The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-03-16


town and county And l bear no ma
lice or ill-Will to any one, though l
know and feel the ingratitude Of
many whom | have helped. II I had
been a better collector and had not
done so much work on credit, and
had been paid ali the subscriptions
to the paper, l would not owe dol
lar today, and would be able to quit
rule the people who owe you are the
ones who cuss you the most. But l
am rot complaining and never have.
l am glad that ! am able to work and
that I love to work, but never again
do 1 intend to lose any more money
on subscriptions.
There have been many changes dur
ing these thirty years. Very few Of
the men who were in business here
in 1887 are in business here today.
The Observer was running then with
Mr.. w. H. Wallace as editor, but he
has dropped out for a year or TWO
at the time during the years. Awhile
as professor in the Methodist col
lege and then as superintendent Of
the city schools in Newberry and then
as editor of the Greenyille News, but
I have been hammering away at the
same old job all the time, and I be-
lieve ] like it better now than l did
! at the bee;nni.:~ though | had hoped
by this tine 20 be relieved Of the
! details of the office, and my dream
was that some one of my boys would
take up that part of it., but they are
all gone to Columbia and all in the
: newspaper work, on The State and
the Charleston iAmerican. Well, I
reckon it is best as it is.
o.
: In looking over the old files Of 1887
find that the first issue We got out
/ is missing, and, therfore, I\cannot see
what we said. The paper then was
four pages, eight columns to the page
and published once a week Silas john
stone as master carried several sales.
W. w. Houseal as auditor had an ad-
vertisement of delinquent land sales,
John S. Fair was town clerk and car
ried an ad. Eduard Scholtz was in
he jewelry business and had an ad.
+. B. Fellers carried an ad as pro-
bate Judge. j. w. Chapman had a
book store Minter and Jameson HAD
a clothing store aa. NJ. Foot. Jr., and
company carried an ad. Scott and
Bro. we're advertising tin ware. R.
D. Smith advertised as the Newherry
clothier. Mrs. S. A. Riser and Co. ao-
vertised millinery. w. E. Pelham
was advertising drugs. Wright and
J. W. Coppock advertised clothing.
O. Klettner advertised the freshest
cherry malt. There were several for
eign ads and from Columbia were G.
F. Jackson, NJ. L. Kinard, DesPortes
and Edmunds, Swafield, merchant tail
or. The biggest advertisement In the
first issue that have, March II, 1887,
is Aull and Houseal who take
! two columns to advertise The Her
aid and News and their job depart
ment. In this same issue find tha:
Arthur Kibler was school commission
er and was conducting an educations'
column. The leading editorial in that
: issue was shop and contained sly
lines stating that the paper had been
enlarged to it's original size of eight
columns to the page and that the edt-
tor would endeavor to fill its columns
with the latest and freshest general
and local news. There was an adver-
tisement Of the latest new book, by
E. P. Roe, "He Fell In Love With His
Wife, and several other books from
the book store of Castor and Hunt.
Notice of Mr.. Caston's withdrawal
from the firm to devote his time TO
! the study of law is made.
I do not find where l had anything
to say about the split log drag, but
there is a whole lot about that rail
road which Mitchell was to build from
Augusta via Edgefeld to Newberry and
on to Blacksburg and which has not