The Wingham Advance Times, 1926-09-30, Page 2WINGHANM ADVANCE -TIMES
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WEDNESDAY AT 7
"Plugging along doing the thing
.athat seeemd most necessary," is how
""Charlie" Barber, generalissimo of the
hChilliwack, I3,C., Progress, sums up and Mary A. Endicott, a niece of the
?his life's experiences. But those present moderator of the United
things that seemed necessary to be Church of Canada,
done have been many, and have been It has often been said that "once of
done in such a quiet and ;thorough
1m niter that they were facts before
mxost folks knew they were in the off-
-Chilliwack isn't an exciting town as
-towns go. It is situated about eighty
-.miles east of Vancouver on the south
-slide of the Fraser River, and in a
section famous for its dairy products,
sinal lfruit, and stalwart citizens. The
'latter enjoy life in the solid substan-
-.tial way that has made Johnny Canuck
'.famous as a "good steady fellow."
And it was in such surroundings
"that Charles A. Barber first peeped
:at the world. He was born inChilli-
•wack,_ long before there was a rail
woad in the district. Today it is well
served by steam and electric railways
as well as by motor busses. served in many capacities. Folks
ceding not Horace Greeley's ad- knew him as a Chilliwack boy who had
"--vineabout going west, the Barber fain --gone away and had come back home
z iiy again and they liked his way of doing
went East to Wingham; and it
was in Wingham that the future, May business. He did everything right
May-
or of the beautiful Fraser Valley town without any fuss or loud hurrahs. He
made friends for himself and for the
:first became acquainted with type lice paper and he continued to do the
thing that needed doing.
The itch "to be on his own" put
the Progress manager into a job
plant, the C. A. Barber Press, Ltd.,
and there he did a good business from
the time he opened the door in 1919
until Nov. 1923, when he acquired the
Progress; but this time without any
absentee owners suggesting this and
intimating that.
And ever since the deal was comple-
ted the Chilliwack Progress has been
v
forging steadily ahead, just as its own-
er
r.
er did in the years gone by—inakina
friends and doing the day's job.
The Chilliwack Progress has a pro-.
prietor who knows the district as few
editors do. He has been secretary
and president of the board of trade,
off and on for years He was an alder-
man for two years and mayor for
three—"And a darned good mayor he
was, too," is 'the way the Chilliwack
folks speak of his tenure in civic off-
ice. And in addition he has served on
ba and a few other things.
Little Dan Cupid was trot on the
strike either during the stay in Pilot
Mound, for it was there that the wedd-
ing bells rang for Charles A, Barber
the west always of the 'west," and
that may be true and again it may
not, but Chilliwack in 191i looked.
good to. the Pilot Mound publisher
and to the British Columbia town he
returned, taking over the New Era, a
recently established paper.
Most folks remember that it was
along in 1912 that the western boom
went smash and many newspapermen
found the road pretty hard going, so
various deals were made. And the
deal in Chilliwack, resulted in the Pro-
gress, taking over the New Era and
with it Mr .Barber, who looked after
the advertising and business depart-
ments of the amalgamated papers.
As head of the Progress, Mr. Bar-
ber did much for Chilliwack. He
- •and a Washington hand press.
"Wanted, a gaud strong boy," was
the'.alluring ad. in the Wingham Ad-,
^varied fiat started the B.C. youth on.
u,his c_mmeer.
ike hundreds of others, he learn -
`ed the principles of printing in an On-
tario sliop to carry the knowledge
elsewhere to be of benefit to himself
and to the community.
And like most printers of those
the embryonic mayor travelled around
a bit. He worked in a job office in
London and later was foreman of the
"Lncknow Sentinel." t t'
The West beckoned and soon the $.
C.. lad that went east was working in
.the Winnipeg Free Press job depart-
-ment under George Saults, until he
•1ieard the call of the country weekly.
' This time it -was the Pilot Mound
(Man.) Sentinel and the owner was
C. A- Bather, at the time one of the
youngest newspaper proprietors in the
.province.
in Pilot Mound "Charlie" did many
'things•that had to be done. He was the fair board, the hospital board, and
:president of the board of trade, a all the other orgartizations that make.
.councillor, manager of the champion up a district's affairs.
But never has the • interest of the
paper been allowed to lag. The Pro-
gress is "Johnny -on-the-job" every
Wednesday with all the news of Chilli-
wack
wick+ ,add that section of the Fraser
Valley, The district correspondents
—and here's where one man doffs his
hat to a fine galaxy of writers—seem
to be able to' get more names into their
short budgets than any other crowd
of correspondents in the country.
Names, names and more names, fill
these columns. Some day "Charlie"
Barber should tell the rest of Canada's
weekly editors how he gathers such a
string of name -getters.
But names aren't the only feature
of this enterprising weekly, The
Progress Editor has nerve:; he must
have or he wouldn't run all those so-
cial items. They are the kind that
quite a number of editors the writer
tnight mention fight shy of. The
Progress runs all that comes its way—
but there's a reason: Mrs. Barber is
the Society editor, social writer or
whatever title you care to give her,
and she does her job well.
iEvery editor knows the trouble he
can get into when he runs an item.
about Mrs. Smith's bun fight and
leaves out Mrs. Jones' tea scrap be-
cause he didn't know there was one.
But on the Progress in such items go
as if social stuff did just that and
nothing else.
Mrs. Barber has an uncanny faculty
of handling social news as it should
be handled in a weekly newspaper. It
is no easy task. In addition to writ-
ing for her husband's, or perhaps one
should say "the .family paper," Mrs.
Barber finds time to writea feature
article for the Vancouver Province
every once in a while, and in the writ-
ing of such stories she adds that touch
which make editors send real cheques
in place of rejection slips.
Chilliwack being a dairying country,.
naturally one finds much to interest
the dairymen .in the columns of the
Progress. PicnicsAsales, co-operative
meetings and get-together sociables,
be they on the Canadian or American
side of the line, usually find Mr. Bar-
ber in the crowd. It should be add-
ed here that Chilliwack is quite closer
to the border and a -fine spirit of
friendliness prevails betwen the citi-
zens of Uncle Sam and Jack Canuck
when in comes to social affairs.
So it is no wonder that the Progress
is a good weekly. Its editor and his
wife are alert to its requirements, they
know their territory, they know their
audience and they know human na-
ture—attributes which when combined
are bound to produce newspapers that
are weekly encyclopedias of the dis-
trict.
The above article is clipped from
The Printer and Publisher, and refers
to the only son of the late Charles
and Mrs. Barber of "Wingham.
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