Lexington dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1917-1919, 1919-08-06
Ira M. Sigh and W. 7 Walker
Buy Out Former 0wners---ln-
provenents to Be Mads--Mr.
Harmon Remains With Paper.

Ders with it's first issue under new
s ownership and management Several
/ weeks ago negotiations were begun for
the sale OF 1rt, paper which cul1nlllal'
ed in the transfer Of the property Au-
gust first to Ira. NJ. Sigh and ". I.
Walker. formerly Of Columbia, the
new owners taking immediate charge.
Having in mind the acquiring of The
Dispatch-News and wishing to make
immediate changes for the better IN
the mechanical arrangement Of the
paper, the new management placed
an order for a new linotype, which
they had hoped would arrive in time
for to begin a decided improvement
with the first issue of the paper under
their direction Owing, however, to a
strike at the linotype factory and the
great demand for machinery at this
time, it will be several months before
it will be possible to make this addi-
ton to the mechanical facilities Of the
plant However, every effort will be
exerted to produce the best Newspaper
possible until this change can be az
fected.
Mr.. G. NJ Harmon, who for about
fifty years so successfully conducted
The Lexington Dispatch, and who
made its name household word IN
Lexington County, remains with the
paper as associate editor. His good
wife. who has been factor in the up
building of the paper since the con-
solidation of The Dispatch and The
News, will also remain on the adyer-
tising staff of the paper. The new own
ers bespeak for them the cordial CO.
operation Of their host of friends.
- Mr.. S. j. Leaphart, who was one of
the founders of The News and who
SO successfully managed that paper,
81 and has since the consolidation man
Naged The Dispatch-News, retires from
newspaper work after five years ser
vice, with the good wishes of numer-
Gus friends throughout the county.
He will engage in the fertilizer busi-
ness and will look more closely after
his farming interests. His successors
in the newspaper work wish for him
every Success.
ira NJ. Sigh, one of the members
of the new firm, is a native of New
berry County, where in early boyhood
he learned the printing trade in the
Office of the Newberry Herald and
{ News, which has for many years
borne the reputation Of having grad
uated: more first class printers under
the tutelage Of Col. E. H. Aull, than
any other printing Office Of like size in
South Carolina. Fer the past ten
years Mr.. Sigh has been connected
with the mechanical departments Of
both Columbia newspapers. until
about two years ago when he. with
8 James L. Auu, organized the Colun2-
bia Linotype Composition Company.
which proved to be q successful nusi-
ness
W. T.. Walker the other mo0her Of
the new firm is native OF Camden
and has worked at the printing tusi-
ness alomst continuously for 80
years, having been in the mechanical
departments Of Columbia newspapers
and Job printing establishments for
twenty years. Mr. Walker has for the
last three years held the position Of
clerk of the Joint Committee on
Printing of the General Assembly, and
also the clerkship Of the State Sem
ate Finance Committee.
The new owners bring to their task
a well rounded newspaper experience
| in tie work of making u newspaper
and feel sure that with the same cor
dial cooperation which the people Of
Lexington have in the past given the
paper they Will soon be able to give
~ county newspaper Of which the