Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1913 — Oxford Gazette the Oldest Paper in Benton County. [ARTICLE]

Oxford Gazette the Oldest Paper in Benton County.

Oxford Gazette. The Republican-Leader claims to be the oldest paper in Benton county. The Jacksonian was published in Oxford in 1857, and In 1865 it was merged into the Benton Tribune; this later "became the Oxford Tribune and this in 1910 was merged with the Oxford Gazette, making the Gazette without question the oldes paper in the county. The Fowler papers started as the Central Clarion under Dunean McWilliams in 1876. This later became the Benton County Herald, later the Era and still later the Republican. Then in 1893 John P. Carr started the Fowler Leader, which in 1909 absorbed the Republican and became the Republican-Leader.