The Joplin News Herald, published by the News Herald Publishing Company, has the distinction of being the oldest newspaper printed in Joplin. The officers of the company are P.E. Burton, president; O.D. Royse, vice-president; J.F. Farrar, secretary-treasurer; who serve with John R. Holmes and Luther McGeehee as directors. The News Herald carries the dispatches of the Associated Press, covers the surrounding district with its news and circulation and is printed every afternoon excepting Saturday and Sunday and also issues a large Sunday morning edition. P.E. Burton is editor and J.F. Farrar, business manager.
The present publication, as may be seen form the double nomenclature, first started from the establishment of the Joplin Evening News, which was begun by Peter Schnur in the fall of 1872. After Harrison took the presidency in 1889, Mr. Schnur was appointed postmaster and he sold the paper to H.L. Crittenden. Mr. Schnur died in Joplin in 1907, after marching in a parade. Mr. Crittenden is now living in Oklahoma.
The Herald was started by A.W. Carson in 1876 as a Democratic morning paper. The News was a Republican evening paper. Mr. Carson sold to W.F. Snyder in 1888. Thomas Connor, who was interested in the property, dictated its policy. He secured the appointment of Mr. Snyder as postmaster in 1893 and about the end of Snyder's term as postmaster in 1897 he sold the Herald to J.I. Geddes and Captain Frank Eberly. They sold the Herald in less than a year to W.A. Robie of Topeka.
With the issues of Saturday, March 3, 1900, the News and Herald ceased to exist and were consolidated in the News Herald, the first issue being printed March 4, 1900. At the time of consolidated Fred L. Cowles was editor and Hale Sturges, business manager of the Herald. The officers of the new company were: Fred L. Cowles, manager; H.H. Sturges, president; Bart B. Howard, secretary; Hale Sturges, treasurer. In March, 1903, M.W. Hutchinson, of Kansas City, bought the News Herald. He sold July 1, 1905, to P.E. Burton and J.S. Farish, of St. Louis, who organized the corporation.
Source: A History of Jasper County Missouri and Its People. Joel T. Livingston. 1912. The Lewis Publishing Company; Chicago, New York, San Francisco; Page 879.
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