Chase County Newspapers
"History of Kansas Newspapers to 1916"
CHASE COUNTY.
Organized, 1859; named for Salmon P. Chase, governor of Ohio at the
time; county seat, Cottonwood Falls; area, 750 square miles, 480,000 acres;
population (1915), 7154; assessed valuation (1915), $20,140,674; resources
and industries agriculture, stock raising, limestone quarries.
COTTONWOOD FALLS Population (1915), 921; elevation, 1191 feet; established, 1859;
industries stone quarries, mills; telephones, electric lights; is on the Santa Fe railway and
interurban to Strong City.
CHASE COUNTY LEADER, Republican; W. C. Austin, editor and publisher, Cottonwood Falls.
Semiweekly. Feb. 25, 1875 +.
Established 1871 by Wm. A. Morgan.
CEDAR POINT Population (1915), 167; established about 1862; telephones; is on the Santa
Fe railway.
COTTONWOOD VALLEY NEWS, Democratic; D. F. Drinkwater, editor and publisher, Cedar Point.
Weekly. Oct. 22, 1914 +.
STRONG CITY Population (1915), 858; elevation, 1181 feet; established, 1872; first called
Cottonwood; name changed about 1881 to Strong City, in honor of W. B. Strong, president
of the A. T. & S. F. railway; industries stone quarries; has telephones; is on the Santa Fe
railway and an interurban line to Cottonwood Falls.
NEWS-COURANT, independent; William M. Knapp, editor, W. C. Austin, owner, Strong City.
Weekly. Dec. 30, 1909 +.
This paper is a continuation of the following: Chase County Courant, Cottonwood Falls,
founded 1874 by J. C. Martin and W. E. Timmons. Strong City Independent, founded 1881 by
R. M. Watson; sold in 1888 to the Chase County Republican, Strong City, founded 1887 by Frank
D. Weller, continued by W. Y. Morgan; in 1892 name changed to Strong City Derrick, with C. W.
White, editor and publisher; in 1905 name changed to Strong City Herald, Eugene L. Smith,
editor and publisher. Elmdale Reporter, founded in 1899 by R. E. Seward; sold to the Strong
City Herald in 1906. In 1907 the Herald's subscription list was sold to the Chase County Courant.
Chase County Reveille, Cottonwood Falls, founded 1890 by E. W. Ellis; consolidated in 1900 with
the Courant, and called the Courant and Reveille, Philip Goodreau, editor and publisher; in 1907
the name was changed back to the Courant, with E. F. Halbert, editor and publisher. Strong City
News, founded 1909 by H. G. Hammond; absorbed in 1909 the Elmdale Gas Jet, founded same
year by Frank E. Pattie, and during the year 1909 consolidated with the Courant, and continued
as the News-Courant, J. N. Leonard, editor and publisher.
DISCONTINUED.
Cottonwood Falls. . . Central Kansas Index. Apr. 20, 1870 1871
Chase County Banner. Aug. 3, 1867 1869
Chase County Courant. Oct. 26, 1874 1900
Courant. Jan. 24, 19071900
Courant and Reveille. Oct. 18, 1900 1907
Kansas Press. 1859
[See Council Grove Press.]
Reveille. Aug. 21, 1890 1900
School News (m). Nov., 1887 1888
Cedar Point The Pointer. Mar. 30, 1895 1896
Elmdale Gas Jet. Mar. 4 Dec. 24, 1909
Reporter. Dec. 15, 1899 1906
[1899 and 1900 issues scattering.]
Matfield Green Mirror (1st). Jan. 27, 1893 1894
Mirror (2d). Sept. 27, 1907 1908
SHORT-LIVED
Cottonwood Falls. . . Chase County Leader (d). Sept. 29 Oct. 2, 1886.
Scalping Knife. Sept. 15, 1874.
True Reformer. Nov. 1, 1876.
Valley Echo. Oct. 28, 1880 Jan. 27, 1881.
Matfield Green Independent. Aug. 20, 1904 Jan. 6, 1905.
Strong City Advance. Sept. 7, 1893 May 10, 1894.
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