Editor Brown Has A Good Thing

Fred C. Brown, of the Washtenaw Times, has just completed a deal by which he will go into the publishing business in Chicago. Mr. Brown will have the backing of a concern with $750,000 paid up capital. He will put in a plant of 16 Merganthaler linotype machines as soon as they can be obtained, and hopes to secure at least eight at once. It is possible, however, that he will have to wait for the factory to turn them out, which will be in about six months. He has work for eight machines working 10 hours a day from the start, and can secure work for the other eight as soon as they can be put in. His plant will be in the Western Newspaper Union building in Chicago. The product of the 16 machines, working doublé time, will be equal to that of 150 men. It will take about 40 men to run the plant. Mr. Brown is thoroughly conversant with the machines, having worked in the Merganthaler factory and had a machine in use in the Times office fortwo years, which has done perfect work. He will iiave the first machine plant in Chicago, and knowing just what the machine can do, is surï of making a ;ood thing. Mr. Brown will still conduct the Times, spending about one-third of his time in Ann Arbor and sending in his editorial by mail every night. Jay Backus, of Gregory, last week stuffed his wallet with the value af 1,500 bushels of potatoes, at 40 Dents a bushei, and Clare Backus, ibout the same time, stuffed his Douth with a hot base ball. It was lecessary for the ball to rip his lip lalf an inch to get in.