History of Atchison County, Kansas

Volume 1, No. 1, date January 1, 1883.

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_Sunday Morning Facts_ was published by E. W. Beal from September 2, 1883, until about February 3, 1884.

_Der Humorist_, was as the title indicates, a German publication, with L. Willstaedt as its publisher. This paper, or magazine, was also short lived, lasting less than a year.

_Atchison Sunday Morning Sermon_, published by J. W. and J. M. Tanner. First issue was June 1, 1884, and the last issue about July 27, 1884.

_Atchison Advance_, published by Frank Hall and Dr. H. B. Horn. The first issue of the paper was November 5, 1884, and the last issue was January 3, 1885.

_The Messachorean_ was started in 1887, and issued about every two months. It was devoted to the interest of Midland College, and edited by the faculty. It died about June, 1888.

_The Atchison Daily Bee_ was one of John N. Reynolds’ enterprises, which started March 25, 1889, and suspended April 4, 1889.

_The Tradesman_ was a monthly publication, devoted to the trade unionism, and was edited by Robert Tompkins, the veteran editor and publisher.

_Stebbins & Talbot’s Real Estate Record_, established in 1869, by C. I. Stebbins, W. R. Stebbins and J. H. Talbot. This was, as its name implies, a publication devoted to booming real estate in Atchison county and vicinity.

_Kansas Monthly Souvenir_ was published by Fitch Rice & Company from February, 1873, to sometime in June of the same year.

_Gardner’s Real Estate Bulletin_ was another real estate journal, published monthly, by C. V. Gardner in 1873.

_The Short Line Advocate_ was issued by the Atchison & Denver Railroad Company in 1879.

_Der Courier_ was another German publication, published at Atchison and Topeka, by Edward F. Fleischer in 1879.

_The Public Ledger_ was started August 19, 1880, by W. J. Granger. It supported the National Greenback ticket of that year, and October 30, 1888, Granger turned the paper over to E. A. Davis & Son, who ran it a short time. Mr. Granger returned to Atchison eighteen years later, and became a reporter on the _Atchison Champion_, and during the interval published papers in Effingham and other places. In 1915 he was the publisher and owner of the _Nettawaka Talk_.

_The Western Farm Home_ was a continuation of the _New West Monthly_. Its first issue was in January, 1881, with James P. Henry and George H. Pardee as editors and publishers. It suspended publication in October, 1881.

_High School Quarterly_ was published at Effingham for the first time January, 1895, with S. J. Hunter, editor, and John W. Wilson, business manager. This magazine was published in the interests of the Atchison high school. It was subsequently changed to _The High School Bulletin_, after which it was issued regularly once a month during the school year. It suspended publication about September, 1902.

_The Oracle_ was another Effingham publication, started December, 1901, which was conducted by Guy Hendrickson and the students of the Atchison high school, in the interests of that institution. It suspended publication about May, 1902.

_The A. C. H. S. Newsletter_ was a monthly publication, started in February, 1901, by John W. Wilson, principal of the Atchison county high school. There were only three numbers of this paper, which was a monthly.

_The Atchison County Visitor_ was still another Effingham publication, started by W. J. Granger March 10, 1905. Guy C. Hendrickson became business manager June 8, 1906, and the paper suspended during the year 1907.

_The Potter Press_, started April 8, 1898, with E. Campbell as editor, and Jewell & Campbell as publishers. It lasted until September 30, 1898, when it was consolidated with the _Easton_ (Leavenworth county) _Light_. January 27, 1899, it resumed publication, with M. L. and K. Lockwood as editors, and E. E. Campbell as local editor, but again consolidated with the _Easton Light_ September 1, 1899.

_The Atchison County Recorder_ was started June 1, 1900, and published by the Lockwood Printing Company, of Atchison. Its last issue was dated October 26, 1900.

_The Muscotah News_ was filed April 5, 1880, by Nash & Walkup, and lasted about three months.

_The Weekly Journal_ was started by G. W. Messigh in Effingham September 2, 1892, who ran it until February 23, 1893, when it died.

_The Arrington Times_ was started May 28, 1896, by W. A. Huff. In September of the same year its name was changed to _The Atchison County Times_, and it suspended sometime in 1897.

_The Prairie Press_ was started in Lancaster May 12, 1888, with W. C. Adkins as editor and publisher, and it was run until March 7, 1890, when it was succeeded by the _Huron Graphic_.

_The Huron Headlight_, started March 13, 1884, and died on the same date.

_The Huron Messenger_ was started July 2, 1884, by J. M. Warton, and also died on the same day it was born.

_The Weekly Graphic_, which succeeded to all the rights and privileges of the _Prairie Press_, of Lancaster, was started by W. C. Adkins April 5, 1890. Mr. Adkins ran this paper until March 28, 1891, at which time he sold it to J. A. Sunderland, of Atchison, who ran it until May 2, 1891, when Mr. Adkins again took control of the paper and ran it until the following fall.

_The Huron Times_ was a kind of continuation of the _Atchison Times_, and Volume 4, No. 1, of this paper, was dated April 4, 1891. There were but four issues of the _Times_, after the plant was moved from Atchison to Huron, the last issue being dated April 25, 1891. J. A. Sunderland was also editor and publisher of this paper, after he moved it from Atchison to Huron. _The Huron Times_ was a weekly publication, by G. E. Nichols, and was started February 22, 1901, and published seventeen times, when it died.

_The Effingham Enterprise_ was founded about July 1, 1895, by W. H. Bright. It was short lived, and little is known of its history after the date just mentioned.

_The Peoples’ Press_ was a party organ, started in August, 1883, by the Peoples’ Press Association, and suspended September 15 of the same year.

_The New Kansas Magazine_ was started by Dr. W. H. Wynn, for many years a much beloved and greatly respected professor of English literature at Midland College. Dr. Wynn conceived the idea that there was a place for a monthly magazine in Atchison, to be conducted along the lines of the original _Kansas Magazine_, published in 1873, which contained some of the best literature that had ever been produced in Kansas. Associated with Dr. Wynn were Dr. W. W. Campbell, R. M. Manley, B. P. Waggener, H. M. Jackson, H. H. Allen, and A. J. Harwi. The first issue appeared February 18, 1892, and the last issue appeared September 30, 1893.

_Midwest Moose Review_ was the official organ of the local lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose, published monthly by Frank L. Danforth, editor. It was founded in 1912, and ran only a few months.

_The Atchison Tribune_ was started in 1896, but the name of the editor and publisher are unknown.

_The Western Chief_ is a monthly publication, devoted to the Order of Redmen, and was founded about April, 1909. Paul Tonsing is editor and publisher.

_Benedictine Parish Monthly_, started in Atchison, in March, 1907, and published by St. Benedict’s College, until January, 1910.

_The College Review_ was published monthly in Lawrence and Atchison, by A. G. Coonrod and G. T. Smith, from 1891 to 1900. Coonrod & Smith were the owners of business colleges at Atchison and Lawrence.

_Kansas Telegraph_ was a German paper, started by H. Von Langen December 23, 1880, and was published in Atchison until 1881, when it was removed to Topeka, where it was published for many years.

_Atchison Journal_ was another German publication, started by John Hoenscheidt in 1880, but was short lived.

_The Kansas Staats-Anzeiger_ was started in Topeka in 1879, and published until 1881, when it was moved to Atchison. It was also short lived.

_Plain Facts_ was a weekly publication, started in Atchison October 4, 1897, and published by authority of twenty-five Atchison Populists, who were opposed to the election of George W. Glick, the so-called Populist candidates for State senator. It lasted three issues.

_The Atchison Journal_ was the official publication of the Trades and Labor Council of Atchison. It started early in the year 1903, by W. J. Granger, and discontinued the last of November of the same year.

_The Atchison Morning Star_ was a daily paper, published by J. A. Roulston, and started June 14, 1905, lasting until August 30, 1905.

_The Atchison Tribune_ was a weekly publication, started March 27, 1896, by W. H. Higgins, and suspended publication July 16, 1896.