The advantages of a morning edition were obvious.
"You'll have all day to distribute a morning paper," Arthur pointed out, "whereas an evening paper couldn't get to your scattered subscribers until the next morning." Miss Briggs, upon whom they were to rely so greatly, proved to be a woman of tremendous energy and undoubted ability.

She was thirty-five years of age and had been engaged in newspaper work ever since she was eighteen.

Bright and cheerful, of even temper and shrewd comprehension, Miss Briggs listened to the eager explanations of the three girls who had undertaken this queer venture, and assured them she would assist in making a newspaper that would be a credit to them all.

She understood clearly the conditions; that inexperience was backed by ample capital and unpractical ideas by unlimited enthusiasm.
"This job may not last long," she told herself, "but while it does it will be mighty amusing.

I shall enjoy these weeks in a quiet country town after the bustle of the big city." So here were seven regular employees of the _Millville Daily Tribune_ already secured and the eighth was shortly to appear.