Lincoln Pollock, the editor, owner and printer of the Weekly Sun,
and his wife, Maude Baggs Pollock, who besides contributing a poem
to each and every issue of the paper, (over her own signature),
collected news and society items, ran the postoffice for her
husband, (he being the postmaster), and taught the Bible Class in
the Presbyterian Sunday-school, as well as officiating as president
and secretary of the Literary Society, secretary to the town board,
secretary of the W. C. T. U., secretary of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society, secretary of the American Soldiers' and Sailors'
Relief Fund, secretary of the Windomville Improvement Association,
secretary of the Lady Maccabees, and, last but far from least,
secretary of the local branch of the Society for the Preservation
of the Redwood Forests of California. She was a born secretary.
A. Lincoln Pollock, being a good democrat and holding office under
a democratic administration, had deemed it wise to abbreviate his
first name, thereby removing all taint of republicanism. He reduced
Abraham to an initial, but, despite his supreme struggle for dignity,
was forced by public indolence to submit to a sharp curtailment of
his middle name. He was known as Link.
The Weekly Sun duly reported the advent of Colonel Courtney Thane,
of New York and London, and gave him quite a "send-off," at the same
time getting in a good word for the "excellent hostelry conducted
by the Misses Dowd," as well as a paragraph congratulating the
readers of the Sun on the "scoop" that paper had obtained over the
"alleged" newspapers up at the county seat.
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