HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1974-06-13, Page 47'Hooray! The good old days
The following is an actual set
of rules for staff in many offices
in 1859.
1. Office employees will daily
sweep the floors, dust the fur-
niture, shelves and show -cases.
2. Each day fill lamps, clean
chimneys,' and trim wicks.
Kincardine office staff
Vi Armstrong
Donna Pretty
Rich in history ..;
continued from page 14S
in 1937 to leave the town'with
one •newspaper..
The News. has been located
at its present Lambton St. of-
fices since 1957 when Mr.
Buckingham purchased the for-
mer armories building.
TODAY
The ,purchase of the News in
1969 in many ways meant the
end of an era. Hot type and the
old flat -bed, hand fed press
have become a thing (If the
past.
The type for the paper is now
set in Gc de,rich and the Kincar-
dine News, along with over 20
other Western Ontario
weeklies, is printed each week
by the Targe offset press in
Goderich.
The office in Kincardine has
become a news and advertising
gathering centre and copy is
.sent to Goderich to be set each
Friday, Monday and. Tuesday
mornirlg.
Three of the staff, managing
editor Eric Howald, advertising
manager .John Garton and
news editor Pat Lucas Gravel to
Goderich each Tuesday to lay
out the paper. This job is
usually `completed by 9 p.m.
and the papers are, in Kincar-
dine by midnight. They are
labelled and bundled early
Wednesday morning and on the
street by 9:30 a.m.
The fourth full time member
on the staff 'is Mrs. Vi Arm-
' strong who is in charge of
classified advertising and keeps
'Kincardine
news editor
Pat Lucas
the office . running smoothly.
She is helped by Mrs. Donna
Pretty on Monday and Tuesday
mornings. when things get hec-
tic as the Tuesday deulline ap-
proaches.
The bookkeeper for • The
News is the very accurate Mrs`
Jean Borys.
Wash windows once 'a week.
3. Each clerk will bring in a
bucket of water -and a scuttle of
coal for the day's business.
4. Make your pens carefully,
you may whittle nibs to your
individual` taste,
5. The office will be open at 7
a.m. and close at 8 p.m. daily,
except on the Sabbath, on
which day it will remain closed.
Each employee is expected to
spend the Sabbath by attending
Church and contributing
liberally
Lord.
6. Men employees will be
given an evening off each week
for courting 'purposes, or two
eveningsa week • if they
regularly go to Church, '
-97. After an employee has
spent 13 hours of labour in the
office, he•should spend the time
reading the Bible and other'
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gone forever
to 8. Everykemployee should lay
aside from each pay a goodly
sum or his -earnings for. his
benefit during his declining
years, so that he ' will not
become a• ,burden upon the
charity, pf his betters.
'9. Any employee who smokes
Spanish cigars; uses liquor in
any form, gets shaved at a bar-
ber shop, or frequents pool and
good books while contem- public halls, will give me good
plating the Glories and the 'reason to suspect his worth in -
the cause of the
building up of the Kingdom. tentions, integrity and honesty.
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