The Newtown bee., 1900-11-30
Litchfeld County.
NEW MILFORD.
EDITOR BOLLEs' PROSPERITY.

Joshua A. Bollss, the editor and p'o-
 prietor of the New Milfo,d Gazette, is
 about to make improvements in his plant
 in the line of his progressive rolicy. He
 has contracted for larger and improved
 printing press, which will be installed on or about January 1. At that time, your correspc ndent he's rs, his paper will be enlarged from four.page, eisht.column sheet 10 an eight-page. seven columns,
 which will of course incr ease the size of his excellent and readable paper. THE
 BEE is pleased to an1 ounce the fact and
 to offer Mr Bo les its hearty COT gratula- rions. Mr Bellies has been . strenuous opI o aent of extravagance in public af-
 faire, particularly on the road question, and while fome may think he has the happy faculty of harping on one string of the great newspaper bass viol to the dis comfort of certain musical minds, still
 the genial editor is not disturbed ;n his righteous purpose, and ul ke the prophet
 Elijah of old does not hie himself away to sit in sadnets under a juniper tree, but goes bravely on. He rightly thinks that there must come . time to pay these public bills and if the town tf3cials Connecticut don't call halt,
 New Milford's worthy Joshua intimates
 there will come tina 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 betn . well.known book publisher. Dul ing his active business career Joehua Bolles was associated with his brothers in book store and publishing business at New London, Conn. The firm com. piled and issued the Bellies dictionary and the Bolles spelling book. Joshus Bolles d ed in 1857, two years after bis marriage, when he was but 49 years old Joshua A. B. Hes epent 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 illness was unable to remain long. At 20 years of age he began his career ae B newspaper man in the tfice of the New York Mail, which was then edited by the late Maj Bundy. He received training from William Henry the literary editor, also from Gel Cliff.rd Thompson, . well-known New York journalist. MT Bolles subae. quently learned to set type in the efice 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 in company with F. H. Gid. dings, he came to New Milford, where they purchased and edited the Ga .tte. Mir Giddings retired after . year, and MT Bolles has since conducted the paper alone and has brought 1t into the front rank of country newspapers. In 1891 he erected . three-story block, the flrst DOT of which he rents for . store, and the third for a photographic studio; the second is devoted to his newspaper and ob printirg business, for which work he has thorough equipment of fine ma chinery and presses, which are run by means of power furnished by . nine. hoS L zine. MT Bolles has contributed many stories to the Boston Budget, Belford's Magazine, Frank Lsslis's Popular Monthly, the Yankee Blade, and other Two of his essays read before the Connecticut Editorial Associ. ation, entitled ''The Country Editor of
 To-day" and "Country Journalism a an Art" have attracted special notice.