The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-07
FORMER PUBLISHER
VISITS SAUK CENTRE
Charles F. Hendryx Was Her.
aid Editor for Twenty
Years, Retiring in 1901
DELIGHTED WITH CITY
Was Connected With Mime
apOliS Tribune in the 70's
Father Publisher

Rev. F. L. Flinchbaugh, the we'll
known and efficient Rector of St.
Stephens, Wilkes-barre Pennsyl-
vania, motored into Sank Centre
late Monday afternoon, with the de-
sire of visiting the birthplace of
his wife, Anne Hendryx, who de-
parted this life four years ago, and
to make the acquaintance of those
who were her companions in her
youthful years. He was accompan-
led by his little daughter Anne, and
her tutor, and his father-in-law
Chas. F. Hendryx for many years
the editor of the Sank Centre Her
aid. s-
The latter is in his eighty-fourth
year and retains all the good health
and vigor his advanced age will
permit. Nearly one-third of a GEN.
fury has passed since he was one
of our citizens, and this was his
first visit. He observed of course
that great changes had occurred
during that period. An entire new
generation had sprung up; but
there was in evidence much mutual
pleasure in his meetings with those
who are still with us of. the con-
stantly diminishing group of which
he was a member in the years of
his activities here.
Sank Centre still counts the Hen
dryx family as virtually one of its
own.
Those of our people to whom the
opportunity came were highly graf
flied in making the acquaintance of
Rev. Mr.. Flinchbaugh. A thorough
going student of human affairs, he
has an attractive personality stamp
ed with the human friendliness
which should be of incalculable adj
vantage in facing the problems he
must meet in the important station
he occupies.
The party left Wednesday morn
ing for Duluth carrying with them
the best wishes of our community.
The father of Mr.. Hendryx was
at one time, in the 7O's publisher
of the Minneapolis Tribune. The
party spent Sunday in Minneapolis
and while there the former Sank
Centre publisher was interviewed
by the Tribune with the following
interesting story resulting:
Memories of newspaper work in
Minneapolis over a half-century ago
when business from every point
of view was strenuous in frontier
fashion, breathed their inky fra
GRANGE through The Tribune editor
ial rooms Saturday when Charles F.
Hendryx dropped in for a visit.
1t was early in the seventies that
Mr.. Hendryx went to work for The
Tribune. Already, at his old home
in Cooperstown, N. Y, he had learn
ed a lot about printing from his ia
Their, James I. Hendryx, publisher of
the Cooperstown Republic. There he
had been through the composing
room mill, getting his first expert
ence in typesetting-always by hand
in those days-when he was so
small that he had to stand on a box
to reach the top of the rack.
James Hendryx was friend of
Colonel William S. King, whose
name is written large in the early
history of Minneapolis journalism
and politics, during their boyhood
days in Cooperstown. King had left
home several years before the Civil
war and come to Minneapolis, where
he founded the State Argus, mostly
with money made in real estate in
the frontier town.
Colonel King made progress with
his newspaper enterprise. In 1866 he
bought out the Chronicle, another
weekly backed by rival group Of
pioneers. The Argus had been domi-
nant in Minneapolis but the Chron-
icle was furnishing keener and
keener competition.
So the colonel and his associates
took over the rival shee. From the
merger, effected in May, 1867, came
The Minneapolis Tribune, first daily
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