Written by Charles Collett
Huntington, WV Newspaper – no date given
A Jar of Dimes – Firemen at the Fourth and Jefferson station are always vulnerable for a good story…We just happened in the other afternoon when firemen George Bruce and Charles Henthorn were talking about their boyhood…Like hundreds of other businessmen, both were newsboys while in high school…Bruce recalled that he delivered the morning News when it was tri-weekly and also after it became daily in 1938…He had more than a hundred customers in Coal Grove…He won trips to see the Cincinnati Reds play twice in subscriber contests.
He told of getting out of bed at 4:30 a. m. and how William Haskins, now of the post office, always had his bundles of papers on time on the corner of Pike and Memorial Streets…One home where he delivered always had the radio turned on at breakfast time, and he knew by the program whether he was late or on time…If the news flashes were over he knew he was late and had to hurry to get to school on time.
One of his regular subscribers lived upon the hill, and he always met this man on his way to catch a bus for Ashland where he worked, and give him the paper…The man told him his money was waiting any time he wanted to collect…” come up any time” said the man “I put a dime in a jar each week for you.”…Just before Christmas George visited the home on a Friday night and sure enough, to his surprise, the man handed him a glass jar almost filled with dimes.
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