The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-08-16

county KNOWS NOD HugheS ana
every body that knows him. loves him
and will rejoice to hear Of his recon,
appointment to the management of the
Courier Journal and Louisville Times.
No better selection could have been
made and these papers are to be con.
graduated upon securing his services,
which we know will prove quite an ad.
junct to two of the best daily news
papers in the South.
His good friend, Harry Giovannoli.
who also has risen high in the journal
istic field, has told 50 truthfuly and
well the history of Robert Elkin
Hughes, We reprint it in full.
Here is the story of Bob Hughes.
IL there is boy reader Of The Lea
der who has vision bright with hope.
but who is struggling in an uphill fight,
let him peruse and take courage.
Along somewhere about 1884 the
present editor and manager of The
Leader was working as printer on
The Central Kentucky News. four
page weekly sheet published at Lam
caster, Kentucky. by M. ID. Hughes.
He was compositor, ad man, proof
reader, pressman and emergency editor
and reporter.
When business looked up, the prop
rietor of the plant consented to increase
the staff and he established his son,
Robert E. Hughes, as an apprentice. to
learn the printers trade. That was
Bob. then about fourteen years old,
red-headed, laxative and wearing a
smile that no sort of adversely or brow
beating could Danish.
Bob" took to typesetting as natur-
ally as the proverbial duck takes to a
muddy pond and he whisted and sang
his way into the secrets of the craft
under circumstances that would have
broken the faith and the courage of
most youngsters.
After few years Bob" graduated
from the composing room ana blossom
ed out as country reporter. Later he
broke into the government service.
gauging distilled spirits during the day
and writing wonderful feature stories
at night for the metropolitan press.
Time passed and one night Bob"
sought again the advice of his former
instructor in the art preventative.
He was offered position on city
daily and the question was, should he
resign his snug s25. a week in Uncle
Sans service to accept the precarious
livelihood held out to him by shaky
morning newspaper. Long into the
night the ground was surveyed and re-
surveyed, but before sun-up it was de-
cided that the government could go
hang that young man with nerve
and horse sense and love for the
greatest game of them all was simply
wasting his time doing anything else.
Bob went to Louisville. There were
months 10 toll, weeks of iIlness and
self-denial. finally an opening. through
the hearts he had wor. into the com.
mercial life of the Falls City-his eX-
traordinary success as the manager of
many business and civic organizations,
up to the presidency of a lighting and
heating company which, when it was
sold, left him. it is said, on "the sunny
side of Easy Street..
This week he was made business
manager of the Louisville Courier
journal and its evening adjunct, The
Louisville Times. Now the one. gal
fused cub printer of 1884, with salary
Of dollar a week, paid every now and
then, becomes the business head of the
biggest newspaper in the biggest city
in the Commonwealth, and practically
the leading newspaper of the South.
How did he do 1t? Industry. fidelity,
clean manhood"