The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-12-16

soun~ster, he'd learned the cases, and ac-
0uired their primer ideas aud tastes for tlr
brilliant aud successful journalistic careers
they have since recorded on the tablet OF
time I'm 1855 the senior GARRISON sold out the
Hoo..sr iogrnal and removed with his Two
boz % Gruiy county. la.. whore bo Dou5 ll
q farm and started ont to make sran-elS ol
chem Their lrm he and experience Gov
erred period OK about ten years. although
r. chaid went % the war 10 1861 ana served 90
tie cnlofn. The year 1865 found the senior
C,srrson in the stNe senate from tlo Grludy
county district Richard and James had
o,en left at homo 70 run the farm. olt gran.
r.rism was oilous TO them, and they lad
long bsea kicking Ia the traces. being con.
ssrIoi as they were with their inherent aud
irre1res-ib'e ambitions o. enter the h.li OF
Illluliism To Was az this time that jaime
wrote 90 bis father and stated that be ls1 On
0Dportuu.ty to buy ha|f interest 10 The l..
.an a., Herald. Lizzie country papc?
whlcl bis building enthusiasm Jed lim q
eovst as the proverbai tide which needed
Irt tn8 se.In- % ouel tue vcalcd way &c
guns and fortune. TIC senator, however,
lad loftier ideas and plans for his Sous, and
promptly disc ura-ed .ae E.d0ra scheme
"Ify0l are determined % abandon tho farm
and enter journalism as following tue
.atner wrote. ".len aim higher than AIJle
country town and payer"
ThereuDon James abandoned the idea OF
rolng % Eldora, and mex. tesolgA- 1is father
10 Get him q position 10 Dos Mones lais be
lid. and James soon arrived 10 the then
young and uuiagei9ped capital city OF Iowa
,ud entered Tho Register establishment as
.le composing room cub. - cut q long
story short, the hltlor-9 imprisoned journal
.s-ic genius regelei Is its freedom, AMI jane
-ap.dly ascendel the ladder ot success. IL
side of four Years be bad risen step by STE.
% the foremau.hlp OF tho n9Ts raoai TIE
night VI Geographic eI.-Q-lip t-9 c!tj
sdlt1rsAlp aui lualiy the political edir2rsnip.
i1del tue Ll.s IL 20 administrator or llo
register, all Of which positions be a-.o1 with
success. Meanwhile lis brother Richard lad
also quit tue farm AMI followed bis brother
% Tue REGISTER. un0n which be held case.
One DAY in 1870 james hurried post haste q
the parental farm IN Grunly colaty ana
.xciraiiy disclosed o. bis father thai The
nt.LlIEE proper NfAa ."'4 .ft-I rtttH F-tatr
Co. tie owners, had tired Of ir a-d given
aim an option Tor thirty days az $1,000
Father and sou returned 20 the CITY, c0un
seled With Richard, aud the three ce1.l cd e
5ocuro the golden egg Tho farm was sold
Tor the necessary ej,00l, fof the frs pay
uenr, ana their firm notes given Cor the bal.
lnce, b. T. Allen, tie then celebrated
own banker, backing to Clarlsous in TIC
enterprise. TIE Iowa State Register nov
entered upon a new career, with Dir j. s.
Garrison 10 tue editorial clair, assisted oe
Father Garrison, who established tho farm
/ department, ana Mg r. =. Garrison O.
business manager Das M9Inas was upon tl'
threshold OF a new COON. Tho RocS island
railway bad just banded the state, and tb'
other trunk lines began - look IN the dlrec
I zion os ~ capital c.ry. To The Register
now tie leading paper OF the state, cam.
power aud money. First cana the sIap
printing and next the pos.olioe. Mean
while advertising and subscriptions pouge-
10. and The Register, uuier tie Garrison 10
CINE, aourlshed Ike q green bay tree, no
only speedily wiplny oui the debt assume,
oy the new proprietors but laying tno foun
iatlon Of thgec comfortable fortunes, and a.
ga.s IN ths space Of ten years