Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-07-18
GIRLS RUN A DAILY.
FAIR EDITORS PUBLISH ENvI-
ABLE MORNING PAPER.
Greensburg, Ind, Graphic Is Ground
Upon Which the Maidens Labor
STAFF Covers Night Police
Stories Like Veterans.

Greensburg. Ind.-Seven young wom-
en-, toilers of the white night, get out
the only morning newspaper In Indiana
that is written, made up and taken from
the press without the aid of man. III
the editorial rooms, in the composing
rooms and in the pressroom the man
as factor in the making OF the paper is
practically banished. The Greensburg
Morning Graphic is owned and managed
by j. w. Rucker. but he confines his at
tentions largely to the business end of
the paper and the real work of printing
morning paper for the newspaper read
or of this county Is left to seven young
women.
Every one of the newspaper workers
Is intensely interested in her work, and,
although the Graphic is not the oldest
newspaper in the town, beats" have
been few since the entire paper has been
in the charge of young women, and typo
graphically it bears comparison with
newspapers in other cities the size OF
Greensburg.
Miss Daisy Mclaughlin, the city
editor, and Miss Edna Taylor, her star
reporter, enter into the spirit of work
ing up good story with the ingenuity
of veterans. Miss Mclaughlin has had
experience on all the newspapers in the
city, and the assistant has profited by
the city editors training until the news
gathering force of the Graphic is able to
cope with any situation that may arise.
The workers on the local force of the
morning paper are confronted with
more difficulties than their rivals OF the
evening papers encounter, but neither
dark nights nor winter storms have pre-
vented Miss Mclaughlin and her staff
from covering the news. No matter
what sort of police story breaks loose
at midnight, the Graphic next morning
always has told about the fight, the fire,
the accident, or whatever the story may
have been.
| In addition to covering the local new.
Miss Mclaughlin and Miss Taylor han
die the telegraph news for the daily pa
| per and prepare the copy for the week
/ ly Graphic. Sometimes when they ar,
"up against it the foreman" Of tn,
composing room is called to their assist
ance. but neither the city editor nor tn.
foreman" has yet condescended to cal
on the "big boss" Mr.. Rucker, for help
/ Miss Lizzie Shafer, the foreman" o.
the composing room, is always as bus,
as any one of the seven. She has charg,
of the lad" omposition-that is, sht
sets most OF the type for the display I'D
vertisements in the paper, she makes VI
the paper, has charge Of the presses, anl
does large part OF the job work com
| position. Miss Shafer has the reputation
Of being the equal of many men who arr
regarded as first-class printers. Miss
Bertha Eberhart and Miss Carlisle ar.
the typesetters, and they set most OF tn,
| type for tho daily paper.
\ Miss Lillion snider sets type for tn,
weekly edition. The yeuag women In
the composing room often have halt.
page or full-page ad. with which tc
eShtspd when it is nearing time for The
paper to go to press, but they never have
faced situation when the paper hal
been stuck" because Of hitch in tn.
composing room.