Good changed the name in 1879 to the Polk County Itemizer, which it remained throughout its independent career. Casey's ownership dates from & Williams (Walter) took hold. Casey changed publication day to Saturday. The name had been changed to the Dallas Itemizer, December 2, 1872, under Hammond, Rubell, and Hedges, editors and publishers. Clark in turn sold to Casey & Hammond, and Ed Casey soon became sole owner. Lyle took hold but before long sold out to Reese Clark, later of Woodland, Calif. Several changes of ownership followed this disastrous campaign. Sullivan purchased the paper from Tyson in 1872 he called it the Liberal Republican, synchronizing with the Liberal Republican campaign of Horace Greeley, whom the newspaper supported for president. Tyson, editor and publisher, who changed the publication day to Saturday, cut the price to $2 a year, and claimed 500 circulation. The paper's next name was the Oregon Republican, given it in March 1870 by R. Smith defeated David Logan for congress." It was a four-page seven-column paper, issued on Mondays, and Mr. The Signal was a political newspaper, Democratic, "born," Vivian Fiske says, "for the political campaign in which Joseph E. Upton, and its first name was the Polk County Signal. It was founded, like so many other newspapers, by J. The Dallas Weekly Itemizer, which survives as a part of Earle Richardson's Polk County Itemizer-Observer, published at Dallas, was the county's next newspaper, the first one of any real significance. After a few issues the paper was moved, July 19, to Corvallis, where it died October 11, a few months before the appearance of J. The first number, which was closer to the last than the hopeful publisher had any inkling, appeared May 6. It was published at Eola, a little town near the Marion county line, by C. The original photograph, from which this cut was made, is in the possession of August Risser, and shows the general details more clearly.Dallas.-A Baptist Democratic weekly, the Religious Expositor, was Polk County's first contribution to Oregon journalism. Hayter, dentist, was located to the upstairs of the Wilson building and the shingle may be noticed below the window. The church building, occupying the present Dallas National Bank corner, was the old Methodist church and at the time of the picture it housed a hardware store. This building was later moved to near the Collins’ residence on Court Street, where it still remains. On the left foreground is the law office of J. The large building on the right background was known as the Jap restaurant building, and was located where the new home of the Mountain States Power Co. The corner now occupied by Mac-Marr Store was then a new brick building, which was the home of Fenton & Toner’s general store.Ī board fence surrounded the courthouse square (this was torn down at the time the new courthouse was built in 1899) and the fire bell tower was located in the southwest corner of the square. The photograph was taken from Main Street looking north from a point probably in front of the present J. The streets, which previously had been bottomless mud in the winter and dust in the summer, had been reinforced with boulders and a top covering of finer rock, as the foreground indicates. Several of the first permanent buildings had recently been completed. Polk County Itemizer-Observer, Thursday, JThe picture to the right, which numerous old timers have established as being taken in the early 1890’s, shows Dallas at a period when it was probably making its most rapid changes from a pioneer village to an important city. Looking North on Main Street from near Washington St.
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