Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1923-01-11
NEWSPAPER IS
TO QUIT WITH
JAN. / ISSUE
After Fourteen Years as
Important Local Factor,
Publication Will Cease
George A. Smith, Retiring
Editor, Plans to Locate
in CALIFORNIA; Sunny Cline

j. G. Safely, publisher of the Idaho
County Free Press, on Monday pur-
chased the machinery, stock and sub
scription list of the Grangeville Globe.
The Globe will be consolidated with
the Idaho County Free Press, whicn
will continue to be published as
weekly newspaper under the name
which it has carried since the newspa-
per was founded. in 1885, The Globe,
with its issue of January IL, will pass
out of existence, after having for more
than fourteen years been an important
factor in Idaho county business and
political affairs.
The purchase was made from the
Globe Printing company It'd, Of which
George A. Smith is president and man.
ager. Mr.. Smith also has been editor
Of the newspaper. The Globe Print
ing company retains all outstanding
accounts.
WILL UTILIZE MACHINERY
The business of the idaho County
Free Press will continue at its present
location. Such machinery as can be
utilized will be removed from the Globe
| building. and the surplus machinery
will be Immediately sold.
Subscribers to the Grangeville Globe
| whose subscriptions are paid in ad-
vance win receive the Idaho County
Free Press for the -unexpired terms of
their subscriptions Mr. Smith will
collect all delinquent Globe subscrip-
tion bills for his own account. Per-
sons who are subscribers TO both pa
pers, and who are paid in advance to
the Globe, will receive credit on their
Free Press subscriptions for the unex-
pired term.
MIR Smith, the retiring ditor of tho
Globe, has been engaged in newspaper
work in Grangeville for almost
twenty years, during which time he
formed countrywide acquaintance
ship, and has many friends in Idaho
county who will keenly regret to see
him leave the field. He announces
plans of locating in California as soon
as he can close up the business of the
corporation. He came to Grangeville
from Moscow to enter the employ of
the Free Press under e. McBroom, who
at that time owned the paper.
GLOBE is ESTABLISHED
In 1908, Mr.. Smith, with Hans Gill
bertsen and Harold Harris, founded
the Grangeville Globe, and Mr.. Smith
has since been continually identified
with that newspaper, although Harris
and Gilbertsen long since severed their
connections with the paper From
1909 to 1917, G. A. Branscombe was
partner with Mr.. Smith in the Globe.
Since 1917, Mr.. Smith has held con-
trolling interest in the paper, and has
been president, editor and manager.
The Standard News was consolidated
with the Globe in 1909.
The Idaho County Free Press, pione-
er newspaper of Idaho county, was
founded in 1886 by the Hon. A. F.
Parker Mr.. Parker sold the paper
on Oct. l, 1900 to E McBroom, who
operated the Free Press until 1907,
when he sold the plant and business
to l.. A. Wisener. Mr.. Wisener sold
the Free Press on Oct. l, 1917 to
j. G. Safely, who has since conducted
the business.
The consolidation leaves Grangeville,,
in which at one time were located
three newspapers, with single news
paper, as is now the case in practican
every county-seat town in Idaho