Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1914-01-01

Streeter has brought the Einmons
County Record. a pioneer in the
newspaper world Of North Dakota.
to what it is to-day. 1t is the lot of |
but very few to accomplish such a |
feat. During this score and half
of constant grind the Record has
gone to it's readers practically the
/ i,andiwork of one man. A paper in
a pioneer country such as Emmons
COUNTY was-until but few years
ago, when the coming of the rail-
roads brought it to the front--must
needs be paying proposition only
on small scale. To successfully
weather those years it was necessary
| to hold the expense low, and only a
minimum amount of help would do
that. Hence, only an occasional is
sue has gone forth which did not
bear the marks of the labor of its
founder, not alone in the editorial,
but in the mechanical, department.
Thirty years means the greater share
of mans lifetime. That share has
been expended in constant labor by
its founder to keep it from going
the way of many Of its early con-
temporaries.
Since he came to Emmons county
in the early SOS D. R. Streeter has
had but one aim. and that was to see
that the Record did not disappoint
its readers at the usual time each
week. To that end has he labored
at the cost of denying himself we'll.
earned vacations and rest. But the
time has come when he can feel his
duty performed. He leaves The
Record on sound financial basis
and with prosperous future before
it; with host of friends and read
ers. the latter numbering more than
a thousand. many of whom have
heen its constant readers practically
from its first issue.
From the first the Records foun-
der has taken an active part in the
history of the county. He retires
to-day leaving a universal feeling
that he has never shirked his duty
to those readers he served. With
out fear of political or financial loss
he has been ready to expose sus-
picions of petty graft or attempts to
secure personal gain at the expense
of the general public. A newspaper
IS in all respects public servant,
and that public the Record has
served we'll. As he leaves the active
field there are but few who do not
wish him we'll, and those few we can
safely say are mindful of sumo for
mer attempt to profit at the public
expense and we're criticized by the
Record and its founder.
The future Record man is not new
to the Record or to its readers. He
is and has been from birth practical
ly a part of the Record. AS his
father has said, he left the Record
office back in 1883 and went 10 Bis
nlarck to be born, a physician or any
medical aid being unknown at home
in those days. He was but few
weeks old when he returned and
first took charge of the Record,
as early copies of the Record will
affirm. At the age of five or six
years he was beginning to get a
pretty good idea of newspaper Of
flee. and few years later, outside
of school hours, he might often be.
found standing lat the case"
chair being needed for him to stand
on 10 get up that high. The foun-
dation of his education was laid in
the office of the paper he will now
be called upon to try to keep up to
its past standard. With the ex-
ception of few years away at
school and year as reporter on a
metropolitan daily. he has been in
the Office. The paper is older than
himself.
For two years the writer has been
a Record publisher. taking a half
interest in the firm of D. r. Steeter
& Son in January, 1912. Since that
time have ATTEMPTED to take a.
closer view of the requirements of
the paper and of its readers, and
have become actively engaged in
business dealings with the people Of
the county. In assuming charge of
the Record hope to be able to view
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