The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-08-27
LANDER ANDFARUELL
PURCHASE A PAPER
IN OLD MISSISSIPPI
THE HATTIEs5URe DAILY NEWS
PASSES INTO OTHER
HANDS.
POSSESSION SEPTEMBER |
Only Daily in Live Town Of $4,000
lnhabitants-splendid Country And
Hustling citizens-Down in The
Piney Belt.

F., Messrs. F. d. Lander and E. R. Far.
rell returned Wednesday night from
Hattiesburg, Miss, where they COM
pleted a deal for the purchase of the
Hattiesburg Daily News, the largest
paper in Mississippi south of Jackson
and the only paper in Hattiesburg, a
thriving, hustling, growing little city
of $4,000 inhabitants. They will leave
the first of September to take charge
Of their new property.
The fact that the deal was in pros
pect has been an open secret for the
past week, but it was not anticipated
that the papers would be signed and
the deal closed on this visit. How
ever, when the gentlemen reached the
south Mississippi metropolis they
found everything to their liking. They
made quiet investigation and found
that the little city was even more than
it had been represented. They inves-
tigated the newspaper property and
found it well equipped and in COM
mand Df splendid field with only
work and good business management
necessary for enlargement and highly
prosperous results. They were re-
ceived by the Secretary and members
of the Hattiesburg Commercial Club,
the officers of the three large banks
and the business men of the hustling,
cosmopolitan city and given a hearty
welcome and a pressing invitation to
make Hattiesburg their home. They
made statement of their experience
in newspaper work before these gen.
,tlemen, told what they had accom-
plished with The Columbia Herald
and invited an investigation as to
their standing and responsibility.
The result was more than they had
any reason to expect. The people of
Hatiesburg are enthusiastic, energetic,
all-pull-together workers for the up
building of their town and community. |
They realize that they have the best |
town in Mississippi, but they realize |
that an era of progress and prosperity |
has set in and they want to keep their I
town in the forefront in their growing |
state. They said they had a good pa
per, but they wanted a better, and |
thought the right men had presented |
themselves to make it better. In con-
sequence they made proposition that
no newspaper men, men who know
the newspaper business and it's posi-
tered newspaper property that dom
mates the field within a radius of
seventy miles, and offered it with the
unanimous backing of the banks, the
the lumber interests, the
fertilizer interests, and in fact the
entire business community and its
people on such reasonable terms that
t looked almost like a gift Practi.
,ally all they wanted was the right
men tc give them the best paper pos
,ible, and the deal was closed.
Hattiesburg is the metropolis of the
-ellow pine section of the south
Scores of lumber brokers from all
,ver the south have headquarters and
'ffices there and people from all over
he world come there to buy the ia
nous yellow pine. Orders for mil
ions OBJECT at time are not uncom-
non. Four railroads reach the town
md deep water is reached at Mobile,
iulfport and New Orleans while an
ther railroad is building to Scranton.
When the panic of 1907 struck and
he bottom fell out of the lumber bust.
ess Hattiesburg felt the full effect of
he blow, but the lumber business has |
esumed normal and prices are climb {
lg by leaps and bounds. The great [
lmber section has come into its own
nd Hattiesburg is reaping the re- {
ults and is on better footing than {
any time within its previous histo- t
y The town is growing faster than v
ny town in the south. And the lum- 4
err business in South Mississippi is
list reaching its most prosperous era
cores of big mills are in the district,
any of which have a capacity of half
million feet Of lumber a day One Z
i'll at Hattiesburg with 100000 feet
lilly capacity owns outright one !
illiOn acres Of fine yelloM nine tim. {