The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1917-03-16
KIDD'S STORE

To one who has read it since its
infancy, forty-five years ago, The
Interior Journal without Ed Walton
is like mince meat pie without "a
brandy sauce to a tee-total gourmet
Welcome Ed Your promised resump-
ton of harness for good-and-all "for
keeps" is cheering. "May, you live
long and prosper. When Ceph Camp
bell founded the Interior Journal in
1872 he Immediately rushed it in
front rank with half dozen excellent
Bluegrass rural weeklies.
In 1876 Will Walton, a live wire
STRIPPING from Old Virginia, com
pleted his contract to grade a section
of Cincinnati Southern railroad
south of Kings Mountain. Cursory
acquaintance with Stanford was com
polling to his sagacious appreciation
of opportunities and possibilities in
newspaperdom and probably first
time he was ever in printing office
he determined to buy or did then in
.duce Ceph to sell him the plant. His
brother Tom, was installed manager,
Henry Harris employed to edit and
that grand old typographer, and one
time editor, Capt Frank White of
Lancaster was foreman
Soon as the railroad contract had
been completed the tyro took the
helm and things were set hummng.
AT that time condition of outlawry
dominated Garrard and Lincoln coun-
ties. Fugitive homicides on whose
heads were big rewards for capture
securely mingled with family and
friends.
Walton promptly trained his bat
teries on officials who complacently
abetted the decentralization by dere-
LECTION. and few broadsides produc-
ed ferment which led to vigorous
and thorough housekeeping during
which detailed plot to shoot Walton
accidentally CD in street brawl
was disclosed.
The stage setting was completed
just as tipped off. Why the fusilade
failed to be opened never heard.
No favor was shown degenerates
of highest degree-not intimations
Walton's evangelistic work in '76. II
and '78 far exccls the best of Billy
Sunday and Gypsy Smith today.
Arch Mckinney, then teller in the
First National Bank, a partisan Re-
publican, was not an hour collecting
a fund to provide and present Wal
ton testimonial to his pluck and
potency for reform-which he fer
vently prayed should not be formally
presented.
His righteous GU prayer was an
swered and never reference IN
print to the incident.
In year Walton mad corps of
4 IL.
age metropolitans- "Katydid' at
Crab Orchard, Aleck Anderson at
Capt. Y. Tarrant, an au,
thor, at Liberty, Ger. Landrum land
son, Lewis now editor of that excel
lent weekly. "The Messenger at
at Lancaster. whose let
tiers were regularly padded with able
editorial stuff, Rev. j. c. Boyle at
whose sparkhng humor
and wit cultured readers pronounced
the best of all the correspondents of
his day, and Rev. George 0. Barnes,
then evangelizing in Europe, without
scriD or purse.
The Interior Journal WIS an insti-
tuition and Will Walton an "institu-
ter" all by his lonesome.
In 81 Ed Waltons association
with the paper began and as his ac,
ouaintance with patrons extended
his popularity grew till he is deserv-
edly fixed in their affections as son
or brother, and essential to our
Cheapest and Best"
We hate to lose Shelton, who, has
so fully up to the standard.
A few more "reminiscences may be
added when the weather is more
cheering.
Give our congratulations to our
favorite, Mary and lucky Harvey.