The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1910-12-01
THE SENTINEL
PASSES IT UP
Frank M. Roberts, the Veter
an Editor of Sites Moves
Paper to Lardo.

1t iz with many regrets the Globe
notes the fact that Col. Frank NJ.
Roberts, the veteran editor of the
Sites Sentinel, has closed the office
portals at that place and has decid-
ed to remove to Lardo, at the lower
end Of Lake Payette. in Blaine coun-
ty. However, it is pleasing to know
that he will not forsake the laudable
calling, but will continue to prose
cute the good work in the newspaper
field under what he evidently consid-
ers more favorable conditions.
III reports are true Frank will soon
become plutocrat in the new field
of his choice, having been given a
business lot outright. fourth inter-
est In the townsite or Lardo, a sub
scription list OF 500, guaranteed ad-
vertising patronage of $125 per
month, and his plant moved free of
cost to him to the new location,
That's what might be called going
some for an 'old pelter" of a news
paper man, who has fought, bled and
died for the promotion of the gen.
eraf interests and prosperity of nu-
and without price. But Frank still
has fight enough in him for a dozen
common country editors, which any
half-baked zap can have freely dem
onstrated to him while he waits"
by merely touching the button.
The Boise Capital-News has the fol-
lowing to say of the demise of the
Sentinel last week; whether abso-
lutely correct or not, it reads well:
Thirty that word so mysterious
to the average person but one full of
meaning to the newspaper man, was
probably no more fittingly exempli-
fled and put into effect in Idaho than
when it was hung over the latch
string of the Sites Sentinel, own
ed, operated and controlled by Frank
Roberts, veteran newspaper man
of the state, who, in order to attend
the convention of Idaho editors held
in Boise last summer, rode hundreds
of miles ON horseback from Idaho
county to this city, appearing here
in his travelling costume that attract
ed so much attention.
Saturday morning of last week on
passing the building where the Sen
tinel at Sites had been published
for the last eight years. the towns
people were mystified to see an i'm
mense 800 adjoining the doors of
the printing office and discovered
that the editor and proprietor had
decided to suspend publication and
seek new fields. The place selected
for the continuance of the paper Is
Lardo, on Payette lake, and the plant
will be shipped there in few days,
the first issue of the Sentinel to come
from the press at the new location
about December 10.
Roberts, the editor of the paper, is
one of the oldest newspaper men
| in the northwest, having received
his printers card, which he has new
err allowed to lapse, in 1864, and ex-
cept for the time he served in the
union army during the civil war. he
has followed newspaper work con-
tinuously since he entered print
ing office in Missouri at the age of
IL.
He has been factor in north Ida
no politics and the Sentinel had a
wide influence in Idaho county. He
ia celebrated for his eccentricities,
ana the method he selected for an
nouncing the demise of his paper is
characteristic.
For several years Mr.. Roberts has
been Justice of the peace in Sites.
He has been lifelong republican
and it is his boast that he never
voted anything but a straight ticket.