1 ? ! A Litt i . y TKF. fhp. sturdy old oak of the foi %) I ^ forty-six years, having passed t and to-day, standing as the rock < A ^ anrf selling goods to the fifth generc J in any community. We can buy you J giving in exchange most anything yo\ $ in Tennessee gives us the inside on fit ? ?LI* ?- &< ?* o/ncor nrt .w// cA ^ QDllTlg Ud IV \JULJf vtvovi > w?'WW 'goods in all the departments, includu J bait lands the biggest fish, live selling ^ make this our banner year. % I nirp MnTTO: THIRTY-SIX I fv/vi% 4wm. vr ? w . OUNCES TO THE POUND, f* TICLE TO MAKE A SALE, FJ TO ALL. : | iviuscicy ? "THE FAIF t Prosperity, @ * lge Bank ERRY, S. C. I annum on rime Deposits nn v/j/Yenti/Y^W v/f V I jfactory security ers' Bank, Merchants, k, Town and County's he good we can, to all i ind especially to home I VI T ho patronize us. We nd talk it over and tell bis bank. sous Treatment to all L lange Bank FiCERS I arman, Cash. W. T. Brown, Bookkeeper. ilace, Ass'tCash. Geo. B. Cromer, Att'y ECTORS I . Glasgow. W. G. Houseal , Neel. Jno. A. Senn. /heeler. M. L. Spearman. r 1912 ouse with f le Price j _4 -est we have stood storms, snows, etc. for X hrough wars, panics and five cent cotton, ^ )f Gibralter. We are still doing business ? itioh. A Department Store is a necessity ^ r cotton and produce, poultry, eggs, etc., ^ 1 want. Having an interest in a flour mill ^ mr. We are running on a cash basis, en- ? )ser. Don't fail to come and see our new 2 ig your Easter Bonnet Remember, live . X X attracts the biggest trade. We uxznf to Y A ? ) w ^ NCHES TO THE YARD, SIXTEEN ? . NEVER MISREPRESENT AN AR UR AND HONEST TREATMENT ? {jgrSg > I Ul UU1C1 O i DEALERS" S South Carolina,