Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1922-11-24
vALEDIc DRY
GBY THE RETIRING EDITOR. ]

hanuS TINS week. NOtnlng bnabS
written in this issue is written by
the retiring editor except this article
which will be signed and som locals
and death notice
A few days ago, Messrs G S Har
mon and Leopold LOCKE Of P1par-
vile dropped into nv office and pro-
offered to purchase The Herald. A
price was agreed on which satisfied
me, and the closing out of the sale
was maze Wednesday OF this week
and the new owners and editors are
in charge and control.
The retiring editor has had his pol
icies and we are not ashamed of them
aud still hold to the same views
and they will have theirs, and are
equally entitled as | was, to define
and protect them as the occasion
doth arise.
For several years my friends out
over the state when | would bump
into them have said Faux why do
you stay in q little place like Leakes-
vile. A man of your talent and ex-
perience. can do much better in a
bigger town" | have refrained be-
fore of speaking of this, as well as
some good offers which have come TO
me to make changes. have stayed
by tins situation for "a years of con-
tinuous service and have built The
Herald up to place now where it
can enter successfully, if properly
managed onto new era of wider
usefulness and prosperity. | leave
it with some regrets but am selling
at time when there is lul in pol
itics, so that no man caa say ] had
to sell. as with this months business
it would have paid entirely out If
debt and | had made some money
besides and leave owing no man a
dollar that know OF and am on good
terms with even my enemies so far
as | know and | admit | have made
some, but | have not intended to
do any man any wrong. have said
what ] thought was for the best and
some have differed with me and in
the moments of cooler reflections |
believe it has been shown that |
averaged on being about as near
correct as many times as. Others.
though. | have made some mistakes
as runs 10 the career of human kind.
For my friends and those who Lave
stood by aud patronlzed me during
the run OF these years, appreciate
you deeper than words can tell and
shall remember you with grateful
heart. Snme have SPOKEN their re-
grets at my selling out VIII ch is also
appreciated.
Ny newspaper property is being
sold to responsible people. / would
not sell to any other kind. Mr. Har-
mon is known to some OF you from
having held meeting here several
years ago, and is known to others,
by reputation as newspaper-man in
a similar county to Greene with the
Cutover pine land with subsequent
farming development problems TO be
wrestled with. Mr. Locke will get ac-
quainted with you as fast as posi-
Bile and will appreciate your cooper
alton and patronage as be will re-
main on the ground for the present
al d the paper goes straight ahead
without missing an issue. They are
installing a linotype this week, which
is wise move. as the situation has
grown to and is ripe for it and had,
already started negotiations to have
installed one had kept The Herald
till first of the coming year.
Remember friends it takes money
to run newspaper and be more lib
eral with my successors than posi-
bly, some OF you could nave been with
me, of which ! am not complaining
but merely sugge ting more hearty
home patronage of business for them.
You shall hear OF me again. / am
! newspaperman and wherever ] 90
shall expect 70 try to do something
however little IL may be to make
some easier the burdens Of life to the
poor s.ratas Of society 10 this goodly
and OF ours. say IL through no