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Thursday, July 5th, 1945. SUMMER READING Business Directory Harold B. Matchett "THE LITTLE SHOEMAKER®" NEW PARTS.. ACCESSORIES I have just received the largest shipment of New C.C.M. Parts and Accessorâ€" jes that I have had at one time in three years. Come in and have your wants supplied. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, "Honey" Shelton + EsqUIRE Beamsvilio * » Ontarieo AVUCTIONEER & VALUATOR LAicensed Auctioncer fumo-fi of Lincoln; also for the az'd Catharines, Commissioner tak» ing affidawits. Phone 56, Beamsville or Grimeby Independent, Phone 36. his own ago AS A man has reached middle age mnm@uf‘l_!bfld Boston Adventure â€"Jean Stafford A Lion Is In The Streets â€"Adria Locke Langley Young Bess | George 1. Geddes PLUMBING and HEATING Commodore Hornblower Next Door to Dymond‘s Drug Open Wednesday Afternoon Mours 9:00â€"12:00; 1:30â€"5:00 Closed Saturdays At Noon Vernon Tuck J. W. Kennedy 26 Main Street, GRIMSBY (Vision Specialist) HIGGINS OPTOMETRIST PHONE 326 INSURANCE PLUMBER AVUCTIONEER OF CANADA Saturdays 9â€"12 CONTINUATIONS DIAMOND JUBILEE practically naked after midnight, printed in the office of his former and Jim Clarke and 1 especially, child, the Palladium, and the first were pretty well plastered with issue of ‘"The Independent" appearâ€" Jim Livingston‘s perfectly good ed July 15th, 1885. ___ |news ink at about four cents a MW‘.‘“,‘I’.'N‘ (It costs about 16¢ now.) Jas. A. Livingston came from Creeâ€"| During these few months the more to Grimsby to look over the editor had been busy editing, the farm of James Armstrong with a|advertisingâ€"man working hard for view to buying. In his search for business and the subscription man news Meagher encountered the said hustling for dollars â€" all combined Livingston and during their converâ€" in Jas. A.. Livingston. ‘The comâ€" sation the proposition was made | bination seemed congenial to the that the man from the north venâ€"| boss for along in the spring anothâ€" ture into the newspaper and printâ€"\er compositor was put to work, a ing business â€" and incidentally put| Miss Lindsay. A real red letter Livingston and during their converâ€" in Jas. A. livingston. The ©0M§â€" sation the proposition was made | bination seemed congenial to the that the man from the north venâ€"| boss for along in the spring anothâ€" ture into the newspaper and printâ€"|er compositor was put to work, a ing business â€" and incidentally put | Miss Lindsay. A real red letter mmhmmummhMmAu.fl.lul. a plant. mmmâ€"mmmwnmwuum word fits the time and circumâ€"| printers‘ devil. And The Indepenâ€" stances. One J. H. Vivian, in Toâ€"\dent yet went ahead successfully. ronto, who handled mm.unmmmflmm mmmmmm|mu-ndutmewmm nmmd:lm‘luhufibuttmm“ Washington hand press, 1 9x12 reâ€" | to The Independent. Nltlflu-plm-w-!ln-! Up to this time, the spring of case racks, 40 or 50 "fonts" dlnm.ildohun-'udoull medieval type. |one room, about sixteen feet mmmmmgm.mm aggressiveness of in Grimaby came from the press on , Mr. Livingston had put the busiâ€" mmduw.u.uu.um,-mnp-uunmw buildine where the nresent post ofâ€"‘more room and better facilities mmmmmml nmmd:lm‘ Washington hand press, 1 9x12 reâ€" built Eclipse platen press, !}m! medieval type. |one room, about sixteen feet mmmmmgm.mm aggressiveness of in Grimaby came from the press on , Mr. Livingston had put the busiâ€" mmduw.nuu.umi-u.p-uumnmw building where the present post ofâ€"| more room and better facilities fice stands, owned at that time by|were needed. ‘That producer . of the late H. E. Nelies who had the much sweat, and the cause of much ‘nmmmmilwwâ€"mwm mumuuamm‘wmâ€"mwm.m. ing. This building became a double new Country Campbell cylinder living house at the corner of Clarke | press installed. And while The Inâ€" and Pobinson Streets, and was torn | dependent remained in this building mxmmnmnmmmwnm-- wmmmmu‘upmmum Livingston formed their alliance|day night to help. the office contained 1 table (on| In August 15, 1887, Lillie Secor which to write copy and receive|came to ‘The Independent. More subscriptions, and over which to| room being needed, the room above gossip with the public), 1 box stove|the officeâ€"and the same size â€" (a Little Glant which afterwards\ was secured and new racks, new served a dual purpose); 2 chairs|type and the new compositor inâ€" (plain, straightâ€"back kitchen varâ€" stailed there. Shortly afterward lety), 1 fair sized packing box| Aggie Secor, now dead, joined the (half filled with sawdust â€" "Mat"|staff. Will Richardson received a chewed tobacco). tempting offer from Hamilton and out and the money put in by the new partner was invested mainly in the presses and type mentioned in the first list. - Jum.wmm.‘ But one month laterâ€"Nov. 27 â€" "Jas. A. Livingston, Editor and Publisher," followed the usual supâ€" erscription on the "editorial" page. He had bought the Meagherâ€"and meagreâ€"interests, To go back a couple of weeks. Matâ€"Meagher had gone/ to. the streets at three cents the copy. A good story of Trueman might ‘be told. Printers use a mallet and planer to get the type level on the "tm"bymmfll_l_tr.l‘l_ a couple or three of their composiâ€" tors â€"â€"â€" and he got good ones. Will H. Richardson who died in New York City, in 1921; E. H. (Teddy) Flynn, a little curlyâ€"headed "swift" (he was a fast compositor) ; and the Flynn died in Hamilton many years ago, but I have lost track of Tom Costello. Printers in those days had as a rule "iItchy feet." They travelled and learned. Tom left the paper early and Teddy soon folâ€" lowed. During this time "Bob" King, Marilia King and Trueman York did a bustling business each it was moved across the "form," with the mallet. One evening as Richardson had finished planing the form, Truman said, "I know what you do that for," and on being askâ€" ed why said it was "to find out must have been and still must be some terrible "planers" to judge by the mistakes in most papers. Along in the Christmas holidays W. H. (Billy) McConnell, took a notion that he would take an offerâ€" ed job as apprentice in the office, but he did not stay long as apprenâ€" tice, though he still continued to help out on Thursday (and someâ€" times it was all night on Friday night) inking the forms while Will Richardson worked the press and they were both stremnuous jobs. In a burst of speed as many as seven papers a minute have been turned out, but the average was about one hundred an bour. During this proâ€" cess J. H. (Jim) Clarke, (killed at Medicine Hat, Alberta, June 30, 1902) and yours, etc., folded the papers. ‘This is where the Little Giant box stove served the dual purpose, ‘The ink at times was so heavy that to handle the papers was but to make a blur of the whole sheet so Jim and I and someâ€" times subscribers waiting for their papers, would hold them near the stove to force the sticky ink into the paper, Three men I can rememâ€" ber as having helped out this way were E. J. Palmer, Capt. W. W. Kidd and the Rev. R. R. Maitiand, but they were not the only ones. ‘More than once in the summer of 1886 when the papers were off the press at three or four o‘clock on ‘mm (they should ‘nvohnut ‘Thursday night) ‘wm. Billy, Jim and T have taken ‘luhol.ludd.u..y (great stuff that old soap) from the office and gone to Lake Onta=®‘> to "scrub" the ink off. The night had prob= ably been hot and the stove did not improve it any, so we were all From Page One room being needed, the room above the officeâ€"and the same size â€" was secured and new racks, new type and the new compositor inâ€" stailed there. Shortly afterward Aggic Secor, now dead, joined the his place. He occupled as much space and drew about the same moneyâ€"but his ways were not our ways. And Joe departed along with several other things among which were several books of mine and Lord knows what from the office. Will Richardson was induced to come back and the Livingston end of the business breathed easier and worked harder on the outside. And here it might be interesting to tell you that Jas. A. Livingston had learned toâ€"set type and feed the ””â€"Mum&h He had other work to do and did it so that the result was more room needed, therefore a new office was building at present occupled by Rushton‘s Restaurant, and in the fall of 1888 the plant was moved and a special edition published to celebrate the fact. ‘The business end at the start is as interesting. The local advertisâ€" ers were mighty few. They figured that so much trade would go out of town anyway and they would get only so much, that advertising was money wasted. ‘They needed eduâ€" cation, but they were poor scholars. Among the regular advertisers the }beduum R. A. Alexander, M.D.; D. Black, a blacksmith; F. Hansel, dentist; E. A. Lancaster, barrister. McClure & Hearl were a comparatively new concern hayâ€" ing a general store in the old Redan and they came in frequentâ€" ly; C. H. Mills, with E. J. Palmer, was inclined to be progressive and an occasional ad was put in; Wilâ€" lam Fitch frequently ran locals, and once in a while William Forbes would unbend to the extent of a threeâ€"inch ad. Catharines advertisers â€" and have were inadvertently destroyed sevâ€" eral years ago, so this is practically all written from memory, except such dope as I can dig up in the usual newspaper way, so I can not tell many of the Hamilton and St. Among the first subscribers to The Independent (in the village) were Dr. Alexander, Hugh H. Anâ€" Black, Charles Bates, Andrew J. Christic, W. F. Clarke, Charles Dowser, James Doran, William Forbes, John F. Foster, Alfred Fraâ€" leigh, J. C. Furrell, the Rev. James Goodwin, John H. Grout, F. Hansel, ‘Thomas Henderson, G. M. Hill, George Hughes, John Hand, John Johnson, Thomas Joimson. C. W. Kitchen, James 8. Kemp, Dymoke Kerman, E. A. Lancaster, E. E. Looseley, Richard Lipsitt, Henry Milgate, the Rev. J. G. Murray, John B. Moore, 8. E. Mabey, E. M. Mihell, the Rev. R. R. Maitland, James McDougal!, W. H. McClure, H. E. Nelles, B. R. Nelles, E. J. Palmer, Daniel Poole, George Pearâ€" son, the Rev. Dr. T. noamm,‘ Andrew B. Randall, George Rusâ€" sell, Thomas Rome, James Smith, N. J. Teater, Eugene Udell, John VanDyke & Sons, Isaac B. Walker, Charles Woolverton. These were selected from memory from an dpllluwlhtdx:\mudrd- dents in Grimaby Village, in 1885. There were many more in the THE GRIMSBY INDEPENDFNT DLS8., D. township and surrounding country staff consisted of sixteen and 5,000 but I have no list available. square feet of space proved none m”mm-umomueh.n-mmm!w doing well too. It is amusing to yn, Independent business, like see some of the old style work thousands of other newspapers and turned out those days, but we other businesses lost business heayâ€" thought it great then. And every y, ‘The biâ€"weekly publication was mvldloptu-nyuu-mm"..nynmw.nd ments and so on into each job 8§ the monthly early in 1918. As the ent (and it was printed in jamâ€" llton) for the Village was thetax notices for 1885, the villMg®counâ€" ell for MMJII-A-“M'" paid in January, 1886, $230 for baiâ€" lots for the election; &D ayain at the March meeting J88.a, Livingâ€" ston was paid an ACCOUY¢ of $4.25 for printing. For 80M® sars preâ€" vious to 1886 the village printing had been done by the gt, Cathâ€" arines News, but with thespirit of "support home industry"the work was turned over to Thepngependâ€" ent, and on Aug. 6, of tha year, an account for $16.50 Was Biq Jas. A. Livingston. This 80C0U+ was in three items, $12.00 for PThting votâ€" ers ‘list, $1.50 each fOf sqyertising court of revision and ing of the voters‘ list. And t year the printing has been dontp Grimâ€" sby, When the plant WB moved to the new home further arrangeâ€" ments were made fof advance. Both of the Secor @irl#haq been married and Emily Fisher(Mra, D. E. Swayze) started, AD a short time later Annie Sturch.xrs, Wilâ€" lNam James, of Edam, Saskatcheâ€" wan) came in. When th: ratter left to get married, Berthi Hewson (Mrs. White,) started AM: then Vioâ€" let Norton (Mrs. GordoBycBride). Maud Land (Mrs. D. Jâ€"wright, of Preston), Iva Gilmore (Mrs. B. ‘Maulton, of Tillsonburg), Alice MacMilian, (Mrs. M. Hilts, Grimâ€" man, Edna McNinch, Viola Bierd, Melissa Hilts, Jessic Shiton and others all came in the wder named either as increases tothe staff or to take the place Of one who had gone to get married, Of as Miss Bierd and Miss McNinch why went to Bellevue hospital, in New York, to train for nurses. Shortly after movingto the new office business had become so pressing that Will Riclardson was taken into the front Ofice to look after business while Mr Livingston was on outside busines, Harry M. Obermeyer came to tale his place. H. M. was up to his death, 1921, and after him Fummel. In 1892 I took a nothn to see the World‘s Fair at Chicago.In 1896 1 came back as foremanand Phillips was in the front offte. In April 18908 I got asked oitâ€"in other words fired, and have vorked only ‘l‘oflu-ontodhum-n I can not speak from my own knowledge of the busimss. In 1906 I happened to be with the paper for awhile and business had grown to such an extent at tiit time that there were five girlssetting type for the papers, Oswin Hummel, Geo. Phillips and Hary Garr (the latter now a superinkndent with Appleford Counter Chek Book Co., of Hamilton, and Gerge Phillips in the same establisiment), were on ads, job work andpress work, and a lot of new muchinery was installed. When the fist move had been made the press was run by a steam engine which lad been reâ€" placed with a gas engne. In that A. Livingston himself, ind the building put up less than twenty mmwmfflm any increase, the mos optimistic had dreamed of, was becoming cramped. After the istalation of ‘.-'w.“mfll 1907, I went to New Yrk and did not see the inside of ‘D¢ Independâ€" ,...-.-mw-.mu (it is still in service) while two new presses were also ercted and connected up for power. ‘The front office also had ncreasâ€" ed along with the rest of te busiâ€" ness, there being three beslles Jas. press (the best flat bed pras built) had replaced the Campbellit havâ€" ing been erected and startecto run on Dec. 2, 1908. By 1909 the office had become so cramped that it beâ€" came necessary to get a Mergentâ€" haler Linotype which was set up on May 28, 1909. For three months previous, J. Orion Livingston, Vioâ€" let Norton and Jean McMillan (two compositors) had been at the Merâ€" genthaler factory school in Torâ€" onto, the first named to learn the intricactes of the machine and the two girls to learn operating. The typesetting machine and the faster better press relieved the tension for a few years. But in less than half a decade businesss had outâ€" grown room again, and Mr, LAv» ingston purchased in December, 1913, from the Hallâ€"Zryd Foundry Co., the old Grout foundry building and started to remodel it. .In June, 1914, the plant was transâ€" ferred to the present building, the business handling four publications â€"two weeklies, one biâ€"monthly and one monthly, the monthly someâ€" times running as high as ninetyâ€"six mnluodm'uld'-nm- mmm‘oflmm Mr. for staff was reduced by one circumâ€" stance or another it was a blessing to the business as it would have been impossible to have carried them all. When the Armistice was signed there were five on the staff. It took some spirit to carry on the last year and half of the war, but pmeuali /: ns wlb n ie‘ 707 through various vicissitudes and against the machinations of some of narrow minds the Livingstons hung on. When the new building was enâ€" tered another Michle preas ,another doubleâ€"decker Mergenthaler Linoâ€" mmmm-uâ€"t- erial was added, and as above statâ€" ed, the staff consisted of sixteen m.mmw--u-m. ine was running to capacity. Four years later, one cylinder press stood absolutely idie, and had so stood for months, some of the imposing stones had not had a form on them since no one knew when, and unâ€" used cases of type were accumulatâ€" ing dust. This condition maintained until after the New Year of 1919, when The Independent started to come back. ‘The two Livingston sons, J. Orâ€" lon and J. A. M. were admitted to partnership and the firm name beâ€" came Jas. A. Livingston & Sons, with J. A. M. as business manager and J. Orion as editor. That was a little over two years ago. And a list of the present machinery and staff will tell in a few words what that "come back" was. It is just thirtyâ€" six years since the first paper was printed in Grimsby and you have been told the extent of the room and plant. I mention that to show the rise, the near fall during the there are fourteen people in the building: there are two Michle Gordon platen presses (any one of the four capable or a speed up to 2,500 per hour) ; 36 inch power papâ€" er cutter; power folder; power stitâ€" cher (for binding books); 24â€"inch perforating . machine, merantile addressing machine doing away with pasted labels; (the perforatar installed last week, and the addresâ€" sing machine not yet erected); two 3â€"h.p. electric motors; and a scrap paper bailing pressâ€"these all in the press room. Two Mergenthaler Linotypes (one a double magazine) ; Le Clede saw and trimmer for cut~ ting Linotype slugs to any desired inch; 204 square feet of stones (marble slabs for placing the type A striking example of the effectiveness of a machine, in helping farmers operate successfully under difficult conditions, is found in the Oneâ€"Way Disc. Introduced during the drought spell and period of low priees for farm products, it helped farmers cut down their production costs, thereby leaving them more margin for profit. It is little wonder then that the One: Way Disc Seeder speedily became one of the most popular machines on the market. Preparing the soil and sowing the seed in one operation, the Oneâ€"Way Disc Seeder saves time and expense. Used as a tillage machine it destroys "Oneâ€"Way*" Farming for Profit stitcher, another forms on) â€" exclusive of many square feet of zinc covered tables; MR ME s 9m over 200 different fonts ~of type; and thousands of pounds of good metal for the Linotype machines (all old metal is sent back to the metal "doctors" when from 500 to 1,000 pounds accumulates) â€"â€"â€" this is the composing room. In connecâ€" tion with the two Linvoype maâ€" chines and the sawâ€"trimmer are three motors directly attached. A‘ perfect wonder in a new No. 8 mmwumuw der. This machine has two magaâ€" zines of the ordinary style and a third one that is called a split magazine. ‘The igwer half can be lifted off in a few seconds and anâ€" other one with different type put in place. ‘There are six of the auxâ€" uhrymuflul'nlm-ullu. giving in all nine different sizes of typovlth_olmnldmenuum 1,000 pounds accumulates) â€"â€" this paper from Mr. Taylor. is the composing room. In connecâ€" in 1938 Rome L. Taylor (no relaâ€" tion with the two Linvoype ma» | tion of W. J.) came to Grimsby and chines and the sawâ€"trimmer mmmmul.hd. In three motors directly attached. Au.mcuuh‘.u'dd. perfect wonder in a new No. numumw tripleâ€"deck Linotype is now on orâ€" dm-fiowflb der. ‘This machine has two magaâ€" iness outright in 1940. zines of the ordinary style and a In October of 1942 Mr. Glenâ€" third one that is called a split dinning joined the R.C.A.F. and J. magazine. mwmmumummw lifted off in a few seconds and anâ€" from the army, came in as Editor uhumfludfimtwmmmmml.u-â€" in place. ‘There are six of the auxâ€" Wmun-mur.a- illary magazines with the machine, dinning until February of 1943, giving in all nine different sizes of when Mr. W. D. Glendinning, fathâ€" type with cighteen different faces er of Robert, took over the business or styles of type. ‘The sizes of the and formed a joint stock company type range from oneâ€"twelfth of an| known as Grimsby Independent inch to oneâ€"half inch, and they can Publishing Limited. Messrs. Livâ€" hpmdilmln‘thupto'wmuvuIWnl five inches. In the business office| the operating heads. there are three rollâ€"top desks; two On October 1st, 1944, Livingston typewriters; and a telephone No.| and Lawson formed a partnership ‘&hmdwfldmnnmmwm paper, plant md-&.(ourdb«opndtwolwmfmmm.m flat); two type writers and another| thus ‘The Independent again came telephone No. 23. And I might add | into the Livingston family. three large wastepaper baskets.| Great advancement has been But good news is welcomed to the| made by The Independent in the desk and will be treated as newsâ€"| past three score years, just the In January of 1922 the old origâ€" inal linotype was scrapped and in its place was installed a new Model 14 machine, a triple deck affair with several interchangeable magaâ€" zines. This machine was one of the most improved machines of the day and gave the production end of the plant a great impetus. Every year up until 1925 new machinery thus keeping the plant up to a high standard for the production of all kinds of job and newspaper work. In 1926 the late W. J. Taylor, publisher of the Woodstock Senâ€" tinelâ€"Review conceived the idea of weekly papers on the chain store plan and in October of that year the Livingston family and placed Try Our Rooting Department For Prompt Service â€" Free Estimates J.M. AND BRANTFORD ROOFING ASBESTOS SHINGLE SIDING SHAFER BROS. weeds and leaves the land in a condition to resist soil drifting. In effect the One: Way Disc offers the usefulness of two machines at little more cost than the price of one. In design and construction the Masseyâ€"Harris Oneâ€"Way Disc offers special advantages that appeal to users. The sturdy frame construction, long wear replaceable bearings, patented stone jumper, easily adjusted direct draft hitch, and quick action power lift are features that contribute to the popus larity of the Masszyâ€"Harar1s. Your local dealer will be glad to give you full particulars. "Bullders Of Good Homes" L. E. Tobey in charge. Mr. TOMN remained at the heim for about 18 months and was replaced by H. G. | 122 00 ce lb cqrentatcnligs. 400 3 Mogg, who was manager and editor up till the time that Clive 8. Bean came to Grimaby from Waterico in same as has occurred in the disâ€" trict. As soon as the Jap war is over and Canada gets back to peace time levels, greater developâ€" ments are going to take place in Grimsby and the district, and as uqm.ovlll'nohl..- dent develop. Our plans call for big expansion as soon as things \mm TOWN PURCHASES plete will be in the nefghbourhood of $2,400. It will be some time yet before this new vehicle will be ready for delivery. Just what disposition will be made of the town team has not been determined, they may posâ€" sibly be kept and used until Spring when the horse market will be considerably higher than it will be late this Autumn. Evenings Phone 488 or 551 1928, and purchased the