The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-07-11

until 1884, when he concluded it would
not pay to continue it.
Shortly after this the old Standard
outfit, owned by Mr.. Porter and the
| Messenger material were consolidated
| and new paper, to be known as the
| OSkaloosa Labor Union, was launched.
This was continued for about two years
or until after the straight democratic
| paper, the Oskaloosa Times. was estah-
iisiled. the Labor Union was then sus-
! pended and the material of the office
sold to Al Crosson, who came here
from Kirkville and started paper called
the Daily News. This pursued preca-
rious career little over year, when
| MIR. Crosson gave 10 the venture and
believe, was the first daily paper at
temoted in Oskaloosa, with the eXcep-
ton of the few issues gotten out during
the exciting days of the civil war.
The next attempt to establish daily
paper in Oskaloosa, in opposition TO the
Evening HERALD, which was launched in
1887, was made by Messrs. Foote &
Bradbury, who came here from Fair
field in the summer of 1906 and estab-
lished the Daily News. Under their
management it was continued a few
months, when it was purchased by z. P.
Durell & Brother, and removed to larger
quarters in the Herbig block on First
avenue, west Shortly after this it was
purchased by the OSkaloosa News Pub
fishing company, of which Gid B. Nc
Fall was president and chief owner 1t
was the intention of the new owners to
make valuable newspaper franchise out
of the News, and no expense was spared
to that end. The Morning Citizen,
which had been established by the
Farmer and Miner, and which was then
about a year old, was purchased by the
News company and consolidated with
their paper For year or more the pa
per foated along, apparently on the
high tide to prosperity. Or the first
day of September, 1896, deal was con-
summated whereby the Daily and Week
ly News were consolidated with the Os
kaloosa Times. The next day the even
ing Times made its appearance and
promised great things for the future.
Gid B. McFall was manager and Law
renee J. Anderson editor. During the
presidential campaign wfiSn wds then
on, the paper was very bitter on the
sound money demo rats, and OF the day
he came here to sp.ok t made per-
sonal attack III Hon. Bourke Cochran.
This hurt tlle paper very materially,
and Immediately after the election,
which went rwneilnngly republican,
the Daily Times suspended publication
November :, 1906. 1t ;h.n 0etane Iuh-
lie that the daily paper, both IS the
News and the inns, was a Using ven
ture from the start. The Weekly Times
was continued unler the same manage
mefit until February II 1907, wien lht
property was sold t. A stock company,
which r. /. Coffman, Of Marshall
IL was principal stakeholder. 1t was
surf. mat The new propi;etcrs hae
| ample capital, and it vas announced
that new morning daily would be es-
| tablished, taking the entire morning As
ISOLATED Press Report Accordingly the
Morning Times was launched on Sun
| day, February ID. 1897. It was an
eight page paper, but contained no tel
| egraph matter. For about six weeks II
| continued, as was afterwards said OF 1t
by the associate editor, L. J. Anderson,
Growing weaker and harder to fill ev-
cry morning" Some time early in
March Mr.. Coffman left town without
making any arrangements for the con-
duct OF the paper, and without leaving
his address As a consequence the paper
suspended both its daily and weekly
/ editions March 27, 1897, and the outht
was ordered sold to satisfy mortgage
| held by Mrs Zoa Sewers, widow OF
the Iamented James Sewers. thus end
ed another chapter, and one OF the most
interesting ever enacted in Oskaloosa
journalism. The Times was afterwards
revived. but that part Of the history be-
longs to the Times itself. which is given
below.
Mention has been made of the Morn
ing Citizen, which was a product OF the
Farmer & Miner office. 1t was started
IN 1906 and was issued for about year
when it was sold and consolidated with
the Daily News. During its life Oska-
loosa boosted of three daily papers.
The Negro Solicitor, which passed
away with the year 1898 was established
| by George T. Taylor in 1893. 1t was in
tended, and for a time was conducted
as a purely race paper, intended for the
uplifting and upbuilding of the negroe:
in Iowa. Its editor, however, drlftec
into politics, first as a republican anc
then as democrat, and for this reason
lost much of the support that was giver
the paper upon its establishment Final
" other business interests demanded tht
editors time, and he gave up the paper
He never owned a newspaper press, bu
had job press and good stock o.
other printers material. His wife as
sisted him in the conduct of the papeI
and proved herself capable and ener
getic newspaper woman.
During the presidential campaign o
1906 the Oskaloosa Gazette, also ne
gro paper, was launched by Messrs
Howelett & Kennedy. 1t was republi
can in politics, and was intended to off
set the influence of the Solicitor. whicl
at that time was democratic. Only
. few issues of the paper were issued
when it folded its tent like the Arab
and joined the great majority.
Public Opinion, a weekly paper, sor
of mixture of greenback and populisti
idea. was started in OSkaloosa in ISo
by Eli Davis. It was first floated a
Abba by Mr.. Davis, and then transfer
ed bodily to this city. 1t advocated tn
election of Weaver to congress, bu
was in measure independent, an,
thoroughly original. 1t lasted abou
two years with fair success, bit fighting
for losing cause it was early doome
to die. Shortly after its suspension tn
Journal was started in the Office former
ly occupied by Mr.. Davis.
This, we believe, completes the list o
secular newspapers that have foun
their tomb in Oskaloosa. Two of tn
other three now being published in Os
kaloosa have changed their names sine