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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
An Intimate Sketch of the
Life of The Herald and NelOs
Some Personal RecolIeetions.


Some Personal RecolIectiOnS.
When first began work in The Her
aid and News office as galley-boy, or
printers devil Mr.. W. P. Hpuseal,
now Of Columbia, was a partner with
Mr.. z. H. Aull in the business, under
the firm name of Aull & Houseal, Mr..
Auli being editor of the paper and Mr..
Houseal being manager of the office.
The Lutheran Visitor was at that time
published by Aull & Houseal The
Office was in a frame building on the
northwest corner of the present Cen
tral Methodist church property. Here
it vas that Mr.. W. H, Wallace, editor
of the Observer, was welcomed back to
Newberry from the meeting of the
South Carolina State Press associa-
ton at which he was elected presi-
dent. Later Mr.. Aull, of The Herald
and News, was chosen president of
the association, and remained its pres
ident for some fifteen or sixteen years.
A, few years later The Herald and
News office was burned, and what was
left of the plant was moved into the two
store rooms on the west side of the
two rooms now occupied by the South
ern Express company and the New
berry Coca Cola Bottling works
The building put up by Mr.. 1. q.
Pool and used by Mr. L. NJ. Speers in
his undertaking business for several
years, now occupied by Nr. Henry
Adams, was erected after that. The
Newberry Observer occupied the two
rooms now used by the Express com
pany and the bottling works, and New
berry's two newspaper plants for
good many years were side by side.
The Cid Ofiee Force.
In those days Gus Fulmer was fore
man Of the mechanical department OF
The Herald and News. He later left
Newberry, going to columbia, and is
now the efficient foreman in the big
press room Of the Columbia State.
John Wicker, who passed into final
rest several years ago, and Hosea NJ
Barger, who is still with The Herald
and News, were both setting type.
They had been with the paper since
the war, and Barger had worked for
the paDer even before the outbreak Of
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
A WORD Personal.

This Fiftieth Anniversary edition
has grown beyond my expectations
when l began the work of getting 1t
IN. Ii has been a strenuous under
taking. l feel relieved that ii is now
through the, press, or nearly through
as this is being written wrote very
little for it. To those wno have con-
tributed the articles that run through
its ffty-six pages, am grateful. They
are all we'll written and contain much
valuable information and are worthy
the careful attention of the reader.
The advertisements all contain those
things the public should know, Read
all of them. Each section is complete
in itself. No article continued from
one section to another and seldom
from one page to another. The mer-
chants of Newberry have been liberal
in their patronage and believe they
will receive results from their ads,
Never before has any edition OF
newspaper in Newberry carried ao-
vertisements from more than fifty dlf-
ferent firms in the town of Newberry.
Some of the, larger stores did not feel
that it would pay them to carry an
ad with us. We regret this, but as we
have said, We have only solicited the
business on the basis that We felt we
were giving value received And don't
forget to look at Whitmire, Little
Mourtain, Pomaria, Prosperity and
Kinards.
To those who have labored with me
in the Office in the getting out of this
immense paper, I wish to express my
appreciation for their faithful and
loval help, without which it would
have been impossible to get it out,
E. H. AULL, Editor.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
The Story of a County Newspaper is the History
of its Community Epiton'ized Old
Order Changeth Brief ReDieU of the
Files and Personal Recollections of
Later Years, by One 'EReared
in The Office.

1t saw and recorded the struggle OF the
Southern armies to establish a nation;
it heard and recorded that nations
death gasp. 1t suffered with its peo-
pie through the troublous night OF Re
construction, and rejoiced with them IN
the dawn of that glorious day when,
under the leadership of Hampton and
Gary and Butler, white supremacy was
restored-such a dawn, l have some
times thought, as Bob Taylor must have
had in mind wnen he pictured "a thou
sand bugle calls from rosy fires Of the
east heralding her coming; thousand
smiling meadows kissing her garments
as she passed; ten thousand laughing
gardens unfurling their fower-hags
to greet her, and the heart of the deep
forest tnrobbing tribute of bird
songs, and the bright waters rippling
a melody of welcome" For on that
day Anglo-Saxon supremacy was vim
dicated, and world civilization received
a new inspiration.
1t labored along with the people OF
South Carolina and of the South in the
rebuilding of the structure which had
been swept away by the war; and 1t
mas seen and recorded the coming Of
the South into her own.
OF course it is only through the files
of the paper, which have often stud
led, that l know of those early years
of The Herald and News. and of its
later history up to some fifteen or
twenty years ago. My connection with
it, in one way and another, began
about twenty years ago, when I was
about ten years of age. and l have
been asked by the editor to write some
recollections, for the anniversary edi-
ton, of the paper during those twenty
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
(By John K. Aull.)

A gifted writer, in graphic descrlp-
tion of the recent accession of Yoshl-
hito. son of Mutsuhito, to the throne
of Nippon, said that the story of this
enochaI event was the history OF old
.Japan epitomized. Borrowing his Ian
guase to clothe different thought, it
NAV be stated that the story OF. a
comfy newspaper is the history OF the
community epitomized. Yea; it IS
more than that; in it's varied and va
rious ramifcations, it is the history OF
p people and state, in its relation to
world annals. But primarily and par
4icuIarly, the county newspaper deals
with home affairs; with the neart
throbs and the pulse beats of the town
and the county which it serves; with
the joys and the sorrows, the successes
and ehe sacrifices, with the lives and
the passing of those in the circle around
If: with their business and with their
measures; with their loves, and, alas,
too often of necessity with the hates
snd animosities of some OF them. For
a true newspaper is a mirror held up
to life, and pictured therein is the pro-
cession of life passing before it. Lights
and shadows must fit across its face,
for life is made up of lights and snad-
ows. There is the gold and the dross;
there is the strength and the weak
ness; there is humanity drawn true.
The Herald and News, through its
immediate predecessors, goes back to
the days of the old South and the great
struggle in the sixties, and its semi
centennial anniversary falls in the
same year with the semi-centennial
of the surrender Of Lee at Appomattax.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03

20 tilities. Kuhns Blats and Pearl Ri
kard we're the "swifts' on the case.
Pearl Rikard later sought other and
arger fields, and think is now in At
anita. He has made fine record as
one of the fastest linotype operators
IN the South. Kunns Blats died not
'ong ago in Wilmington, being cut
down in the vigor of a promising life.
Sam Cannon, now linotype operator
IN the Columbia State, was an "a l.
.ype-setter, and Will Werts was devil
No. /, being one degree higher up in
the scale than | was. Will, after
learning the linotype in Newberry, and
working for the paper as operator for
some years, left the paper and is now
n the up-country.
John Wicker.
In this connection, I would like, in
passing, to pay simple tribute to the
memory of John Wicker There are
many in Newberry who will recall him
as he was when he brought them the
paper every week, acting as city car
rier. He was faithful unto the end,
and ne bore up under adverse circum-
stances and Affections which required
a good and brave heart l trust that
in another and a brighter world he
has found that true happiness and
everlasting peace which l believe must
be vouchsafed tc he weary and heavy
laden of earth.
Mack Davis and Bob Bass came into
the Office later. Both of them after
wards went to larger cities. Mack is
now with the Bryan Printing company
in Columbia, and the last heard from
Bob he was doing we'll in August.
John Lee Davis began to learn the
trade in the office comparatively a few
years ago. He became a swift" on toe
linotype, and hen he, too, left. He
went to bia, and is now one OF
the fastest operators who ever graced
the machine. He has become proni-
nent in labor union circles and was
one of the arbite~s instrumental in
settling the recent street car strike in
that city.
Billy Hunter, printer and fireman,
was with the Office off and On from my
first recollection Of the paper up until
the time of mis- death. There was no
better job printer than Billy Hunter,
and his ability was recognized in the
government printing Office in Wash
ington during his employment there.
He was faithful ard true to his chosen
vocation.
Mr.. John ". Earhardt. now with the
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
INERT MAYER AULL.

Observer and city recorder Of New
berry, was with the paper, both in th'
reportorial and mechanical depart
ments, during several years, and is
one OF the most efficient men in a
newspaper Office I have ever known.
And, during all these years, at yari
Gus intervals, Mr.. Richard H. Greneker
was with the paper in one capacity or
another. He has served it as type
setter, in the editorial department and
as reporter, and he was the founder
of one of it's predecessors. He is now
with the Observer. having recently
severed his connection with The Her
aid and News. Heis a fine news-gath-
erer. He keeps up with the movements
of people. and he can always find
something pleasant to say about them,
and he knows how to say it.
The Herald and News, up until Oc-
tober 20, 1903, was a four-page, seven
column paper, semi-weekly. Some
years before tnat it had been changed
from an eight-column four-page week
ly into seven-column four-page semi
weekly. On October 20, 1903, the first
issue of the eight-page semi-weekly
made its appearance. At, thateeime
there were five columns to the page.
Since then the size has been increased
to six columns to the page.
The Evening Telegram.
Later we ventured into the daily
feld-not under the name of The Her
aid and News, which maintained its
identity as semi-weekly,. but estab-
fishing The Evening Telegram-New-
berry's first and only daily newspaper
that brave little bark which, with a
stout heart, put out upon an unknown
sea and rode the tempestuous waves
IOE seven IlOAIuS duO OuS Ody. 1h~J
II, 1904, it began its voyage; Decem-
Der II, 1904, it was wrecked on the
breakers of non-support The Tele-
gram fought good fight, and it kept
the faith. I had the honor Of editing
it, and NE struggled hard to establish
it firmly. During its fight for exist
ence, the few weeks before it died, it
might we'll have pinned to it's mast
head the words of the Roman gladiat-
ors of old, "Morturi, te salutamus. +"
But it's columns sought to be bright
and cheerful, and it went down with
it's colors flying and all hands saluting.
Requiescat pace, until the work which
it attempted shall find fruition in a
greater Newberry made possible by
the public-spirited cooperation Of all
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
THE IDLER.


@ @ @ 8 @ o o @ o o 3 @ o o O %
1 received the following note just the
other day, and it is awful late for me
to do justice to the occasion, but
reckon l will have to make an effort
to do the best l can:
Newberry, S. c., Nov. 20, 1915.
Dear Idler: I woud be glad to have
you write an article for the Ffftieth
Anniversary edition of The Herald and
! News 1 am sure the readers Of the
paper would be pleased to have an az
ticle in that edition from your type
writer. Yours truly,
The Editor.
Well, reckon will have to try to
comply with this request but it is CIV
ing me very little time. On so i'm
portant occasion as the fftieth ami
| yersary I would like to have time to
! think and to try to evolve something
worth while. There are very few peo-
pie who have the privilege of celebrat-
ing fifty years of active life. But I
reckon the editor is talking about fifty
years of the paper, and not fifty years
of his own life. After all, fifty years
is not long looking backward, and
when you come to think about it, it is
not so long any way you look at it,
and, yet, many things can be crowded
into a half century. 1t is more than
life time, and while some are permit
ted to live longer, the average is far
below fifty years. How long We live.
not years, but actions tell"
And that is true of newspaper as
well Judged by that standard the old
Herald and News may well feel proud
at a half century of existence.
"I'ye wandered to the village, Tom,
I've sat beneath the tree
Upon the school-house playground
That sheltered you and mei
But none were there to. greet me, Tom,
And few were left to know
Who played with us upon the green,
Just fifty years ago.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-12-03
"Well, some are in the churchyard

well, some are in the churchyard
laid,
Some sleep beneath the sea,
But none are left of our old class.
Excepting you and me;
And when our time shall come, Tom,
Ard We are called 10 go,
| hope Wei meet with those We loved
Some fifty years ago."
But l reckon this is not what the
editor wants me to write. have only
been writing for the paper now for
about six or seven years, and, Of
course, could not be expected to say
very much about the old paper prior
to that, except what might know from
memory, and what other people have
told me, and my memery is not very
good any more Now, don't misunder-
stand me, can remember way beyond
fifty years, but don't know much
about newspapers away back there I
believe that it was old Cicero who said,
'But TO my mind nothing Seems long in
which there is any last, for when that
arrives, then all the past has slipped
away-only that remains to which you
have attained by virtue and righteous
actions" There should be no 'last'' to
The Herald and News except as there
is "last' to all things temporal, but
otherwise I trust it may be as Teany-
sons Brook, go on and on forever. So
far as I am personally concerned, as
now I have grown oldI feel
!
Like some brave steed that oft before
The Olympic wreath Of victory bore,
Now by the VT mt of years oppressed,
Forgets the race, and takes his rest
And yet, / somehow take a pleasure
in writing for The Herald and News
such writing as it is, Seems to me
that during this fifty year period that
there were mersuch men as Bdi&er
Wallace. Dr.. Geo. B. Cromer, G. G. Sale
among those whose names appeared at
the masthead as editors, but asI roam
among the halls of memory during that
period, the man who wrote the most
beautiful sentiment and was, therefore,
in much demand as a writer OF deaths
and marriages, and such things, was
R. n. Greneker, ST., and you know I
have often taken the position that ii
this world-cold and hard as it is
that we needed more sentiment, more
of that thing which would make us
think more kindly of one another, and
then we would speak and write more
kindly Of each other. Mr.. Greneker
belonged to the old type of Journalist
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-19
BONAPARTE.

Mrs. g. L Cox went to Chicago last
week for q several weeks visit with her
daughter Mrs. N. G. Larson.
Miss Hazel Middleton Of OttumWa
visited here last week with Bonaparte
relatives.
Msa. Carrie Watts of Hillsboro has
been enjoying visit with her mother
Mrs Mary Hornbaker
Miss Anna Robb has returned to
lGalesburg after several weeks visit
at the J. w. Fitzgerald home.
Mrs. George Rigler was called to
Centerville last week because of the
illness OF her sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Neatly Of Moline
Ill, were called here last week because
OF the death Of their mother Mrs. VIM.
Neatly.
@ o. A. Boyer Of Oklahoma is visiting
Bonaparte friends and relatives.
"A Miss Margaret Johnson was hostess
to the Kensington club Monday even
Ing
NJ Elmer Smith of Cleveland, o., has
been enjoying a visit here with rela-
tives.
a Lee Cox Of Vernon Center, Mimi,
came last week to visit his mother Mrs.
s. /. Cox.
Clark Derr has sold his restaurant to
Frank Musser Of Brookpark, Mimi.
Isaiah Meek has gone to Keokuk to
be employed as travelling salesman for
q concern located there.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-19
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

Miss Mary Johnson and Miss Be
atrice Crowell. 125 North washington
street, have returned from few Gays
visit In Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Abegg, 4O7 West
woodland avenue and Eugene Abegg
spent Sunday with their parents Mr.
and Mrs. Walter Abegg in Blakesburg
Marriage licenses were issued by
the clerk of the district court on Sat
urday to Harvey Wiley and Miss Els
ther Usher; John Berry and Miss
Anna Hart; Frank Keller and Mrs
Anna Jones.
Miss Bessie M. Moore, accompanied
by her sister, Helen, went to Ottumwa
this morning on account of the illness
Of her grandmother, Mrs. Catherine
Moore. S. c. Dunlavey Is In
Ottumwa for couple of weeks visit
with his mother, Mrs. George Kirk
heart-The Oskaloosa Herald.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-19
ROYS RIDING PONY
FALL INTO CISTERN

What Cheer, Jan. IS Otto Bruhn
and Albert Dalziel Of this city had
narrow escape from serious injury
here recently when the pony which
they were riding fell into cistern.
The young men were riding the ami
NAL to deliver meat for local butcher
shop and when at the residence OF d.
H. Dunbar, the pony stepped on the
board platform, covering the clstern. IL
gave way. letting the animal and it's
human burden into the we'll. The water
was frozen over but the cavity was
deep enough to give the boys a good
shaking up as we'll as to keep the pony
a prisoner until the ice derrick was
used to get it out
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-19
MQnD Unnecessary Committees are
Kept Standing By the Legislatures
WILLIAMS
BY ORA WILLIAMS

lege for the blind, but they have al.
ways been and will continue. There
Is also committee on representative
districts, one on senatorial districts,
another on congressional districts, one
on judicial districts. On the other
hand there is great need, as older
members realize, for some division OF
the work Of the judiciary committee.
as for instance, special committee on
legalizing acts or in relation to court
procedure, or one on code revision.
What will be done with the Doran-
Quigley resolutions of condemnation
of the governor for his reference to
superfluous employees about the legis-
lative bodies? They can be called UP
tomorrow or any time A motion to
lay on the table would dispose of
them in quickest time and save the
state money by avoiding the waste OF
time in discussion. They might be
sent to committee but that would
hardly be necessary. No harm would
come if they were passed.
eff we have nothing more important
on hand to quarrel over than the mat
ter of few clerks and janitors,' said
one senator, 1--WE would do better to go
home 1t is all too petty for our con-
sideration. l favor getting down to
business"
1t is generally conceded, however, by
all the members that the language OF
the governor, in which he quoted what
he said a number of years ago While
standing in the legislature itself, was
needlessly harsh and that it conveyed
a thought which the governor himself
did not have in mind. What he was
striking at was waste and extravag-
ance and not graft" In the strict
sense of the term. But the governor
has long had habit of striking right
from the shoulder, and it is suspected
that he believes one good way to wake
up legislators and others to duty is to
talk plainly about things. The effort
to make it appear that what he said
was an insult to the old soldiers OF
the state has mot met with ready re-
Spouse,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-19
yesterday with her parents, Mr.. ant

yesterday with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Anderson ~
Mrs. Emma Loney and daughter, Ell
len OF Libery township, left yesterday
for visit with relatives in Clarinda,
Mrs James Taylor of Cleveland O.,
IS visiting in this city with her mother,
Mrs Wiley Young. and brother, Chas.
p. Fluke, and other relatives.
Arch Shore Of Van Vert, formerly Of
this city, is spending few days here
visiting old friends and transacting
business
George w. White, who has been i'll
Tor Some time. was able to come to
town yesterday for the first time.
Mrs. w. ]. Tate Of Ottumwa return-
cd nome yesterday after a few days'
visit with her sister Mrs. Henry WEIGH.
mrs. Jas. Kelley returned today from
a few days visit in Melrose with her
sister Mrs. Murray.
Mrs. jeff Hancock Of Corydon visited
IN charlton yesterday with her son Will
and family enroute to Russell to visit
her daughter
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-19

but girl her parents moved to Iowa
and settled in Jones county. Here
her girlhOOd days were spent and
here she met and loved Elisha Harry,
giving him her hand In marriage July
Is, 1856. To them eight children were
born and as four have preceded the
mother to the world past our sight,
those remaining are Mrs Jane Pratt,
Spokane, Washington; Mrs. Ella Nor
ris, Selan, Washington, and John A.
and Oris A.. who live in Ottumwa
There are also twelve grandchildren
today.
During the sixty years Of her mar
ried life Mrs. Harry had but two
homes. Just after their marriage Mr..
Harry moved to Poweshiek county
and thirty-eight years ago or in 1877
brought his family to Ottumwa and
this city has even since been the home
Of the deceased.
Mrs. Harry was a religious charac-
ter Years ago she expressed faith in
the Lord and joined the Methodist
Episcopal church, but in some way
her membership was lost but during
it was restored and her name placed
on the roll of the Main Street church.
She was one of the Marthas in the
world Of religion and the constant
care she gave her afflicted husband in
his suffering and blindness will be an
example Of Christian beauty to the
generations that remember her vir-
tues and emulate her faithfulness. AS
the dark messenger came at 40 p.
M Saturday, January 9, she had Epent
Is years, II months and IL days on
earth.
Besides the loved ones mentioned
there are host of friends and many
other relatives who mourn her loss.
The funeral services were conduct
ed in the home of her son, John
Harry, Ottumwa, January H. At 2
o'clock p. m. Rev. G. A. Field, pastor
Of the Main Street NJ. E. church, Of
ficiated and the remains were placed
to rest in the Shaul cemetery Con-
tributed.