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A VETERAN PRINTER IN BROCKVILLE AND IN WELLAND
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 4 January 1921]
W.J. Reynolds, foreman in the news room of the Brockville Recorder and Times, yesterday celebrated the 47th anniversary of joining the staff. He has since been continuously with the same newspaper; a record which is believed to be unsurpassed by any other printer in the province Exchange.
We congratulate Mr. Reynolds on his years of service and the distinction it has gained him, but it is only fair to state that we have a printer in our own office, a man still on the case, and still simply “h ll” on “pikey” who was a full-fledged journeyman when Mr. Reynolds was in petticoats.
George Wells, of the Tribune and Telegraph, composing room, began his career with the Welland Tribune fifty-two years ago. Some say he was setting type at the time of the MacKenzie Rebellion, but that is only a tradition, and has no foundation in historical fact.
Mr. Wells has seen transition in the printing business, the Washington transplanted by the Duplex, the hand type replaced by the Monotype and Linotype, but all these changes have made no inroad on the value of his art as a compositor and the demand for the product of his stick.
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