History of Richardson County, Nebraska : its people, industries and institutions . uring which time they estab-lished a reputation for their publication as being one of the neatest, best andiiewsiest little papers in this part of the state. After the marriage of hisdaughter, Mr. Fenton decided that his age and lack of knowledge of the typo-graphical work in connection with the paper were against him and thereforesold the plant to a Mr. McCoy, who conducted the same for a couple of years,when it passed out of existence, ]\Ir, McCoy sold the plant to the Morehousei)rothers, who were unable to su
History of Richardson County, Nebraska : its people, industries and institutions . uring which time they estab-lished a reputation for their publication as being one of the neatest, best andiiewsiest little papers in this part of the state. After the marriage of hisdaughter, Mr. Fenton decided that his age and lack of knowledge of the typo-graphical work in connection with the paper were against him and thereforesold the plant to a Mr. McCoy, who conducted the same for a couple of years,when it passed out of existence, ]\Ir, McCoy sold the plant to the Morehousei)rothers, who were unable to successfully pursue their methods of doing busi-ness in Dawson, and their sojourn was for but a short time. Reverend ^Ir. Wilder, who made the mistake of expounding his personalviews through the columns of his paper and ignoring news features, met witha great deal of dissatisfaction among his subscribers, and he, too, soon foundhimself in the same embarrassing position as his predecessor, and being unableto secure a buyer he persuaded some of his friends to lend him financial aid. RICHARDSON COUNTY, NEBRASKA. 573 and he purcchasecl the Falls City Tribune and moved the two plants togetherat Falls City. It was but a matter of a short time until the Tribune, met thesame fate as did the Newsboy—it passed out of existence and the publishersoon migrated. For a short time a paper known as the Outlook was printed at Salemand mailed to Dawson, but the publishers, the Ross brothers, found it moreof an undertaking than they had figured on and the Outlook was a very short-lived paper, and Dawson was without even an excuse for a newspaper for aperiod of over two years when Willis Hanner, of Fillmore, Missouri, movedthe Gazette plant to Dawson and founded the Dazvson Reporter. He remainedin Dawson less than a year, when he passed on to other fields and the paperpassed into the hands of the present owner, J. H. Harrah, who pursues theAvork of getting out one of the best little papers publishe
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