bU HISTORY OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI issued a few numbers of a paper he called The Independent. It was not successful and was soon discontinued. Senath, in Dunklin county, has had a varied experience with newspapers. About 1902 Jas. A. Bradley established a paper which he called the Star. It was soon discon- tinued. Later a paper called the Farmers' Union Advocate was issued for a while. Other papers followed. Some of them suffered financial shipwreck. At present the Leader is being issued by John Mann. The first paper published in Arcadia was The Arcadia Prospect, with A. Coulter as proprietor and W. L. Favor as editor. This was in 1859. After a short time it was re- moved to Ironton and in 1861 the publication was discontinued. One year before this time The Furnace had been established in Ironton by James Lindsay. The Furnace was a Free Soil paper, but it, too, was discontinued in 1861. About the breaking out of the war a religious paper known as The Baptist Journal was established by Rev. "William Polk, but he, too, was forced to discontiniae during the war. In 1865 The Ironton Forge was started by Eli D. Ake, using the material which had formerly belonged to The Furnace. This was the entrance upon newspaper life of probably the oldest editor in this part of the state. In 1866 The Forge was sold to G. A. and J. L. Moser, who called the publication The South- east Missouri Enterprise, but discontinued its publication in 1873. In 1866 The Review, a Democratic paper, was founded by R. E. Craig. The name of the paper was changed to the Iron County Register in July, 1867, with Thomas Essex and W. H. Winfield as editors. This paper was purchased in 1869 by Eli D. Ake and C. K. Miller. In 1871 Mr. Ake became the sole proprietor and since that time has owned and edited the Iron County Register, perhaps the longest contin- uous control of any paper in Southeast Mis- souri. Mr. Ake is regarded as the dean of newspaper men in this section, not only be- cause of his long service, but also because of his real ability as an editor. The Register is one of the most influential papers of this sec- tion. In 1870 Robert L. Lindsay established R campaign paper called The Liberal at Iron- ton, and The Commonwealth, an independent religious paper, was conducted by Crawford and Duncan for a few months in 1874. The Herald, a Democratic paper established in 1884, b.y John Smith, which suspended publi- cation in a short time, was another Ironton enterprise. In 1897 the Rcpuhlican was established by G. H. Broadwell. It was later edited by C. A. Byers and was discontinued about 1902. Byers transferred the office to Arcadia and established the Arcadia Valley Enterprise. The Enterprise is a Republican paper and is at present imder the control of Fuller Swift. A non-political paper called Columbian Reciprocity was published for a short time in Ironton about 1893. It had no particialar patronage and was soon discontinued. The first newspaper in Jefferson coimty was established at DeSoto in 1859 by E. E. Fur- ber. He continued its publication until forced to suspend by the breaking out of the war. No attempt was made to conduct an- other paper in DeSoto until 1869, when C. D. Clarke established a paper which he called The Republican. It was Republican in pol- itics, but its publication was suspended within a short time. In 1890 a company was organized at
