Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-07-15

printed n page of the paper at a
time, and the ink was applied by an
ink ball, which had to be smoothed
over the face of the type. 1t was slow
work. Mr.. Galloway says that the
weekly edition of the Palladium was
printed at the rate of 100 copies an
hour.
Having learned the trade, Galloway
returned to his old home in Portage
county in 1882, the year of the cholera
epidemic. After a few months he took
a case at Hudson, o., on a weekly
Presbyterian paper edited and pub
lished by Warren Isham. Isham paid
the young printer but 124 cents a
thousand ems, about %one-fourth of
what men now get for hand compost
ton. But 1871 cents was rather small
pay, even in those days, and young
Galloway thought that he could make
more somewhere else, so, like all of
the printers in those days, he began
to travel. He first went to Cleveland,
where he got a case on the Weekly
Herald. There was no daily there
then, and the Plain Dealer and Leader,
upon which he afterward worked,
were also merely publishing weekly
editions at that time.
q AT THE CEASE" IN EARLY DAYS.
firing of Cleveland and still seized
with a desire to travel, he went to
Columbus, o., and worked in the state
printing office under David Smith,
then the state printer. While in Col
umbus he also held cases on the Ohio
Monitor and later the Ohio ISentinel.
His next a 8 was on the Holmes
County Republican at Millersburg,
from which town he afterwards went
to Hudson and worked ..on the Ohio
Star, later working on the Ohio Oh
server, published at the same post
office.
A man had just started a paper at
Cuyahoga Falls, scalled the Ohio Re-
vieto, ..and he offered. Galloway % cents
per thousand ems to work on the
sheet. This was sufficient inducement
and Galloway went there. While at
Cuyahoga a dispute arose between the
states of Ohio and Michigan over their
boundary, and it seemed for a time
that there would be a war between
the two states. Galloway enlisted in
the. Ohio militia, and encamped with
other soldiers on the Maumee river,
opposite Perrysburg, waiting for
trouble. But there was none; the dis
pute was settled amicably.
In 1887 Galloway moved to Akron,
and worked on the Akron Post. Here
ne established his first newspaper,
forming a partnership with FL. K.
Smith. Together they published a
weekly known as the American Bal
dace. After a few months they sold
the Balance to Hiram Bowen, and
Galloway decided to try to run a boat
on the Ohio canal from Cleveland to
Portsmouth. But one season con-
WINGED him that printing was a better
business, both financially and socially.
He went to st. Louis and worked on
the Daily Gazette, published by Hol-
brook & Allen and edited by William
8. Allen. Afterward he joined the
Missouri Republican, which then was
an old line Wing organ.
PRINTED BOOKS FOR THE MoRMoNs.
While MI. Galloway was in st. Louis
he met Joseph Smith, the Mormon
prophet. Smith asked him to go to
Nauvoo in 1889, to take the contract
to print and stereotype the book of
Covenants and commandments"
published by the Mormon church. |
Galloway did the work satisfactorily
and was quite a friend of Joseph
Smith up to the time of his death in
1874. Galloway then formed a part
nership with Thomas @. Sharp, and
together they published a paper at
Warsaw, ILL.,, called the Warsaw Sig
nal, and they remained there until
1916.
After the Mormons left Illinois Gal
loway moved to Keosaqua, Ia, and
took the contract to print the Des
Moines Valley Wing for James b.
Howell. This paper was afterward
merged with the Keokuk Gate City.
With the assistance of James Harlan,
now justice of the Supreme Court, Mr..
Galloway established the Iowa Oh
serUer at Mount Pleasant, Ia. He ran
the paper for six years, during which
time it was quite a power in Iowa
politics. Mr.. Galloway says that
ex-senator "Tom" Bowen learned to
set type in the Office of the Observer
at this time, and the future senator
was 6 good compositor before he WENT
west to Colorado and made the big
strike which made him a millionaire.
Mr.. Galloway returned to Warsaw
and bought the Warsaw Express,
which paper he conducted for several
years. During this period the war
between the states broke out and Mr..
Galloway sent his two sons, Harry B.
Galloway and James P. Galloway, to
the front and had the satisfaction of
seeing them return in safety from the
vicksburg campaign, which cost the
lives of SO many Illinois soldiers. The
first Of these sons is now living at
Pueblo, Col, where Mr.. Galloway
makes his home. The other, who was
a state senator and one Of the biggest
cattle kings in Colorado, died recently.
EXPERIENCE IN CHICAGO.
At the close of the war Mr.. Gallo
way removed to Mexico, Mo-, and
bought the Mexico Messenger from
w. w. Davenport. He ran 1t for a
while and finally sold it to come to
Chicago at the age of rs and grow up