The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-25

controversy arose between two mempers of the Legislature which bhgnted ms
 nrospects. Their denunciations or eacn other brought about pugihstic deennks, tas
 and m Monday morning following the iast issue of the previous Saturday. there
 were four lights upon the usuaiiy que strsets of the then "Athens or Ala
 bama. MT. Markham was called upon upon
 and notified ,,a that nn,ldnr # mne tSen % known as the "Langdon Building" would De puileu down. The owl, after seriously twisting ita head around and serenely surveyins the situation. suspended. .n ,.. ter part of 1y4s, but 1t was not until lSoS that he again entered the newspaper pus- mess. The yellow fever or that yea, had caused most of the printers to leave the city and through the instrumentai, o ity of Colonel William B. Dennett, who Ia now the tax collector of Fresno Coun- ty. California, and who was at that tune Business Manager of The Mobile Re@ ister. he went to work % on .ha1 ..rba papsi. Al. hambra," and situated in the same block in which The Daily Item Is now located.
 At the solicitation of MT. Mims Creagn and other old Wnigs. Nnn, in Ynrt S3Ipahs hs went to Grove Hill, Clarke County. ana published a paper during a presidential campaign. Its editor was named Perkins, a lawyer. Bullis was a mem member .hs or ar .ne
 
 and was killed at some battle In Nlr- ginia. Farrow & Dennett. Mobile, by purchas- job printing, and after conducting the business successfully for several years, sold out to MT. George Matzenger who still carries it on. He went 10 outfit @ and on the 7th dey of January, lsS3. issued the first copy of The Mooilo Item. It was a small weekly sheet. IS. sued every Sunday morning. exclusively local affair and was vas ssuc success ssns ron al pr lctical printers. and they constitutci the force necessary to getting out the paper. =. Al,
 After the successful conduct of the weekly issue for number Of years II was decided to enlarge the business and start a daily issue, and on the l5th oi November. 1897, the first issue Of Tho Mchile Daily Item made its appearance, the success of which IS Well hno"H throughout the State.
 During the existence of The Chronicle, of winch Leslie E. Brooks was editor MT. Cothran was Business Manager; During this management hq suspended the publication of The Weekly Item aoout two or thr months.
 With the exception of the four years of the civil war, in when e ne of the largest battles on land, Shiloh, and the largest on water, Fort Morgan. he has been almost continuously in the newspaper busiless for forty-s even years.
 The Daily Herald was established in the summer of 1894 by Messrs. Moore. Futile, Wilson and other printers as cooperative publishing company, and was the result of the Mergenthaler linotype machines having been instituted in the office of The Daily Register. When these modern type-setting machines were put In The Register composing rooms 1t nat urally threw several printers out of woII and resulted in the establishment of The Herald Through contract with Johr. l.. Cot iran. publisher of The Weekly Item, The Herald was printed from the types in his office. and was published on his cylinder press.
 The cooperative Arrangement existed but few months when A. B. Kennedy, Edward V. o'Connor and c. L. Swayze, employed on the writing .orce of The Daily Register, made an arrangement with the printers whereby they secured control of The Daily Herald. The paper was conducted under this arrangement about four months and Max Hamburger, Jr.. who had been employed as reporter secured the management of The Herald under a cooperative arrangement with the printers who had originally established the paper. Messrs. Kennedy, OConnor and swayze returned to the employ of The Register