![]() Doughty's interest and continued as publisher until 1910, when he leased the paper to Jack Allgood and Dean Collins. A few months later (January 29 of the next year) Snyder withdrew as a partner, and in 1892 Carey Hayter purchased an interest. Doughty and George Snyder and was moved to Dallas. The Polk County Observer was started in Monmouth in 1888 by Charles C. Wash didn't need much space for set editorials, for he expressed himself and his attitudes in the news columns whenever the spirit moved him. No heads adorned the items, which were separated by added space (the printer would say, by slugs). was almost solid with short items, sized from the top down with the largest at the bottom of each column. On the second page was a column of editorial and the rest nearby correspondence, mostly from Independence and Monmouth two columns of advertising. Five columns of ads on the left side of the first page, the rest boiler plate (ready-set) miscellany. The paper, issued Fridays, had an 8-column, 13-em format. ![]() Here's the issue of Friday, January 12, 1894. Let's take a look at the Itemizer under his direction. Glass & Prudhomme became the publishers in 1885, and W. Pipes moved to Dallas and for more than a year occupied the chair of editor of the Itemizer. For one year Good tried to serve both Independence and Dallas with the same paper, printing it all at home but having one side (two pages) set up in Independence under the direction of M. The paper struggled financially, owing to the publisher's lack of business enterprise, and the first power press, installed by Good several years before any paper in the larger town of Corvallis made the venture, remained unpaid-for several years later. Good changed the name in 1879 to the Polk County Itemizer, which it remained throughout its independent career. Casey's ownership dates from & Williams (Walter) took hold. Casey changed publication day to Saturday. The name had been changed to the Dallas Itemizer, December 2, 1872, under Hammond, Rubell, and Hedges, editors and publishers. Clark in turn sold to Casey & Hammond, and Ed Casey soon became sole owner. Lyle took hold but before long sold out to Reese Clark, later of Woodland, Calif. ![]() Several changes of ownership followed this disastrous campaign. Sullivan purchased the paper from Tyson in 1872 he called it the Liberal Republican, synchronizing with the Liberal Republican campaign of Horace Greeley, whom the newspaper supported for president. ![]() Tyson, editor and publisher, who changed the publication day to Saturday, cut the price to $2 a year, and claimed 500 circulation. The paper's next name was the Oregon Republican, given it in March 1870 by R. Smith defeated David Logan for congress." It was a four-page seven-column paper, issued on Mondays, and Mr. The Signal was a political newspaper, Democratic, "born," Vivian Fiske says, "for the political campaign in which Joseph E. Upton, and its first name was the Polk County Signal. It was founded, like so many other newspapers, by J. The Dallas Weekly Itemizer, which survives as a part of Earle Richardson's Polk County Itemizer-Observer, published at Dallas, was the county's next newspaper, the first one of any real significance. After a few issues the paper was moved, July 19, to Corvallis, where it died October 11, a few months before the appearance of J. The first number, which was closer to the last than the hopeful publisher had any inkling, appeared May 6. It was published at Eola, a little town near the Marion county line, by C. Dallas.-A Baptist Democratic weekly, the Religious Expositor, was Polk County's first contribution to Oregon journalism.
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