This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lewis Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4216 Message Board Post: THE FREMONT COUNTY SUN. December 15, 1904.--John F. Lewis of Atlantic, who was formerly in the photography business in Riverton, is now reporting for the Herald. THE FREMONT COUNTY HERALD. December 13, 1904: FIRST : "TO THE PUBLIC".--John F. Lewis, for many years a resident of Riverton, but since 1900 a citizen of Atlantic, has taken a position on the editorial staff of the Herald. The above named gentleman is no stranger to the Herald readers, as he was a frequent, though often an anonymous, contributor to the paper while he lived at Riverton. For the present Mr. Lewis will have charge of the local department and any assistance given him, or courtesies extended, will be thankfully appreciated by the management. SECOND: "BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION".--It gives us much pleasure to again greet our old friends through the columns of the Herald, and we trust the feeling may, in some degree at least, be reciprocated. When a man has, like the writer, lived for a dozen years in a county as good as old Fremont, and among the whole-souled people who dwell within her borders, he can never forget either the one or the other, "mid pleasures and palaces though he may roam." And, by the way, it is beginning to dawn upon the mind of the multitude that pleasures and palaces are a sham, a delusion and a snare, and that there is more real happiness found in quiet places, and among unpretentious people, than there is among any other kind. It is often the case the people whose surroundings are such that they ought to be happy fail to realize how well off they are. If a man is seeking happiness there is no good and sufficient reason why he should leave Fremont county in order to find it. If a man cannot be happy here, the chances are that he will not be happy anywhere. During the time of our former residence in the county our business was to show up our fellow citizens on paper through the medium of the camera. We have now entered upon the task of showing them up by means of the pen. If they are painted just as they are, the picture ought not to be an ugly or a displeasing one. There is not much use in people making long statements about what they are going to do, being "here to stay," etc. We have seen people who "came to stay" who didn't stay three weeks. But whether our stay be short or long, it shall be our earnest endeavor to make the columns of the Herald (as they have been in the past) interesting, useful and instructive, and to this end we ask the cooperation of all good people. Hoping that we shall be able to retain the esteem of all our old friends and to make many new ones, we remain, Yours Sincerely, JOHN F. LEWIS.