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When Mr. Shafer's health declined in September 1912, he required a rest, during which absence

the FREDERICK NEWS filled in. Someone later to become ed_itor of the TIMES, was sent to Brunswick to manage the publication of the HERALD a number of weeks. However, Mr. Shafer decided to dispose of the paper. The EVENING POST (which later became the FREDERICK POST) bought the HERALD and continued to run it in connection with Frederick's daily paper. On January 17, 1914, the HERALD ceased publication. As time passed, Brunswick felt the loss and the demand for a home paper increased. The new paper was the BRUNSWICK TIMES. When the first issue of the BRUNS WICK TIMES appeared on September 3, 1914, it too was printed at the Frederick plant, one of the finest plants in the state outside of Baltimore. The pressman of both papers, by coincidence, was the same: W. S. Bennett. There were 350 copies of the first HERALD printed on an old Cottrell press, with sheets of paper fed one at a time, each sheet needing two impressions, one for two pages of the paper and the other for the remaining two pages. After being printed, each copy had to be folded by hand. The second paper, the TIMES, printed by a Duplex press, allowed a thousand copies of the TIMES, an eight-page paper, to be printed and folded "in twenty minutes easily," according to pressman Bennett in the first issue of the TIMES. Printing, cutting, and folding were done in one operation. Although printed in Frederick, the TIMES was to be "strictly a Brunswick proposition ... as soon as conditions justify," in a plant in Brunswick. Publication, starting weekly, was to increase to semiweekly, tri-weekly, and finally daily. The TIMES must have been a short-lived paper. Another paper, THE BRUNSWICK PRESS, to be a weekly, was announced at the town's February 3, 1914 Council meeting, but that may not have materialized at all. No copies have yet come to this writer's notice. Next Henry I. "Cap" Rinker and his father founded the BRUNSWICK BLADE on September 1, 1915. According to Pete Maynard, Rinker's interview of many years ago suggests that the TIMES was also being published in September 1915. Rinker absorbed the TIMES into his paper as the BLADETIMES. He subsequently published his paper almost 43 years. According to a reliable account told to this writer, Cap Rinker always published his paper

alone. He was only 17 when thepublicationstarted, and he had to use his father's name on the masthead tobeabletopublish: K. I. Rinker, Editor; K. I. Rinker & Son - Publishers. The masthead was changed, but Cap never did remove his father's name from his paper after his death in 1923. This next statement contradicts the dates two paragraphs back: In 1917, THE TIMES and THE BLADE merged into the BLADE-TIMES. By 1918, Cap Rinker was proud that the paper was "enjoying a fine circulation in Loudoun Co., Va., and Western Md." In 1918 the paper went modem with its first composingmachine. TheearlyBLADE-TIMESwere seven columns wide. Rinker did EVERYfHING at the paper except for hiring carriers. This discrepancy will be researched. Jim Bryan bought the BLADE-TIMES in 1958 and ran it until he sold it to the LOUDOUN-TIMES MIRROR in 1968. Arthur Arundel continued the BLADE-TIMES with several interim editors. The paper was printed in Leesburg, but publication dropped, possibly because it now had an outside owner. During that period, Bob Dawson, who lived for a while in Brunswick before moving to Reston, Virginia, was editor. In November of 1969, Katharine Van Holten became Managing Editor and Karolyn McKimmey, Editor. Beginning December 1, 1970, Richard E. Cox and his son, Gregory, were publishers and editors, with Iris Cox handling advertising. In Pete Maynard's article on the newspapers, he stated that the date of the last issue of the BLADETIMES was not known, but could have been June 1972. Limited bound copies of the BLADE-TIMES are in the Museum. Pete Maynard entered the picture in 1973 with publication of THE BRUNSWICK CITIZEN, which probably covers the largest area of any of the local papers. It includes Brunswick, Burkittsville, Jefferson, Knoxville, Lovettsville, Pleasant Valley, and Point of Rocks. It uses lots of meaningful pictures, has little or no syndicated material (comics), and has much more advertising than previous papers, in addition to bountiful news. S - Shafer's newspapers at Enoch Pratt Library - Peter Maynard and TTIE BRUNSWICK CITIZEN - Louise Porter - Katharine Van Holten

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