The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-03-08

The Herald and News now ranking
among the best semiweeklies, not
only in this State, but in the South.
sometimes think that if the people of
Newberry county could see all of the
county papers Of the State and COM
pare them with their own county pa
pers, they would appreciate and con-
tribute the more to the means of their
home papers. 1t can be said without
successful contradiction, that with
probably three or four exceptions,
there is not a county in the State,
whose papers will anything like COM
pare favorably with the Newberry pa
pers. They are simply not in their
class. But, do our people realize it?
But am about to divert. l came to
Newberry in 1888, and during the
years since have see-sawed among the
Newberry papers. During that time 1
travelled along with The Herald and
News, under Col. Aull, from the old
Campbell press with negro power, one
iobber and a few cases of body and
old-style job type, through two fires
and other misfortunes and disasters,
up to the installation of the up-to-date
Mergenthaler type-setting machine,
modern presses and folders and elec-
ric power, until now he has one Of
the most thoroughly equipped country
Offices in the South.
The Herald and News has not only
progressed as q newspaper, but has
the distinction of having turned out
more thoroughly expert printers, start
ing them On the road to success, than
any other Office within my knowledge.
How could it be otherwise, when back
in the eighties, or just after the pres
ent editor took charge of the paper,
such a man as Mr.. R. H. Greneker, Sr.,
(Col. Greneker, the boys called him),
who had given his life to the study of
the business, was connected with the
Office, and impaired his knowledge and
influence over the boys for what was
right and proper and thorough. Col.
Greneker was one Of those men Of
whom it can truthfully be said, the
world is the better for his having lived
in it. His was noble life of devotion
and his thoughts always of the beauti-
ful. 1 have in my possession to this
day little box of dried yiolets with a
ribbon On which he printed in Febru-
ary, 1888, the words, "Blest be the tie
that binds" which I prize among my
most sacred possessions as in this in
stance the giver making the gift so
much more previous. Would that the
world had more such men as Col.
Greneker.
In the day of the old Campbell
press-then The Herald was a weekly
paper, shortly afterwards becoming a
semi -weekly-Col. Aull would never
think of bringing in a line Of copy for
the paper until the morning of publi-'
cation. Of course, the boys had to
pull out! But, what was impossible
! with Gus Fulmer on the makeup;
John Wicker to feed the presses, Hosea
Barger to regulate the mailing list
and mail the papers, and such printers
as Pea1l Rikard, Kuhns Blats, Jesse
Coats, John Aull, Herman Aull, Sam
Cannon, John Lee Davis, Surry Shock
ley and your humble servant, at the
case. (Not all of these at the same
time, but at different times in the his
tory of the paper.)
shall never forget: Twas back in
the eighties or early in the nineties;
one warm spring morning, Capt. Eu-
gen Greneker, about 10 o'clock in the
day, placed his stick about half full Of