The St. Joseph observer., 1921-05-07
THE DEACON AND TOM"
TOGETHER FOR 38 YEARS



year OF its continuous publication,
forty-five of that time under its pres
ent management and for thirty eight
years of that period "The Deacon and
Tom" have been associated together.
While they did not make any great
spread" over the day, yet they took
more than official .cognizance of the
fact and the Deacon wrote a piece"
about the paper and its career, that
will be appreciated especially by all
I of the older residents of this territory.
Many and wonderful have been the
| changes in the fifty-six years that the
paper has chronicled the events as
they transpired, and as they are con-
tinually set forth by "The Deacon and
! Tom" whom their thousands of
| friends hope will be found there
steady at work (f they desire to)
! fifty-six years from last Friday. Now
here is "the piece" that The Deacon
dashed off for the birthday issue of
the grand old Sentinel. He wrote:
The Dcacon's "Picce"
with this issue, The Sentinel en-
ters upon its fifty-seventh year of
continuous publication, and forty-five
years OF that time it has been under
its present management, and for 3S
years the present proprietors have
been associated together to give the
people of the county an absolutely
reliable home paper, clean in its tone
and character and totally free from
yellowism, and today with just pride
county regard it as the paper of the
county rgard it as the paper OF the
county, as regarded in the field of
rural journalism as near the ideal
county newspaper as can be found
anywhere in our great state.
Since the founding of the Sentinel
in 1865 by Chas. w. Bowman, won
dcrful changes have come, and it
seems almost as wonderful as those
of Alababa.
MANY OF tho earlier day publishers
have crossed the river, the latest was
of the founder, Chas. w. Bowman,
who died in Pueblo, Colorado, Feb. 2,
1921, aged so.
"A. N. Ruley died at Hiawatha,
Kansas, June "a, 1920, age SO.
! IvIinn,1 1io1 ID,,.1or1
Oregon, December &c. 1902.
"W. w Davenport died in Jackson
vile, Illinois, January 16, 1888.
The Boat and Stage
when the Sentinel was born June
30, 1865, there was not railroad i'm
the county; you travelled by steam
boat, landing at Forest City, or came
from st. Joseph by stage coach-now
there are ten passenger trains that
stop at Forest City every "a hours.
There was not a bank in the coun-
ty, but zook & Scott started one a
year later. In 1895 the deposits of the
ten banks then in existence amounted
to $62l,14S; in February, 1921, we
had sixteen banks whose total deposits
were s3,17s,12S.
THE amount apportioned TO the
schools of the county amounted to
$4,000; in 1920 it was $25,O94.
THE land values were $1,665,5SO;
for 1921 they are s3O,OOO,0OO.
The population in 1866 was $500;
1920, it was 14,OS4.
I'VE had but three townships in
the county in 1855; now we have
twelve.
our school enumeration in 1866
was $50; in 1920 it was 1874.
THE total revenue collected in the
county in 1865 was $9,7SO; for 1920
it was .$317,l2S.
THE Sentinel of today as II enters
upon its 57th year is enjoying as
large if not larger circulation than
ever before in its history. and this too
in face of the fact that owing TO the
extreme costs of producing material.
labor stock.
It WcathcTed the Gale
more than two hundred newspa-
n pers in the state Of Missouri were
discontinued or went into bankruptcy
during 1919 and 1920. After a life OF
over seventy years the ST. Louis Re
public ended early in 1920, and every
one in the state felt as if he had lost
an old and valuable friend.
THE Kansas City journal has been
in the hands of the receiver for the
past six months.
THE Sentinel with the other news
papers that h0~e weathered the gale
and kept pace with progress and man
fully measured up TO the opportunities
p of the past three years regardless OF
2 the high prices, which went up Sc
! fast that nothing else could keep pace
? with them, are to be most heartily