Community Press

MELVOLD

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 1/29/2010 at 20:52:15

Jackson Sentinel
April 26, 1946

Local Newspaper Changes Ownership

R. T. Melvold of Cresco, who has purchased the Community Press from John Q. Robinson, has arrived in Maquoketa and will assume management and ownership of the paper on May 1. Mr. Robinson will continue in the employ of Mr. Melvold, devoting his full time to the mechanical side of the business.

Mr. and Mrs. Melvold came to Maquoketa from Glenwood where he was the news editor of both the Glenwood Opinion-Tribune and Mills County Times. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa.