COLUMBIA A N D MONTOUR COUNTIES The Christian M essen ger w as started by Edward £ . O rvis, at Benton, in Ja n u a ry, 1870. It was a m onthly o f tw enty-fou r pages. In 1872 the name w as changed to the M essen ger and Laborer, and D . O liphant, o f London, Canada, became co-editor, with M r. O rvis as publisher. T h e paper w as enlarged to thirtytwo pages. In Ja n u a ry, 1875, it w as c h a n g e to a four-page weekly. T h e office w as moved to Orangeville Oct. 1 . 1 8 7 5, and the paper sus pended on Dec. 26th o f that ye ar fo r lack o f support. The D em ocratic S en tin el w as established in Bloomsburg in 18 7 1, by C harles M . V anderslicc. who conducted it in a building which stood at the re a r of the lot now occupied by the Townsend building. On A p ril 12, 1885, the paper w as purchased by W illiam Krickbaum , and the office w as subsequently moved to its present location, cast of the courthouse. In 1888, J . C . I;lutter, J r ., w as made m a n n e r of the p lw t, and continued in that position fo r c^hteen ye ars. In 1892 a daily edition was started in the S en tin el office under the title of the B loom sburg D aily, the first daily paper published in the county, except the short-lived 5 km. j . C . Rutter, J r ., w as the editor and manager. O n Ja n u a ry i, 1904. M r. Rutter purchased the plant and made the S en tin el a semi-weekly, continuing the publication of the Bloomsburg D aily. H e held the office under his control until Ju n e, 1906, when he sold to John G. M cH en ry. P ercy Brcw ington, the present e ililo r of the Benton A rg u s, w as made editor and held that office fo r a year. T he business w as incorporated a s a stock com pany and in 19 0 8 the daily w a s.c a llc d the D aily Mail, the c o ^ r a t i o n the Sentinel Frin tery. and George D. H erbert w as made president and m anager. In Ju ly, 1909. J . C . Rutter. J r ., succeeded him, rem aining until M arch, 19 14 . The D aily S e n tin e l cam e into being in F eb ru ary, 1892. and is at present publishcil by Dr. C. F. .AltmiUcr, who is also editor-in-chief. J. P. Z iegler is business n u n a g c r; C . .A. H a r rington. city e d ito r; and C. R . Sm ith, forem an of the m echanical department. The Indepen dctit IP e ek ly w as started by William H . Sm ith and E . E . O rvis in Benton on ,^ r i l 1, 1874. as a Dem ocratic newspaper. On Oct. I, 18 7 5, they removed it to O range ville with the M essenger a n d L a b o rer, and .^mith & O rv is dissolved partnership, Sm ith continuing to publi.sh the Independent. On A p ril I, 1876. the Independent IV eekly was moved back to Benton, where it w as pub lished until Septem ber, 1877. when the plant w-as rcmo%'ed to Milton by M r. Sm ith, who
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started a paper there called the A rg u s. H is o fik c w as totally destroyed in the great Milton fire in 1884, but he started it again and con tinued it until 1892. when he went hack to Benton and reestablished the A rg u s, which he conducted until A ugust, 1892, when he died. Its publication w as continued by his widow until A u g. 30, 19 0 1, with P ercy Brcw ington as m anager. O n the latter date it w as pur chased by Brcw ington and A lfre d E d g ar, who owned it until M ay, 1906, when M r. firewington purchased h is partner’s interest and became sole owner. In 1 9 1 3 the ow nership changed to C . L . Ilirlcm an, M r. Brew ington rem aining a s m anager, and he is now again the owner. It has a large circulation in the upper end of the county. T h e B loom sburg Jo u rn a l wa.s begun in 1876, hy C . A . Potter, as a temperance and fam ily ncwspajicr. It w as a five-column, four-page paper. In O ctober. 18 8 1, the form w as changed to a quarto o f twelve pages, and then o f sixteen pages. In Septem ber, 1882, Dr. Ja c o b Sch u yler purchascn a h alf interest in the paper, and the new firm changed the form to the old folio style. M r. Potter again became ow ner in (88? and moved the plant to M ill ville, where he started the W eekly Tablet. Since the death o f M r. P otter the paper has been published by his son-in-law, Boyd T rc scott, who is also a surv'cyor and ju stice of the peace. T h e S u n . a daily paper, w as started in .April, 18 8 1. by Alcin B . T a le and H . W . K ah ler, and al)out eighty nuniliers w ere issued. D issen sions in the maiiageinent and difficulties g ro w ing out o f a want o f support put an eclipse upon the y u n, at the cixl o f about three months. T h e H erald o f Freedom w as publishcil by a gentleman named Case, between the years 1830 and i860. It w as a sort o f workingm an’s frcesoil advocate. A fte r an unsuccessful struggle the establishment w as transportcil from Bloom sburg to M cE w cn sv ille; and the ]Kii)cr ceased to lie publisheil there a fte r a few months. T h e M orn in g P re s s w as established in Bloom sburg on M arch 1, 1902, hy Paul R . K yerly ainl CTiarles T hom as Vanderslice, as a morning dailv. I'rom the first issue it sprang into favo r, beginning a s a four-p:igc. sixcolumn sheet, the dem ands upon its space g rew so rapidly that In the fall o the sam e ye ar it w as cniargcii to six (xigcs, and the next spring to eight pages, which it has since maintained. T h e handsome and commodious home which the P re s s now occupies Is in striking com jiaji.son with the quarters in which it first was
