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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
The Almont Herald was established by its present proprietor, A. H. Patterson, in January, 1875.
The North Branch Observer was established by its present proprietor, V. S. Miller, May 22, 1875.
Edward B. Griffiths established the Imlay City Advance, June 25, 1875. He still continues to print it.
LEELANAU COUNTY
This county, with a, population of 5, 031, has one paper, weekly, republican in politics, published at Northport, by its founder, A. H. Johnson. It was established June 11, 1873. It is called The Leelanau Tribune.
In 1872, some parties endeavored to establish an independent paper, called The Leelanau County Courier, but it lived less than a year.
LENAWEE COUNTY
This county has a population of 46, 084, and nine papers. The Times and Expositor, The Press, and The Journal are printed at Adrian; the last named is a weekly, and the others issue both daily and weekly editions. Hudson has two papers—The Post and The Gazette, both weeklies; Tecumseh has two papers—The Herald, and the Raisin Valley Record—both weeklies; Blissfield has one weekly, The Advance; Morenci has one, The State Line Observer; and Deerfield has a juvenile paper, the Ray.
In this county were printed two of the first half-dozen papers issued in Michigan, and the second power press ever brought into the State was put up in Adrian. In 1834, R. W. Ingalls reached Adrian from Cooperstown, New York, and on October lo, 1834, the first number of The Lenawee County Republican and Adrian Gazette saw the light. At that time there were two
papers in Detroit, one at Monroe, and one at Ann Arbor. The paper was neutral in politics for about nine months, when the name was changed to The Watch-Tower, and it came out as a democratic paper.
THE PRESS OF MICHIGAN
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