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(Continued from page 2) where along the line (exactly where and when is difficult to determine) the paper has acquired: a few gray hairs, several extra wrinkles in the face, a shortly temper, longer hours of work than Were thought possible, plenty of headaches (of varied and sundry aspects), and so many good friends that ail the foregoing named fade into relative unimportance.

If asked how we feel about our first two years of the newspaper in the couhty, we would be in’ clined to answer as a teacher once said about teaching a one-room school: “I wouldn’t take a million dollars for having done it, and I wouldn’t do it again for another million!”

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There is no chance of a printer ever becoming *‘smarty” about his job. He may become an expert in one small part of the process of printing, but he’ll never reach the point where he knows it all. Mr. Willie Compton will verify that statement. Although he has retired with over 50 years of printing, he’ll tell you there is plenty he doesn’t know about the trade.

With Johannes Gutenburg beginning the process of printing with movable type back in the fifteenth century, any printer beginning today has over 400 years to catch up in learning before he really gets started. As if that were not enough, someone has come up with the news now that the Koreans had printing from movable type 47 years before Mr. Gutenburg published his Bible in Germany. It’s surprising the Russians didn’t claim it.

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In celebrating the second birthday, the paper staff is enjoying the’ privilege of an honoree at a birthday party. We’ve stuck ourselves as the center of attention and^lapped up the fuss and party trimmings. We’ve dressed the paper' up in the newest style and “put on the dog!” We know that tomorrow is just another work / day, but today is a. birthday celebration and we’re makiRg th$ most

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On a day in April, 247 years ago a man in Boston printed a little newspaper, called the Boston News-Letter. It was issued once a week. Scholars usually refer to the Boston News-Letter as Hie first newspaper to be published in the later-to-be United States. Something called a newspaper had ' been printed 14 years earlier by Benjamin Harris,)but it was suppressed by the Boston government after the first issue, and it is hard to call anything a newspaper unless it appears at least a few times.

According to Ramon Coffman, who studies these things, the first newspaper in what was later the

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