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A HISTORY OF THE PRESS OF MICHIGAN PREPARED FOR THE CENTENNIAL BY ORDER OF GOV. JOHN J. BAGLEY
TOM S. APPLEGATE, COMPILER
Section II
MISSAUKEE COUNTY
This county is credited by the census with but 606 population. In October. 1873, S. W. Davis started, at Lake City, The Missaukee Reporter. It was republican in politics, but only continued publication until October 23, 1875. The Normal Herald, an educational weekly, is nominally published at Lake City, though really printed at Park Ridge, a suburb of Chicago. It was first printed by S. W. Davis at St. Johns. Mich., removed to Lake City, where The Reporter was started, and both papers issued from the same office. The Herald was originally a monthly, but became a weekly when the office was removed to Park Ridge.
MONROE COUNTY
This county has a population of 30, 111, and three weekly papers. Two, The Monitor, democratic, and The Commercial, republican, are printed at Monroe; The Enterprise, independent, is printed at Dundee.
The first paper published in Monroe county was issued at Monroe in 1823. Edward D. Ellis was the proprietor, and it was called The Michigan Sentinel. It was democratic in politics. Next came The Monroe Journal and Michigan Inquirer, started by Abner Morton in 1834. It was sold the same year to E. J. Van Buren, when the paper was discontinued and the office removed. In 1836 Mr. Ellis sold The Sentinel to A. Morton & Son, who changed the name to The Monroe Advocate. Early in 1837, the Mortons sold the paper to a company consisting of L. S. Humphrey, Alpheus Felch, A. E. Wing, and others, and the paper was edited during the year of the famous "Woodbridge and Reform" campaign by C. C. Jackson, now pay director in the U. S. navy. After the campaign the office was sold back to A. Morton & Co., who discarded the name of The Times, and again adopted that of The Monroe Advocate, which they continued to 1849, and then adopted the name of The Monroe Commercial. The late Hon. E. G. Morton was connected with the paper from 1837 to 1856, when it was purchased by republicans and its politics changed. In 1861, the present proprietor, M. D. Hamilton, assumed control.
THE PRESS OF MICHIGAN
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