History of Wexford County, Michigan : embracing a concise review of its early settlement, industrial development and present conditions . native town, and in 1879 he went toDavenport, hivva, where he secured a po-sition as compositor in a newspaper 1883 he located in. Cambridge, Illinois,where he became associated with GeorgeC. Smithe in the publication of a weeklypaper, the Chronicle. In 1885 he came to^psilanti, Michigan, and there continuedin partnership with Mr. Smithe in thepublication of the \psilantian, which theymade one of the representative papers of thestate. In 1887 Mr. P
History of Wexford County, Michigan : embracing a concise review of its early settlement, industrial development and present conditions . native town, and in 1879 he went toDavenport, hivva, where he secured a po-sition as compositor in a newspaper 1883 he located in. Cambridge, Illinois,where he became associated with GeorgeC. Smithe in the publication of a weeklypaper, the Chronicle. In 1885 he came to^psilanti, Michigan, and there continuedin partnership with Mr. Smithe in thepublication of the \psilantian, which theymade one of the representative papers of thestate. In 1887 Mr. Powers came toCadillac, to become editor and publisher ofthe News and Express, reiiresenting a con-solidation of the Cadillac Xevvs. which hadits inception in 1872, rmd the Mxijress,which established in 1885. his newspaper career in Cadillac wecan not do better than to quote from anarticle which appeared in the trade paperissued by the Chicago ])aper Cnion,.i])ropos of his efforts and standing:.\mong the makers of .Michigan news-papers none is better or more favcjrablyknown than Perrv I. Powers, of Cadillac,. PERRY F. POWERS. Jr EX FORD COUNTY, MICHIGAN. 363 and his paper, the News and Express, isa model weekly, printed with modern equip-ment and issued from a model home ofits own. The paper was born of a con-solidation. The Cadillac New-s was estab-lished in 1S72, while yet the greater partof the present site of the city (then knownas Clam Lake) was covered with pinetrees, and the Express was established in1885. The two were consolidated in 1887,about the time Mr. Powers acquired owner-ship of the business. Since then his chiefambition has always been to make the Newsand Express the best edited country paperin IMichigan. He never permits any hurryor rush to prevent the preparation eachweek of from two to three columns oforiginal editorial, and the political edi-torials of the News and Express are, per-liaps, more widely copied and quoted thanthose of any
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