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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1923
Page
15
The frontier paper movement continues as Mr Tilton and family carry on The Obsesver from Plentywood with management roles, after moving through North Dakota towns including Maddock Ryder Reeder and Lee before 1914. Five months in California last winter supported the enterprise.
C H Polk born on an Iron County farm Missouri. He left schooling for teaching then served in Missouri assemblies 1906 1910. He moved to Lewistown Montana in 1912, homesteaded Rosebud County, bought Sumatra Record in 1915, led Red Cross branch wartime service, moved Lima 1920 and started Lima Record. He holds Beaverhead County printing contract for 192?. He and Mrs Polk, a printer, share independent political stance though Polk is a Democrat.
Francis B. Ellis born October 5 1877 on Confederate creek near Diamond City Montana. He grew up on a cattle ranch in Smith River valley and started as a cowboy. He learned printing in White Sulphur Springs and worked as compositor for seven years on the Rocky Mountain Husbandman and other state papers. In March 1899 he led the Hedges Herald and on March 27 1912 launched Project Pioneer at Ballantine the first Huntley project paper. In April 1915 he moved the Pioneer plant to Park City continuing as Park City Pioneer and remaining active in publishing a newsy paper.
The Hardin Herald, an independent weekly in Big Horn county, was established in July 1919 to serve the agricultural population. J W Skinner sold to local farmers and A Corkins serves as editor and manager, a farmer by profession who profiles rural issues and interlinks farmer and city dweller prosperity.
The new owner, Mr. Corkins, a veteran in the newspaper field, expresses confidence in Hardin. He recalls his father’s early South Dakota paper background and aims to grow The Farmers' Paper as a leading southeastern Montana city publication.
A capable Montana lady editor, Georgia B True of the Record, oversees the paper eight years after its founding and three years in charge. The Record belongs to the Montana Press association and will explain to male peers how a girl succeeds in publishing. Miss True values eastern Montana beauty and is a friend of Butte and its people.
The Baker Sentinel, founded in 1909, promotes local natural resources and community development. Baker sits at the center of a vast anticline with extensive gas fields, 84 miles of proved territory, and claims the largest weekly circulation outside Montana.
C L Marshall editor and manager of The Wolf Point Herald, homed in Yankton origins, Dakota years, and Williston reporting. He arrived in Wolf Point in 1917, bought control in 1919, is married with three daughters, and pursues Montana agricultural development as a hobby and outlook.
The Wolf Point Herald began in April 1913 by C. M. Hanson. J. P. Wiest leased it in 1915. In 1917 Wiest and C. L. Marshall formed Wiest & Marshall to buy The Herald and move to a larger building. Marshall bought Wiest’s share in 1919, incorporated the business, and issued stock to local businessmen. The paper expanded with town growth and acquired The Promoter in 1922.
W C Kester, editor of The Gildford Tribune, began in 1899 with Chinook Opinion and built a 150 year publishing arc. He ran Havre Herald, Deer Lodge Silver State, Broadwater Opinion with Andy Stafford, Jarrowtown News, and took over The Gildford Tribune in 1920. He speaks of Montana’s triangle country and a belief in a strong future for the state.
The Opheim Observer began October 13 1616 by Jos A Whetstone with Robert L Tait as editor and manager. It notes the paper’s rise as the sole Opheim publication amid several now-defunct competitors across the Scobey to Glasgow corridor. George W Tilton later took over The Observer.
The Mountaineer of Big Sandy Montana boasts that editor and publisher C Mills has a dominant field. Mills has run country newspaper work in North Dakota and Montana since 1906, with The Mountaineer as the region’s sole paper in Northern Chouteau county.
Editor H Stanley Thurston arrived from Minnesota in March 1905 6 and helped pivot Central Montana from cattle to dry land farming. He learned printing in 1911 and ran the Geyser Times before buying the Stanford World in 1920 and renaming it Judith Basin County Press, the county’s official paper since its founding. His editorial policy has long guided the paper.
A Montana editor, described as conservative and plain-spoken, advocates convictions over popular opinion. He served on the Montana State Press association legislative committee and, with Joe Hocking of Glasgow, influenced the county printing law. He will report to the convention on the committee’s winter activities.
W D Miller of The Saco Independent is celebrated for long running efforts to promote dryland corn in northeastern Montana. As a former Phillips County commissioner he pushed seed corn over wheat, inspiring county and state support and expanding corn acres to around 20 000 in Phillips County this year.
O H Lee born in Nebraska forty five years ago chose Montana as his state of nativity. He edits and publishes the Shields Valley Record at Wilsall, calling it the best weekly in the state. Lee founded the Fairfield Standard in Washington and edited it fifteen years. He later worked for the Spokesman-Review in Spokane four years. He has one wife and three sons.
W P Thurston a longtime newspaper pioneer in the Northwest entered the field as editor of the Brown County Sentinel of Columbia North Dakota. He founded papers in Aberdeen Frederick Eureka and Braddock Hazelton Hazen Fort Rice Krem Fryburg Hebron and Center owning as many as four papers at once. He held public service roles in North Dakota including deputy in the state land department and chief enrolling and engrossing clerk of the state senate. He moved to Melstone in 1926 buying half interest in the Melstone Messenger from J C Schleppegrell and the Ringling Independent publisher.
The note describes Mrs. Thurston as a real help mate both in the newspaper office and at home, highlighting her supportive role alongside her husband.
The Columbian, a weekly independent newspaper in Columbia Falls, was founded 31 years ago by John W. Pace. Current publisher C. E. Clemens, 46, has run it 15 years, starting in Earlville Iowa and training in Minneapolis and Helena. The office features a Mergenthaler and Monona cylinder, four home-printed pages, and 600 circulation. Business is good and improving in this Montana town.
R N Sutherlin and W H Sutherlin are credited as early Montana farming pioneers. The Rocky Mountain Husbandman began in 1875 amid sparse farmer growth, with R N Sutherlin still active after 17 hour workdays. The 1875 issue marked its start as Diamond City declined from mining, and the editor began a statewide tour in February.
The first agricultural weekly in the Rocky Mountains began with $4 yearly subscriptions, 800 readers half-paid in advance. After four years near Diamond City, it moved to White Sulphur Springs, led by R. N. Sutherlin and W. H. Sutherlin. W. H. Sutherlin died June 2, 1900, and the paper endured turbulent times and a 100,000 to 10,000 population shift, touting Water on the Land and Prosperity Follows the Irrigation Ditch as its enduring mantras.
The Valley Tribune celebrates its seventeenth milestone with thirteen years under the present management. The paper notes its growth from a small shop to a modern outfit after a fire. Editor A S Hier, born in Minnesota, started in printing, ran The Tagus Mirror in North Dakota, and moved to Montana in 1910 to buy Bainville paper.
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