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On
the west side were the type cases, stone and a job press. The type cases,
of course were where the type was set by hand for the paper. The stone was
a table with a flat top of polished stone. Smooth as a tombstone. The forms, each holding enough type & plate for one page of the paper, were
put on the stone. There were two. All of the local news and many adds were set by hand but much
of the material that filled the forms was pre-printed plate that came shipped in
boxes. This plate was one column wide and could be cut to fit anywhere it
was needed. 
All material to be printed was placed inside the forms and
locked in with the coigns. The forms were then placed on the press
platform, locked in place and you were ready to print. We had from 200 to
250 subscribers to the Times. The printing procedure went like this:
The printer stood on the west side of the press
and his “devil” (that was
generally me after I got tall enough to ink the type) stood on the east side. The devil used a roller about fifteen or sixteen inches long
made of soft rubber. It was about three inches in diameter and had a
handle on each end.