Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1908 — H. R. W. Smith Won $10 Prize. [ARTICLE]

H. R. W. Smith Won $10 Prize.

H; R. W. Smith, whose wife was a sister or the Paxton boys, and who for several years was the exchange editor of the Chicago Dally Tribune, and who has since been engaged in the newspaper business of this state, is now residing ia Longmont, Colo., where Chas. N. and J. W. Paxton also reside. He has just been awarded a cash prize of $lO by the Longmont Commercial Association for having written the best letter on Longmont, pub! ished in a paper outside of that city. The article was published in the Ham* mond News some mouths ago, and Mr. Smith has just been awarded the prize. Mr. Smith is a very able;and a very entertaining man. The editor of the Republican was going to Missouri some sixteen years ago te work on a Missouri newspaper and was a guest for a day or two in Mr.' Smith’s home in Chicago and was shown thru the Tribune office. Mr. Smith volunteered considerable useful instruction about a beginner in newspaper work, and the last danse of his advice was, “Mention everybody, if you have to give half of them hell.” rt e have found during intervening years that it pays to mention everybody, and that it is rarely necessary to *give any one severe criticism. Indeed, Mr. Smith did not say that it was necessary, but he said it was better than to ignore them, and we believe he was right