The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-07-11

by current events. To supply the de-
mand the HERALD instituted in the year
1886 Saturday HERALD. This annex
took care of the oyerplus of news and
accommodated the needs OF the adyer~.
tiser. The Evening HERALD was con-
ceived through light shed by the Satur-
day and the Fair HERALDs. The Sat
urday HERALD was discontinued with the
appearance of the Evening HERALD. 1t
was not TO be discarded altogether,
however, for in the year 1896 more
space was required in handling the news
and the business of the. paper than was
furnished by the columns of the Even
ing and Weekly sheets and The Saturday
HERLAD was revived.
March IA, 1896, Saturday Weekly
HERALD made It's appearance This SIS
ter of the regular Weekly HERALD is
walking hand in hand with the elder
publication and she well bears her share
of the burdens. Thus all readers of the
HERLAD family have the news in their
home in the columns of the semi-week-
ly journal-another mark of the prog
ress OF the paper.
August l, 1880. Albert and Pauline
Swain, his wife, became the sole own
ers of the HERALD, purchasing the inter
eSts of Chas. and William Leighton.
These gentlemen had been with the pa
per for thirty years and. their individual
ity had been merged with the publication
| until it seemed that they we're INSOFAR
able. Progress. however. is marked by
changes and the history of the HERALD
has furnished many of them.
December 3, 1895. Another generation
| of HERALD employees are called to the
management of the firm and the paper,
On that date Mr.. and Mrs Swain step
ped down and out and transferred their
interests to Charles " and Phil Hoff-
| mann. These young men had been
nursed in the cradle of the paper. From
it they had been taught their alphabet.
| Early in life they were connected with
| its various departments. They ate ink
and slept on print" within the walls OF
its home and the change from the
| Swalms to the Hoffmanns was but
step in the evolution of the journal, ever
advancing and ever lettering its Condi-
ton.
The new firm took up the reins and
| the old steed seemed to feel the change
and strang forward with new life and
yigor. The demand for the paper in
creased in all its editions. The Subscrip-
ton lists of both weekly and daily grew
at a surprising rate. Then came the
| Spanish American excitement and every
| one had to have the news. The HER
AID came to the front and occupied
| the field as it had never done be
fore, But the paper was passing into a
new era. The old press was too slow to
get out the editions Necessary to supply
the growing demand. News was want
| ed and demanded while it was news.
The events of the day came by wire and
| the paper gave them to the public a few
minutes. comparatively after they were
received The Eddyville courier and the
system of the sixties had no place in
| this enterprise A new and rapid press
that could do the work required was a
necessity of the office.
October II, 1900 A new Babcock
Dispatch" rapid news press was pur-
chased and put in the service together
with a folder. The several editions of
the paper were now printed and folded
at the rate of three thousand ner hour.
A great step in advance of heTold and
| past methods.
| DCCSlllDCl IA, IC1D. hdtS anu IiAS
issue of Thursday Volume so. Number
20, marks another epoch in the history
of the Weekly HERALD. On this date
and with holiday number was discarded
the old ten-column blanket sheet form
that had been a characteristic of the pa
per for twenty-three years. The form
was changed to that of a sevcn-cOlumn
eight-page modern newspaper and the
change was applauded by the many sub
scribers and the army of readers and
business patrons The new weekly
HERALD, the press and folder are a part
uf the new life Of the paper and will
assist in the building up process that
has been going on.
The HERALD has ever been an adher-
ant to the Republican faith. 1t started
as a wing paper and rallied to the sup
port Of Scott in 1852 1t was for FIRE.
molt in SO and then fell into line for
Lincoln in 1860, and since that time it
has bee at the head Of the columns of
Republicanism 1t has been with the
party in the times of the rejoicing and
it has shared the sorrows of the party
in the time of defeat And the paper
will continue in the path of prosperity
and progress and just as the people and
conditions demand Improvements they
will be made just as they have from the
day of the papers birth
The fiiftieth anniversary occurs on the
second day of July, 1000 but the begin
ming of the ffty-frst volume Of this
wear does not commence until August.
This difference in time is accounted for
by the fact that there were a few issues
of the paper missed in the days of
cross-country transportation. The. de-
!avyd issues were made up to the sub
Scribers at the end of the year. and
hence the extending Of the volume