The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-05-11
THE KIMBALL GRAPHIC
CLATE r. TINAN,
The Official Paoef Of BruIe County,
StraIutur for Enect.

StraIMing for Erect.
Our most highly esteemed contempo-
rary, the Index, completed it's thirteenth
volume this week, and with the usual
Observation-Disclosures air peculiar
TO certain stripe of the Oldest inhabi.
tant, Mr.. Maynard proceeds to dish up
for the edi1icatiOn Of the Index readers
would-be history OF the Kimball and
Chamberlain papers, and by some very
fine and decidedly unique hair splitting
he concludes that Ill point OF age the In-
dex takes precedence over them all.
1nasmuch as the Index seems to grow
worse with age juss what its new editors
object is in this is not exactly clear, and
in any event the true history of news
paperdom in Brule county which accords
to the Chamberlain Register the pres
tige of being the pioneer, and the
GRAPHIC the second paper to be estab-
lished- cannot be changed to please any
man, and any attempt to upset the cstab-
lished rules and ethics governing tho
age OF newspapers by MIR. Maynard is too
supremely ridiculous for anything. The
simple fact that a newspaper may change
its name, as the Dakota Register was
changed to the Chamberlain Register,
the Dakota Democrat to the Chamberlain
Democrat and the Kimball Enterprise to
the Kimball GRIAPHC-which was done
when we took charge of it-cuts no fig
ure, and not one OF the score or more of
newspaper men IN the county at one
time or other has raised the question.
MIR. Maynard's reasoning drawn to a
logical conclusion would mean that a
married woman's age begins when she
becomes Mrs.-her previous years hav-
ing been lost in the change of name.
This would bea delightful innovation
for the fair sex but endless confusion if
applied to newspapers.
But possibly the most startling and
interesting bit Of news Uncle Chauncey
tells Us is that it 0le Enterprise) was
bought by tho townsite man, Daniel
Warner, who presented it to Clate Tinan,
his son-in-law, as an lnducement to
come here"
The editor OF the GRAPHIC arrived the
March previous and at which time Mr..
Warner had no more idea Of buying a
newspaper than an elephant. Subse
quently he did buy the Enterprise,
against our earnest protest, and to please
him we took it in hand. For reasons
that are obvious we preferred to own it
absolutely if we had anything to do with
it and few months after bought 1t out
right, paying the spot cash for it and
more than Mr.. Warn er asked lis for
the property and $3.50 more than it cost
him, the vouchers for which are here in
this office and the records on the books
Of the Henry & Orcutt bank. Mr.. May
nards blunder is in this matter all the
more inexcusable because the public is
not directly interested in the consider
alton involved in the transfer of the
GRAPHIC to the writer, no more than in
the twelve hundred dollar blanket chattel
mortgage whereby Mr.. Maynard is per-
mitted to he the nominal owner OF the
something we dislike to refer to.
but patience ceases to be virtue some
times, even with children and the aged
and petulent.
For the Index's kind allusion to the
new life we put into the GRAPHIC and
the envlable reputation the paper has
attained, we return proper acknowledge.
ment, and wish most heartily the same
success for its contemporary under its
new management But that success
Can never be procured through attempts
to belittle a contemporary-at least a
paper of the standing Of the Kimball
GRAPHIC. Some pretty good newspape,
, men have had hold Of the Index at one
time orother and the few that had the
disposition to try that kind Of business
r soon quit it and with the others art
named among the GRAPlIIC'S warmest
friends. 1t is to be hoped, therefore
} that ii Mr.. Maynard again essays {
: birthday effusion he will con6nt
himself exclusively to the subject
, at hand-his own publication on-ant
he can blow his bugle loud enough Il
wake the dead; it will not disturb tht
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