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Fa U CELEBRATION Wedae Jaa Home newspaper of Halton Hills originated in 1866 CONTINUOUS CHANGES AT THE HERALD The Herald was founded in by Isaac Hunter In the early days it was known as the Halton Herald and local agents said adver tising as far away as ville and Burlington The second owner of The Herald was Joseph Craig who ran the newspaper side of the business while his brother Richard ran the printing side Printing often helped cover the losses on the newspaper side until the paper was financially stable MINISTER The Craigs sold The Herald to Nelson Burns a Methodist Minister who ran a private school while be was In Georgetown to help make ends meet Mr Bums sold the paper to Thomas J Starret who stay ed in Georgetown for about four years before moving to Milton and taking over publishing a paper there By the paper was edited by David Edgar who began his newspaper career at the age of with the Northern Advocate in Bracebridge Robert Douglas Warren became the editor of The Herald and proprietor of the Herald Stearn Printing House in 1888 An Acton native Mr barren ran for the Liberal eat in Halton in 1908 and lost but unlike many publishers of that era he- didnt allow his political leanings to influence the contents of the paper Mr Warren was active in politics and served as Reeve of Georgetown and Warden of Halton County Mr Warren employed Joseph Moore to run The Herald until Mr Moore was able to buy the paper Mr Moore was a native of Acton and later served as a reeve of Georgetown Mr Moore left school at the age of and became a printers devil at the Acton Free Press before coming to The Herald as a foreman in the print shop in 1691 FIRE The Herald office was upstairs in the Heralds Main St building with a big press at the back When fire gutted the building around the time of the First World War the press plunged right through to the basement Most of the back issues to that date were destroyed Mr Moore operated The Herald until his death in familyin his will to sell the business because he felt the day of the independently owned small town newspaper was over Garfield Mac McGilvr- ay ran the newspaper between Mr Moores death iefeP weekend- a and the purchase of the paper by Walter The printing trade was always changing as in 1928 when The Herald bought a linotype machine which eliminated the need to set type by hand It took three hours in those days to print the to copies of The Herald on the handfed flatbed press Back then the population of the town was about 2500 Walter Biehn ran the paper an independent for almost years While in the army during the Second World War his wife Mary ran the business OWN OFFICE The Herald purchased its own office on Main St in where it remained until when a new building was purchased at the corner of Mill and Guelph Streets The larger structure facilitated the operation of printing presses in the basement In the late 1950s the paper was purchased by the Thom son newspaper chain The Herald and the Orangeville Banner were among the first weeklies in Ontario to be purchased by the chain Walter remained with The Herald until 1973 when he retired The Carpet Barn COME AND SEE US ATBIGONJUNE 3 4 5 BOOTH 222 26 Guelph St Georgetown 87798968771666 Houra Thurt 830430 SaL MEDICINE CABINET CLEANUP Bring your old medicines to the YOUNGS PHARMACY BOOTH for destruction at the Show A pharmacist will be on hand to answer your questions Hi ITD DOWNTOWN GEORGETOWN