The Wrangell sentinel., 1948-11-19
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR SENTINEL. - HAPPY
 BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

country Campbell Press: Oh,
 hum, what day is today?
 Chandler-Priee press: Today?
 Why, let's see. Oh, it's Novem-
 Der 19. Look on that beer cal
 endar.
 co; So it is. Why, girls! Do you know what tomorrow is? C-P and Linotype: No. what? * co: It's The Sentinel's 18th birthday!
 Limo and C-P: Why, so It Is. Funny nobody mentioned it. You'd think they'd give us a day off the day before our birthday.
 " co Gin horror) And miss publication? Why, girls, The Sentinel hasn't missed a pub lieation in 46 years! Remem- Der, the Oldest Continuously published newspaper in Alaska. Lion So what? I'm tired. co: Gee whiz. that's no way to act. Just think, 46 years. I'll, bet I've ground out more births. deaths, murders and Elks' picnics than any paper in Alaska
 C-P: Maybe you have, but I've done all right on statements, letterheads and envelopes, too. Limo: Yea? But where would you girls be without me? After all, I'm about the most import ant piece of equipment on this paper.
 CC: Horsefeathers what good are your slugs without me to print them?
 C-P: Now, girls, don fight. Af- ter all, it's our birthday, and bolted to the floor as we are, < we might as we'll try to get a. long.
 ; CC: Well, Miss Mergenthaler " has no business talking like that. I was here before either one of you.
 Limo (aside to C-P} Yes, and <" she's beginning to show that middle-age spread. Look at her < cylinder!
 < co: Forty-six years. Dear, E dear, it doesn't seem possible. * Do you girls remember the fire $ back in 1906? The whole town * practically burned. was frightened clear through to my shims.
 C-P: Can I ever forget it? That was one time I had 1t over on you, dearie. Remem- < Der? They ran that issue of t The Sentinel off on wrapping paper - in red ink. You were soaked to the platen CC: I suppose it's my fault someone dumped a bucket of < water on me! Anyway, that's the only issue I ever missed. ]" The Sentinel came out anyway !" and that's what's important. * My, my, the things I've seen and heard over the years! * Limo: As if I don't know a thing or two myselfi co: Huh, after all I started to !" work here when The Sentinel $ was the Stikine Journal back * in 1897. I often think, some of v these men and women who * come in here had their births !" recorded right on my own very :" tympan. I remember their first % birthday parties, their -fifth,- tenth, twentieth * C-P: Quit blubbering, Camp < bell, you're showing your age. * After all. Pm not so young, but I try to be cheerful. If only people wouldn't sit on my : feedboard when they come in-- sometimes it's all I can do to hold myself up.
 CC: I know what you mean. You know sometimes I think have high ink pressure. Prob ably hardening of the tapes. C-P: Why dear, you really don't look your age. I think you're wonderfully preserved. co (brightening): Do you really? Thank you. dear. Limo (laughing) Why are you always trying to shave few : years off your age? After all, that 1866 date plate stamped on you doesn't lie
 C-P: Be quiet, Mergenthaler, don't start another argument. CC: No. let's not fight. Let's reminisce. Remember the day we moved over here from the old building?
 C-P: Do I! And how it rained? remember slipped off my skids and I'd probably be sit- ting in the middle of the street yet if Gus Johnson had not come along and lifted me back on. Great Guy, Gus.
 Limo: You said it.
 co: Seems the whole town had hand in moving us. My, was I glad to. get settled again, and we didn't even miss a publica-