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I y A History of The Chesley Enterprise Il JI,55 (i).., ( The Chesley Enterprise was started as a weekly neWSpaper about July 1, 1876, by I; A,, R,, Spedding and other early editors were J,, E. Stephens and Wm. Kay. Not much is I.'. known about these men or the early days of the paper. : The next publisher was A,, W. Robb, who taught in a district one-room rural school. : Perhaps he was disenchanted with the salaries paid to teachers in those days, which _', might have been 3150 or $3200 a year and when he would have 60 or 80 pupils during the Winter months, and though he could do better in newspaper work. _. When the opportunity presented itslef for Mr. Robb to buy the Ualkerton Telescope, ' 'ii,, he seems to have persuaded another rural teacher, William McDonald, to buy the Chesley paper. Mr. McDonald was a native of' Elderslie township, and for some years he continued as a school teacher as well as editing the paper. It was not an 8 hour day. He would come to the office about 7 a.m., get some copy for the typesetters, leave about 8 by horse and buggy (or cutter) for school, teach until lp o'clock, drive home to Chesley and work at the office until 6 and again after dinner. In the early years, Mr. McDonald had a partner in the person of' F. w. Adolph, who . was a printer and managed "the back. shop." There appears to have been a disagreement (, between them, and Mr. Adolph left The Enterprise and started a rival paper, The Chesley -c,aa,; Free Press. However, there wasn't room for two papers in a small town, and Mr. Adolph closed his office and moved to Brandon, Manitoba. . ""1 The next partner of Mr. McDonald's was Albert ll. Nolan, who was primarily a prin- ; ter rather than an editor. Mr. McDonald was Interested in public life at the time. He was a t?out1tpytsommlssitmer for this area and thus a member of Bruce county council, where he was elected Warden of the county in 1905. Always a strong Literal, he was elected as member of the Cntario Legislature and sat for one term, being defeated toy the can- didate of the United Farmers of Ontario, which swept the province as an aftermath of' b dissatisfaction with the farmers' lot during the years of the First world itlar,191tr-18. Mr. Nolan quit the partnership about this time and went to Stouf't'vr1.1e, where he bought the weekly paper. Mr. McDonald's son, John 0., became sports and news editor, after having served overseas during the war, and he also carried on an insurance I" (7. busira'eSS. During the years, Mr. McDonald served as town clerk for a time and was Sec. '3) Trees. of the Public School Board for quite some years. When he suffered a stroke in the 1930's, "J. C,," carried on the business, and, after his father's death, he sold the business to Clayton Schaus of' Hanover. During the 50 odd years that the thonalds operated the paper, many changes were effected. Originally, four of the pages were printed in Toronto and the other four in Chesleyo With the advent of typesetting machines, The Enterprise, like most weeklies,