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German M. E. church on Rock creek erected. Also Lutheran church and school house, in Alma.
March 12th, big fire at Eskridge; burning all buildings on west side, between Mudge's and Trusler's. Loss $25,000. E. L. Shumate & Son, W. HI. Mills, J. W. Taylor, and Parmiter & Co., being main losers.
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RESIDENCE OF MR. ANTON SCHEWE, Farmer Township,
RESIDENCE OF MR. FRED THOWE, Farmer Township.
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RESIDENCE OF MR. JACOB TERRASS, Farmer Township.
RESIDENCE OF MR. AUGUST HANSEN, near McFarland.
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RESIDENCE OF MR. OTTO HESS, Halifax.
RESIDENCE OF MR. WILLIAM DREBING, near Halifax.
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RESIDENCE OF MR. FRANK BLANC, Illinois Creek.
RESIDENCE OF MR. CHAS. ZECKSER, on West Branch.
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RESIDENCE OF MR. GUS DROEGE, Farmer Township.
RESIDENCE OF MR. JOSEPH THOES, Farmer Township.
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HOME AND FARM BUILDINGS OF MR. FRANK RICKERSHAUSER, near Paxlco.
RESIDENCE OF MR. CHRISTIAN KUENZLI (deceased.)
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THRESHING AT THE PALENSKE FARM, NEAR ALMA.
RESIDENCE OF COL. E. H. SANFORD (deceased ). The First House in Eskridge.
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RESIDENCE OF MR. JOHN SCHWALM, Kuenzli Creek.
RESIDENCE OF MR. CHRIS THOWE, Farmer Township.
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ALMA ROLLER MILLS, H. F. DISBROW, PROPRIETOR.
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SCENE AT DAVIS BROS.' RANCH, 1898.
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RESIDENCE OF MR. WILLIAM HORNE, Spring Creek.
RESIDENCE OF THE LATE MR. D. A. WOODARD, Wilmington Township.
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March 23d, a destructive prairie fire passes through Mill creek and Newbury townships.
March 24th, Warren, Saxton & Offord's barn, Maple Hill, burned. Loss $20,000. Ten imported stallions.
March 30th, A. C. Kuenzli's meat market, Paxico, burned.
April 7th, A. Kettermann's barn, corn, hay, and wheat burned.
June 27th, Wm. Baldwin, engineer on Rock Island, knocked from step and killed by bridge over Mission creek.
July 3d, Fowler Bros. largest barn struck by lightning and burned in 30 minutes.
October 6th, Squire Cantrill, Harveyville, shipped hog to Kansas City market that weighed 980 pounds.
July 27th, Henry Michaelis' wheat stacks burned.
August 22d, Charlie Zwanziger's barn burned.
September 8th, ten empty cars wrecked at Dan Morlan place on M., A. & B.
October, Thos. Cousins severely cut by corn cutter in runaway.
November 9th, First National Bank ( J. F. Limerick, president ) suspended.
December 4th, Pancoast house, Alma, burned.
December 22d, old Alma hotel, bank building and Allen Bros. store burned.
December 23d, Alliance corn crib, power corn sheller and freight car burned at Harveyville.
1891.
January 2d, David Crawford fell forty feet off of Santa Fe bridge- arm broken.
January 5th, Goddard's barn, Vera, burned-spontaneous com- bustion.
February 17th, Rocky Ford bridge, Maple Hill, completed. Mc- Crumb bridge and Dry Creek bridges completed in March.
Double arch bridge at Dieball crossing completed.
Church at Templin dedicated, September 20th.
· March 1st, Dowell killed Wheaton, near Alta Vista, in dispute over rented farm.
March 17th, the biggest steer on record, the property of L. Pauly, died; 7 feet high and weighed 2,600 pounds. Hide weighed 300.
April 21st, C. C. Brooks drowned while attempting to cross Mis- sion creek.
June 4th, coal chute at McFarland burned.
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School house at McFarland completed in November.
Belvue bridge, cost $8,000, completed December Ist.
15,000 foreign cattle grazed in Wabaunsee county this year. September, L. Huebner's house, Hendricks creek, burned.
Peter Lang had both legs broken in runaway, caused by load of lumber slipping forward on team while going down hill.
1892.
John E. Mayes committed suicide in cemetery at Wabaunsce.
March 3d, Dr. Culp escaped from Alma jail by the aid of keys made from a piece of broom handle. Run over and killed by cars at Albu- querque, New Mexico, May 4th.
March 30th, Frank Meier's barn, near Halifax, with one cow and five horses burned.
April 4th, stone school house in Dist. 18 demolished by cyclone.
September 17th, drill for coal at McFarland reached a depth of 1,700 feet.
M. E. church at Bradford dedicated.
October, Liederkranz singing society organized in Alma.
December, Bates Bros. left Vera.
50 quarrymen and stone cutters employed at Fox's quarries, four miles southwest of Alma.
July 16th, George Eden, baggagemaster, killed in Indiana. While train was backing piece of coupling pin broke and hit George in head.
1893.
New addition to court house erected.
February 11th, Louis Drebing killed a deer near Halifax.
April 9th, George Berroth's house, midway between Alma and Wamego, burned.
April 18th, Jesse Cahill shot in breast by Ira Johnson at Junction City.
January 8th, remains of Wmn. Keeler, killed at Falls City, Ne- braska, brought to Alma for burial.
January 11th, II. G. Richter killed 27 jack rabbits at Templin.
February 7th, James Carroll injured in wreck on the Big Four, near Pana, Illinois. 91 passengers injured and baggageman burned in wreck.
February 13th, Louis Muehlenbacher killed by flying limb while felling a trec. Rendered speechless by wound in head.
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February, four members of Tillman family died with measles- death resulting from exposure on deck of vessel in New York harbor.
March, Prairie band of Pottawatomies paid at St. Marys. Each received $95.75.
J. Francis Harris, the long haired man-not from Borneo, but from the hills of Michigan, the Black Hills, and other parts of the world too numerous to mention, discovers Alma.
April 18th, fire at Rosenstengel's, near Newbury,
April 7th, Otto Graf Von Wartensleben died at Wheaton, Texas. Son-in-law of Charles Hanson; Count; belonged to one of leading German families. Great traveler and showed with much pride invi- tations to royal receptions. Had letters of recommendation from titled personages in old world. Taught home school in Dist. 18.
James Lumsden one of 300 cowboys to start from Chadron, Ne- braska, July 3d, for World's fair, Chicago.
October, quite a number of pigs killed by wolves four miles south of Alma.
October 15th, three colored men killed in collision at Paxico.
October 22d, John Sudweeks' residence, Eskridge, burned.
October 23d, Fred Miller's house, South branch, burned-lamp explosion.
October 28th, Conrad Zehner found dead in his office.
Sunday. December 10th, Miss May Withgot, Paxico, injured in runaway. Died Tuesday.
December 19th, Franz Meier's house near coal shaft burned.
June 30th, Mrs. J. M. Eck struck by lightning.
1894.
January 11th, S. H. Fairfield's office building, McFarland, burned.
February 2d, Henry Biesterfeldt badly injured by overturned wagon on grade of Belvue bridge. Died October 1, 1897. Constant sufferer for nearly four years.
January 22d, the divorced wife of Ira Johnson dies from symptons of poisoning. Died at Charles Wenzel's.
February 10th, John Johnson killed by falling off stone abutment of Rock Island bridge over Hendricks creek.
March 2d, Jo Davis killed by Hugh Russell at Paxico. Struck in back of head by rock thrown by Russell.
March 12th, James Enlow's house, Wabaunsee, burned.
March 17th, Peter Muehlenbacher murdered. (See pages 157-161).
April 23d, Ad Thompson's house, Mission ereek, burned.
June 13th, Henry, the five year old son of Carl Maike, drowned by
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falling headlong into a barrel while attempting to feed the pigs.
July 4th, Charlie Zwanziger's house, near Alma, burned. Before retiring the smell of burning pine caused search for fire but could not be located. Mr. John Winkler going home from celebration awakened the family.
July 9th. Connell's blacksmith shop, Paxico, burned.
August 6th, Oke Anderson, Nehring branch, found dead in stock well.
August 6th, freight train parted between Volland and Alma, causing collision at Alma depot. 47 head of cattle killed.
August 7th, Lillian Smith fell from top to bottom of outside stairway, Kaufman building.
August 8th, Mrs. Matt. Thomson, Alma, while opening shutters fell from second story window; severely injured.
August 10th, Dr. Trivett, J. Y. Waugh, and John Sudweeks in- jured in runaway.
August 14th, James Driver's granary, near Vera, burned.
October 14th, M. E. church, Kaw township, dedicated.
1895.
January, vein of red marble found, while digging a well on farm of Rev. O. F. Zeckser, Templin.
Sunday, January 27th, 5 p. m., Commercial House burned-defect- ive flue.
January 30th, Henry N. Castle and wife lost, with 400 passengers, on steamer Elbe, between San Francisco and Sandwich Islands.
February 3d, Scheidt building, owned by C. Wertzberger, burned. March 1st, Chas. Zwanziger's house and barn, near Alma, burned. March 15th, Stuewe Bros. opened Bank of Alma.
March 24th, Solscheid building, in Alma, burned.
April 5th, Biglin school house (Jt. Dist. 30) demolished by cyclone. Considerable damage done on Illinois creek.
July 11th, tri-weekly mail service put on between Alma and Esk- ridge on account of washout on M. A. & B., July 4th. 12 inches rain fell. 150 men repairing track and building bridges.
September 14th, Dr. Trivett found body of Simon Griffith in his house, near Bradford. Death had resulted from a self-inflicted gun- shot wound about six days before.
September 18th, George Ewing's house, barn, and granary, five miles northwest of Alma, burned.
John Clifford Smith, Maple Hill, accidentally shot while looking for some article in a trunk. Died nine hours later.
October 19th, fire discovered under stairway in Brandt's hotel. Timely discovery saved building.
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1896.
January, Joseph Tillman, Newbury, loses four children, measles, exposed in N. Y. harbor by quarantine officer.
January 5th, Vet Stratton's residence near Alta Vista, burned while family were at church.
February 4th, 2 p. m., Richter building, occupied by Louis Schroeder, furniture, and restaurant occupied by Enlow, burned.
March 12th, three different fires at Cornell's residence in Alma- 10 a. m., noon and 7 p. m. The fire caught from the thimble through the ceiling, extending along the joists to the sides and roof. Only by the most strenuous exertions was the building saved.
March 16th, Daniel Shoecraft, of Eskridge, and young grandson, Byron Shoecraft, of St. Joseph. Mo., drowned at Krapp crossing of Mill creek. The train being late, Claude Shumate undertook to drive them to Eskridge. Mr. Shoecraft sank immediately, but the little boy, after drifting 200 yards, caught an overhanging limb. Claude secured a rope at Geo. Screiber's ( Lund place ) and threw it three times, but Byron failed to catch it. With a parting "good bye" the noble little fellow went down in the turbid waters of Mill creek. Three hundred searchers came together and at 3 p. m. Sunday the bodies were found, about ten feet apart, a quarter of a mile below the crossing. Jim Moore found the body of little Byron and but a moment later Mr. Shoecraft's body was found by Elmer Meredith. At the time this was the only crossing between Alma and Eskridge without a bridge.
March 16th, Wm. Wehrle, formerly of Halifax, found murdered on his claim near Alva, Oklahoma.
March 19th, Frank Mitchell murdered ( see page 155).
March 26th, Fred Steinmeyer, Sr., had both shoulders dislocated in a runaway.
March 28, Alma purchased her first fire apparatus and 500 feet of hose from Junction City for $250.
April 14th, opera house (lower floor Odd Fellows building) narrowly escaped destruction by overturned lamp-flames rose to ceiling.
April 17th, the James Driver building on East Main St., Alma, burned, 3 a. m.
April 23d, John Mc Williams' residence in Kaw township, burned.
April 24th, cloudburst on Spring creek, wall of water 10 feet high. Geo. Schade lost 24 head of stock and Conrad Mueller 2 head. Herman Kesitzke compelled to climb a tree where he remained till the flood subsided.
December 25th, Herman Zeckser, 16 year old son of Aug. Zeckser, lost three fingers by gun explosion.
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On the same day J. M. Lee and Ed. Coxen narrowly escaped drown- ing while crossing Mill creek east of the poor farm.
May 20th, Jansen's house near Maple Hill, destroyed by a small cyclone; also the house of John Gilkerson near Valencia. The funnel- shaped cloud was plainly visible from Maple Hill and Newbury.
May, Charles Hanson narrowly escaped drowning at the Krieg crossing of Spring creek. Team drowned, but Mr. Hanson caught, on a tree. Henry Reuter waded as far as he could, then with a long pole succeeded in extricating Mr. Hanson from his perilous position.
June 18th, Isidor Haller's corn cribs, with 1,700 bushels corn burned.
July 9th, James Mullin, aged 21, drowned by bank caving in while fishing in Rock creek.
July 12th, Johnnie Christensen, the 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Christensen, of Alta Vista, thrown from horse, dying two days later from injuries received.
August, Alta Vista camp Sons of Veterans mustered.
August 23d, Eddie Anderson, Halifax, had heel crushed between bumpers while attempting to cross between the cars of a cattle train.
September 2d, a small building owned by X. Wiedemann in south- east part of Alma burned at midnight.
November 29th, De Witt Allendorph, while ont hunting with Roy Hensel was shot by the accidental discharge of his shotgun that he had leaned against an old unused boiler in Mr. Pauly's timber. A part of the collar bone and four inches of the arm bone were removed by a surgical operation. The best of care and a strong constitution insured an early and complete recovery.
1897.
January 8th, a 14 year old son of Henry Hupe, Kaw township, starting on a hunt slipped on icy porch, discharging contents of shot- gun in abdomen. Buried following day.
January 25th, Rock Island depot, Maple Hill, burned.
McMahan property, built for Odd Fellows Hall, and Jonvenal building burned Saturday night, January 29th.
February 26th, a brakeman whose home was in Belleville, killed at crossing of M. A. & B. track, near Pavilion. His first trip. Blinded by steam and walked between cars.
March 3d, Stone's store, Wabaunsee, burglarized.
March 6th, Jacob Bagwell killed by train near Eskridge.
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March 13th. Elma, the three year old daughter of F. Stuewe, died from result of an operation.
March 28th, Sammle Hull accidentally shot in hand at Eskridge.
April 22d, Henry Miller's house on Paw Paw creek destroyed by cyclone. Henry's leg broken in two places; August, his 7 year old son, killed; Panlina, aged 3, arm broken: Mrs. Miller, bad cut in leg; Bessie Simmerwell bruised all over, and Paul Schmanke slightly injured. Path of storm 8 feet wide. Struck hill east of house and disappeared in clouds.
April 23d, Ed. Krapp's house burned. Mrs. Krapp making soap, boiled over setting house on fire.
New stone school house in Dist. 45 built.
May 26th, small barn near Lutheran church burned. Small boy and matches.
May 13th, James Driver's house, Paxico, burned.
June 21st, Commercial house barn burned, at midnight.
July 8th, Mrs. Robert Enlow died as result of operation performed in 'Topeka.
August 21st, Mrs. Green, Wabaunsce, seriously burned by explod- ing lamp.
October 19th, club house, Paxico, fired by incendiary. Building saved by hard work.
October 28th. Henry Wille fired house and barn and killed himself.
November 11th, Herman Diepenbrock's slaughter house burned.
November 17th, Willie Pries playing with matches set fire to honse. Extinguished by Vena Lang.
December 5th, Scott Willis, Maple Hill, found dead.
1898.
Jannary 3d, Alma National Bank opened for business.
May 4th, John Thomas shot four persons at Maple Hill. (See page 17).
July 16th, the Allm home, the property of Chris. Anderson, and lately vacated by him, caught fire while five children were asleep. Mary, Eva, and Edna, aged 13, 3, and 9, burned to death. Others badly burned.
Evangelical church, Wells creek, dedicated. Rev. Abele assisted by Revs. Silbermann, Kallich, Nagel, and Barkmann.
August 9-15th, M. A. & B. track, Alma to Manhattan, torn up.
August 31st, Catholic fair and festival at Liederkranz Park-$700 receipts.
September 27th, Bradford mill burned.
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September 29th, the two year old son of John Haynes, near Keene, badly mutilated by hogs-having strayed from house and fallen into pen.
October 5th, Wm. Correll killed at bridge near John Boettcher's while leaning from cab window.
October 17th and 18th, worst blizzard ever known for the season, many cattle in pastures dying.
November 19th, five wagon loads of Pottawatomie Indians passed through Alma on way from Indian Territory to Reserve.
November 30th, John Thoes found dead on north side of Ad. Lund's barn. Had been dragged four miles. Had left Alma at 8 p. m. the night before. 17 years before, Nick Thoes, a brother, had been drowned at the crossing 200 yards north of where body was found, E. Wetzel, with him at the time, swimming ashore. Creek swollen from melting snows.
December 5th, service from Alma to Manhattan over Rock Island discontinued.
December, new school house in Dist. 15 completed.
1899.
January 9th, George McCrumb run over and killed one mile east of McFarland.
January 18th, John Spiecker's house, four miles south of Alma. burned.
January 22d, LaFayette Ditty, former resident of Alma, drowned himself and son on "Lucky Baldwin's" ranch, near Los Angeles, Cal.
February 6th, Catholic church, Alma, burned 3:30 a. m. Built in 1874. Richly furnished. Organ, vestments, and decorations, Build- ing 38x60, with tower on west end, 16x16. Loss $10,000.
February 7th, G. Nehring had ankle badly shattered while cutting tree on Nehring branch.
March 16th, Wm. Freeman, express messenger, burned in wreck at Volland; 4 cars burned.
March 20th, Guy Lumsden killed on A. M. Jordan's farm, Kuenzli creek. Team ran away and struck tree, upsetting wagon on pile of rails, with body underneath.
March, McFarland depot moved from north to south side of track. June 15th, postoffice at Fairfield discontinued.
August 22d, Catholic picnic at Liederkranz park; receipts $600.
October 8th, Waushara M. E. church dedicated. 34x50 and cost $1,600. Replaced old church built in 1878.
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August 30th, James Herron's barn, Plumb township, burned, with five horses.
October, Miller precinct established.
October 27th, Harry Sparling thrown from horse near Eskridge, dying next day.
June 16th, son of David Oliver, Maple Hill, killed by horse falling backwards. Just one year before to a day another son was drowned.
June 28th, Harry Tandy and Calvin Burger murdered at Mc- Farland.
June 27th, Wm. Drebing died at his home on Mill creek. (See biography).
July 6th, cloudburst Clapboard ravine came near resulting in dis- aster to, the four families camping out. 13 cars ditched on M. A. & B. at Leo. Gersbach's, and washout at Volland on Rock Island.
December 19th, new Catholic church dedicated by Rt. Rev. Bishop Fink. Corner stone laid August 27th.
1900.
January 1st, John Sudweeks appointed county commissioner to fill vacancy caused by death of C. N. Earl.
January 15th, Harvey Roark, aged 15, killed by horse falling on him while driving cattle on Muehlenbacher branch.
April, Eskridge State Bank organized.
June 20th, Alta Vista Bank opened.
August 10th, W. II. Collier's house, Alma, burned.
August 30th, 10,000 people at Woodmen celebration, Alma.
August 31st, Rock Island depot burned 1:30 a. m.
October 14th, Mr. Hearn's barn (on Dierker place) burned.
November 19th, barn at Kinne place, occupied by D. U. Millison burned.
December 2d, Evangelical church, Wells creek, dedicated, 700 present.
December 24th, 17 year old son of Mr. Blair, Maple Hill, killed by discharge of gun he was trying to pull through hedge, muzzle fore- most.
December 28th, George Thierer, Volland, accidentally shot by discharge of gun his brother was cleaning.
While attempting to board freight train at McFarland tramp fell off bridge breaking several ribs and dislocating hip.
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1901.
January 25th, Rock Island depot burned, origin of fire unknown.
February 13th, Alva Feaghans, of Alma, killed in Philippines.
June, new Lutheran parsonage completed. Old building sold to Mr. Collier for residence.
June 26th, John Olson committed suicide.
August 1st, Stuewe Bros. lose 250 tons alfalfa by spontaneous combustion.
September 30th, wreck at Maple Hill, stock killed.
November 3d, Woodmen hall and two other buildings burned, Maple Hill.
November 10th, Charles Maas, aged 17, killed by accidental dis- charge of gun.
November, Fred Slusser, fireman on M. A. & B., killed in collision with Mo. Pac. at Osage City.
July 19th, Johnnie Schilling, 8 years old, accidentally killed by gun in hands of 10 year old sister.
Clyde Burkett, 14 year old son of Jerry Burkett, 6 miles east of Eskridge, killed by lightning.
1902.
January Ist, only four of the Connecticut colony in the county: A. A. Cottrell, S. A. Baldwin, J. F. Willard, and Wm. Mitchell.
February 4th, L. Pries' store, Alma, burned, 1 a. m .; loss $14,000. Dolley & Stewart's store at Maple Hill burned. Loss $25,000.
March 28th, L. B. Moss, of Trenton, Missouri, brakeman on Rock Island, killed at McFarland.
April 22d, a Mr. Quinn drowned in Mill creek at Maple Hill.
May 13th, half mile of Rock Island track washed out on Henry Grimm's farm, near Volland.
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Newspaper History.
The News: First paper in county, first number issued as The Wabaunsee County Herald, by Sellers & Bertram, Alma, April 1st, 1869. Bertram sold his interest to S. H. Fairfield, October 28th, 1869. March 9th, 1871, S. H. Fairfield became sole proprietor and changed name to Alma Union, with R. M. Tunnell, as local editor till November 12th, 1871. May 1st, 1872, Sellers becomes sole proprietor and changes name to Wabaunsee County News. Sold to Nathan Hughes, October 10th, 1883. Sold to D. W. Scott, August 24th, 1887, and on July 5tlı, 1888, to I. D. Gardiner, who changes name to The Alma News. Sells an interest to F. W. Graham in December, 1889. A. O. Grigsby takes charge of the paper December 8th, 1892, and re- tires November 23d, 1893, leaving L. H. Gregory as manager. January 11th, 1894, the paper suspends publication. The material is shipped to Topeka and the subscription list sold to the Alma Enterpise.
The Alma Blade, R. Cunningham & Co. First number, Alma, March 14th, 1877, and last issue February 20th, 1878. The Mail was issued from the Blade office during the fall campaign of 1877.
The Wabaunsee County Herald, J. B. Campbell & Bro., editors. First issue, Alma, October 1880. Sold to W. W. Cone, September 1881, and name changed to the Home Weekly. Moved to Eskridge, January 25th, 1882. April, 1885, Cone sold to Richey & Andrews-The Home Weekly Publishing Co., Henry Rickel, editor, till October 29th, 1885, when paper was sold to D. V. Dowd. Consolidated with the Eskridge Star, September 13th, 1888.
The Alma Enterprise, Vol. 1, No. 1, Welch & Sage, editors. First number issued October 11th, 1884. Welch sold interest to O. W. Little, October 16th, 1891, since which time the paper has been conducted by Sage & Little.
The Paxico Courier, L. E. Hoffman, editor. First number Sep- tember Ist, 1888. Leased to Oscar Rose, June 21st, 1889. Bought by Matt. Thomson September 1st, 1889. Material moved to Alma and used in publishing
The Alma Signal, Vol. 1, No. 1, Matt. Thomson, editor and pub- lisher, being issued September 7th, 1889. Sold to Chester & Carroll, October 18th, 1901. Chester sold his interest to F. A. Seaman, Feb- ruary 16th, 1902.
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The Progressive Patriot, published at Alma by Mrs. E. W. Crumb from September 20th to December 7, 1895.
Teacher, Patron and Pupil, published by Dow Busenbark as an educational journal from October. 1897, to April, 1901.
Truth, published at Alma by Rev. J. E. Kirkpatrick, from 1899 to 1901.
The Land Mark, E. H. Sanford, editor. First published at Esk- ridge, in 1871. It was published at intervals-first at Eskridge, then at Alma, and again at Eskridge until the publication was discontinued.
The Eskridge Star, Vol. 1, No. 1, J. J. Mitchell, editor, October 19, 1883; Mitchell & Dowd, January 31, 1884; Rickel & Dowd, March 27, 1884; D. V. Dowd, June 21, 1884; Dowd & Shelton, August, 1885; E. L. Shelton, October 22, 1885: Perry & Gardiner, July 1, 1886; E. H. Perry, June 7, 1888; Mitchell & Melrose, August 15, 1889; W. H. Mel- rose, February 13, 1890; J. J. Mitchell, January 12, 1899; Dow Busen- bark. March 29, 1900, the present editor and publisher.
Wabaunsee County Democrat, Dr. Patte, editor, Eskridge, June 12, 1885. Published a few weeks and material sold to Perry & Gar- diner.
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