. Story of Lee County, Iowa. the publication of the Daily EveningTimes the preceding July. They also published a weekly editionand when the office was sold to Charles D. Kirk in November, 1857,the weekly was continued under the name of The Journal. Kirk soldthe Daily and Weekly Journal to Newton, Hussey & Gwin and tromMay, 1859, to December, 1861, it was under the management ofCharles Smith. The paper was then bought at a foreclosure saleby Judge Thomas W. Clagett, who changed the name to the KeokukConstitution. Under the management of Judge Clagett the paperbecame one of the most influential
. Story of Lee County, Iowa. the publication of the Daily EveningTimes the preceding July. They also published a weekly editionand when the office was sold to Charles D. Kirk in November, 1857,the weekly was continued under the name of The Journal. Kirk soldthe Daily and Weekly Journal to Newton, Hussey & Gwin and tromMay, 1859, to December, 1861, it was under the management ofCharles Smith. The paper was then bought at a foreclosure saleby Judge Thomas W. Clagett, who changed the name to the KeokukConstitution. Under the management of Judge Clagett the paperbecame one of the most influential democratic papers of Iowa andafter his death in April, 1876, the Constitution was conducted forsome time by his daughter. Sue Harry Clagett. It was then sold toJohn Gibbons, Thomas Rees, George Smith and H. W. Gibbons served as editor until the following spring (1877) > whenhe was succeeded by Mr. Clendenin and retired from the firm. Someyears later the paper absorbed the Democrat, which had been started. FOET MADISON HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY 279 a few years before, and is still published as an afternoon daily (Sun-days excepted) under the name of the Constitution-Democrat. The Keokuk Post, a newspaper printed in the German language,was established in 1855 by William Kopp under the name ofBeobachter des Westens (The Western Observer). During its careerthe name was changed several times under different owners. Other journalistic ventures in Keokuk were the Sunbeam, whichwas established as a temperance paper in January, i860, and con-tinued for about two years; the Daily Evening News, which was pub-lished as a Greeley organ for a short time in the campaign of 1872;the Sharp Stick, published by T. B. Gumming while proprietor ofthe Dispatch as a humorous paper; The Peoples Dollar, publishedas an organ of the greenback party by Thornber & Hanson for ashort time in the latter 70s, and the Central School Journal, devotedto educational interests. Outside of th
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