Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-14

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THE NEW SYNDICATE PAPER.
a Crosse, Wis, Tribune, issue Of
Feh 9-The Tribune takes pleasure
in announcing today the purchase of
the newspaper property. subscription
accounts. plant equipment and good
VIII Of the Ia Crosse Tribune by the
Lee Newspaper Syndicate, an oreoni-
cation of newspaper men now owning
the Davenport Iowa, Times the Of
tumwa iowa Courier, the Muscatine,
Iowa Journal and the Hannibal, Mo-,
.CourterPost.
A. M. Brayton. who has been the
editor of the Tribune. will be the pub
Usher of the Tribune under the new
management and also a stakeholder Of
the company. Frank f. Burgess,
who for the past four years has been
in the Office of the Davenport Times,
will move to La Crosse at once and
be the business manager of the Trib-
une. A. w. Lee, the president Of
the Lee Newspaper Syndicate, will be
the president of the La Crosse Tribune
company. Other stockholders. besides
Mr.. Lee and Mr.. Brayton, will be the
following: w. E. Barber. the present
business manager of the Tribune. w.
V Kidder, city editor, E. p Adler. pub
Usher of the Davenport. Iowa Times,
James F. Powell, published of the OF
tumwa Iowa. Courier, F. II Burgess,
new business manager of the Tribune.
From this list of stockholders it will
be seen that the new Tribune will have
behind 1t the experience and capital
OF a number of successful newspaper
men.
1t will be source of delight to the
many staunch friends of the Tribune
in La Crosse and the surrounding
country who have stood by it through
its several years of good work, to
know that outside capital has become
attracted to the property and to La
Crosse as a progressive city. The
new owners of the property are all
newspaper men of experience and abil-
ity and have made this investment in
La Crosse believing thoroughly in the
future of the city and it's territory.
They believe that La Crosse Is enti.
tied to flrst-class metropolitan news.
paper such as is published by this or.
ganization in the other cities. The
new owners of the property contem.
plate many extensive improvements
in the plant and equipment and the
appearance of the paper in the near flu.
ture. The La Crosse Tribune will be
equipped as soon as the machinery
can be built, with a plant such as has
never before been seen in La Crosse
and which will be the finest in the
state of Wisconsin outside of Milwau
kee A three-deck, twenty-four page
Goss perfecting press, printing $4,000
complete papers per hour up to and
including twelve pages at one impress
sion, will be ordered at once and will
be Installed as soon as it can be built
at the factory Two additional Mer.
ganthaler typesetting machines will be
purchased at once and installed as soon
as they can be manufactured. A com.
plete electrical equipment for the ope.
ration of the new plant will also be
purchased. and many other improve.
ments made toward giving La Crosse
a newspaper property Of which the
city can well feel proud No expense
VIII be spared to make this property
strictly first-class. The force of EN-.
ployes will be greatly increased as
the new equipment is placed and a
much better newspaper will be pub
lished to it's subscribers. Further an.
nouncements as to the plans of the
company will be made known from
n iroan
It should also be thoroughly under.
stood that the plans of the new com
pany Go not call for any change in the
present policy of the Tribune The
new owners will continue to publish
the paper in the interests of the whole
people of La Crosse and without being
an adjunct or connected in any way
with any corporation or public utility
Each of the Lee Syndicate papers is
handled as a separate and distinct
institution and must stand on it's own
bottom. In the other cities in which
papers are owned by this organization
the papers have always stood for the
interests Of the people and are in no
way connected with public utilities OF
any kind, The business of the Lee
Syndicate Is to publish newspapers and
to give the people the news. They
thoroughly realize the first duty of q
newspaper Is toward its subscribers
fhe Lee Syndicate is organized to pup.
fish but one paper in town and by
such an organization, paper, ink, ma.
chinery, news service and advertising
can be handled in a more economical
manner. Each one Of its properties
are conducted on business principles
and purely as business propositions.
AS stated above, the Tribune will
appear as usual Monday as an evening
newspaper with Mr.. Brayton as editor
and Frank Burgess as business mana.
ger. w. v. Kidder will be retained
as city editor