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THE WAYNESVILLE MbUNtAfiEER f PAGE POUR (Second SectlcrJ Allen Tells Oi Newspapering In Community (Continued from nape 1. Sec. H UNINVITED CRITIC AT STAR'S LOVE SCENE ville at the time had in this first issue their business cards as ad vertisements. The uere Alder) Howell, James IU. Moody, Garland S. Ferguson, B. M. Henry, George H. Smathers, and W. 1.. Tate. It was proper at that time for lawyers to run their business cards in news papers without the danger of being called shysters. One news item, wnich is historically interesting, appeared: "The railroad is coining. Track laying from l'lgron Kiver this way is advancing rapidly. Trains are expected to reach Way nesviile by the middle of March." So much for the first newspaper in Waynesville. Now let's see what follows in the sixty-two years since then. According to'Tom Bridges, it was in 1892 tlAl Jesse Boone and Z. V. Rogers began the publi cation of The Waynesville Courier, succeeding the Waynesville News, which had passed into the discard. So far as is known there is not a copy of this second first issue, the Waynesville Courier, now extant. Mr. Boone had come to Waynes ville some years before as a painter and paper hanger, and now decided to go into newspaper work. His connection with The Waynes ville Courier and Mountaineer con tinued for nearly thirty-two years, but some of that 1 i r n was like Flannagan's report. "Oil again. On again, done again." Mr. Bonne held a personal if not a financial interest in the paper all those years, some times the editor and owner and some other times as an observer ready to take hold if a cullu-driver dropped out. His ca rore in Waniville was well known, siieseslul. and useful. About 1904. Mr. Boone sold the newspaper and the print shop con nected with it to ;. ('. Briggs. who had been for many years a school teacher in Missouri, lie came to Waynesville and began the opera tion of the plant, but was called back to Missouri to finish up his work and close up some business matters. He left the shop and paper in the hands of Tom Bridges and HoraccScnlcllc. Later, after Mr. Bt iggs had re turned, while belting out regular ly the weekly edition. The Courier embarked upon an enlargement program. The weekly was con tinued and a daily was undertaken as an experiment under the name of The Daily Waynesville Courier, the first issue appearing on July 30, lf)0(j, with G. C. Briggs. editor and proprietor. The daily con tinued for several months, and the experiment being carried far enough, was suspended. The week ly and the plant became enlarged by the purchase of a Mergenthaler linotype machine, the first one west of Asheville. In 1908. the centennial year of Haywood county, The Courier spon sored the publication of a history of the county, entitled "The Cen tennial of Haywood County and the County Seat. Waynesville." paper bound with 182 pages, written by the writer of this article. The book was afterwards revised and en larged in 1935 into a volume of 632 pages and renawed The Annals of Haywood County, bound in red cloth. Mr. Briggs was editor and owner of The Courier until 1912 when he decided to return to school work. He sold The Courier to R. B. Wilson and Harry Hall and moved to Hendersonville, becoming the superintendent of the city schools of that city, where he died while he was in charge of the schools there. From the fragmentary files of r ! . IJ UH MKH'KIHU . pjHWIHWHWfW '"'" "" 111 "" I LrS i, nm,.mm 0- . Hob.,,, "JS Z 3 UUIUClIliucv - IM THE t r,t tvio winHnw of their car, an physician, who resides in Rockville Centre, L. i. were married in New York. (international) M'SMLi Garlic Tablets Used for Symptomatic Relief of High Blood Pressure Regular users of Cambridge Garlic Tablets know how they so often aid in relieving distressing high Mood pressure symptoms, uch as dizziness, nervousness, dullness, tiredness, headnches, rinpnir in the ears and throbbing in the head. Get TWO regular $1.00 boxes, now on Itf sale, for only $1.01. Mail orders accented! Smith's Cut Rate Drug Store The Courier, now in the office of The Mountaineer, during the pe riod of 1908 to 1917 the records are confusing because of the lack of care in filing the issues as they came from the press. Wilson nad Hall took over the publication of The Courier in the fall of 1912. About the first of January, 1914, Mr. Hal! sold his in terest to Mr. Wilson and became the editor and proprietor of the Carolina Enterprise, another news paper which had begun publication in Waynesville shortly before that time with John W. Norwood as edi tor and owner. The paper was in bad shape financially, Mr. Hall said, and suspended publication in 191T). From that time, Mr. Hall was away from Waynesville until 1922, returning to enter oilier bus iness relations. In the meantime, The Courier also had fallen into financial diffi culties. The issue of I'ebruary 22, 1917, had this note near its head line: R. B. Wilson, owner, and W. Clark Medford, editor and mana ger. That organization continued only for a few months, for on October 11, 1917, an issue of the same paper now called the Carolina Mountaineer had the name of J. D. Boone, editor and manager. Ac cording to Tom Bridges, The Cour ier had lallen into linancial straights and had been sold at pub lic auction and bought by J. D. Boone for $1,400. Thus the paper had come back home and Mr. Boone was again in charge. For several issues, after Mr. Boone had retaken charge, there seemed to have been a search for a suitable name, appearing suc cessively as The Carolina Moun taineer, Waynesville Courier and Mountaineer, Waynesville Moun- I taineer and Courier, and finally The Waynesville Mountaineer. Dur I ing that hunt for a name, J. D. Boone had become the sole owner. On November 8, 1917, another change in ownership took place. Tobias Larson bought an interest in the shop and became the busi ness manager with J. II. Boone still the editor and proprietor; but on October 17, 1918, Mr. Larson kSa? up the position of business man ager, and Mr. Boone continued to function as editor and owner. Evi dently the paper had become by this time an unprofitable piece of property. Still another change in owner ship took rJlaee in 1924. Mr. Boone sold out, stock and barrel, both paper and print shop, to William A. Band. That was the last trans action in which Mr. Boone was the principal figure. Mr. Band held on until 1930 when he and Mrs. Band sold the plant to Thomas M. Sea well and Wilbur T. Betts. It was then moved, after its travels from pillar to post for a number of years, to its present location. On July 1, 1931, another news paper had come into the running, The Haywood News, no particular reference to the first newspaper, j The Waynesville News of 1884, ex i cept a slight resemblance in name. Itt was printed in West Asheville and circulated in Haywood county, edited and owned by James A. Goode and E. M. Hale. That in cident h. ings to mind another re lated fact that another newspaper had come into existence to com plete tlie picture of newspapers of a similar type, the Haywood Jour nal, a transient experiment, issued from 1922 to 1925 under the man agement of Horace Sentelle. It was financed by a stock company, but in 1925 when the stockholders of fered their stock for sale upon the open market and getting no pur chasers, the plant was closed. The Haywood News continued only for a short time. In Novem ber, 1931, Seawell and Betts leased The Mountaineer and print plant to W. Curtis Kuss and Paul Deaton. About the same time The Waynes ville Mountaineer and the Hay wood News were consolidated un der one management and owner ship, the chief owners being W. Curtis Kuss, Paul Deaton, James A. Goode, and E. M. Hale. Within a few months, Goode and Hale sold their interests to Russ and Deaton. Another change in ownership occurred on July 1, 1932, when Messrs. Russ and Deaton pur chased the plant from Seawell and Betts. Following that in June, 1933, Mr. Deaton sold his interests to Marion T. Bridges, thus form ing the present partnership. Expansion in the way of better equipment for the plant has be come the policy of the present management. In June, 1938, the department of stationery and books was added occupying the front of what was intended for the offices. That venture has steadily grown until it has become necessary for enlarged quarters. It is in process of moving into the building on Main street occupied by the Massie Hardware company for a number of years. The Book Store, a joint ownership of the owners of The Mountaineer and J. C. Galusha. In August, 1939, a large two revolution press was installed, and the size of the weekly was in creased from six to seven columns. A modern linotype machine was also added to replace the one that had been installed by G. C. Briggs 35 years before. Another machine had been added in 1928. In March, 1945, a new Duplex press was in stalled. This press is automatic and prints from large rolls of paper. The Mountaineer was then increased from seven to eight col umns. In January, 1945, the plant suf fered its greatest loss by fire bringing about the destruction of valuable machinery. Recovery, however, was rapid. A new lino type machine was added to take the place of one that was destroyed by fire. With these additions and the present high type installations of machinery, the present owners can claim one of the largest commer cial printing plants in Western North Carolina. The following equipment is now in perfect run- ! I'M YOUNG, BUT I'VE PREPARED FOR THE FUTURE WITH A JEFFERSON STANDARD PROGRESSIVE SPCAL PLAN VC JX.JtrhtlibUN SIANDAkD N A WISE MOVE. THAT PLAN OFFERS YOU FINANCIAL SECURITY BECAUSE IT'S BASED ON SYSTEMATIC SAVINGS WITH A GUARANTEED PROFIT IT'S FULLY PAID UP IN 20 YEARS. f S. E. CONNATSER SPECIAL BE PRESENT ATIVE ROUTE 2 WAYNESVILLE EVERY FORWARD LOOKING YOUNG MAN SHOULD SEE THE JEFFERSON STANDARD AGENT I I TODAY FOR I COMPLETE CETA1SJ nlng order: two automatic presses, three hand-led presses, one large press for printing books and doing color work, a power cutter, a power stitcher, a power drill, and one of the few Elrods in the state, and a power router. The plant manufacturers all the type that is used from the smallest to type an inch high, making new type for every piece of print ing, and for every advertisement and headline. On the walls of the editorial office, are numerous awards that have been won by the newspaper under the present management. These include state awards for general excellence, and community service. The circulation is the largest in the history of Waynes ville newspapers, and the size of the paper is far ahead of any ever published here. The present editor uses more local pictures in an average edition than are used in six months in some newspapers published in towns larger than Waynesville. The announcement last week that The Mountaineer would be come a semi-weekly on May 20th did not come as a surprise to those of us who have watched the steady growth through the past 15 years. On record in the newspaper files in the office of The Moun taineer office, there have been 14 editors of the newspapers that have been sent out from the post office in Waynesville to subscribers in Haywood county. Their names have become a part of the records, as follows: W. S. Hemby, J. P. Her ren, J. D. Boone, Z. V. Rogers, G. C. Briggs, R. B. Wilson, Harry Hall, John W. Norwood, W. C. Med ford, Thomas M. Seawell, Wilbur T. Betts, William A. Band, James A. Goode, and W. Curtis Russ. Ofi the record, there are several other quill-drivers that might be mentioned, but as their names do not make a part of the record, their story must be a part of the untold history. Typesetters, pressmen, linotype operators, job printers, bookkeepers, et cetera, will remain untold. Left Farms Farm people moved to urban areas at a more rapid rate during World War II than at any other time in the history of the United States. 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This is a plea for the people to rent to veterans, to make some small showing of appreciation ot ail the boys went thorugh for them. We did our share don't you think It is time you did yours? A VETERAN. CONGRATULATIONS Editor The Mountaineer: Let me congratulate you and your staff for the progressive step you are taking in becoming a semi weekly. It is with sincere admira tion that we offer you our congrat ulations. 1 am sure that this ven ture will prove successful and that The Mountaineer will even exceed its present excellency. With kindst regards to you and the entire staff, I am Cordially yours, JAMES STORY, The Marshall News-Record. "Soap-Operas" Have Hit Japan WASHINGTON The American army seems determined that Japan too, shall have those pleasant little thinsi that make life worth living in these United States. The latest export from America to Japan, is the "Soap Opera." Beginning May 6th, a serial pro gram called "The Ida Family" will be heard daily over the Japan broadcasting corporation network. The army says it potrays life in postwar Japan, and "it has all the elements of an American daytime serial, including the problems." CALL 588-1 or 239 j For I Careless Handling. Carelessness in handling livestock causes approximately one-fourth of all farm accidents. WANTS EVERY ISSUE Editor Tht Mountaineer: I have read with interest the announcement that The Moun taineer is to be published twice a week. Please be sure to see that I receive each issue of The Moun taineer. Needless for me to say, I am most deeply interested and concerned in all that goes on in the community. I will gladly pay extra to get all the issues. With the best of good wishes and good luck. Yours truly, MRS. S. J. SCHULIIOFER, Richmond, Va. Editor's note: All subscribers will receive both issues each week, and without additional costs to them until their subscription ex pires. 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