Kenneth G. Anderson 2906 May Street Eau Claire, WI 54701 715-839-8470 www.mayberryreflections.com[email protected]
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We all know how important the Mayberry Gazette was to all the folks of
Mayberry. Even Opie got into the newspaper business at one time and Barney
was a sports reporter albeit was a very short career. I spent today in my
hometown and I visited a friend who is the town historian. He gave me the
loan of a huge box full of old newspapers that were printed in Dorchester
from the early 1940's until 1970 when the paper went out of business. It is
like a time machine for me. In just the first paper I scanned through I
found an article about my best friend's sister who fell off a horse and had
a concussion, another good friend's wedding article, a next door neighbor's
obituary, a story about a classmate being a sponsor for her little niece's
baptism, the story of another good friend's commission as a Second
Lieutenant in the army, and a story about my cousin purchasing the new dairy
route in town which included two milk trucks, with the original paint. I am
having so much fun scanning the articles and sending them to the families.
Fortunately I have kept in touch with many of these folks since leaving my
hometown in 1967. There was even a large advertisement for a woodworking
factory saying they needed work. I got a job there a few weeks after that
ad was in the paper. I made $1.25 an hour and could get 8 cents an hour
more if I worked nights.
