As far as efficiency, well, we figured...we just hate to give up handsetting the type, but we figure if the press would break down, then we would have to go to offset production, but the press is still running pretty good and, as I say, it may be that the paper will cause us to have to stop because the International Paper Co. stopped making the cut sheets this summer and we got all we could from R.D. Wilson Co. in Clarksburg where we had bought paper for years and years and years. Now I have gotten another shipment that’ll last me up through July but we’ll keep on as long as we can get the paper, I think, until somethin breaks down.

Now, as for keeping the handset paper, it’s sort of a sentimental attachment to it I guess. You just sorta hate to give it up. It’s not a very efficient way to set a paper, and you couldn’t do a big paper at all because you just couldn’t turn out that much type. It wouldn’t be economically sound to try to produce that much type and as long as we can get along the way we are...we’ll just keep on. We just don’t make plans too far ahead.

Some people just sorta feel sorry for you and think well, you don’t have enough money to buy any machinery you know, and then others think it’s just the thing to do. That we ought to preserve this method of typesetting just to show how it was done years ago. But we have gotten a good deal of publicity. We’d sorta like to keep on till we’re sure we’re the absolutely last one, but maybe we will and maybe we won’t. But honest, you just stay so busy getting the paper out that you don’t have time to think much about that.

We’re putting out a newspaper. I don’t think people would buy it just because it’s a quaint way of setting it - the paper. I guess we’re serving the people as a newspaper, or we hope we are.
 
 

Jane Price Sharp