The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1911-06-29

lion tanner early ohS hhoi hihS vas
attacked by the big beast "and al
most killed" OF course the Reporter
office was notified at once, and as the
rest of the force was busy (they all
work but Ollie) Mr.. Hull rushed to-
the scene. He saw the blood and the
| awful wounds, and wrote a thrilling
account of the affair. OF course every
body in the country who read the
blood-curdling story wanted to see
the lion and especially the fellow
who was brave enough to enter the
cage after his partner had been al
most killed. The carnival got what
it wanted-a good advertisement
and the tanner got well by washing
off the cows blood that he had Sc
cured at the butcher shop for the oc-
casion. But Ollie is all right.
- - -
Then there is Pat" Murphy. We
believe his right name is Bernard,
but no one seems to know. Anyhow,
he is standpatter, and don't care
who knows it. He runs the Vinton
Eagle and gets out a remarkably
good paper in a town the size OF
Vinton Murphy also is against the
free advertising" and because the
State Fair would not give him any adj
yertising last summer he refused to
publish any news items of the exhibit
ton and concluded he would show
the management how much they
would miss by not patronizing the
Eagle. We are not sure whether
Murphy prayed or not, but he wished
awfully hard that no one from Benton
county would go to the fair. With
out an official census it is difficult to
say exactly, but Murphy estimates
that not more than forty seven people
| in the county stayed at home, and
even Pat himself had to go down to
see that none of his friends got into
trouble. But Mr.. Murphy also is all
right.
In passing, however, we wish to re-
mark that Mr.. Murphy's paper, the
Eagle, is one of the oldest papers in
|
Eagle has exchanged for nearly sixty
years. And this calls to mind the
J fact that w. H. Needham, of the
Keokuk County News, a regular and
popular attendant at all Editorial
gatherings, is one of the Oldest, if not
the Oldest active newspaper men in
the business in Iowa today. He start
ed to learn the printers trade in tn
Herald office ga years ago the 18th Of
June, and has never had printers ink
off his fingers since, except during
the time he carried musket and
gave three years of his HE to the
service of his country in the war OF
the Rebellion. J. NJ. Anderson of
the Indianola Herald, is also a men,
Der of the old school, but live wire
yet in Iowa journalism.
OF course every editor at home and
in the columns of his own paper
thinks nobody works like he does.
But every editor thinks the other fel,
low has a snap, and when he meets
| him face to face he is not backward
about telling him so. There is one
fellow, however, connected with the
Iowa press who is a real worker-a
whole army in the vinyard, as it
were. His name is J. H. Pierson, or
something like that, and he runs the
Ainsworth Clipper. Everybody calls
him "Old Clip" just because he is
good-natured and will stand for it.
Pierson has the only linotype ma
chine in the country in a town of
400 people, and he runs it himself.
About two days work in the Office
sutfices to get out good paper. Then
ne puts in about two more days each
week running his saw mill. Two
more days are spent in soliciting and
in keeping the bigger papers out of
his territory. Two more days are
spent at work on his farm, and two
| in dragging the roads and fixing the
culverts so he can drive around the
country in comfort in his automobile.
The remainder of the fifteen days that
make up Mr. Persons week, is spent
in looking after the affairs of seven
teen children, of whom he is guard
| ian. If there is any other fellow in
Iowa who works harder than "Old
Clip" he ought to be a lawyer or a
minister. The RoustabOut protests
against the profession recognizing
another editor of like capacity.
THE ROUSTABOUT.