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COMPLETE LIST OF SOLDIERS, WITH THE REGIMENTS TO WHICH THEY WERE ATTACHED.
The following is believed to be as full and accurate a statement of the names of all the soldiers from Douglas engaged in the war of the Rebellion, with their rank and the army division in which
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they were enrolled, as can be obtained after the most diligent search and inquiry :
SECOND MASS. VOLS.
Lebright Brown, John B. Johnson, John Richards, Thomas Take, Thomas Wolf.
FOURTH MASS. VOLS. John Shriver.
ELEVENTH MASS. VOLS.
Horace Belding, Lorin R. Chase, Philip Gannon, J. Francis W. Thompson.
FIFTEENTH MASS. VOLS.
Edwin F. Andrews,
Rufus Belden, Corp.,
Kennedy Bronock,
Franklin Bullard, Corp.,
Benjamin R. Elliott,
Harlan Fairbanks, Corp.,
Sylvester Oakes, Nathaniel Putnam,
Adoniram J. Rawson,
Samuel Sibley, Harvey Sibley, Thomas Snow, Jr.,
Thomas A. Southwick, Hiram Ward.
EIGHTEENTH MASS. VOLS. Alexander Thompson.
TWENTY-SECOND MASS. VOLS. Alfred H. Marsh.
TWENTY-FOURTH MASS. VOLS. John Blake.
TWENTY-FIFTH MASS. VOLS. Joseph Albee, Orrin J. Aldrich, John Allen, William De Forest Balcome, Musician,
Benjamin Bartlett, James O. Bartlett, Nathan S. Bartlett, Elbridge Buxton, Glory Busch, Orlando Carpenter, Samuel A. Cragin, Joshua Dubuque, Cornelius Emmons, Band, George A. Gleason,
Stephen Hall, George Hall,
Samuel Hall,
John Hall, Renssalaer G. Hamilton,
Benajah Hodge,
Allen R. Hough,
Henry C. Lampson,
George Leach, Joseph Lemay,
Jeremiah E. Luther, Corp., Thomas Magee,
Timothy Megary,
Aaron Metcalf,
Marshall Purinton,
Nathaniel Putnam,
Lambert B. Simmons,
Hiram Staples, Amos Steere, Band, Francis A. Stockwell, Joseph Teabault, Charles C. Wall, William Wood. TWENTY-SEVENTH MASS. VOLS. Dr. Franklin Hunt, Assistant Surgeon, William Mayer, Lewis Satro.
TWENTY-EIGHTH MASS. VOLS.
Thomas J. Calden, Band, Enoch Converse, Band, Noah H. Jones, Band, Edward L. Thayer, Band, Bennett W. Thomas, Band.
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THIRTIETH MASS. VOLS. John Perry.
THIRTY-THIRD MASS. VOLS. James Ward.
THIRTY-SIXTH MASS. VOLS.
Daniel A. Burton, Sergt., Patrick Callahan, Leonard A. Chapman, Elias H. Freeman, Matthew Hudson, William Mowry.
FIFTY-FIRST MASS. VOLS.
Leander Andrews,
Nelson Angell,
Joseph T. Arnold,
Charles T. Balcome, Elmer H. Balcome, Wellington Balcome, Solomon V. R. Barnes, Lemuel C. Belding, John Bird, Philetus Buffum, Loami B. Carr, John Collar, John Donaldson, George E. Dunn, John N. Gaskell, Gilbert Gillson, Leonard G. Higgins, Corp., Moses W. Hollis, Joseph Hough, Josiah Hough, Jr.,
Loren M. Howell, William Hunt, Capt., George F. Hutchins, Band, William N. Jones, Oscar Keith, Benjamin Knapp, Corp., Alphonso Luther, Sergt., Francis A. Maynard, Corp., Charles W. Moore, 2d Lieut., Francis L. Moore, Lewis T. Moore, Sergt., Naham Morse,
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Ezekiel Packard, 1st Lieut., Peter Roberts, Charles F. Russell, Jeremiah F. Russell, Alfred Snow, Ira Southwick, Willis W. Sherman, Simeon H. Staples,
Lucius M. Thayer, Capt.,
Elijah Thompson, David L. Thomas,
Chandler Titus, Hiram Ward,
Charles Whitney, Lucius S. Whipple,
Charles A. Whipple,
Wilbour A. Wilcox,
William H. Wilcox,
James Woodard, Dorris B. Young.
FIFTY-SEVENTH MASS. VOLS.
David B. Curtis, John N. Gaskell, Henry Glover, Abner A. Lealand, Lewis Mountain.
FIFTY-EIGHTH MASS. VOLS.
George A. Stone.
FIRST MASS. CAVALRY.
John D. Darling, Noah M. Knight, William N. Sprague, Charles C. Walls, John Kelly.
THIRD MASS. CAVALRY. Herbert R. Bragg.
FOURTH MASS. CAVALRY.
William Brown, James Clark, John McGratlı, Noalı M. Knight .*
*Transferred from First Mass. Cavalry.
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FIRST MASS. HEAVY ARTILLERY. Stephen Martyr, Alexander Miken, Andrew Peter.
SECOND MASS. HEAVY ARTILLERY.
Joseph Bygoine, Charles Bouer, Thomas Fitzgerald, William L. Church, John Hartwell, Miletus Luther, James Clarke, Corp., John Manning, Alfred Snow, Joseph Quinn.
SIXTEENTH (UNATTACHED) HEAVY ARTILLERY.
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Thomas W. Nelson, Byron Richardson, Osborn Richardson.
FIRST R. I. VOLS. George R. Buffum.
SECOND R. I. VOLS.
Leonard C. Belding, Charles W. Stearns.
FOURTH R. I. VOLS.
Sabine Angell, Windsor Ballou, William W. Caswell, Simeon Smith.
SEVENTH R. I. VOLS. Elisha E. Thompson, Corp.
FIRST R. I. CAVALRY.
George Aldrich, Simeon A. Brown, Sylvester Chase, H. C. Fitts, Capt., Chas. E. Gould, Albert A. Greene, Munroe W. Ide, M. Leach, James Lee,
Charles H. Legg, M. M. Luther, William Lyon, Alfred P. Palmer, George Snow, Leander Thompson, Albert J. Watkins, Ira Wakefield, Thomas J. Wood.
THIRD R. I. CAVALRY.
Chas. A. Andrews, Quar. Sergt., Edwin F.Andrews, Com. Sergt.,
W. D. Balcome,
Samuel Cragin,
Henry C. Fitts, Capt.,
Daniel E. Gould,
Eugene H. Gould,
Joseph Hough,
Nelson Jepherson, Farrier,
Thomas Magee, Corp.,
Myron Simpson,
Bennett W. Thomas,
Wm. H. Wilcox.
SEVENTH R. I. CAVALRY.
W. De Forest Balcome, Henry C. Fitts, Musician, Hezekiah Knight.
THIRD R. I. HEAVY ARTILLERY.
Peter Balcome, Cyrus Jepherson, George Jepherson, James Jepherson.
THIRTEENTH CONN. VOLS. Newell J. Lee, Sergt.
EIGHTEENTH CONN. VOLS.
Walter Ward.
TWENTY-SIXTH CONN. VOLS.
Myron Starrett.
ENGINEER CORPS U. S. ARMY. Francis S. Phillips, Napoleon Ritchie.
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FOURTH VERMONT VOLS.
John Norton, James Wilson.
George H. Amidon, Capt.
VETERAN RESERVE CORPS.
SIGNAL CORPS U. S. ARMY.
Charles H. Beers,
Thomas L. Bovey,
George Ballou,
Edmund Coggshall,
Addison Hawkey,
John Goodnow,
Henry E. Hawkey,
Dennis M. Hennesey,
Charles S. Holmes,
Munro W. Ide,
Michael Martin,
William F. Krantz,
John T. Shaw.
Nathaniel Palmer,
Horace L. Tilton,
James Tubbs,
Elliot Travis.
David H. Selgham,
U. S. NAVY.
Thomas Stratton,
Madison Sanborn,
Edgar P. Barton,
Martin H. Schollay.
CASUALTIES.
CAPT. GEO. H. AMIDON, wounded in the thigh in the battle of the Wilderness May 5, 1864; partly recovered, and returned to the army, and wounded again (in the thigh) at Cedar Creek Oct. 17, 1864. Since died, and was buried in Oxford.
JOSEPH ALBEE, died and was buried at Newbern, N. C., in the spring of 1863.
CAPT. SIMEON BROWN, wounded June 18, 1863. Died at East Doug- las.
NATHAN BARTLETT, killed at Cold Harbor, June 3, 1864.
DANIEL A. BURTON, wounded by a shell before Petersburg Oct. 2, 1864. Died Oct. 19, 1864; buried at South Sutton Cemetery.
ORLANDO CARPENTER, wounded in the arm and leg at Cold Harbor June 3, 1864, and died in the hospital at Washington June 16, 1864.
LEONARD A. CHAPMAN, killed before Petersburg July 9, 1864.
LORIN R. CHASE, died May 9, 1864; buried in the Douglas Cemetery.
DAVID B. CURTIS, killed at Petersburg, Va., June, 1864.
BENJAMIN R. ELLIOTT, killed at Antietam, September, 1862, and was buried there.
HARLAN FAIRBANKS, severely wounded in the leg and foot at the. battle of Fair Oaks or Seven Pines, near Richmond, Va., June 30, 1862.
CAPT. HENRY C. FITTS, died of small-pox at Donaldsonville, La., Dec. 19, 1864, and was buried there.
JOHN N. GASKELL, killed near Spottsylvania court-house May 31, 1864.
PERLEY U. GERME, missing.
Oscar L. Brown,
August Chrome,
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GEORGE A. GLEASON, severely wounded in the leg at Cold Harbor June 3, 1864, and discharged Oct. 20, 1864.
HENRY GLOVER, killed at Cold Harbor June 3, 1864, and buried there.
DANIEL E. GoULD, taken prisoner - feet badly frozen. Suffered in rebel prison, but was exchanged, and died May 25, at JJefferson Barracks, Mo., of typhoid fever, brought on by exposure.
EUGENE E. GOULD, discharged Nov. 16, 1864. Lost on steamer North America, off Cape Hatteras, Dec. 22, 1864.
CHARLES E. GOULD, taken prisoner June 18, 1863. Exchanged, and again taken prisoner Oct. 12, 1863. Exchanged, and taken prisoner for the third time March 31, 1864; was afterwards exchanged, and transferred to Troop D, Ist R. I. Cavalry, Dec. 21, 1864.
ALBERT A. GREENE, taken prisoner June 18, 1863. Exchanged, and re-enlisted.
ALLEN R. HOUGH, died of typhoid fever at Hampton hospital Aug. 10, 1864.
JOSEPH HOUGH, taken prisoner while bearing dispatches, near New Orleans.
MATTHEW HUDSON, lost in battle.
DR. FRANKLIN HUNT, killed by guerrillas at Little Washington, N.C.
GEORGE JEPHERSON, died in hospital at New York Oct. 28, 1863, and was buried there.
NEWELL J. LEE
M. LEACH, missing in action Oct. 12, 1863. Supposed to have been captured.
JERRIE E. LUTHER, died at Newbern, N. C., Oct. 14, 1863, of conges- tion of the brain; buried in Evergreen Cemetery. :
ABNER A. LELAND, killed before Petersburg June 23, 1864, and was buried there.
WILLIAM LYON, not accounted for.
TIMOTHY MAGARY, killed before Petersburg May 11, 1864, and was buried there.
THOMAS M. MAGEE, wounded in side by grape shot at battle of Roan- oke Island. Lost on steamer North America off Cape Hatteras Dec. 22, 1864.
MARK MITCHELL, died at Newbern, N. C.
DANIEL MIX, wounded in the arm at Cold Harbor June 2, 1864, and discharged from service Jan. 16, 1865.
FRANCIS L. MOORE, died in hospital at Newbern, N. C., April 26, 1863. Buried in E. Douglas Evergreen Cemetery.
SYLVESTER OAKES, killed at Fredericksburg Dec. 13, 1862.
WILLIAM OAKES, wounded in the leg at Antietam Sept. 15, 1862.
NATHANIEL C. PUTNAM,. died at Fairfax, Va., Oct. 10, 1862, of con- sumption.
JOSEPH QUINN, wounded in leg and foot in skirmish near Newbern, N. C., in 1864.
SAMUEL SIBLEY, wounded severely in the leg at Ball's Bluff Oct. 21, 1861, and died at Poolesville, Md., Nov. 6, 1861, and was buried there.
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GEORGE SNOW, wounded March 17, 1863. Re-enlisted.
MYRON STARRETT, wounded above the hip at Port Hudson first day's battle, and died before morning, May 27, 1863.
DAVID L. THOMAS, taken prisoner by scouts, near Bayou, La., Jan. 23, 1865.
ELISHA E. THOMPSON, wounded slightly Dec. 13, 1862, at battle of Fredericksburg.
LEANDER THOMPSON, died of consumption Feb. 29, 1864, in Douglas.
LUTHER WHITE, taken prisoner at Staunton, Va., June 12, 1864. Died at Annapolis, Md., March 14, 1865. Died of starvation.
WILLIAM H. WILCOX, discharged Nov. 16, 1864. Lost on steamer North America off Cape Hatteras Dec. 22, 1864.
Decoration Day has been observed from year to year, in a quiet but appropriate manner. There has been no permanent soldiers' organization since the war, although in the spring of 1869 efforts were made to organize a Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. The requisite number of names were secured among the surviving soldiers and officers in this town, but no organization was effected.
G. F. Hutchins organized an independent company of militia in June, 1870, and attempted to enlist them in the State service, and to procure uniforms and arms, but he failed to accomplish this object, and the company was afterwards disbanded.
CHAPTER XII
NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS.
OMEWHERE near the latter part of 1867 two journeymen printers, Gustavus B. Quimby and George W. Spencer, then employed in the office of the Times at Webster, conceived the idea of starting in business together, and commenced looking around for a location. They corre-
sponded with postmasters and others in ascer- taining where a town could be found with suffi- cient population and public spirit to support a newspaper, but, while few towns were unwilling to have a local organ, most of those not already supplied could offer no substantial encourage- ment. Both of the would-be publishers were experienced in the mechanical work of a printing office, but neither of them had oc- cupied an editorial position, or were familiar with the details of the publishing business, which, perhaps, was one of the reasons why more encouragement was not extended to them.
Mr. Dresser, editor of the Times, learning the intentions of his employes, suggested that the neighboring town of Douglas would afford a good field for operation. Acting upon his suggestion, Mr. Spencer visited this place in January, 1868, and consulted with some of the leading citizens. First visiting the office of the Douglas Axe Manufacturing Company, and introducing himself to the agent, Mr. Edwin Moore, he ascertained that considerable job printing could be transferred from offices at Worcester to a home office, should one be established. Mr. Moore was quite enthusias-
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tic over the idea of having a local paper, with a job printing office connected, and his kindness and courtesy strengthened the deter- mination of the projectors to make this the seat of their opera- tions.
A handbill was issued, setting forth the ideas of Messrs. Quimby and Spencer, and calling for subscriptions to the Douglas Herald, the first number of which it was intended to issue on the 1st of March. These were posted all over town, and subscription papers were left in charge of various persons for signatures.
The resources for establishing the printing business in Douglas were of the most meager description, as neither of the projectors
HERALD
DOUGLAS HERALD.
POST
OFFICE
TING OFFICER
(Knapp Building.)
(Arcade.)
OFFICES OF DOUGLAS HERALD, EAST DOUGLAS.
were in possession of any considerable amount of money or property ; but they had an abundance of faith. Mr. Quimby was the owner of an old-fashioned Ruggles job press, which would print a form only about five by eight inches, and he had laid by something like $200 for a rainy day. Mr. Spencer succeeded in raising about an equal sum, and, being something of a mechanic, he went to work at building the necessary frames and stands needed for the office, so as to reduce the amount of capital re- quired to the lowest possible figure. All of this work was done at night, after the day's labor in the Times office. A wood-shed
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adjoining his boarding-house was used for a carpenter's shop, with- out bench or floor, and with only a hand-saw and hammer. The work was necessarily very roughly done, but it answered the pur- pose.
It was intended to secure at least five hundred subscribers before issuing the first number of the paper, but it was found impossible to get this number, and the figures were reduced, first to four hundred, and then again to three hundred. When. the latter number was nearly reached, arrangements were made for procuring the press and type from the New England Type Foundry of Messrs. Phelps & Dalton, in Boston. A hand-press, somewhat worn, but just overhauled and repaired, was selected, with four hundred pounds of long primer, two hundred pounds of brevier, about twenty fonts of job type. and other necessary articles - the whole amounting to about $800. It was agreed that $400 should be paid down, a portion of the balance in sixty days, and the remainder in ninety days. These conditions were adhered to, and were made possible by the terms of subscription to the paper, which required payment in advance, thus placing the necessary amount of money in the hands of the publishers.
An office was secured in the second story of the building adjoining the hotel, owned by Mr. Asa Thayer. in the lower story of which was the post-office. Two rooms were made into one by removing a partition, and for the time these quarters were amply sufficient. The press and material arrived about the 1st of March, and the office was arranged and work begun on the first paper by Mr. Spencer, his partner remaining in his old posi- tion at Webster until the last moment.
On the seventh day of March, 1868, the first number of the Douglas Herald made its appearance. It had four pages of six columns each, and five columns of local advertising matter. It was spoken of by its contemporaries as " a bright, newsy sheet," and its publishers and the community took pardonable pride in it. In its salutatory the publishers stated that the Herald was designed to represent the town of Douglas, but it was their intention to make the paper a welcome visitor in many homes in other localities. It was committed to no sect or party, but its columns were opened to all who wished candidly to discuss measures of public policy affecting the moral, social and political welfare of the people. As
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between a manly independence, on the one hand, and a craven neutrality on the other, the former was accepted as the rule of action, and the public were informed that " whatever ability and influence this humble sheet might possess would be fearlessly exerted in supporting the eternal principles of liberty, justice and truth, which must endure when platforms crumble and creeds are forgotten."
Starting with a circulation of only about two hundred and sixty copies, and a small advertising patronage, frequent additions were made to the subscription list, and by the 1st of July its advertis- ing space was increased to thirteen columns. Still, with the in- crease of patronage the publishers did not find their position free from difficulties, and live or die was for some time an open ques- tion. It took the greatest possible amount of hard work and the most rigid economy to meet the payments due upon the press and type, and to place the concern upon a secure footing. Four months of toil, with poor health and sickness in his family, were sufficient for Mr. Quimby, and on the 11th of July he retired from the firm, leaving Mr. Spencer as sole editor and publisher. The money to purchase Mr. Quimby's interest in the concern was raised by a mortgage for $600 on the office, which was taken by Mr. Asa Thayer and Dea. Albert Butler, both of whom had manifested great interest in the success of the enterprise. With this money Mr. Quimby went to Providence and started a job office, afterwards moving to Woonsocket and starting the business now conducted by W. H. Goodale & Co. He did not succeed in his new ven- tures, and some years afterwards died, while employed as foreman in the office of the Worcester West Chronicle at Athol.
After three months of sole proprietorship, Mr. Spencer on the 1st of October took Henry F. Dudley into partnership with him. The paper was enlarged to seven columns on a page, and an effort was made to enlist the interest of Whitinsville people by engag- ing Mr. George L. Gibbs, a leading merchant of that place, as local correspondent.
Mr. Dudley was not a practical printer, and he evinced but little taste for the newspaper business. Nominally he was the " business manager " of the concern, while Mr. Spencer continued to edit the paper and superintend the mechanical department. While this partnership continued the liabilities of the concern
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constantly increased, and the end of the year found it bearing a heavy burden of indebtedness.
In September, 1869, Mr. Fenner Batcheller, postmaster of the village, gave notice of his intention to resign his office, and some of the friends of the paper wanted its editor appointed to the posi- tion. thinking that the salary would aid him in establishing the paper on a surer basis. A caucus of Republican voters was held in Citizens' Hall on the 13th of September, when Mr. Spencer was nominated for postmaster by a unanimous vote, and a petition in his favor was forwarded to Washington with Mr. Batcheller's resignation. On the following week Mr. Dudley's name disap- peared from the paper, and Mr. Spencer was again alone as publisher. He was duly installed as postmaster, and the two offices were connected by an open stairway.
In the latter part of the year 1869 the Herald began to agitate various subjects of local importance, and so much earnestness was given to the work as to alienate some of its former supporters who entertained antagonistic views. One of these was the building of a new town hall from the proceeds of the Moses Wallis devise, which, under the terms of the will, could not be used for sixty years, and then only the accumulating interest of a new principal. An opinion was entertained by many intelligent citizens that the Legislature could empower the town to set aside the obnoxious provisions. and allow the money to be used for the purposes specified without waiting for the sixty years to expire. Others favored the issuing of town notes to build a hall, and allow the interest to be met by the interest of the Wallis investments. The Herald, while committing itself to no definite plan, favored the building of a hall at once, and sought by every means in its power to urge this necessity upon the people. The main objection came from the suburban residents, who saw in the building of a town hall the removal of all town business from the Center, and the bare mention of such an idea, or anything tending in that direction, was sufficient to arouse a spirit of jealousy and oppo- sition. A rough cut of a suitable building was made by W. A. Emerson, then an amateur engraver, and it bears a striking resemblance to the building recently erected by Mr. Asa Thayer for a village hall and other purposes. Mr. Emerson, having " got his hand in," continued to illustrate other subjects, and frequent
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caricatures of persons easily recognized appeared from time to time, creating sensations which helped the paper in some directions and injured it in others.
Another subject which excited much interest and created con- siderable feeling was the annexation of Manchaug to East Doug- las, and the formation of a new town, leaving Old Douglas out to cool off its heated opposition to all measures looking to the pros- perity of the East Village. This was illustrated by a map, show- ing the proposed new division line, and an imaginative sketch of a Manchaug man climbing the Sutton hills to attend town-meeting in the centre of his own town. Santa Claus was also depicted, with the village of Manchaug upon his back, bringing it as a Christ- mas gift to Douglas.
The issue of Jan. 1, 1870, contained a sketch which, like the boy's picture, needed some explanation to " distinguish the cow from the rose." Astride the universe sat Father Time, with his hour-glass and remorseless scythe, the latter having penetrated the Moses Wallis will, which hung in a shattered condition from the end thereof. With his left foot he was represented as kicking into black eternity an old fogy who had opposed all advancement. On the left of the picture the sun was rising in splendor over the united villages of East Douglas and Manchaug, with the majestic proportions of the new town hall looming up in the foreground. No better perspective of the coming year was desired by the paper, and the " fulmination of the artist's vivid imagination " was hoped to be the precursor of living reality.
At the close of the year 1869 the bona fide circulation of the Herald was in the neighborhood of four hundred copies. Its ex- penses had been very much increased, and, on account of the stand taken in local affairs, some of the town's people had not only with- drawn their support, but were actively engaged in influencing oth- ers to follow their example. If the editor was in error in his earnest advocacy of measures, he was certainly conscientious, and he enjoyed at least the sympathy of by far the largest portion of the intelligent, public-spirited population of the village. The falling off in receipts of the paper was more than counterbalanced by the increase in the jobbing department, which made the pur- chase of a new press necessary. It was not thought prudent, however, to allow the paper to absorb more of the income of the
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office than belonged to it, and consequently in November it adopted the co-operative plan, purchasing ready-printed outsides from the New York Newspaper Union, which were forwarded regularly on the day before publication. A bid for increased patronage in Whitinsville was made at the same time by issuing a sheet called the Whitinsville Compendium, which differed but little from the Herald, except in advertising and the re-arrangement of matter. This sheet was placed under the editorial and business control of Mr. George L. Gibbs, whose pungent locals and careful manage- met won for it as much popularity and success as a half local paper could expect to gain.
Nearly three years of newspaper experience in East Douglas had convinced the publisher that it was an unpromising field for the accumulation of a competency, or for the establishment of a successful and prosperous journal. The people of Blackstone were anxious for the establishment of a paper in that town, and overtures from some of them led to a consideration of the idea of removing the Herald to that place, where it would have the ad- vantage of a larger population, and a more extensive business at an important railroad centre. When this idea was made public, Mr. A. F. Jones, an influential and public-spirited merchant of East Douglas, sought to induce Mr. Spencer to remain, and through his influence a sufficient sum of money was raised by subscrip- tion to purchase a power press which was placed in the office. Partly on this account, and more on account of the good will which this act represented, the idea of leaving was for the time abandoned. Subsequently the press was purchased by Mr. Spencer. who paid back the amounts contributed by the citizens.
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