On this day 55 years ago, I served punch and cookies at an open house celebration.
The newspaper clipping reports:
Cookies, made by staff members and wives, and Russell Stover chocolates, courtesy of City News, were served with punch by Mary Domaleski and Jane Heimel. Essie Eimer presided over the guest book and Mary Miller, receptionist, directed the visitors.
It was Thursday of this week that I paid a quick visit to that "new office building," as I'd heard reports The Potter Enterprise (now known as The Potter Leader-Enterprise) office will be no more. The lettering on the big front windows has been painstakingly scraped off, photo files, stacks of newspapers and even the lingering aura of cigarette smoke gone along with the big sign above the door. I wondered as I pulled open the door to the entry way and made my way up the couple of steps, how many times I had done that before?
Gracious and personable Della, the local face of the Leader-Enterprise, was kind to allow me one last look at the office building that holds so many memories, though the door to the 'back room' was off limits as the new owner of the building has, for years, put that space to uses other than printing and publishing.
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| There may have been some courting going on in that 'new building' back in 1970 ... |
Though I was part of the small-town printing and publishing business for nearly 20 years in one capacity or another, I sometimes forget how enterprising (no pun intended) the staff was in finding ways to boost revenue - ever striving to raise the advertising percentage ratio to make a little money.
The July 15, 1970 edition featured many advertisements like these:
Della tells me that the Leader-Enterprise will continue to be published with production and the rest of the business being coordinated through the Wellsboro office.
Though it's been decades since my dream of carrying on the family's newspaper tradition died, the closing of this chapter brings a whisper of loss.
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