Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-07
A COUNTRY" PAPER.
IT is TOO SWIFT FOR A CITY RE-
PORTER.

lie Tried City Style on the Willardville " Daily
EaeIe"-Duties of the "Staff' Scheduled
The City Editor Meets Suggestions Of the
New brains" the Plans Worked
A Strike the ResuIt-The brains" Takes
the First Train for Chicago, in Accord
With Suggestion Of the Strikers.
Chicago Tribune.
Jimmy Spencer walked obviously
down the main street Of the town OF
Willardville. Jimmy had formerly
been night police reporter on a big
metropolitan daily, and in this capac-
ity came in contact with the Hon.
Thomas H. Willard of Willardville
when that gentleman had been bun
koed by sharper on his last visit to
the city. Willard had taken fancy
10 Jimmy and induced him to give up
his job in the city and come out to
Willardville and take the editorship
of the Willardville Eagle and Banner.
"Purty good paper" said Mr..
Willard. "Best one in the whole
country. Oldest two, that is. Eagle
started by Ole Man Hathaway in 'SS
and the Banner started up by feller
named Jake Sharp in '94. Both OF
'em brought together in '97 by John
Cotton. I own 'em now. Had n
mortgage on the thing and when that
new paper started they made things
hum SO that the Eagle and Banner
would have busted up. SO l just
jumped in an foreclosed the mortgage
and took hold. Want a good, lively
fellow that knows all about runnin' a
paper tn way they do in tn city.
Will you Gomez"
James had arrived. 1t was 10
o'clock one rainy Monday morning
when he sat in the Office of the Eagle
and Banner and made his plans for
running the sheet. The town had a
population OF 1000 people, and why
Willardville wanted paper every day
he couldn't for the life of him see.
But, of course, that was no concern
of his. Mr.. Willard's son William,
who was = lawyer in Willardville, was
to write all the heavy editorials and
guide the political destinies of the
Eagle and Banner, and Jimmy, with
the title of editor, was to attend to the
rest of the editorial and news part of
the paper, while the elder Willard was
to take charge of the business man
agement.
Jimmy had thought for the last two
weeks of how he would turn things
upside down in Willardville.
"I'll show the yaps," said Jimmy.
He had never been an editor before,
but he had an idea that night police
for four years was a pretty
good preparatory for almost anything.
and he was certain that he "knew
news" when he saw it, and that if
anything got away from him it
wouldn't be of use to anybody else
He had decided to scoop
the other Willardville paper, the Com
mercial, at least once day and twice
on Saturday. He sat in the dingy
little Office OF the Eagle and Banner
and looked around. A tall, thin
young man with an apologetic express
sion was laboriously writing in the
corner.
"Beg pardon" said Jimmy, care
you connected with the paper9"
II am the city editor" said the
person with dignity. II am Mr..
Thomas"
"Glad to see you, Mr.. Thomas"
said Jimmie. "What's new today
90, nothin' doing particularly.
Kinder OF q quiet day."
"Where is your staff?" asked
Jimmie.
"He's down at the depot now to see
the :15 come in. He'll be around
with lot of items about noon."
"Well," said the new editor, 1--WE
shall have to arrange our new schedule,
and we might as we'll do it now as at
any time"
James had often seen the city editor
OF his paper back in the city fuming
over a schedule, and he knew that one
of the first things that real editor
had to do was to fix up schedule.
So he worked for some time on a sheet
of manor and finally tuvnpd ont the