The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1915-04-08
The Enterprise, Past and
Present.

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AS previously announced In The
Review Editor J. }. Farriss has sold
the Daily Enterprise to stock com
PAW, the final arrangements of the
deal having been made last week.
The new company will have head.
quarters in the Rankin building on
North Main street. Mr.. Farriss will
continue to operate his printing de-
partment as heretofore at the same
stand where he has Served the peo-
bic of High Point in the printing and
newspaper line for the past II years.
This sums up in brief manner the
relinq of the editorship Of
a paper that has done much for High
: Point and which will continue to
esperform its mission we'll. because
every newspaper gives back to a
town five times as much as it re-
ceives in dollars and cents or other
wise. This is no idle dream but can
be proven in a thousand ways.
We note the severing of ties by
Mr.. Farriss with the Daily Enterprise
with a pardonable degree of regret
because the Enterprise was as much
child of our dreams" as MIR. Far
riss. in fact we were anxious to see
it started, so much so that we took
the responsibility of getting it out at
first on 10x15 JOB press, printing
one page at a time and for many
months we handled the make up
and had supervision over the me-
chanical end of it, together with the
then weekly Enterprise which was
several years older. The Enterprise
has served the city well, whatever
objections may have been raised !;
true small at first and gradually en-
larged as the city grew until the
time came for a larger paper, which
could not be handled by MIR. Farriss
alone Gas he already had TOO much
on his hands for physical endurance)
and the question was either to sep
arate the newspaper plant from the
job printing department and get
more help or dispose of it in its
present shape to parties who wanted
to buy. And thus Mr.. Farriss after
more than a quarter of century of
ceaseless grind, was entitled to a
rest from such arduous labors, no
doubt decided rightly and took the
extra burden off his shoulders. The
writer can best speak of the Enter
prise and it's ups and downs outside
of Mr.. Farriss because we were CO.
laborers with him for eighteen years,
starting within a few months after
he took charge of the then weekly
Enterprise.
During the many years existence
of the Enterprise it has recorded
things in general that 60 to make
up, in part, the history of High Point
and if the thousands of items could
be separated and placed under the
; proper headings and time given for
a perusal of same there would be a
portion for all-of the happy events,
the saddest incidents, the ridiculous,
the sublime, the brightest rays of
hope for individual and municipal
ity, a regular panorama Of the daily
happenings of a city that made the
hearts of some beat with renewed
vieor; that caused others to feel
deepest pangs of sorrow while 9TH
ers read with indifference, according
To how the news affected them and
their friends. And so it is in the
Life of newspaper which at all
times strives to give the news and
winch makes a thousand less mis-
takes than the individual because it
has to read the natures" of thou
ands of people during it's career.
To the new management we ex-
tend sincere greetings and trust
that the m, st pleasant fraternal re-
lations will exist and that a goodly
portion of the best things in life will
be theirs as they take up their chos-
en- work as newcomers to the best
city in the world.