Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-06-09

llnllcd publishing THE WEEKLY En-.
TERrRIsE, and DAILY TELEGRAM un.
I'll last October, when the whole bust
ness passed into the hands of the Barre
Newspaper Co.. corporation duly or.
ganized under the laws of Vermont,
with a paid up capital of $4,000.
Messrs. Whitaker & Mctcalf retain.
cd a stock interest in the business as
members of the new company, which
Included the advent of l.. p. Thayer,
the originator of THE BARRE ENTER.
PRISE twenty years ago.
Soon after the Incorporating of the
new company the VERMONT FARMERS
ADVOCATE of Burlington, was bought
by that corporation and removed to
Barre.
TIE EVENING TELEGRAM has en-
joyed most remarkable growth since
the incorporation of the new company
ana today 1T has an average daily cir.
culation of over 3, 800 copies. 1t is
besides this one of the few papers in
Vermont that guarantees and proves
absolutely it's circulation.
THE TOWN NEWS.
This was small paper started about
ISIS? by Bert l.. Taylor, bright and
pungent writer who had been employ
ed on the Montpelier papers. Its Of
flee was located in the Granite City
Savings bank block. 1t only run a
few weeks.
THE GRANITE CITY LEADER.
During the year 1891 p. c. Dodge
Of burlington began looking over this
field with the view of establishing a
rival for The ENTERPRISE. He sue
ceeded in his efforts and on the 18th
of December of that year, articles of
association were issued to the Barre
Publishing Co., with capital stock
of $500, divided into shares Of $25
each, for the purpose of printing a
daily or weekly newspaper. This call
was signed by John w. Gordon, A. ID.
Morse, and II. X. Bush. The COM
pany was organized Jan. 4, 1892, and
the following directors were elected
for the year ensuing: II. X. Bush, A..
D. Morse, Frank McWhorter, j. w.
Gordon, G. l.. Currier. At subse-
quent meeting, on the same date, the
following officers were elected: PreSi-
dent, II. X. Bush; vice-president, A.
ID. Morse; clerk and treasurer, j. w.
Gordon. 1t was voted to pass the
amount of the stock into the hands of
Mr.. Dodge, the company taking a
mortgage on the property.
Mr.. Dodge jps,""ioe".O" U'c '"'''o
in the Gordon block, and commenced
printing "Thc Granite City Leader. u
lie continued only short time ano
was succeeded by J. w. Ramsay soof
after this Mr.. Ramsay, having asSum
od the entire management of the pa
nor took Incl. Kinsley as a partner
They ran the business until Mr.. Kan
saw was taken sick and died in Octo
her, 1896, when the business passe'
into his hands and about a year laIe
| into the hands of Messrs. Cummings !
Kinslev. The office was then move
into the old town building, over PER-
e. Camps store. After about yea
of hard struggling to keep their heae
ont of water, they gave up the gho'
and "The Leader ceased to LEAD !
readers any further.
THE BARRE DAILY TIMES
! The Barre Daily Times was start'
q March 1s, 1897 by Frank E. Langle
n an experienced daily newspaper ma
He came here from Gloversville,
4 v. and at once saw that the hela "
d ripe for a daily paper. Inc lin
). first appeared as five column fol
II Int increasing business soon warra'
,s cd it's enlargement to a six colul
- folio and later to a seven column 1ol
~ If was first issued from a room
of tho north end Of the old fork shop,
,o4 after the purchase of the plant OF
,b Granite City Leader, it was moved
his it's present quarters. 1t was ag
to enlarged in the spring of 1897 oy
nd addition of one column to page
od circulation the first week in June l
on averaged 1894, as against 2l54 in )
1900. It's advertising also shows
nm increase over one year ago, ana IL
~ serves the success it has won IN
lis. daily newspaper field in the state
not CONCLUSION.
cs- We have thus endcavored TO gl'
ard nrief outline of the newspaper DUST
md !, Rarre from it's first inception TO
thy nresent time. Like all other bust
one ventures it has had it's ups and 40
lsh- until today the Barre newspaper
ued pecially the daily, is looked upo
tho ,,,oopt institution