The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1914-02-12
J audity or incoherence.

OF course, from time to time, not
answering his attacks, but in a face.
tious spirit, the Times Record made
brief editorial comment, never more
than few lines, to The Courier. Not
its editor, or any Of his personal char.
acteristics, but to features of the
weekly itself, which. we believed, were
legitimately open to criticism.
And at each comment, Percy bound
ed higher from his editorial chair, like
Mark Twaln's jumping frog, and then
came down weighted with shot, and
opened the walls Of wrath upon our
unlucky head. r.. ......
Percy even went so far as to take
our associate editor around the cor.
ner, and commiserate with him for
having had to associate with so des.
pictable a scoundrel as the editor of
this paper. 49,.
And the funny part Of the whole
thing was that we had not written a
line ourseIf, but had left all editorial
work for many months. to Mr.. Lum ex-
cept in purely advisory way.
But at last Percy got the goods on
us. He went to Bismarck So did We.
We know he was there, because we
heard him, everywhere.
To paraphrase the words of the
good old gospel hymn, percy did it
ALL"
OF course he did! Doesn't he admit
it We thought We had a clear recol-
lection of Percy's urging us to extend
the invitation to the boys of the Press
gang, and that we insisted OIL retiring
in his favor. Undoubtedly, however,
our memory is wrong in this instance.
Note, gentle reader, the following in
terview with Percy, about what Percy
did:
P. r. Trubshaw came up from Valley
City last Thursday to attend the fu-
neral of A. Haskell. "Trubby" paid
the SentinetCourier a pleasant visit
and stated that things were running
along smoothly in a business way at
Valley and that himself and family
were nicely located at their new home !
At the recent press association meet. !
ing held at Bismarck. Mr.. Trubshaw
with his characteristic energy, landed
the summer meeting for Valley City,
and is already actively engaged in
looking after the smaller details which
will insure the session SUCCESS. Mr..
Trubshaw served the association as
president during the past year in
very efficient mannc- and his address
to the gathering upon his retirement
was an able effort, business like, and
replete with good suggestions Coop
erstown Sentinel-Courier.
What better evidence can you want.
But all of this is but airy persifage,
and not just what we started to say.
Percy Trubshaw is pretty fair cit
lien as such fellows 60 and If he had
the happy faculty of distinguishing be.
tween what will actually hurt town
and create false impression abroad
might be a useful citizen. Lacking the
faculties he becomes common knock.
er. Already, after few months with !
couple, of hundred subscribers and a |
large exchange list, small state papers !
are referring to Valley City as dirty
town and quoting Trubshaw as author.
ity. Now this brings us to just who is !
this wonderful man that would clean |
up Valley City and call upon the entire
state press to witness the awful fight !!
he is waging against sin and pollution.
Well he is a pretty fair fellow, has
many friends and the usual amount of
enemies, which proves nothing. But !
the facts are that he is newspaper !
failure" who never in his life did any
thing for any town or community and
who finally was driven out of business
by democrat in strong republican
community. Now the above may not
be true, but listen. This man located in
Cooperstown many years ago. Six
teen years ago he was appointed post
master and since that time until very
recently he has drawn on an average
of probably about $4,000 per year, that
Is not all. we are informed that his
family were also on the pay roll at a
salary of $1,000 per year and notwith.
standing this tremendous help his bus.
mess dropped off until finally he was
practically driven from the newspaper
field and when he was square "up
against it" came to Valley City to
teach the people how to run the at.
fairs of the town, also with the avow.
ed determination to put the Times
Record out Of business
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