Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-03-06
FRIDAY. MARCH D. 1925.
ANNOUNCEMENT

ANNOUNCEMENT
The HERALD announces a
change of ownership which will
mean that just as soon as new
equipment, now ordered. is in-
stalled the paper win be greatly
improved not only in appearance
but in the volume of news.
Mr.. Jason J. Sperry, well
known TO many Shenandoah
County people, has acquired
substantial interest in the
HERALD, and he brings to the
partnership of publishers an
aptitude for the work, an origi.l
nality as a writer and a determi-
nation to make this the best
County paper in Virginia.
Miss Mary C. Grabill, who
succeeded her father, the late
Captain John H. Grabill, as
publisher of the HERALD, has
mad a long experience as writer
and publisher and as a member
of the new firm she will be active
in the management and editing
of the paper.
Mr.. William B. Allen, who has
been in newspaper work for a
number of years, will be withithe
new firm as associate editor.
With this Introductory it
might be we'll to note, with
pardonable pride. that the
Shenandoah HERALD is the old
est paper of continuous publ
cation in the Shenandoah Valley.
For one hundred and eight years
il has chronicled the news of
County, State and Nation, in
many instances being the sole
medium of hundreds of subscrib-
ers between the homes and the
outside world. 1t has noted the
births of your forebears, pub
ished their marriages and paid
tribute when they died. and in
the major and minor happenings
of your County it has served as
your diary of passing events.
Through wars and pestilence,
and in times of peace and pros
perity, the Shenandoah HERALD
has been the welcome guest at
thousands of fresides, and that
its influence and efforts have
been appreciated is attested by
the support which it has en-
joYed through all the years since
Monroe was President of the
United States.
In its change of ownership
there will be no change in its
policy of giving its readers SUCH
news as Is fit to print, free from
the personalities which leave un.
necessary scars and devoid of the
acrimonv which accentuates
bitterness.
The HERALD will eschew that
narrow partizanship which does
not accord others the right TO
entertain an honest difference of
opinion and in..its news and edito
rial columns it will give due credit
for good, from whatever source
it may come, land throw its
weight against evil no matter
where it may orig
1t il the purpose of the new
owners to maintain the indie
pendeuce of the HERALD, and to
be fearless in its advocacy of
those things which may appeal
to them as being for the common
veal.
In the plan of rehabilitation it
has been necessary to spend
thousands of dollars for this new
equipment. The latest model
linotype has been contracted for
and new presses will replace the
old. with such a supply of
modern type and stock as will
enable the plant to turn out any
and all kinds of job work.
In the near future. the paper
win be issued semi-weekly, and
Ill Subscribers on the lists at the
line when such change takes
place will be carried to the end I
Of the subscription period at the
price of one dollar all
rear. |,
This IL merely a foreword of
he plans and purposes of the
new owners of f1e HrpArp ar
word of appreciation for the d
'ordial support which the paper
las enjoyed. and an assurancel
hat everv honeot effort will be
made to merit . continuance of
hat support BY giving our read
- clean, wholesome paper
ghich will nirror IL IN unbiased
lanner the worth while news.