In thinking about what the paper does, well, of course it should carry the NEWS, and it’s sort of a bulletin board of what’s goin on but it’s also a record of the births and deaths. And then we try to print anything that anybody brings in.

When you were hand setting, well, you just didn’t print as much. You’d think about the words you used. But we still tried to print what people would bring in. Looking back over the paper, they’d carry on correspondence - mostly family stuff, history sometimes, all different topics. Daddy was interested in everything outdoors, so he always had some nature notes - field notes, he called them - and bear tales and panther tales and things like that. And whenever he went anyplace, a meeting or anything like that, he always wrote a big article on it.

Well, you look back at some of the old papers, they almost always had the obituaries on the front page. They almost always had the church notices on the front page. They sometimes had a little more news on the front page than we do, but then they didn’t have as many announcements.

Really the middle ‘70’s is when the paper became what it is now. But there have always been obituaries on the front page, and there have always been meeting notices on the front page.
 

Jane Price Sharp