How about it, Mr.Merrick?
have you plenty of competent printers and pressmen at Millville ?" "There are none at all," was the reply.

"Better inquire how many we will need, Marvin, and send them down here.

And, by the way, hire women or girls for every position they are competent to fill.

This is going to be a girls' newspaper, so we'll have as few men around as possible." "I understand, sir." Uncle John ordered everything he could think of and told his agent to add whatever the supply man thought might be needed.

This business being accomplished, he found Lon Taft at the hotel and instructed the carpenter to put rows of windows on both sides of the shed and to build partitions for an editorial office and a business office at the front.
This was the beginning of a busy period, especially for poor Uncle John, who had many details to attend to personally.