Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-10-26
PURCHASED A PAPER AT
DURANT, OKLA.

AS stated in last weeks PILOT, r.
E. Powers has again entered the Eews-
paper field He has purchased the
Durant Daily News of which property
he took possession on Monday, Oct.
18th. We take the following state
ment from the News in reference to
the sale:
The Durant Daily News is issued
today unGer new ownership, Lewis
Pauline being succeeded by Richard
E. Powers. The deal was under way
for some time and was finally closed
Saturday evening, the new owner
taking possession at once. The trans
fer covers the Daily and Weekly News,
together with the subscription lists,
printing plant, stock, accounts and
good will. The place of publication
will remain as at present, in the Paul
lin building, la North Third avenue.
Mr.. Powers, the new publisher, is a
newspaper man of long experience,
and has had thorough training in all
departments of the business. He
comes here from Wausau, Wisconsin,
where he established, and published
until two years ago, the Wausau
Daily Herald. When Mr.. Powers dis
posed of his Wausau paper it was
with the intention of entering some
other line of business, but like most
men who have ever welded the editor
ial pen with success, he found life
monotonous and humdrum away from
the lure of the editorial sanctum and
decided to again buckle on the har-
ness when the Durant opening was
presented to him. AS soon as he can
get the business running smoothly
under the new order of things, he will
return to Wisconsin and bring his
family to Durant. having leased John
w. Hampton's handsome new bunga-
low, corner of Elm and Sixth streets
In his editorial, or ''bow" to the
public, Mr.. Powers says:
"The Daily News greets you today
under new ownership and manage
ment. We are not going to tire you
with long-drawn-out introduction,
or statement of all we hope and ex-
pect to make of the News and how
we intend to do it. Suffice to say, we
have been in the newspaper business
about seventeen years and in that
time have learned few things in the
way of newspaper making. Speaking
of what we intend to make of the
News, we win say we could not be
satisfied with anything less than
making of it the best and most pro-
greSsive newspaper in this part of
Oklahoma. To that Durant is en-
titled by virtue of its being the best
and most substantial city in South
western Oklahoma. In politics the
News will be Democratic, not in the
narrow, hide-bound sense, but Demo-
cratic in principle, because we believe
in real democracy; the liberal, broad
guage, independent sort"
The PILoT editor has known Mr..
Powers ever since he entered the
newspaper field, and can attest to
his ability as an able writer, and a
manager that is hard to equal. In
his newspaper work in Wausau he
was eminently successful and like
many another good newspaper man,
sold out a thriving business, In hopes
of taking life easier in some other
pursuit. His business affairs TOOK
him often to Oklahoma. lie early
made up his mind that that state was
to become one of the greatest in the
union. There is such fascination
about newspaper work, so it is said,
that when once a person enters upon
it, all the powers in existence cannot
pull him outside of its limits. This
is perhaps the reason why Mr.. Powers
has again taken up the pen to write
trenchant editorials and TO look after
the business end of printing plant.
That he will make a success of his
venture, no one doubts, and he
certainly has the well-wisheS of the
PILOT and of his many friends in
WauSau.
Mrs. Powers and children will go to
Durant, Okla, to reside some time
before the holidays.