The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-09-27
The Weekly Register
LOCAL. MATTERS.

a NEMlNlscENcE,- Thirty years
ago to-day, the editor and proprietor
of this newspaper commenced type,
setting at case and stand that now
occupies an honored corner in the
office of the Cumberland (Maryland)
Allegantan. 1t then stood in a large
store room on Baltimore Street, near
the Baltimore and Ohio Depot. Ii
was a Democratic paper, with VIM,
Weber as its editor and froprietor.-
The paper had about 700 subscribers
at the time, and was a paper of high
tone and character Its Office or me.
chanical management was in the
hands of Mr.. James Hilleary, (whc
could put up his 10000 N1sof minion
in a day, without even one mistake
in his proof and he knew how to
make up . good paper and print it
we'll. The Office force consisted Of
Mcssrs, John Widener, Vim. Roper,
and John Weaver. The latter about
completing hisapprenticesh
we entered the office. With the ex.
ception of Mr.. Weaver, these men
are all dead. Mr. Weaver is an emf.
nent Minister in the Presbyterian
Church, and is located in Pennsylva,
MIA, During our apprenticeship,
VIM. Eldridge Weber, commenced to
learn the printing business, and he
became a good printer and a great
writer, and finally succeeded his
father in the publication of the pa
per. lie disposed Of the paper to
Mr.. Buck Taylor, who is now its
publisher while Mr., Weber is ,Presi-
dent of the Queen City Savings
Bank of Cumberland, Two type
boxes raised the young printers
"deyil," then in his 18th year, high
enough to reach the lower row Of
boxes in the capital case without
standing on his tip-tocs.. Rolling
for Widcners press work, after he
had been out on 4 nights spree, re-
quired great skill, and to put en- more
"coloFh ut every frthinprcssion kept
The little chap alert and careful. Ii
he let tile color run down, or lost con,
trul of the roller so that it went over
to the front of the press and hit the
irate presSman in the back us the
handle Acw over, a lively scene
would ensuc, in which oaths from
the prcssru2n and heavy pieces Q!
furniture from the bank drawer were
hurled iadiscriminately at the offend
ing apprentice, and it kept him busy
"dodging." But he had just como
from summers work on a farm,
where cutting thistles with u dull
scytho and picking up stones, and
killing rattle snakes had been his
chief occupation, and he was bound
to succeed as Il printer, if possible
lie has been at the business thirty
years; and his first jour work WIS
done in the office Of the Bomncy In.
hiiigacer, (this State1 Of which VIM.
Harper, Esq was editor, and is now.
Twenty-Five years Of his printer life
has been spent in Point Pleasant,
and sixteen years Of it in the publ
cation Of the Register on his Gown
hook" Notwithstanding all this
long and constant service at this
business, he still finds much to learn
before he shall be able 10 master the
Art that preserves all other arts
lie isat anyrdte proud to be able to
say that he is the only one who
has successfully maintained news.
paper in Mason county, and that he
now gives ta his patrons as neat a
paper, and as newSy a paper as any
published in the State; and he would
in concluding this article, ask his
friends, everywhere, to interest
themselves in increasing the list Of
subscribers to his paper
A NInnrnN M1RAcLR-Snnntim