Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1903 — HERALD ABSORBS THE STAR. [ARTICLE]

HERALD ABSORBS THE STAR.

Interesting Bit of Newspaper Hietory of Owt Neighboring Town Of Ooodland. The Goodland Star, the new rerepublican paper started at Goodland last summer by Hervy Hat*, dersou and Roy Shepherd, tw& well known young men of that city of excellent reputation and more than ordinary educational ability, has been consolidated with the Goodland Herald, and the Star will cease to shine. Thie is about the fifth newspaper venture that we know of at Goodland that has failed, or proved so unprofitable that the promotors were glad to quit. Along in the winter of 1898 Dr. Coppock and W. J. Oram started to fill a long fell want at Goodland and launched the Newton County Republican After a precarious existence of a few months the sheriff closed thg shop, and the plant was later bought by A. J. Kitt, then postmaster there and who had some time previous sold the old Herald. Kitt started the Goodland TimeSt which he continued to publish until after the election that fall when he sold out to E. R. Bringham, who then owned the Herald, and the two plants were consolidated. Next in the field was the Goodland Tribune, started by twa young men Frauk Wiles and James Quigley who put in a firstclass plant, bought mostly oa time, some ten years after the Times had ceased to exist, and after about six months it was alsa closed by the Bheriff, acting foa the wholesale house that had sold the plant. The Herald also absorbed this plant. Quigley went West while Wiles is now employed on the Fowler Leader. The next venture was the Goodland Journal, started by A. J. Kitt, who in the meantime had sold the Herald once more, aad after running it a few months he again bought the Herald and the two plants were consolidated. The next candidate for public support was the Star, started sooa after Goodland got (?) the count* seat, and while the sheriff had nothing to do with the closing o# this plant, it was no donbt found unprofitable, and the two paper? have been pooled as above state# and only the Herald will be issued. Mr. Shepherd had previously bought Henderson’s interest ia the plant, and the arrangements with the Herald are than, white the business will be carried on as a partnership, both Shepherd au£ Kitt retain their individual inter, ests in the material, Shepherd ts have charge of the job department and Kitt the editorial omu£ agement. Another paper that had a brief bnt checkered career, was th# Newton County Citizen, a democratic paper started last suaxmap and run until after the election, soon after which it was discontinued and the material sold to editor Scbanlaub of the Motocco Courier, who consolidated tha plant with the Courier. Frank Davis, the well known Morooofe attorney, led this venture. There are few towns in Indian* that have had so mnch newspapea experience as Goodland. and tho failure of all these pubb alione but emphasizes the oft repeats# statement that there are few inland towns of the size of Goodland that can support two papers. It takes both money aud experience to successfully conduct a newspaper, the same as that required to make a success ia any other calling, and while there are many people who think they are better fitted for the newspaper business than those who are engaged in it, a few months experience usually convinces them tha! their judgment was in error.