The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-11-03
VALEDICIORY.


pending for some time prior. wero finally
closed last Saturday by which THE
LANsE SENTINEL plant and all the real
estate possessions OF the writer. in this
village, were transferred to Mr.. John
Campbell, and the present issue of the
SENTINEL Is the last one with which we
shall be In any way connected.
In partiag company forever with an
institution which owed Its birth to our
Individual effort, and which we have
nonrished aud reared from precarious
and doubtful infant publication to a
sturdy aud self-sustaining newspaper;
aud In bidding farewell to the people OF
this community with whom the writer
and his family have been pleasantly as.
sociated In a business or social way for
the past fourteen years, we may be par
doned for INDUCING In some retrospective
reflections, even though they partake
something OF q personal nature.
The writer first established the SENTI-
MEL In this village in the spring 0. 1880.
This WIS before Baraga was anything
more than little hamlet, and Pequam-
ing was just struggling ftf place on
the map, --llebard Il Thurber having
located their mill plant there year or
two before. Slate and stone quarries
had suspended operations and the business
seemed paral! zed. Under these unfavor-
able conditions the SENTINEL was launch
ed, and 1t is not to be wondered at that
its existence for the following few years
was precarlous indeed, The building of
the railroad from L'Anse to uoughton
IN 1854, and the establishment of the
great hester numbering concern at
Baraga at about the same time, gave new
impetus to the business inter sts OF the |
county, and from that time the SENTINEL.
has steadily gained in influence and |
favor.
In looking backward oyer our earlier
career as All editor w can discern many
errors; but no reader of the SENTINEL.
OF late years can honestly or truthfully |
say that the conduct Of the paper has
"'Nh duJ ItsUtCl ny per- |
sonal prejudice or malice. TX we enter
tanned any such feeling toward any
individual no word or sign of it ever APP
peared IN the columns OF this paper. 1t
Is true we have, upon occasion, criticised
the action of some who we're acting In
official or public positions, and have
incurred their enmity and loss of patron
age thereby; but In this regard we have
never gone beyond what we honestly
deemed 1t our duty to go, aud many {
times we have refrained from publishing
such criticisms as might with truthful |
ness have been made, prefcrriDg to err t
on the side OF mercy rather than mad d
vertanily do an injustice 10 aay man. q
We have always endeavored 10 treat
our brother editors with that courtesy o
and consider alton to which they arc en- b
Titled BY virtue Of their vocation. With o
some OF them we have had controversies a
In which our arguments may have been p
embelished with satirical epithets and &
sarcastic adiectiveS. and sometimes with a
ridicue, but none can say Faithfully q
that We have ever descended to personal b
abuse. We have never hesitated TO draw o
swords with an honorable editor, but L
declined always duel with shovels. z
MuG-slingng and personal abuse are d
nominations that we have steadily a
avoided even at the risk OF being consid- c.
'rcd u coward by those who delight in +
such disgrgceful exhibitions. :!
In leaving LAnsc for other fields of h
action we go with the feeling that we n
have done our duty as citizen Of the lc
place and that our aid aud support has q
been given every good cause aud every il
public enterprise: that the community A. a
! whole has been benefited through our II
'norts; thai number OF the Individual Ii
members of this community, we can say
with sincerity and without cgotism. have Il
Deca enriched through the counsel and $
advice given by the writer. How 81
.heso services have been TcquIted we will y
leave the community to judg,, There ]
are many noble people in LAnsa whom u
We shalt always remember with The kind u
'st feeling and with whom we shall part G
With tho keenest regret. To these we s.
owe debt of gratitude we can mover Z
repay, for their moral aud material sup y
port, and with MS tho memory Of their I,
words and kind acts will survive g
The passing years until oblIterated by 1
the finger OF that grim messenger from $
whom there is no escape. a
We leave IAnse with sincere wishes
FOR the prosI Gritty Of It's people individu-
ally and collectively. We bear no one $
Iil-will and write our alden .with charity 2