NPC Luke Johnson written by JulieS on February 23, 2019

When Croft had the file in hand, the smiled at Luke. "Thank you," he said, liking the lad and the way he took on his responsibilities, not just retrieval of the file, but how he was with customers. The young man would go far in this world he thought. "Luke, this is Mister Phinias McVay who will be publishing a newspaper before very long in the olf Prescott building." He announced tapping the file.

Luke nodded, "Welcome to Kalispell, Mr. McVay."

“A pleasure, and say, I’m in need of four or five strapping young men to unload my press and supplies, be a couple dollars in it.” Phinn offered. With cowboys earning a dollar a day, a couple of dollars for perhaps two hours work should be quite tempting.

"Well I don't know about any men who will be interested as most of them work on the ranches or have jobs here in town. However, I'm sure that will be plenty of young fellas who are nearly finished their schooling who be would be more than eager to help you."

Phineas McVay wrote on February 24, 2019

"Well now, that's too bad, both for the Union and those who'll miss out on some easy money," Phin said. "But it's good to meet you. I'll just head over to the school and see what I can get done. Get the press up and running, get the first edition out as fast as possible." He said to no one in particular. He removed the money belt from around his waist. "Believe I'll not only pay you I'll also be opening an account. There'll be transactions for the paper and such."

On March 8, 2019 Phineas McVay wrote...

It was three days getting the shop set up, slower than Phinn would have liked, but at last, it was ready it was ready for production.

A Printers Devil would be a nice edition and make things go a bit faster as he was sure whoever took the job would need to be trained. Well, that was easily done. Phinn was a patient man, and he was not attempting a daily, at least not for the foreseeable future. A weekly would suffice for a town long without a paper.

His first job was a poster advertising for a Printers Devil. He would run several for display in high traffic areas of town and then, as always, hope for the best.

WANTED

PRINTERS DEVIL

WAGES $.60 PER WEEK

TRAINING PROVIDED

KALISPELL UNION

NEWS ITEMS ACCEPTED