Montgomery County sentinel., 1951-06-28
The Sentinel To Be
Printed Here Beginning
Next Week

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ness and the mechanical units.
Without news, no one would buy
a newspaper; without advertising,
the newspaper could not exist;
without a mechanical department
newspaper could not be printed.
So the often discussed question as
to which unit of the paper is the
most important only ends in
circle OF arguments that come back
to each other and therefore have
no ending.
The Editor, Elsie White Haines'.
Louis M. Leimbach, business man.
ager, and Cy Campbell, producer,
hope to work together to produce
as nearly perfect cube as
possible.
Mrs. Haines will soon enter into
her twenty-fifth year of newspaper
work. She wrote her first paid
column in 1927. She has been with
The Sentinel in one capacity or
another since its purchase from
the Fields family. After July l,
Mrs. Haines will live at sol Beall
Avenue Rockville. A lifelong resi-
dent of the county she is best
known for her column, "Montgom-
cry Sidelights."
Mr.. Leimbach, native of Balti-
more County, came to the Sentinel
in 1945, He spent much of his
mature life in Howard County
where he was police magistrate
for seven years. With his wife,
Beulah Easton Leimbach and sons,
Lou, jr., and Barry, he lives at. 544
West Montgomery Avenue.
Cy M. Campbell, born in
Rochester, Minn., has been print
ing newspapers for 25 years. He
once owned the Prince Georgian,
and has worked for other county
papers in the state. For the past
two years he has operated a
printing plant at 213 East Mont
gomery Avenue. He is married and
has two boys - Robert and Cy, jr.
Now living in Kensington, he
hopes soon to make his home in
Rockville.
The history of the Montgomery
|. County Sentinel, from the day of
it founding in August 1855 to the
present day, is rich with narrative
and interesting legend. Matthew
Fields, his widow, Mrs. Rebecca
Fields, and their children, Clay,
William, and Margaret saw the
publication through the War Be-
tween the States, when the founder
was twice jailed for expressing
his sympathy for the South; the
Spanish American War, and
World War l, each with its Gus
tomary periods of economic ad-
justment.
Under the present ownership,
the Sentinel played it's part in
World War II and was widely read
by service men in all parts of the
world-"just like letter from
home"-"we read the six-months-
old copy over and over-even the
advertisements" they wrote. And
now the old paper faces this pres
ent emergency in which the whole
world seems once more in a state
of uneasiness and unrest.
When Matthew Fields started
The Sentinel in 1855, he was not
a young man-nor was he new to
the world of the Fourth Estate.
He had worked on papers in other
states-he had helped establish
what is now the Ellicott City
Times, and from 1845 to 1855 he
and "Mister Braddock had pub
lished in Rockville a Wing paper
called the Rockville Journal and
Montgomery County Advocate
which died with the Whig Party.
Mr.. Fields then started the Sen
tinel as a Democratic paper. After
his death his wife continued to
publish the paper, and lived to be
almost one hundred years old -
conceded to be the oldest newspaper
woman in the world.
The present staff of The Sentinel
from the Nationally known pub
Usher, P. G. Stromberg, former
State Senator and a newspaperman
for over thirty years - down to
its circulation manager and book
keeper, Mrs. Mary Lou Hegeman,
with the paper since 1889, brings
mature judgement and experience