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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
January 1, 1868, Wm. P. Nisbett started the Pontiac Bill Poster as a monthly journal. After a year and a half it was changed to a weekly. The proprietor sold a half interest in 1874 to E. J. Kelley, and January 1, 1876, that gentleman purchased Mr. Nisbett's interest, and continues sole proprietor of The Bill Poster.
The Holly Register was established in 1863. H. Jenkins is the present proprietor.
The Milford Times was published by its present proprietor, Isaac P. Jackson, February 18, 1871.
The Orion Good News was established January 1, 1873, by Rev. J. R. Cordon. James W. Seeley is the present proprietor.
The Rochester Era was established May 21, 1873. by its present proprietor, T. B. Fox.
No information in regard to the other Oakland county papers has been received.
The Pontiac Jacksonian, once one of the best known democratic papers in the State, was established in 1839, and died in May, 1873.
OCEANA COUNTY
This county has a population of 8. 360 and two weekly papers—The Journal published at Hart, and The News, at Pentwater, both republican.
In 1860, the first paper, The Oceana Times, was established by F. W. Ratzel; it suspended in 1870. In 1870, Amos Dresser, Jr., established The News, at Pentwater; Dresser & Porter are the present proprietors.
The Oceana County Journal was established at Hart, the county seat, May 1? 1870, by J. Palmiter. B. F. Saunders is the present proprietor.
ONTONAGON COUNTY
This county has a population of 2, 406 and one paper, The Miner, published at Ontonagon. It was established as The Lake Superior Miner, by J. D.
Emerson, date not given, and claims to be the oldest paper published on Lake Superior, which has been published in the village continuously since its start.
THE PRESS OF MICHIGAN
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