The Danville, (Va.) Daily News has the following good word to say of us: While we have not yet done so, it is still not too late to mention the fact that the Roanoke News, Weldon, NC, has recently undergone a change of proprietorship. W.P. BATCHELOR, Esq., and Capt. J.G. LOCKHART have sold it to Messrs. W.W. HALL and L.M. LONG, who have assumed sole control. The new proprietors are young gentlemen of fine intellectual qualifications, energetic and public spirited, and will doubtless meet with success in their new field of labor. Under their management the News has already been much improved in appearance, while the general tone of the paper has been changed for the better. it is kept up to the standard of a first-class family newspaper, and deserves a liberal patronage. Our sympathies flow out in a tidal wave of well wishes for the old craft upon which we first ventured out upon the treacherous sea of journalism, and we shall ever watch with pleasure the success and prosperity of the Roanoke News. Long may it live to defend the rights of the party and people it represents.

Source: Roanoke News, 6 February 1879, page 2. Available online at DigitalNC.org.