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full charge and ran it in his own name as editor, with Frank and Walter 

 Ward as associate editors. 



In November, 1883, H. W. Magee and J. W. Wood bought the paper 

 and tried their 'prentice hand as editorial helmsmen. In January, 1884, 

 Magee sold his interest to J. E. Clarke ; and the only copy of the Chronicle 

 that I have been able to find, bore date " Thursday, January 24, 1884. Vol. 

 I, No. 24. J. E. Clarke and J. W. Wood, editors and proprietors." It 

 contained a report of a meeting of about forty persons, just held at the 

 Sierra Madre Villa hotel, to talk up a College project for Pasadena. It 

 mentioned that the Public Library was open only on Wednesdays and Sat- 

 urdays from 2 till 4:30 p. m.; Wm. Doyle, acting librarian. It gave only 

 four churches — the Methodist, then meeting in Williams Hall; the Presby- 

 terian, in their own house down on California street ; the Episcopal and 

 the Baptist societies met in Library Hall. It gave as a local item of note, 

 that on Monday, January 21, 1884, 517 letters were received at the Pasa- 

 dena postoffice, and two sacks of papers. Its printing was still done at Los 

 Angeles. But in February, a practical printer named E. N. Sullivan was 

 added to the firm ; a stock of type and a hand press were bought ; the 

 paper was enlarged to eight columns per page, it having had only six be- 

 fore ; and the name was changed to 



Pasadena and Vai,ley Union. —The first issue was on Saturday 

 February 16, 1884, by the three-headed firm of Clarke, Wood & Sullivan. 

 And as an historic incident of this time, Mr. Wood writes me : 



"J. W. Hugus kindly lent his assistance to put 'in case' the first 

 supply of type ever brought to Pasadena. He worked a week gratis, 'just 

 to get his hand in,' as he expressed it then, for he was an old printer." 



Sullivan soon dropped out, leaving the firm as Clarke & Wood again. 

 Then on November 22, 1884, Mr. Clarke, on account of continued illness, 

 sold his interest to Mr. Wood and retired, and the plucky J. W. W. carried 

 it alone till about Christmas week, when he met with an accident by which 

 a leg was broken and his back severely injured, so that he had to give up 

 all business for the time. And on January 10, 1885, he sold the establish- 

 ment to Charles A. Gardner, an old experienced editor, who at once took 

 hold of the concern with vim and enterprise. 



April 10, 1885, J. E. Clarke comes on deck again, having bought from 

 Gardner a half interest in the paper ; and from this date the firm was 

 Gardner & Clarke. In April, 1886, during Citrus Fair week, a small daily 

 called Union /?^;zzV7r was issued, and the Los Angeles Times oi April 15, 

 said : 



"The latest addition to the family of Southern California journalism is 

 the Pasadena Union Junior. The "Gem's" little, but a lively daily. 

 Mother and child are doing well, and " the old man " — Br'er Gardner — is 

 likely to pull through," 



