The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-11-01
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OLD TIMES.
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FREMONT THIRTY YEARS AGO.
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How long Mr.. wHITE's paper, the Low er
Sandusky Times. lived, we have no means
! Of knowing, as the volume from which We
gather these "reminiscences contains but one
No. Of it, and that the first issued, Sept. 9Th,
1887. Mr.. CLARK WAGGoNER began the
publication of the Lower Sandusky Whig
on the 4th of May, 1899. 1t was continu-
alton of the Times under a new name and
with a new proprietor. We have an un-
broken file Of the Wing from the date Of its
first issue down to Dec. %, 1s4I. Mr..
WAGGoSER evidently encountered more DIFF
6culties in printing his little weekly in Fre-
mont in those days, than he meets with now
in publishing his daily in Toledo. His
troubles because of inefficient printers weie
vexa,ious, and his disappointments in the
matter of receiving paper were many. His
first printer, after three or four weeks work,
gate up his traps on Sunday evening
and quietly stole away, leaving the office to
run itself; or as the editor himself express
ed it: He has left us in this deplorable
situation without the least notice or pre-
'tence of provocation :" and after stating
that he had on, when he left, ga black fur
hat, sailors Jacket, snds black pantaloonsS'
he cautions hiss brethren of thcs press 10
"beware of the scoundrel ! - This little
scrap has two fold value now, as showing
us what were the customs and costumes of
the craft iu those days. The paper was not
published with the strictest regard to regu-
larity or uniformity of size, the whims of
the paper maker and stage-c,aches having
a great deal to do with it. Such slight
causes as the illness of the publisher would
prevent the appearance of the paper for
fortnight or SO, or be the excuse for sending
out half sheetE AT such times sspicydis-
cussion would follow with the MaumeeS pa
per on the subject of "Fever n sger -
from which it was to be inferred that the ed
itors in both places devoted one week to
shaking aud the next to printing.
In running over these old papers We find
among the names of lawyers, physicians and
other professional men of thirty years ago,
some who still reside IN Fremont, There
may be others of this class living here now
who lived here then, but their names don't
appear in the paper. This is suggestive of
another value of advertising-for the benefit
of posterity r. P. BUcKLAND was the only
attorney that advertised for some time. His
card was followed by that of PETER YATES,
who, it appears, removed from the State in
1889. JOHN A. JOHNSON next put up his
shingle, which was profitable to the printer,
as several others soon did the same, among
them B. J. BERTLETT, H. r. PsTrIBoNE, J.
L. GREENE. G. l.. LATIMER, L. B. OTIs, H.
EVERETT, and w. W. ANGER. The adver-
tisement of ANGER has probably never been
paraleled for inpdesy., though there il p
Chance tbdt'it may be YET We copy it as
legal-literary curiosity;
Friend, dost thou suffer unbsariug oppress-
ion ?
Or mourn of thy goods unlawful detention
And thus suffering, or thus mourning, for
counsel dOss range,
Please call first door south of the Northern
Exchange.
There, alone andsecluded,l q stpnger seu'p,
/, find,
Surrounded by books, and to study inclin-
ed,
Who his living did spend and his brain did
/. pother,
That he ght become your humble