11-Year Old Boy Edited Newspaper Here In 1880

CLARK, JACKSON, MYERS

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Date: 2/8/2015 at 19:52:53

11-Year Old Boy Edited Newspaper Here In 1880
Clippings Found in Old Family Bible are Forwarded to Daily News
Christine Myers of Coffeyville, Kan., has forwarded to the Daily News a number of clippings taken from Newton newspapers of a half century ago.
Miss Myers found the clippings recently in the family Bible of James Jackson.
Four Page Paper
Among the clippings is a complete four-page newspaper, 7 by 5 inches in size, which was being published in 1880 by C. B. Clark.
The name of the paper was “The Holiday Visitor” and the issue was for March 27, 1880.
In addition to the paper’s masthead is the following:
Nearly 12
“This paper is issued at the Independent office – the best equipped printing office in Jasper county, and is set-up, printed and edited by a boy nearly twelve years old.”
Some excerpts:
“The boys’ favorite play just now is pegging tops and jumping.
“One of the best things in No. 10 on the last day of school, was an amusing dialogue spoken by Roy Robinson, Ernest Finch and William Drew.
Honor Roll
Perhaps several of these names – on the attendance honor rolls for the term – will be of interest to the older Newton residents:
“No. 11 – George Blackman, Elizabeth Dean, Mary Dutot, Etta Hughes, Charles Johnson, Lydia Kinyon, Elliot Lambert, Arthur Lufkin and Jennie Mills.
Charles Jasper
“No. 10 – Lottie Atwater, Bertha Brown, Nettie Besack, Emma Bollholfer, William Drew, Fred Evans, William Hogin, Huldah Hampton, Mary Jasper, Charles Jasper, Robert McGregor, Nellie Newhouse, Roy Robinson and Phillip Scharf.
“No. 9 – James Gant, John Blackman, Ella Connelly, Ida Griebeling, Aggie Loveridge, Katie Scharf, Sarah Slate, Ollie Thomas, Flora Mershon.
“No. 8 – George Webb, Park Peck, Solomon Robinson, Ella Brooks, Antonia Winneke, Curtis Laird, Frank Bickness, Cora McKinley.
Fred Hough
“No. 7 – Rose Anderson, Guy Condit, Hermon Clark, Fred Hough, Minnie Gibbons, William McGregor, Nancy Humphrey, Jesse Cilby, Eva Woodrow, Fred Young, Jessie Goodrich.
“No. 6 – Bertha Connelley, Emma Cox, Charles Ford, George Harrah, Celia Lyday, Kitty Mulhern, Marian Sampey, Alma Van Geisen, Ella Webb.
Anna Griebeling
“No. 5 – Della Evans, Sarah Fee, Anna Griebeling, Edward Johnson, John Gant, Elizabeth Shoup, Paul Maltby, Charles Wagner.
“No. 4 - Kittie Jackson, Alfred Parish, Jessie Rickman, E. Kiddoo, Flora McKee, Blanche Schofield, Dollie Owens, Stella Parker, Myrtle Thomas.
Harry McCardell
“No. 3 – Edward French, Fred Green, Lottie Green, Alice Shaw, Gussie Griebeling, Mary Smith, Henry Hennings, Albert Johnson, Harry McCardell, Nellie Marlow, George McLellan, Jessie Winters, Loren Winslow.
“No 2 – John Conley, Claude Gillespie, John Diggings, Horace Winters, William Henning, Harry Lytle, Anna Scharf, Lizzie Webb, Stella Townsend, Helen Van Giesen.
“No. 1 – Edward Bollhoefer, Homer Parish, Nellie Wilson, William Parker, Edward McCartney, Charles Dahlgreen, Nellie McLelland.”
Source: Newton Daily News; August 20, 1937