The North Mississippi herald., November 12, 1920, Page 5, Image 5

About The North Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929

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| WE ARE STILL SELLING THE VERY BEST PATTENT FLOUR AS ADVERTISED. TVERY BARREL GUARANTEED, SALE PRICE ONLY $10.95 PER BBL.
; “He ill to" The Oakland Mercantile Company Oakland. Hiss.
HARDING ROSE FROM FARM TO
PRESIDENCY VIA FOURTH ESTATE
Typically American Career of Strugglng Youth—Then Pros
perity—Dabbled Early in Printer’s Ink
Warren Gamaliel Harding was e
leeted president of the United States
on his fifty-fifth birthday. In him
the nation will have once more a chief
executive whose career can be de
scribed as “typically American.”
The story of his struggling boyhood,!
of his days on the farm and at the
printer’s case, of his fight for the
life of a country newspaper, of his
ultimate business and political suc
cess has often been told, but it is the
sort of story that always bears re
telling.
He was born on Nov. 2, 1805—six
months after the close of the Civil
War—on his grandfather’s farm,
where his father then lived, outside
the village of Blooming Grove, Mor
row County, Ohio. He was the old
est of eight children. The father,
Dr. George A. Harding, a village phy
sician. came of Scotch ancestors, who
settled in Connecticut and then mov
ed on to Wyoming Valley, Pa. The
mother, Phoebe Dickerson, came
fr m a Holland Dutch family, the
Van Kirks.
Dr. Harding had lived in a two
room log house he had built with his
own hands in pioneer days. He had
little means and to piece out his in
come as a physician farmed it on a
small scale. So young Warren was
etly a farm boy. Woodland
_all around him. I'.ittle by little
the clearing of it enlarged the area of
the farm land. Every child did his
share. Warren Harding learned to
fell trees, chop wood, split rails, plant
and hoe corn. In the winter he had
hi chores to do before and after
-chool. He grew up big and strong
(f body and sunny of disposition.
From College to Printer’s Case
At the age of 14 he entered Ohio
Central College—really of academy
grade—at Iberia. At intervals he
stopped in order to earn money to go
on, and all his vacations were devot
ed to earning money. He cut corn,
painted a barn, drove a team for a
gang grading the roadbed of the To
ledo & Ohio Central Railway and
taught a district school. One sum
mer he raised 18 bushels of wheat on
half an acre of ground which his
father gave him. He played a slide
trombone in the Iberia brass band,
but that was a labor of love.
But, most important of all to him,
he learned to set type in a tiny print
ing office and came under the spell of
printer’s ink. He still carries as his
luck piece the printer's rule he used
when sticking type. As editor of
file college paper he showed aptitude
for journalism. When he was 19
years old his family removed to
Marion, in the adjoining county.
There he got a job in the office of a
-mall Democratic weekly, the Marion
Mirror, lust before this he had been
reading law, selling insurance and
teaching school. But from the
moment he went to Marion he was de
termined to be a newspaper man.
For the owner of the Mirror he did
everything from scrubbing out the
office and setting type to writing edi
torials and hustling advertisements
and subscriptions.
Although the paper was Democrat
ic his Republicanism was unflinching.
The embarrassment of this situation
became acute when he not only join
ed the Blaine Club, but insisted on
wealing a Blaine hat to work. It has
often been said that Harding was
fired for this, but that is not true.
He was too valuable to his employer.
Net only did he know the mechanics
of trade, but he had a pleasant way
of writing pieces about births, wed
dings and other local events that
pleased the public and made friends
for the Mirror.
There was a little daily called the
Star which had been started by a
former peanut vendor. It went un
der the sheriff’s hammer. Harding's
employer, owner of the Democratic
Minor, had advised the owner of the
other Democratic paper, the Inde
pendent, to buy the Star and junk it.
else it might arise to plague the In
dependent. This the owner of the
Independent refused to do. Nettled
bv the rejection of his advice, the
owner of the Mirror called in Hard
ing and told him to go over lot.
loud'-cu-e and buv the Sfar.
“I’- e nothing to bu t with.” said
ilard'ng.
“You gp over and do what I tell
you and it will work out all right,"
said the boss.
Buying the Marion “Star”
On the following day, Nov. 26,
1884, this announcement appeared in
the Star;
“The Star Publishing Company.” '
The company consisted of Warren
Ifard'ng and his chum, Jack Warwick.
Thus began Hardings career as a
publisher. For several years he liv
ed a slave’s life. First the property
hrd to be paid for. Harding iansack
ed Marion f r news and advertise
ments. When his writing was done
he helped his partner set the tvpe.
make up the paper, turned or fed the
creaky little press and got the carr'er
boys out. When this was finished the
partners turned to and distributed the
type for they had barelv enough f
it for one day’s paper and had to ha\ e
it ready for the next day.
The Star when Harding took it wa
an insignificant little sheet in a on
ty seat of 4 000 populaF n To r.-. 1 e
matters worse—apparent y—Hard •
ing changed its politics from inde
pendent to Republican, though the
community was strongly Democratic. ,
Day by day the people of Marion pre-1
dieted early death for the Star, but it
continued to twinkle along, despite
attacks on it and its editor by the In
dependent, which at last began to
feel the touch of business competi
tion.
Warren Harding smiles now over
the struggle of those days, but the
fact is that for a long time after he
bought the Star he was never sure
he was confident, but 'never sure—
that the next morning would not find
him on the rocks and pounding to
pieces. He sold insurance on the
side, resorted to all sorts of expedi
ents to-'meet the Saturday night pay
roll, worked all day and figured all
night—and in the midst of his trou
bles decided that the paper must have
a telephone in order to keep abreast
of the times. His partner balked at
this. Harding bought his partner.
out and put him on the pay roll, thus
reducing the sum he himself was en
titled to draw for his services.
The paper could not modernize its
ramshackle equipment because the
purchase price, secured by a mort
gage, had to be paid in six months j
from the time of the sheriff’s auction. 1
At one stage the forms which held the
type of the Star were kept tight oy
plugs made of burned matches. There
was also an aftrnoon in which Hard
ing met the editor of the bitter at
tacking Marion Independent on the
street and, shaking his fist under the
editor’s nose, said:
“I’m going to mop up the street
with you if you don’t stop lying a
bout me, and then I'll go over and
mop up your office with what re- j
mains.
The provocation must have been
pretty fierce, for Harding has always
won his way by conciliation, not al
tercation.
Win* Town’* Good Will
With his energy and courtesy1
Harding won the good will of Marion j
for the Star. For his part, Harding
devoted himself to booming the town.
He made good friends among the
business men. They turned adver
tising his way. And so, at last, and
thanks not a little to Mrs. Harding,
who went with her husband to the
office and worked at his side, the Star
“arrived,” and its editor became a
power in the community. Mrs.
Harding’s father was Amos Kling, a
leading business man of Marion. He
strongly opposed her marriage to
Harding, which took place in 1891.
The Star had not yet come into its
own, and Kling underestimated the
proprietor.
Mrs. Harding joined the workers
in the newspaper office. She did no
writing, but took up the management
of the circulation and the newsboys.
Literally she saved the pennies, tak
ing them home from day to day until
the collection was brge enough to bo
banked. Mr. Warwick, in his sketch
of his former partner, says:
“I have seen WT. G. marching down
to the bank with a ga'lon of pennies 1
in either hand. I was always curious
to know how many penn'es made a
g lion, but ne1 or found out.”
°enator Harding invariably at*rih
u c most of his success to his who
- 1 her constant attention to hu
details while the newspaper w
;tl e-:r. ■ its footh id.
Po' t s.
• b: h’v TTard'ng’s abH’t” to talk
on his feel is responsib e fo- hi e
trance into politics. At school he w s
a pride declaimer. In Marion he
early attended every meeting of the
Republican county committee. He
made his first political speech in the
early nineties in the hamlet of Mar
tel, near Marion.
A Good Cough Medicine For Children
Mrs. J. VV. Philips, Redon, Ga.
phoned to J. M. Floyd, the merchant
there, for a bottle of Chambenain’s
Cough Remedy and said she had
bought a bottle of it at his store re
cently and that it was doing her ch 1
dren so n.uoh good that she wanted
to keep up the treatment. You wi.l
find nothing better for coughs and
colds in children or for yourself. It
keeps tthe cough loose, expectorati rn
easy and soon frees the system fro 1
the cold.
BUY “DIAMOND DYES"
DON’T RISK MATERIAL
F>,.]i package of “Diamond Dyes” con
tn.; directions so simple that any
ven mi can dye any material without
streaking, fading or'mnning Druggist
has coiur card—lake no ottnu dyed
Everybody’s friend—Dr. Thomas’
Eclectic Oil, the great household
remedy for toothache, earache, sore
throat, cuts, bruises, scalds. Sold at
all drug stores. 30c and 60c.
BOARD PROCEEDINGS
(Continued from page eight)
On all property in Separate Dis
trict No. 3, 10 mills
On all property in Road District
No. 4, 3 mills
On all property in Separate Road
District No. 5, 3 mills
On all property in Sylva Rona Con
solidated School District, 5 mills
On a 1 property in Jeff Davis Con
solidated School District, 5 mills
On all property in O’tucolofa Con
solidated School District, 5 mills
On all property in Camp Ground
Consolidated School District, 5 mills
On all property in the Enid Cons.li
dated School District, G mills
On all property in the Scobey Con
so’idated School District, 6 mills
On all property in the Tillatoba
Consolidated School District, 4 mills
On all property in the Bryant Con
solidated Seh nl District, 2% m l's
On al’ taxable property in said
County for maintenance bridges, 3
mills
On all taxable property in said
County for Advalorem Roads, 3 mills
On all taxable property in Jeff
Davis Consolidated School District
for payment of interest and retire
ment of Bonds, 2 mill*
On all taxable property in O’tuco
lofa Consolidated School District for
payment of interest and retirement
of Bonds, 2 mills
On all taxable property in Sylva
Rena Consolidated School District
for payment of interest and retire
ment of Bonds, 2 mills
On all taxable property in Camp
Ground Consolidated School District
for the payment of interest and re
tirement of Bonds, 2 mills
Ordered that special levy of Adva
orem taxes on property in the Rlam
School District be and the same is
hereby abated and discontinued.
Petition of H. A. Jones et al asking
fra change in the Vanns Mill road,
committee reports favorably if the
petitioners furnish a right of way fr *e
of cost to the County.
It is hereby ordered that the fol
lowing officers and members be and
are hereby allowed the amount op
posite their respective name*:
L. T. Wisdom, beat 1_$21.30
J. G. Fly, beat 2.22.30
Eugene Tarver, beat 3_22.30
Geo. T. Lyon, beat 4_ 15.80
J. L. Harrison, beat 5_21.60
Cilman Woods, Att’y_50.00
D. E. Parks, Clerk. 9.00
W. N. Frost, Sheriff_ 6.00
There being no further business it
is ordered that the Board do now ad
journ.
This the 4th day of November 1920
D. E. PARKS, Clerk
By J. E. SIMMONS, D. C.
L. T. WISDOM.
Acting pro-tem, president of Board
This Mean* You.
When you get up with a bad taste
in your mouth, a dull tired feeling,
no relish for food and are constantly
constipated, you may know that you
need a dose of Chamberlain’s Tablets.
They not only cause an agreeable
movement of the bowels, but cleanse
and invigorate the stomach and im
prove the digestion.
No wondei' 4he
man c i' i o c ^ U. 4
t SWELLED with pride,
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THE FAT man next to me.
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WAS READING one.
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PRAISED THAT *4.
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SO I had to eik.
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IF HE liked It.
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AND HE said.
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AND LAUGHED some more.
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THEN HE said.
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“LOOK HERE" and pointed.
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AND WHERE I d written.
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"PURE TOBACCO.'*
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THE PRINTER had eet
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"PURE TABASCO"
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AND THAT'S why the tea*.
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“FORGET THE ada
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
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ABOUT THAT cigarette.
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THEY SATISFY"
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SOMETHING NEWI
YOU can blame it an the prim—ir if you —1
it* “They Satisfy” in a Chesterfield adver
tisement. Hut be sure of this—you’ll And it
in the cigarette, every time. Wonderful Turk*
ish and Domestic tobaccos, wonderfully blended
—it sounds easy. But you'll find nothing else
like Chesterfields. That bland can’t ba copied.