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Show Yester Years With The Standard, And In Roosevelt By Arnold Ref First Standard Editor I would like to say something about Roosevelt from August, 1914 to 1920. while I was in charge of the Roosevelt Standard. Stan-dard. The first edition made its appearance ap-pearance the last Thursday in August of that year. It consisted of 6 columns, 8 pages four pages patent and four pages printed here. The first two months' issues consisted of about 18 columns of advertising and 6 columns of reading matter. The equipment of this paper at that time consisted of a Washington Wash-ington Hand press (still in service ser-vice at the Standard as a proof press), one 8x10 inch foot-power Gordon job press, and about 18 fonts of job and display type. I was editor, manager, compositor, com-positor, foreman and devil combined, com-bined, except on press days, when I hired a boy for 25c to ink the forms while I manipulated manipu-lated the (man-killer) Washington Washing-ton Hand Press for about 200 copies every week about , four hours work. The Standard was first issued in. the old J. Leo Hanson building build-ing and was owned by Wm. H. Smart and J. P. May. Early in 1915 the printing plant was incorporated in-corporated under the name of the Roosevelt Standard Co. and in 1916 they purchased the present building at which place they are still doing business. : About 1920 I sold my interest to Mr. Wallace, of Vernal, who later sold to Geo. H. Harrison, who was in charge until about five years ago. Roosevelt, at the time I came here had a population of 300 to 400, but they were all great boosters and live wires. Among them Ed. F. Harmston. R. S. Collett. Wm. H. Smart. John Hardy, Wm. Miles, J. P. Mar-key, Mar-key, C. I. Johnson, O. H. Bracken. Brack-en. C. C. Larsen, Paul S. Hanson, Han-son, ' C. L. and . Rea Ashton, Chas. Shurtleff, A. Birch. El-roy El-roy Wilkins, Homer P. Edwards, Ray E. Dillman, Ross Bartlett, and a number of others. At that time we didn't have any money in the city treasury. We would have clean-up days, and everybody would turn out, or else be fined from $5 to $10. They would pay it and smile. Don't forget, the ladies on those occasions did their big share in helping with the project. Their job was raking and cutting cut-ting weeds in the street until about 3:30 p. m., when they would rush to the amusement hall to cook a fine chicken dinner din-ner with accessories. Boy, what a feast! Everything was donated. I served on the City Council in 1916 and 1917. At one of the elections a bond issue was carried for $12,000, which was as much as we could borrow at that time. The wooden pipe line extended from the reservoir reser-voir down Lagoon street to Main, thence north one block and one block south. Also two blocks south on Broadway. After Af-ter purchasing this stock, the city took the balance of the money to build a cement reservoir reser-voir and extend the water mains in various sections of the town. It is impossible to suggest how many trips the councilmen and mayor made to the western edge of Hancock Cove at our own expense. Ed F. Harmston. as the city engineer, never missed a trip and never failed to dig up his share. The water situation is much better now, but we are not in the clear yet. Let us all hope this new board will be able to 1 give Us something better in the near future. |