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We mortgaged the house and bought the Seottsville Sun,” Miss Bowie explained. “We bought everything, the linotype, the press, the name of the paper. It had been flooded once too often. The linotype had been in water up to the magazine. You see Seottsville floods everytime anybody spits in the creek down there,” she said.
“We hauled it by truck to Rappahannock, and we took every piece of every bit of the machinery apart piece by piece and cleaned it, and put it back together,” she said. “The brass on that old press, it was so shiney,” she bragged.
There was one linotype, 30,000 pieces, and a Chandler and Price “clap-trap” press. They fed the sheets of paper into the press and it was printed one sheet at a time, one side at a time. Once the sheets had been printed on both sides, they were collated and folded. Later they bought a press with an automatic feeding mechanism. To do that they had to go into debt again.
“One day I walked into the shop and said, ‘Bruce, don’t you think that press is running better? It’s got a better sound to it.’ We knew each other too well,” she said. “He asked, ‘Did you make the last payment on
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