Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-12-11
WAIIHALIA, s.. e.:
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 81, 1913.
BACK TO EARTH.

The editor of The Courier feels as
though he is returning to earth after
two months trip--not 4 vacation,
howcver--to~--
Well, it has been neither a pleas
ure nor Il pleasant trip, you may be
sure. Were We to write it up in all
probability. just to make it appear
attractive and somewhat sensational,
we would put it under the caption
Back to Earth. or, A Sixty Days
Journey Through He'll" That's
where we've been. metaphorically
speaking. llot?-yes, and then
some.
But, as we indicated by tho head
ing Of this statement, we are gradu-
ally coming back to earth.
We have with us now Boone FitZ-
gerald, 4 young man Of the Wulhalla
vicinity, and he promises we'll. lie
is neither afraid Of work, nor is he
given to resting his iowls Oil his
hands and wearing out the elbows
Of his sleeves while busily engaged
in killing time. He is an intelligent
young man, willing to work, ready
and able to learn. and thus promises
we'll. He is not altogether a new
soon to have him at the linotype key
board and squirting hot metal at a
good rate OF speed lie has the maxi
ing qualities for good printer-thc
main part OF which Is Il full share OF
good common sensc-which. we be-
lievc, is accredited with being the
most uncommon sense OF all.
And just here it might be we'll TO
make an explanation Of the past two
months work in The Courier Office.
IL mas been Onc-man affair so far
as the transaction OF business is con-
cclhed, FOR the one employee whom
we have had--and a good one he is
IS mute. Therefore every tcle-
phono call, every patron who has
called, has had to be answered or
waited on by the cditor-devil-roust-
ABOUT and general utility man--who
happened to be Gus" The only wav
that we have been able to get out
the paper week by week under ex-
lstlng conditions was to do like q GER
tam Wcll-known remedy is said to
do-'we" worked while you slu,..
And here drop the editorial "we,"
Il thing I have mover greatly adj
mired. wish to offer apology to a
rev people who have doubtless come
10 the conclusion that the editor OF
fhc Courier Is somewhat of n hear
or other animal not altogether pleas
ant to meet. Doing. or trying to ito,
two mems work, have often lost
patience and become rather short"
in conversation and in talking over
the phone. To all Of these | ask that
you simply remember where | have
told you that | have been. | am
coming back" now and hope soon,
with the valued resistance of Mr..
Rhodes, who has been a real friend
IN my troubles, and tho addition of
young Fitzgerald to our force. to ar
rive at that state best described as
normal"
During the past fcw weeks | have
also mad valuable assistance from
the new members of The Courior
iirm. Messrs. w. C. Hughs and II. B.
Shelor. They have done enough in
tho shop to know full we'll why each
'pfiMtiug office In the country has
is simply that hell
would be incomplete without one.
But, after all, there Is compensa-
tion for every unpleasantness that
comes In life, and have been graft
iied indeed to have the kind express
sion OF many friends that they real
lzed the handicap lNder which the
paper has been issued. and really
were surprised that we have been
able to do as we'll as we have done.
70 those who have kindly over
looked the imperfcctions and have
assisted in various ways, ! can but
say--and say it from my hcart-I
THANK YOU
1t is our hope from the present to
make The Courier better day bv day
and soon to have the paper back to
the old staudard--.and even better
than at any time in the past.