People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1895 — CITY AND COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

CITY AND COUNTY.

Additional Local XewH Will be Found on the Hei'enth and Other JPagett Siew Press—Mew Quarters. The new press, engine and appurtenances, together with a complement of new printing material, has been installed in the Pilot office, and after nearly three weeks of trouble in adjusting and getting acquainted with the new machinery, the plant is at last in a sufficiently settled condition to begin business again. Numerous obstacles have been encountered that caused unavoidable delay in the issuing of the paper the last two weeks, besides taking up the time needed in making a readable paper, to say nothing of the heavy bill of expenses which were not expected. Besides all this trouble circumstances necessitated a removal of the whole office, from the old rooms up stairs, on account of the great weight of the new press, to a ground floor loca tion where solid foundations could be had. The press is a C. B. Cottrell & Son’s country drum cylinder of the latest make, which is as sandard among printers as a McCormick or Deering harvester is among farmers. It weighs 6300 pounds, and to move it from the cars up a narrow stairway to a high second floor was no small task: then after having it all set up and in perfeet running order, to

be obliged to take it to pieces and move it down stairs and into another building, to again set up and adjust, has been an exceedingly laborious undertaking. But is over now and the new office is much better adapted to the needs of a printing office. It is centrally located opposite the court house just south of McCoy’s bank, and patrons will not be obliged to climb a dark and unviting stairway to reach us. Next week we shall endeavor to have the Pilot greatly improved over anything that it has been in the past. It will be printed in the furure on Thursday afternoon, so as to mail in time to reach subscribers in all parts of the county by Saturday morning.