The Newtown bee., 1900-11-30
THE BEE.
County.
NEW MILFORD.

prloLOr or the N0W Mll1OlO 0SZ9ttes u about to make improvements in his plant
 in the line of his progressive policy. He
 has contracted for larger and improved
 printing press, which will be installed on or about January l.. At that time, your correspondent hears, his paper will be enlarged from four-page, eieht-column sheet to an eight-page. seven columns.
 which will of course incr ease the size ot his excellent and readable paper. TH1
 BEE is pleased to an1 ounce the fact and to offer MT Bo,les it's hearty copgratula' tions. Mr Bolles has been . strenuous opr ronent of extravagance in public af' fairs, particularly on the road question, and while some may think he has the happy faculty of harping on one string o1 the great newspaper bass viol to the dis. comfort of certain musical minds, still the genial editor is not disturbed in hie righteous purpose, ,and unlike the prophet Elijah of old does not hie himself away to sit in sadnets under juniper tree, bu, goes bravely on. He rightly thinks that there must come a time to pay these public bills and if the town fficiala throughout Connecticut don't call halt, New Milford's worthy Joshua intimates there will come . time when 'the poor. house over the hill' will be crowded to the doors and business men will be crowding in line to knock at the door of the bankruptcy courts. Mr Bolles, by the way, is native of Waterford, Conn.,, where his birth occurred on May 26
 1856. He is . son of Joshua and Theresa A. J. (wheele,) Bolles, his father having been . well.known book publisher. During his active business career Joshua Bolles was associated with his brothers in book store and publishing business at New London, Conn. The firm com. piled and issued the Bolles dictionary and the Bolles tpelling nook. Joshua Bo]les d ed in 1857, two yeara after his marriage, when he was but 49 years old. Joshua A. Bclles spent his boyhood in the old seaport town of New London, and was graduated from the Bulkley school. He afterward entered Amherst college, but on account of severe iHness was unable to remain long. At 20 years of age he began his career as a newspaper man in the effice of the New York Mail, which was then edited by the late Maj Bundy. He received valuable training from William Henry Forman, the literary editor, also from Col Clifford Thompson, . well-known New York journalist. MT Bolles subse' quently learned to set type in the office of the New London Telegram, and after that went to Great Burlington, Mass., where he was employed by. Clark W. Bryan to write for the Berkshire Courier, the Paper World, and other publications of Clark W. Bryan & Co. From Great Burlington, in company with F. H. Gid. dings, he came to New Milford, where they purchased and edited the Gazstte. MT Giddipgs retired after year, and MT Bolles has since conducted the paper alone and has brought it into the front rank of country newspapers. In 1891 he erected thIee.story block, the first fl DOT of which he rents for g store, and the third for a photographic studio; the second is devoted to his newspaper and job printing business, for which work he has thorough equipment of fine ma chinery and presses, which are run by means of power furnished by . nine. horse boiler and four.horse steam en. zine. MT Bolles has contributed many stories to the Boston Budget, Belford's Magazine, Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, the Yankee Blade. and other publications. Two of his essays read before the Connecticut Editorial Associ. ation, entitled ''The Country Editor of To-day" ," and Country Journalism ai an Art," have attracted special notice.