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The
Press of Adams county has been
almost co-existent with the
county. It is to the
credit of the first citizens of
West Union that they had barely
secured proper shelter for
themselves, a church or two, and
school, before they had induced
a courageous editor to undertake
the publication of a newspaper
in their midst, in a wilderness
whose solitude had only been
broken by the clearing not yet
completed, began tea years
before.
Prior to this the occasional mails had brought stray
copies of "national
Intelligencer" from Washington,
the Richmond ___" and
"Enquirer," and "Examiner," and
New York Evening Post," while
there are few regular
subscribers for "Niles'
Register," of Baltimore;
"Liberty Hall" and Cincinnati
"Gazette," Maysville
"Eagle," and the
Scioto Gazette," of Chillicothe.
THE POLITICAL CENSOR.
Our
first newspaper date from the
Spring of 1815, a time when the
Cincinnati Gazette" (established
1790,) the Scioto Gazette,
(1800) Marietta "Register,"
(1801) "Ohio Patriot," (New
Lisbon, 1804) "Western Star,"
(Lebanon, 1805) Steubenville
"Herald," (1806) "Belmont
Chronicle," (St. Clairsville,
1813) "Butler County Democrat,"
(1814) and the "Telegraph,"
(also of Hamilton, 1814) were
the only newspapers in Ohio,
then a frontier State. It
was called the "Political
Censor," and was edited and
published by James Finley
this paper was first established
in Williamsburg, then the county
seat of Clermont, by Thomas
S. Foot and Robert T.
Weed, in March, 1812.
Foot & Weed sold the
office to Finley in 1814,
who published the paper a year
at Williamsburg, then moved the
material to West Union in the
Spring of 1815. The
publication was continued here,
with the assistance of John
Woodrow late of Lynchburg,
Highland county, Ohio in a boy
in his teens, until March, 1822,
when the office was moved to
Ripley, and sold to John and
James Carnahan, in whose
hands the paper was discontinued
in 1824.
The outfit of the office was scant, the old Ramage
press, and the type being much
worn. The "censor" was a
royal sheet of 17x22 inches,
though its four columns per page
were wider than usual. It
contained little original
matter, hardly a local.
Its extracts favored the
administration and internal
improvements. The paper
was published in the building
were Mr. Uriah Upp now
lives, which for a time served
Finley as both office and
residences.
A frequent arbitrator of difficulties between his
neighbors. Finley
was elected Justice of the Peace
in 1816, and served until 1819.
Few of his official acts are
remembered, except his marrying
Robert Carl and other
citizens. by his efforts
West Union was first
incorporated, though remaining
so but three years. In
General Joseph Darlinton's
Cost Book, No. 2, page 101, is
this entry:
WEST UNION PETITION OF
INCORPORATION
Recording petition, 40½,
order, 03 .$ 46½
Copy of petition 40½, copy of
record, $1.08.... $1.48½
Search and copy of boundaries
..... $ 37½
Filing
.............................................$
4
_____
Total .......................................
$2.36½
December 8th, 1817, received of
Jas. Finley, Esq.
............ $2.00
_____
Balance due me
..............................
36½
A confirmed bachelor of 40 or
50, he married Miss Mariah
McFadden, daughter of
Moses McFadden, of this
place, a girl of 17 or 18 years.
Mr. Finley was an
honorable, easy-going,
economical, very eccentric man,
and great honor is due him and
his immediate successors for
their manly struggle to
establish even a feeble press in
our backwoods county. He
died in Brown county not long
after leaving here.
Hon. John W. Campbell, then a practitioner here,
was a contributor for the
"Censor," mostly of original
poetry. The paper and
print are still remembered as
abominable.
THE VILLAGE REGISTER
Two
young men, Ralph M. Voorheese
and John H. Wood next
undertook publishing a newspaper
in Adams county, of the above
name, "making their best bow,"
Tuesday, June 17th, 1823.
If the average country editors
of that day be a standard by
which to judge they were
abundantly able to do this, for
both were men of push and
ability.
Their type was all new, having been purchased "of the
new Cincinnati Type Foundry, at
a cost of from 40 cents to $2
per pound, according to size."
The new Strausburg Patent Press
"was bought for this office at
the great cost of $180."
It has "both iron platten and
iron bed, a great improvement on
the Ramage."
With proper management, the work this press did,
justified its owner's praise.
For, considering the manner in
which the type were inked, and
the ink distributed, its
excellent impression was
wonderful. No revolving
distributing cylinders, nor
composition rollers, had then
been thought of, the ink being
distributed by great "balls," or
sheep's pelts, stuffed with wool
combings and saturated with ink,
drawn rapidly and deftly over
the forms.
The "Register" was published on strong, white, rag
paper with bold-faced long
primer and minion type, and its
advertisements show that the
office owned an excellent
assortment of display letter.
Typographically, and in other
respects, this paper is the best
published inthe county up to
that date. The publication
days were Tuesdays, and
circulation 300.
The first seventeen numbers ere published "in the
Sparks' building, on Market
street," but the high priced
rent of $35 per year was too
expensive, so the office was
moved to the little old shop
that then stood on the site of
G. B. Grimes & Co.’s
Banking House, “on Main street,
opposite the Court-house,” where
it remained until November,
1824, then it was removed to the
lower story of the Worstell
property, “on Mulberry street,”
where it drew its expiring
breath in A. D., 1831.
John
Kilbourn's "Ohio Gazateer"
for 1830, page 296, says of the
“Village Register:” “This
paper was established in 1823,
and is still continued - having
however, changed owners and
characters several times.”
Before speaking about owners a word about names.
From 1823 to 1828 the name was
simply “Village Register.”
In 1828 it was “Village Register
and Advocate,” though what it
especially advocated is not
clear. From then until its
discontinuance in February, 1831
the title was “Village Register
and Anti-Masonic Investigator,”
with the last clause at least
explicit.
JOHN H. WOOD
Two
editors for a country newspaper
then were as much out of place
as a sole editor for the
metropolitan daily now would be
so Mr. Wood returned to
Cincinnati early in June 1824.
He had come here from
Chillicothe, but was a native of
the Queen City. As a
zealous Protestant Methodist
with Moses Lyon and
Wm. L. Chappell, also of the
Committee, Wood then
published for the Conference,
the "Methodist Correspondent,"
from 1830 to 1832. In
August, 1831, he established the
"Cincinnati Mirror and Ladies'
Parterre," with Wm. D.
Gallagher as chief editor,
from which the "National
Repository" is an outcome.
Wood & Stratton were also
well known early "Book, Job and
General Printers," at south-west
corner Walnut and Fifth streets.
Of all the Adams county printers
Mr. Wood's career was
perhaps most varied. He
was well educated, and a live
newspaper man, with all the term
implies. He died in
Cincinnati.
RALPH M. VOORHEESE
Married
Gov. Thos. Kirker's
daughter Mary, who is now
the wife of Haydon Thompson,
of Ripley. Unlike Mr.
Wood, the senior editor took
great interest in his new home,
and as early as 1824, he
undertook to establish a West
Union Public Library, but the
ungrateful settlers were
thinking more about planting the
vacant town lots in "Havana
yellow leaf" than books, so the
movement came to naught, to no
great sorrow. To appease
his grief, or for other good
reasons, he married about 1825,
and his son and only child,
Thos. Voorheese, is now a
prominent steam-boatman on the
upper Mississippi.
A LOCAL M. E. MINISTER.
Of this
place, the Rev. Allen D.
Beasley, took charge of the
paper, and soon formed a
partnership with David
Murray, jr., a young type
from sugar Tree Ridge, Highland
county, under the firm name of
Beasley, Murray & Co.
Rev. Beasley, while active in all things, was a
better exhorter than
editor, and soon found that
managing a newspaper office is
no child's play. He put
the paper entirely in Murray's
hands, (with David's
father as security for his
fulfilling Beasley's
contract with the
administrators,) and returned to
his former, more congenial
calling. Murray
claimed the rent was too high,
refused to pay it, and thereupon
Beasley secured an
execution, which was put in the
hands of David Miller,
Sheriff of Highland county, but
subsequent proceedings cannot be
traced.
Mr. Beasley married Miss Elizabeth R.
Cannon, May 15th, 1828,
who died in 1831. He
married Miss Miley
Ann Truitt,
Mar.20th, 1832, and soon moved
to Indiana. About 1845, he
went to Texas and for a time
traded in mustangs, but the
roughs, "greasers" and Indians
were so uncivilized and
quarrelsome that he was forced
to make a sudden exit, a more
rapid transition than his change
of profession from clergyman to
country editor and printer, to
horse buyer. He died at
his home in Tippecanoe county,
Indiana, in 1863, and there his
wife now lives.
DAVID
MURRAY, JR.
Was a popular journeyman, if not
editor. The boys in the
office had some lines they used
to sing with great real on his
appearance later than usual
certain mornings, which David
enjoyed as much as they did.
They were funnier then, then
now:
"That awful day
will surely come,
The appointed hour make haste:
When you must stand before old
Laws,
and marry little Grace.
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He fulfilled the prophecy by
having the Rev. James Laws
marry him to Miss Grace
Dunbar, (sister of David
Dunbar, Esq., of
Manchester,) Apr. 22d, 1829.
They soon moved to Georgetown,
Scott county, Ky., where she
died ere many years.
The motto of the "register" was Shakespear's noble
declaration, Nothing
extenuate, nor set down aught in
malice. The rates of
advertising for twelve lines
were three insertions for one
dollar - about what has been
charged by all papers since for
the same space and time.
The subscription price was $2
per annum in advance, or $3 at
the end of the year. With
Mr. Murray's departure in
July, 1831, after a useful
existence of over eight years,
the "Register" suspended.
George Gregory, James Carl and John P. Hood
all learned their trade in this
office, while James Wormall
and L. D. Campbell
were the carrier boys. An
Englishman, named Benjamin
Bullfinch, was also a
compositor who contributed a
great deal of poetry. His
poems were popular and widely
copied by the papers of that
time; possibly some were afloat
in the almanacs yet.
Bullfinch was at one time a
Cincinnati publisher.
Mr. Hood commenced learning
his trade when only 11 years
old. At that time four
faithful years were required to
learn the mysteries of the
printing business, instead of
four weeks now.
In Vol. 1 pages 89-95, of the Records of the West Union
Presbyterian church, is a long
account of the trial and
expulsion from the church of
Mr. Murray for a violation
of the Fourth Commandment, (in
travelling in the mail stage to
Maysville on the Sabbath,) and
for shoving one Wm. Thoroman
out of his office, "for
calling him a liar, kicking said
Thoroman, and for using
profane language on that and
other occasions." But
Murray, while apologizing
for his profanity and Sunday
travel, declared under similar
provocation he would fight
again.
THE JUVENILE
JOURNAL.
The greatest curiosity among
West Union papers was the
literary, miscellaneous and
humorous “Juvenile Journal,” a
5x9 inch semi-monthly, published
by John Alien, In
the “Village Register” office.
The first number appeared
Saturday, Feb. 5th, 1825. In the
absence of any reliable
statistics to the contrary, this
paper mav be claimed as
the first
juvenile periodical west of the
Alleghanies.
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It was grievously
burch__d with the heavy motto:
"While fiery hosts in heaven's wide circle play,
And bathe in livid light
the milky way,,
Safe from the storm, the meteor, and the shower;
Our pleasing page shall
charm the solemn hour."
Giving such conditions, wasn't
the charming a pretty
large undertaking? The
fourth page was nearly always of
original poetry, written by
Miss Sarah Wright of Xenia,
a relation of Mr. Voorheese.
This young lady possessed no
little political genius and
wrote __ode entitled, "The
Forty-Ninth Anniversary of
American Independence, " for the
"Register" in 1824, that had a
wonderful run in the country
newspaper all over the Union.
The only locals in the "Journal"
were those of Cupid's Ledger in
which were chronicled all the
marriages of the preceding
half-month. The clippings
were good and the spicy juvenile
ought to have had more than its
hundred subscribers, (at
seventy-five cents each per
annum,) which couldn't support
it, so it suspended at the
expiration of its first year.
Mr. Allen left here in 1826, traveled over land
to the Pacific coast, and on his
return published an account of
his journey; a readable book
that is still in existence.
He lived some years since in St.
Louis.
JACOB T. CHAPSEY
A Yankee, succeeded Murray,
Beasley & Co., and issued
the first number of the "Courier
of Liberty," in February, 1831.
It was contemporary with the
"Farmer's Chronicle," and with
that paper, and all creation,
waged a vigorous warfare on the
Masonic question. In 1832,
it supported Wm. Wirt,
the Anti-Masonic Democratic
candidate for the Presidency.
The people were much divided on this question, but the
“Courier” did not prosper.
Mar. 27, 1832, on Crapsey’s
own application. Joseph
Riggs, County Auditor, at
the suit of Nathan Guilford,
issued Crapsey the proper
certificate of insolvency.
The paper was published where Jacob Pffaummer
now lives, with the material of
the old “Register”
office. This paper was
slightly larger than its
predecessors. It suspended
in June, 1833.
Mr. Crapsey taught the school here in the
old district. No. 1, and
improved the opportunity thus
afforded by studying law.
He was soon admitted; practiced
here until about 1836, when he
went to Cincinnati. There
he now lives, and has since been
elected Prosecutor of Hamilton
county. He was a good,
though severe teacher, a fair
lawyer, a keen editorial writer,
a poor business manager.
WEST UNION REGISTER
George Medary came
here in 1833, and established a
red-hot Democratic journal
called the “West Union
Register.” Its motto was,
“All redress of political
grievance is with the people; if
the people be with us, who shall
be against us?” Its editor
seems to have occupied his time
mainly in extracting all the
demagogical arguments and abuse
he could find “against that
daring monster, Bank," and with
writing long editorials on the
same subject. The
arguments he used for “specie -
and specie only,” would have
been an excellent campaign
document against Gov.
Allen in 1875, some forty
years after they were written in
support of his party's honest
President. The paper was
published for a time in the
shops adjoining Daniel
Boyle’s residence, then
moved down in a building on
R. H. Ellison’s lot.
Medary was a vigorous
writer, an extreme
partisan, a poor business man.
He made an assignment of his
effects to James Hood, Esq.,
and left here for Clermont
county, March, 1835. He
was a brother to Hon.
Samuel Medary, who
established the “Ohio
Statesman,” and was elected
State Printer in the sessions of
1835-36.
THE FREE PRESS
The
first paper opposed to the
Democracy ever published
here was the Whig paper, West
Union "Free Press," published
and edited by Robert Jackman
and James Carl. It
dates from March, 1835.
The "Courier," prior to it, had
supported Wirt for the
Presidency, who, though
Anti-Masonic in belief, was in
all other regards, "after the
strictest sect," a Democrat.
Mr. Jackman was born in
Pennsylvania, but Mr. Carl
was a native here; died here in
1837, and now sleeps in
our cemetery. The "Press"
was a live newspaper, but of the
wrong politics to flourish well,
so in the fall of 1835, it was
sold to flourish well, so in the
fall of 1835, it was sold to
HON. JAMES SMITH
At that
time county Recorder. He
too was born in Pennsylvania,
and was a half brother to
Nathan Foster, who is still
living. Mr. Smith's
foreman and manager was Wm.
Henry Harrison Stallyards,
who now lives in Ironton, O.
After serving acceptably as
Recorder, Mr. Smith was
nominated at the celebrated Log
Cabin Convention, in Hillsboro,
in 1840, as Representative for
the Adams-Highland District, and
elected the next October.
Stallyards married
Miss Ann Brown, September
16th, 1837, and upon her death,
her sister, Eliz Brown,
both of this county, May 28th,
1842. Eliza died of
cholera in Portsmouth, O., and
Stallyards has married
the third time. The
circulation of the paper before
its suspension in 1839, had
reached 300. Its motto
was, "Open to all, influenced by
none - we follow truth whe'er it
leads the way," and it was
published in the second story of
the Bank building.
THE WEST UNION REPUBLICAN AND
POLITICAL EXAMINER.
Soon
after the "Free Press" had
suspended, it occurred to
Preston W. Sellers, who was
publishing the "Political
Examiner" at Georgetown, that he
could secure the legal printing
of Adams county by changing the
title of his paper, and after
working off his regular edition
each week, print an edition for
West Union. This he did,
and from the Spring of 1839 to
July, 1841, we had the novelty
of a West Union paper published
22 miles west of the corporation
line. Mr. James
Hood was its agent here.
ADAMS COUNTY DEMOCRAT.
November, 1811, Lewis A.
Patterson, of this place,
established this paper and
continued its publication until
his health was too poor to admit
it, when he disposed of it to
his brother, Jos. P.
Patterson, who in turn sold
it to W. R. Clarke. Mr.
Clarke sold it to John M.
Smith, in November, 1846,
who published it for a few years
as a five column paper, then
enlarged it to a large seven
column sheet, and successfully
continued it until sometime in
1859, when he sold it to R.
P. Brown. Mr. Smith
was elected Recorder,
Representative and Probate Judge
three times, of this county.
Mr. Brown continued the publication of
this paper in a very disgraceful
and distasteful manner to his
party, until Mar. 23d, 1860,
when he sold the office to W.
H. H. Stallvards, for
$13,000, if we may believe his
egotistical card, in which he
says he came here to heal up a
breach in the Democracy; had
done so, and now intended to
remove the office. The
“Democrat” was perhaps the most
prosperous of all the Adams
county papers, possessing a
large advertising patronage and
subscription of _____. Lewis
A. Patterson died in this
place in 1845; Jos. P.
Patterson in Butler, Pa., in
1849. Neither married in
this county.
DEMOCRATIC UNION.
This organ was established and
edited by T. J. Mullen
and J. K. Billings, Feb.
17, 1800, in opposition to
Brown of the “Democrat.”
Mr. Mullen retired
June 8, 1860, and was succeeded
by John P. Patterson,
Oct. 25, 1861, the latter became
sole owner.
Patterson was succeeded by John A. Cockerill
and S. E. Pearson in
January, 1863. Its
platform at this period was in
its own words, “Our position is
that the South has rebelled, but
Northern sectionalism has
provoked it, and we are against
both Southern Rebellion and
Northern Sectionalism.
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Mr. Cockerill became sole editor Feb. 12, 1864.
He was succeeded by Wm. G.
Billings who continued it
until Feb. 3, 1865, when the
paper suspended. Of the
"Union’s” editors, Messrs.
Billings and Mullen
are both still practicing law in
our county; Mr. Patterson
is a compositor on the
Cincinnati “Commercial;” Mr.
Pearson is practicing law in
Atchinson, Kansas, while Mr.
Cockerill, after a brilliant
career as managing editor of the
Cincinnati “Enquirer,” and one
of the staff of the Baltimore “
Gazette,” is at present on the
St. Louis “Dispatch.” Of
all the Adams county editors he
has achieved most distinction.
Mr. Will. G. Billings was
drowned in the Ohio, in 1866.
THE SCION OF TEMPERANCE,
Samuel Burwell, editor
and publisher, made its
appearance Feb. 17, 1853.
The office was then in the bank
building. It was enlarged
and otherwise improved Dec. 1,
1854. Its motto, was the
high sounding phrase, “Unawed by
Power and unappalled by Fear.”
Thos. J. McColIister was
an associate editor with Mr.
Burwell from Mar. 6, 1857,
to June 7th, 1859. Though
the words “of Temperance” had
been dropped from the title many
years before, they were retained
at the first column of the
editorial page until May 19,
1865. when they were changed to
“West Union Scion.” The
title of the paper was changed
from simply "The Scion,” to “The
West Union Scion” July 23, 1869.
The publication day was changed
from Friday to Thursday, Sept.
1, 1870. The “Scion”
enjoys the distinction of being
the oldest paper in the county
or ever published in it.
It has been a prosperous paper
from the start and we trust its
sun of prosperity may never set.
Its politics has always been
Republican, but there is nothing
aggressive in its warfare.
Circulation 900.
PEOPLE'S DEFENDER.
Friday, Jan. 19, 1866, a live
democratic organ of the above
name made its appearance on our
streets with J. W. Eylar
as sole editor and publisher.
June 14th, 1867, Mr. E.
formed a partnership with his
brother Oliver, under the
firm name of J. W. Eylar
& Bro., which existed until Apr.
26, 1876, O. A. having in the
meantime accepted a position on
the staff of the “Dallis Daily
Herald,” and by his energy and
ability has won golden opinions
from the press in the “Lone Star
State.” Mr. J. W. Eylar
has since successfully edited
the “Defender,” changing its
form and type several times,
until the present when it is
more properous if not
more influential than ever.
The paper is a good newspaper
and to that cause much of its
influence and circulation may be
attributed. Mr. Eylar
has served four years in the
Ohio Legislature
THE ADAMS COUNTY NEW ERA.
In the spring of 1877, some
sixty prominent republicans in
the county, f_eling that there
was a demand for a more
progressive newspaper formed
themselves into a company,
purchased a fine outfit, and
secured the services of C. E.
Irwin, of the "Portsmouth
Republican" to conduct it.
The directors in their card say
"that they did not enter the
field with any desire, or idea
of speculation, but solely that
the Republicans of the county
might have a paper true in their
interests and adapted to their
intelligence, and in every way
worthy their patronage."
The initial number of this
handsome thirty-two column,
26x12 paper, appeared on the 6th
day of July, 1877, almost every
merchant in the county inserting
an advertisement therein, and
some two thousand copies struck
off and circulated gratuitously.
That the people wanted just such
a paper as the "Era" was proven
by the large number of
subscriptions that came to it.
On its second issue the books
show that 300 papers were sent
to paid-up subscribers. The
subscription and local
advertising patronage at the
present time, though both are
taken at the lowest rates, is
larger and better than any paper
printed in Adams county.
During the fall campaign of
1879, the circulation amounted
to 1,400 and 1,500 copies, and
now circulates, according to the
books, over 960 papers weekly.
Mr. C. E. Irwin, who is now the largest
stockholder in the enterprise
and its editor, is a clear,
forcible and fearless writer -
one who earnestly endeavors to
run along band in hand with the
public sentiment of ail an
intelligent and honest people,
and who does not hesitate to
force a clear path for genuine
progress. Mr.
Irwin is a thorough printer,
a practical and prosperous
newspaper man, having earned a
reputation in the conduct of the
Ports mouth (O.) “Republican,”
which he owned and edited from
1870 to 1876. A part of
the conditions of the sale of
the “Republican” were that he
should not enter the newspaper
business at Portsmouth for five
years. In May, 1876, he
was chosen City Clerk of the
city of Portsmouth for one year,
in which capacity he
distinguished himself as a
skillful book-keeper and a
zealous and honest servant for
the public. In May of
1877, he was called on to aid in
the establishment of the “New
Era” in Adams county, and has
located permanently at West
Union. Mr. Irwin
married in November, 1869,
Miss H. L. Wright, daughter
of S. M. Wright, of West
Union, O., Mr. Irwin at
that time being a resident of
Cincinnati, and connected with
the printing house of Thos.
Wrightson & Co., 167
Walnut street.
MANCHESTER
NEWSPAPERS - PEOPLE'S
INTELLIGENCER.
This was the first paper ever
published in Manchester.
After the death of Mr.
Jackman, editor of the
“People’s Intelligencer,” of
West Union, Henry B. Woodrow
bought the material of the
establishment, removed it to
Manchester, and Feb. 25, 1852,
issued the first number of the
“People’s Intelligencer” at that
place. The paper as it had
previously been, while under
Mr. Jackman’s control, was
Whig in its politics, and gave a
vigorous support to Gen.
Scott for the Presidency in
that year. It suspended
Apr. 6, 1853. The old
press on which it was printed is
now used in the office of the
West Union "Scion."
MANCHESTER
GAZETTE
After the "Intelligencer"
suspended, it was several years
before another attempt was made
to establish a newspaper in
Manchester. At length, on
Friday, Aug. 1, 1867, the first
number of the Manchester
“Gazette” made its appearance,
with the name of H. C.
Doddridge as editor and
publisher. The “Gazette” was a
24 column paper, and ably
conducted by Mr.
Doddridge, until failing
health compelled him to retire
from it.
On June 8, 1871, it passed into the hands of J. O.
Shiras, who on that day made
his editorial bow to the public,
and presented them a 28 column
paper and conducted it until
December, 1871, when
Holderness & Glover
purchased the establishment.
With the number for Thursday, Feb. 1, 1872, appear the
names of Glover & Pierce
as publishers and
proprietors, without any formal
farewell of the old proprietors
or saturation of new editor.
The announcement is simply made
that John E. Pierce has
bought out the interests of
W. H. Holderness, in the
office, April 11th, 1872, it
appeared with 32 columns.
August 9th, 1872, another change was made. The
name of W. H. Holderness
takes the place of Pierce's
and the firm is again
Holderness and Glover.
September 9th, 1872, the name of
W. H. Holderness appears
alone as proprietor.
From March 26th, 1874, to May 14th, the Gazette appears
in greatly reduced size, the
last date, May 14th, containing
the valedictory of the editor.
The next number, May 21st, 1874,
appears with its broad pages,
containing 32 columns, and the
pleasant smiling salutatory of a
new editor in the person of
Thomas P. Foster, publisher
and proprietor.
July 9th, 1875, the name of W. H. Holderness
again appears as sole editor,
and who run the Gazette until
April 14th, 1876, which number
contains his valedictory and the
salutatory of still another
editor, W. C. Pennywitt,
who continued it until March 2d,
1877, with which number he
announces its discontinuance.
Thus ended the existence of the
Manchester Gazette.
ADAMS COUNTY DEMOCRAT
The
publication of a weekly
newspaper with the above this
was commenced in Manchester,
April 1871, by Edwin Shivel.
Its
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mission appears to have been
the advocacy of the removal of
the county seat to that place.
The better to reach the ears and
secure the influence of the
dominant party, in favor of its
object, it adopted the name of
Democrat, and advocated
Democratic principles.
The vote on the question of removed having shown that
the majority of the people were
opposed to it, the Democrat
suspended soon after the
election, in the fall of 1871.
MANCHESTER HERALD
The first number of the
Manchester Herald was issued May
16th, 1878, by G. M. Holoway.
The material of the office was
brought from Portland, Jay
county, Indiana, and was owned
by Holoway and
Teinmonds. The Herald
was a Democratic paper, and
remained under the management of
Mr. Holoway until February
17th, 1879,when it yielded to
financial embarrassments, and
was bought by John H.
Flaugher, who changed its
name to the
THE MANCHESTER INDEPENDENT.
This
paper now, as its name indicates
is non-partisan. It
was published by Mr. Flaugher
until November 29th 1879, when
it was sold to Messrs,
Bailey and Kirker.
One or two changes have since
taken place in the proprietors
until Ernest T. Kirker
has become editor and
proprietor.
With the number of May 7th, 1880, the publications of
the Manchester Independent and
discontinued.
OHIO RIVER BOATMAN
On the
14th day of May, 1880, appeared
the first number of the Ohio
River Boatman, at Manchester.
It took the place of the
Independent. It is devoted
to the river interests and
steamboat men. It is a 16
column paper, E. T. Kirker,
Publisher
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