Holbrook argus., 1906-04-21
A MODEST ARTIST.
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late in coming to Berryville, and for more than a year young Gid" Saw yer was the only person in the village who had camera. When his first film was sent to the nearest city to be developed and set of prints made from it, Berryville was deeply stirred, for the dozen snap shots had been made with view of obtaining an impression of the landmarks of Berry vile, human and otherwise.
 When the package arrived, Gid was obliged to open it in the presence of half the inhabitants, as word spread from the postoffice that "Gid's pic. lures" had come, and he happened to he few minutes late for the mail.
 MT. Warren was in the best posi- ton, close to Gid, and he afterward described the result to his wife.
 T guess there aren't many that have much better luck than Gid the first try" he said, Loyalty "There were only three blanks in that dozen, and they want his fault. It was something the matter with the sun. He explained to me just how the sun acted, but I can't exactly tell it off to you.
 '"Then there were couple that were sort of blurry, owing to his having neglected to turn some kind of crank; but he says the machine ought not to be arranged that way, and could see myself that one O these au- tomatic turner's would be great i'm provement Gid says they'll come to em in time, when folks really demand em.
 "Well, now, the other seven were as interesting as anything you ever saw. There was the one he took of Deacon Marston. He got every bit of him excepting just the very top of his head, and that's bald, anyway; and the Orthodox church he got from half way up the steeple down to the middle O the front door, and I tell you it's complete-looks exactly the way it does in real life.
 "Then the three he took of the min ister's family are remarkable. Ex- cepting for a find of whitish spot that comes over MT. Rockets nose and upper lip, he looks just as if he was in the pulpit; and the one of Mis- Beckett, taken side view against the end of the house, is fine; you can see every shingle plain as day. The one of little Eddy is a perfect likeness. He was looking down, so you can't actu'!ly see his features, but his hairs there, and his little jumper and all. hear they're real gratified to have 1t.
 "The one of the monument was a per feet success, now tell you. Gid got all the lettering on the bottom of it, so you can read it with magnifying glass, and he got splendid copy of the grass, taken so 1t looks as tall as rushes. AS John Marvin and said, coming home, we've got to see to hav- ing 1t cut pretty soon.
 "The whole of the monument? Oh, no! Gid says he didn't lay out to take that, as he remarked we all know just how tall 1t is.
 "Then the one he took of the corner from the Baptist steps-that's an in teresting view as ever saw. Every roof Is there, and you'd never know there was a house under one of 'em, just roofs and the top of squire's tele- phone pole and the flagstaff. I never supposed things looked like that from the Baptist steps before, and they don't seem to, but photography shows things up just as they are, without re- gard, Gid says.
 He's going to take the next dozen all interiors, he says, with a few DOT traits, and he spoke of wanting ours, mother. guess if he gets to 1t we in %o t