The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1877-06-21
A VETERAN.-The Germantown (O.) Press thus
"sets up our old friend, Louie Dill:

AN AGED PRINTER.
An article in health magazine shows that printers
die young. The of it is that frequent typo
graphical bunders produce much misery in the
world that their sensitive nature can't stand the
strain We are anxlousy expecting at least half our
compositors to die every day.-Ddyton Journal.
That printers die young may be true as a general
rule but that, like other rules does not hold good in
all eases. Mr.. c. l.. Dill who Justly claims to be the
oldest printer in the Miami Valley, is still at the
in this office, although well along towards eighty
years old. He began to learn the trade in 1917, just
sixty years ago. and has worked at the Except
for few short interyals) ever since. There are gray
headed men in this vicinity who remember having
seen Louie Dill" set type when they boys.
Rev. D. Winters, Israel Beard, Hon. l.. d. Gunckel
V. Winters ExSheriff Davidson, j. s. Binkerd, and
of other ''od citizens of Dayton all remember
of having Mr.. Dill working at the when they
were yet quite young In 1876, Mr.. VIM. Gunckel,
now Of Dayton published the 't;er,nantown Gazette"
and aterward sold it to Joe. Rceder of Dayton.
Mr. Dill worked for both these gentlemen, and they
regarded him an 'Od printer" at that time.
But not withstanding his extreme age and long
service at the he is yet quite stout and hearty
Only last week old friend called at the Office, and
invited Mr.. Dill to come ont and him. .Well,-
said MIR. Dill, "some Sunday when feel right good
I'll walk ont and spend the day with you" And that
man lives nine miles from tOwn.-GeTmdnto,cn Press.
That's a pretty good notice; but it would
have been good enough without certain trifling
exaggcrations. For instance, Louie was born i'm
the year lS10-well that's not such bad mis-
take; he lacks only 13 years of being 80. Make
it 1924 1926 that he commenced setting type,
and you have it. Rev. ID. Winters and Valen-
tine Winters are much older than Louie, and
therefore didn't see him setting type when they
were boys. Judge Elliott and j. S. Binkerd
never knew him while they were boys This
leaves Lew. Guncksl, Orrin Davidson and Israel
Beard, and the narrative is correct concerning
them. You see, we want to keep the record
straight on Louie, for We have half dozen of
his paintings hanging on our Office walls, aud
the yarns we tell about him don't correspond
with the foregoing extract. We can remember
him back to the beginning of 1S4s, when we
were an apprentice. He was keeping chebang
then, in Sam. Reeds house, on Plum Street, and
had mysterious piece of paper in his posses
ion, to prevent the house burning down. There
were several German job fonts in the office, and
whenever a Dutch sale bill ("Offsntlche ven-
due') was ordered, We had to go for Ionic, to
come and set it up. "All right" Louie would
say; an be around as soon as get my preck-
fast" There was just one thing We didn't like
about Louie, and that was two things. He new
er could be persuaded to stop work long enough
to listen TO or tell story; and we could never I
prevail upon him to take a social glass of beer
with US. Then, he was Of serious turn, aud |
never laughed.