The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-16

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icle, or the News and Observer will
write line stating when he was car
Iier and his present business. The
Sunday Anniversary paper was only
the beginning of the history of the pa
per that is one day to be full and
complete in every detail.
In the haste of publishing the An
niversary Edition, several important
items were omitted. Among them this
Over Twenty One Years
Mr.. Samuel A. Miller, who is now
with the Raleigh Hosiery Mills, was
connected with The News and Obscrv-
cr for a longer period than any man
i'll the history of the paper, when he
resigned as Chief of the Mail Depart
| ment several years ago. Mr.. Miller had
been continuously on the paper for
twenty-one years and six months. In
! that long period he had given faithful
and efficient service, not only in his
own department, but "lent hand in
any direction that would help the pa
per in any department. May he live
! long and prosper.
In this connection, the management
will be grateful for any information.
about the paper and it's personnel
from the starting of the Sentinel in
! 1855 up to the present time. We
would like a complete roster of every
printer, pressman, editor, local repor-
ter, employe, in the business office, So
| licitOr, travelling representative, deVli
in fact every person who at any
| time gave his time to the upbuildlns
of The News and Observer. One OF
these days, when the full value OF the
service this paper has rendered from
| the days of Reconstruction is fully APP
preciated, the roster of the names OF
the men who made it will be Roll
/ of Honor.
Mr.. b. r. Lacy, Jr., a sophomore
| of Davidson College, who has been act
| ing as travelling representative OF Inc
| News and Observer during vacation
resigned Saturday night after splenc
did two months work. He has, OIL
and on, been connected with Inc news
and Observer since, as a very silldli
| boy, he was Il carrier on lne pdpel,
hustling out of the office at dayllSht
with bundle of papers that WelSheu
as much as he did The paper never
had a better carrier. Later he was
collector in Raleigh and he was a
| good hand at bringing down the
lgame." This summer he has been plllhS
on new subscribers and collecting from
old ones, and The News and observer
wishes it could keep him on the stan
all the time.
81 believe 1 am the only merchant
in Raleigh who has been writing al
vertisements regularly for the ltaleISh
| News. the Raleigh Observer ana Inc
News and Observer since the estapnSh.
ment of the Raleigh News IN 10 :,
said Mr.. A. b. StrOnach yesterday
began to write advertisements When
was with George Stronach and L nave
/ kent it UP regularly every day. II
makes me feel like an old man to go
! back that far.
Zone of the funniest things l can
| recall is a story that r. {. Woodson
J wrote during the war between huS-
STA and Japan. George Stronach had
an abundance of yarns ana When7
ever news got dun Woodson would
! dress up one of Georges stories ana
! il would read next morning like real
occurrence One day George told
Woodson that he had just received an
order from Russia to send at once
from Raleigh 100 barrels of picked
/ chickens. You know Russians are
great for eating picked things George
! told WoodSon that he had already sent
agents through the country to buy up
| the chickens and gave him the Tune
when he would ship the directions
| etc. and with that Woodson wrote a
great story, showing how the Car was
depending upon Raleigh and George
| Stronach to victualize his army. the
story made a great hit and was COPIED
| all over the United States.
~ wish l could give you the story
| Just as it was Of the big times we had
! in Raleigh when Josiah Turner came
| back to Raleigh after he had been re-
| leased from prison. The military COM
pany with Basil Manly in command,
met him at the depot. l was assign
| ed to fire the cannon. After the DIG
demonstration and Turner's speech, an
| incident occurred that cost me $50. /
| was standing with Jim ToWles, George
| Wainwright and my brother Frank at-
| ter the speaking and we were pretty
| enthusiastic and were demonstratlVe
Frank was hurrahing when negro
| policeman told Frank to hush. The
negro at the same time jerked out his
| billy | had a pistol-all the escort
| of Turner carried a pistol-and |
pointed it at the negro policeman and
pulled the trigger, but George Vain
wright caught it and the pistol did not
| fire. The negro policeman then gave
| the signal and two white policemen
came up, and told me | would nave TO
go to the guard house. Never.
said. "as long as there is a BAH in this
pistol" One of them then said to me:
| Then come to the mayors ONCE to-
| morrow morning. | replied that
would not go. Nothing more came of
lit until a few weeks later when l vol
UNFAIRLY went to Mayor Harrison. He
said: Alex, if you will plead that
you were drunk l will let you Off
replied: 4 was not drunk. was
never more coo! sober in my lie.
Then he said he would have to bind
me over to court. The law then made
carrying a concealed weapon a penn
Tertiary offense. Fortunately FOR me
General Cox was Solicitor, and thei
case was mol pressed. But the adVen-
ture cost me $50 in solid plunks.
Sundays paper is so big that it costs
pile of money to mail it. SUD
scriber" writes: Il have been mailing
my News and Observer to one OIL the
family after getting all the news out
of it, 1 don't mind spending one cent
on it, for you see this helps your al
vertisers. 1 see your daily has CIR
culation of S,514. When they are re-
mailed, as 1 do, it would make your
circulation 1900. Uncle sam
charged me three cents to. SEND OH
your Sunday edition, and this only at
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