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type down on his case and said to the writer: " Ihave nothing in view, but I hav-e set my last type. This busi- i noci. /lno:n'f m-A T Mrif' mfltp mnn ey enough. I am going to railroading." He left in a few* days for Charleston *and soon had a position on the railroad and has gradually gone up until "U ~ ^ ~ x. i ^ ^ ^ _ J1UW lie is one OL tilt? IUOSI popuietl' cuiiductors running into Augusta, in "which. ci:>- lie lias accumulated considerable property. Gus Fulmer is the pressman on the Evening Record in Columbia, and owns his own home, a nice place in that ^ ^ . 1; ?uy. sain v. amion js upeiuuiig a. im I otype on the State. He also owns val^u.ible property in Columoir.. I Pearl Rj.karct developed into one of' f \he s wirtfst and most expert operators in th-e South, and ;s located in Atlanta on the Georgian where he holds clear i!Ai * - - o>ir? iroliid'hlci hnmp i vl! !? Vy y, UU.'l U'.iUl ?.nu | Kuhns B-ats, also an expert, is fore- I man and machinist operator, for an; afternoon paper in Wilmington, X. C.,! where he is succeeding. Jesse Coats is an operator on an j afternoon paper in Richmond, Va.,1 where he has been for several years? his string leading all others when the time comes for the "ghost to walk." oViov hnlrtc r.n imnorfant UUi 1 CT VM - ? position in the ad department of the; Columbia State. John Lee Davis, said to be the champion operator of the South, is on the State. It is said that John can smoke a cigar, talk to a by-stander and keep the elevator full all at the same time, time. y John K. Aull, who used to be a swift | hand compositor, is one of the most popular and efficient court stenogra-! Sphere in th-e State, and his contribum irons from time to time in The Herald W are much enjoyed. John is a born W newspaper man. f Herman Aull, Col. Aull's second son, j J was also one of the swiftest, most steady, punctual and efficient young -printers I have ever known. The allh wise Ituler of the universe saw fit to i call him from the borders and troubles j T this world to be with Him in paradise. No one was ever missed in the office as he was, s j { John Wicker, too, poor fellow, witli *11 his eccentricities and peculiarities l*ad a noble and kindly heart. He, too, j after a long life devated to The Herald, was called and had to yield up his life. Robert Bass also began his career, 4s a. printer in The Herald office. He| is now with the Bryan Printing comjpany, Columbia, and is doing Well. Mack Davis is also with the Columbia State. Hosea Barger, the veteran printer, probably the only one that has been continuous in his services to The Herald, is still to be found at his post. Last, but not least, we shall mention Dick Greneker. You all know "Dick." He now holds up the local end of The ?r?nrf> nf th.A distinct features k ?- ? w of the paper, which is so prominently being brought to the front. Dick is a chip off the old block, and has the faculty of knowing a news item when he meets it?an act which many news-1 \>aper men in an experience of a life-: time never attain. r There may be others that this writer was associated with in the past on The 'Herald that I have overlooked. If so, it is unintentional. Again we congratulate Col. Aull, and all connected "with his paper, on the magnificent showing as a result of their efforts. May he live long and "have many years of success before him is the wish of one whose recollections I of his connection with the paper brings ^manv pleasant memories. y SCHOOL-MATE OF THE EDITOR AMI JLAl\LK iuni?r^rv.^i!L.u Mr. L. I. Epting Recalls the Days of Old St. PauFs School and Later Times. (By L. I. Epting.) Mr. E. H. Aull and I went to school j together, when we were boys, to Rev.! Dr. J. A. Sligh, at St. Paul's school1 The school hous-e was built jfc 18 feet wide and 40 feet long, with a Htehimney at each end, from which the r building was heated with hickory and j oak wood cut by the school boys from , the forest near by. The building had i two doors, one on each side about the middle of the building, and four win- j dows on each side. The same school "house is still standing, minus one chimney, and with some other changes. The church (old St. Paul's), stand- j ing about 60 feet from the school k * house, at that time had three doors J of entrance, one on each side and one at the end of the church, with a portico extending over each door. On the floor of those porticos we boys and the girls, too, had a great time cracking and eating hickory nuts, which were plentiful, and of good quality, to bp r had just by picking them up from uri^ der the trees near-by. Those were great times. BE- I will mention some of the boys and girls about our age that went to school when we did: Elbert, Rowena and j Nathan Aull; Walter and Janie Counts, Mary and Laura 'Kibler; ? - " * 1 - "ii i-? i ! Pierce ana waner nuesui , jduiiu, ; John, and Dora Riser; Jody Kinard, Berley Epting, Irvin Feagle, Arthur Koon, Thad Rikard, Fannie Dump and Walter "Wick- r, Bachman Cromer and 1 many others 1 can't call to mind just now. Some have passed to the great beyond. Mr. Luther Aull, father of Elbert, ran a grist mill near his dwelling, two miles west of the school house. I L. I. EPT1NG. was always glad when I had to go to mill, notwithstanding the great many difficulties I had to encounter, v We had to take the corn in a sack, put on tVia of jl horse while I rode on | the sack to keep it on the horse. Sometimes the milter didn't divide the contents of the sack exactly across the hack of the horse; then trouble would follow. The heavy side would overbalance and the horse in walking would cause it to get more to one side until finally it would come to the ground. Then we would have to wait j until some one would come along and lend a helping hand. Mr. Aull moved away and I lost sight | Of my friend, Elbert, though-1 always * " * 1 ^ ^ *r#?i { n T*/>? | carried inose stuwi-uu/ ut,/? *u j | memkrance. By and by Elbert gradui ated at Newberry college, studied law, | was admitted to the bar, and thent j just 25 years ago, he eoiiiriienced editing The Herald and News, one of the j ! best, if not the best, papers Newberry j has ever had. In 1897 we were thrown closer to-1 gether. I, with several others, tried i to furnish, the news of the different; sections of the couny in which we liv- j ed. We had-a few picnics, called the| ?-.?y.n(?TM\n^Qnte' TV) Ac a "WAffi ! VUl i coj;v/uutui.o x uvuv .. ?? | enjoyable times, but they didn't last long enough. Now, as this is the twenty-fifth an- j niversarv of Mr. Aull as editor of j The Herald and News, we congratu- j late him on his success, and wish for i him ev^n greater success during the; next twenty-five years. - ! Best wishes and kind regards. HIS FIRST RECOLLECTION OF A NEWSPAPER Began as Correspondent of The Herald and News More Than 25 Years Agro. (By H. J. Kinard.) My fisrt recollection of a newspaper being published at Newberry was the Van-hoprv Vowc orlitprJ anH rvnhlishprl J ? , by Mr. R. H. Greneker, the paper then being issued 011 Thursday of each; week. Later on Mr. A. C. Jones took i charge of the paper and edited and published the paper under the heading of the Newberry H-erald and News. i I ^B^^rff^MffPi BaHMMllWl jjMllE if^-;lMW^ MaMWagB^HBSaSBaB^Ms I - ?? H. J. KIXARD. I J During Mr. Jones' term as editor of the paper I sent my first news items from Excelsior section to the paper and have continued doing so up to the , present time. ! Later Mr. E. H. Aull took charge of. I the paper as editor and publisher and continued issuing the paper once a week for some time until the editor of the paper desired to give the readers the news while it was news and began to issue the paper twice a week ?Tuesday and Friday. The Herald and News is one among i the best, county papers published and j the day is coming when the paper will | be made a daily. m, ?? STENOGRAPHER'S FIRST NEWSPAPER EXPERIENCE She Finds Difficulties With Other Pooj pic's Handwriting?Does Not Stop to Study Character. | (By Miss Anna L. Dickert). What an interesting, heart-thrilling,1 nervous experience is that of one just' launching out into the realms of the I unknowp business world. Interesting /-.>"> 1 T- +r\ + Vl/~kc/-. TI'Vli-l 1 IT! fl O T" C 13 1"1 fl HJLUUgU \J LI LJ l-uuot n HV the problems and perplexities that confront a stenographer. It is to The Herald and News that I am indebted for such an experience. My connection with The Herald and I News as a stenographer, a beginner too, hear that in mind, though of only a few months duration, as I was only a substitute of the regular one who was on a vacation, was m ssarily filled with many difficulties?difficulties such as confront I suppose, every stenographer. But the person without + r\ orV? 4- f A TVlflC/1 U J.J-UU UI tiers IU iigi-n, lo tvr versity," said John Neal, "is the prosperity of the great. No man ever worked his way in the dead calm. Kites rise against, not with, the wind." So why should we complain at our difficulties when they are our most valuable assets? We, as stenographers, are one class of ladies who do not object to being dictated to, and are very careful to catch every word of that dictation. Bu you see he dic?/->+ nAnnom tVin ctv1<A nf hflt. dLUJU UUW liUL. VUlH/^4 11 I.UU .V w or dress. Taking dictation and transcribing your noes is not all the work of a newspaper stenographer. There is yet the work of transcribing the writing of other folks which is sometime as diffioult as reading other folks short-hand notes, I heard a teacher of permanship say once that much could be learned of a person from the handwriting, but I never did "take 1 * 1 ? n^iT+Viiny. rtv/v\nf TirVi o f Lime LU lt5a.ru anj uiiiixg T:Avrci/u ttuui. the word was. It takgs patience to do GVen that &nd like that snail with patience Siid perseverance we are finally brought to Jerusalem. This day is certainly & great event in the history of The Herald and News, a history covering twenty-five years. For these years it has been the pride of our town and this year more so than ever. Notice the improvement. Watch the educational columns. It has discovered that the horizon isn't fixed, that it can be pushed back, retreating as we advance. And while the result is always not- toon, yet it has its effect. You can not pursue a crooked path without leaving footprints, and sometimes some one is going to tract your course. And like wise with an upright and straight one. May the aim of The Herald and News be far and may that goal stay fijced. Keep going, keep pace and thereby hold your place and every day will bring you nearer realization. Remember we have a irships to lift us to our air castles. THE PRESENT FORCE IS YOUNG IN YEARS Old in Experience as They Were Brought Up in the Office?Loyal to Their Work. (By E. H. Aull.) This issue of The Herald and News would not be complete if it did not contain a few words about the present force of The Herald and News. With the exception of the editor, I suppose it would be true to say, that scarcely another newspaper in the State works as many people as young as the present force, that is, in years. They are all old in experience as they were brought up, so to speak, in the office. Mr. Jas. L. Aull, who is a son of the editor, has charge of the mechanical department, and is but twenty-three years old, though I suppose he feels like by this time that lie is an old printer, as he has been one from the ivinWi hie memory scarcely L1I1JLO tV n u?vu >?w ? v w runneth to the contrary. He is also an expert linotype operator and machinist. 1 suppose he inherited his mechanical qualities from his forebears. Mr. Ira Siigh is the linotype operator and has worked in The Herald and News office some seven or eight years. He began at fifty cents a week. He is1 but twenty-two years old now and is an expert operator. For a little while Via halri r?nwn ri nnsition nn thp flolum bia State, but after a few months he returned to his first love. His brother, Edgar SligL, carted at the same time and at the same salary, and is now a good job and advertising printer, and has :n^re endunr.icv- i"or I max; I am. I | The H I We andmc goods 1 in the i anythh ci y ^ wi amelwi . and in , can be date st vav vo f The I II i r i1?; continuous haul's of work without fag| ging than any boy who ever held a I position in the office. I believe he j can do ten to twelve days of work in a week and look fresh and bright all the time. He is only twenty years old. Alvin Wright has been with the ofI fice for nearly a year, and is develop| ing into a good all-round boy, and j will make a first-class printer. He is | only nineteen years of age. ! Humbert Aull, who is a son of the | I editor, is but sixteen years old and ! is one of those boys who can do things if he will. He: has also been brought up in the office, so to speak, and though he did not take to it as the other boys did as they came on, he is I now doing good, faithful work. ! j Mr. H. M. Barger writes his exper I j ience in the printing business, and is now getting to be nearly as old as the ! editor, though still active, faithful and conscientious in his work. . William Davis, th-e colored man in | the mechanical department, has been j with The Herald and News for nearly I twenty years, and always has and does ! take a lively interest in the office. He j is an expert pressman and takes care 1 of the machinery and looks after the i office in general as well as takes care ! of the editor at his home. I do not see how the office could get along !< ?2xi i. v: ? j wen wnauui mm. In the front office, Mr. R. H. Grene- l j ker has charge of the mailing list, does | collecting, and writes personals and I locals. He is the busiest mr-j in town | and always on his job. He has been with the office, well, since he wore frocks. I would not like to say the number of years because he is still a young man. i Miss Ammie Taylor is bookkeeper j and stenographer and keeps the neat! pst books in town. Miss Anna Dickert, who is book' keeper to the county superintendent of j education, does some work in connec! tion with The Herald and News, and | is an expert stenographer. The force works harmoniously tol gether and is prepared to do any class ! of printing. The Herald and News has four city deliverers and they are thf best the ! paper has ever had, each being faith| ful and prompt in the discharge of his ! duty. The list is as follows: Route 1, ; Frank Taylor; Route 2, William Half 1 ju-: : Route 3. Henry Hoof; Route 4, K; Slif-lh. J TP BOOK & Q<| w *t ? ?\wnmtr B USJ VAKlc.Ii U1 ouse of a Thousand have one of t V 1 _ V . _ > )st complete si in our line to h State. If yo rig in Books, S ima, Cut Glai are, Fountain fact anythh found in an ore of this kin u to inspect rr rro book & cr lj variety j louse of a Thousand s .#%' ' . ! ' . *"? t mmmmmmmmmmmrnammm "It Is Be That H Death is constantly are o^d, and mow and the young. Men, supposed to be day, and leaving th titution. Business or^anizat strotlg are constant Many promising ent because of some i unforeseen accidem Now, the affairs of of every corporati public institution, s ed that unexpected fully dealt with. 1 of a great life ins must be organized, NOT FOR A DAY, ( Its strength and abi to meet every emer protection that PR that is SURE. For tect, and unless the protection is secur venture, the value < nished will not be a The Equitable fulfill certainty J. A. BUR 11 Newberry, S 1 ? Things I he hest ocks of e found u need tationss, EnI V -JL. Vi ig that up-to\d it will ty stock \ [ORE J Things f ~l I .. J Unexpected lappens i 9 r sparing those who ing down the healthy i \ i rich, are dying every i i ; . J eir iovea ones in aesI ions supposed to be ly failing. erprises turnout badly unexpected injury or t. every business firm, ion, of every great ould be so conductevents can be successes is peculiarly true iurance company. It > i BUT FOR ALL TIME. lity must be such as gency, so as to give ATmTC : \J 1 ?/\j 1 CJ lUSUIilllLC its province is to procompany offering the e beyond all peradof the protection furbsolute and complete. s every requirement of and safety TAM I i i un, Agent | iouth Carolina 1 - 1