Col. Varner Announces His Marriage and His Re-Purchase of The Dispatch, Oct. 30, 1924

H.B. Varner Buys Back Dispatch in Lexington, N.C.

Colonel Henry Branscombe Varner of Lexington, N.C., veteran publisher and one of the first good roads advocates in North Carolina, just couldn’t get the smell of printer’s ink out of his system. President of the National Editorial Association for years, a politician of note in the Tar Heel State, and the owner of one of the best semi-weeklies in the South, Colonel Varner and his dog “Ted” were known in newspaper and advertising agency offices throughout the country.

Printing, a publication devoted to craft, says:

H.B Varner, founder and for a number of years publisher of The Dispatch of Lexington, N.C., has again purchased this newspaper which he sold about a year ago. About the same time Mr. Varner announces his marriage to Miss Evelyn Pearce of Florida. Mr. Varner was at one time commissioner in the State Department of Labor and Printing and has been prominent in publishing and printing circles in North Carolina. During recent years he has acquired considerable interest in moving pictures, [line left out of story] itan city of America. Following which they motored through the New England States, and on their return stopped in Charlotte for the motor races.

From the front page of The Polk County News, Tryon, N.C., Oct. 30, 1924

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