Harvey Talbott was born in Clay county thirty years ago and after brief schooling in the high school there, began to work as a compositor there at the age of fourteen, on the Clay County Patriot. He was married to Miss Emiline A. "Gillette, March 17, 1914. Dyer Gillette, Mrs. Talbott's father, left Oberlin College to enlist in the army during the Civil War and afterwards served as clerk of the district court in Clay county. Mr. Gillette and his wife, Ida A., are still living at the old home place. In 1914, Mr. Talbott came to Chappell and entered upon his duties at the Register office, later becoming proprietor and editor of the paper with his wife for associate. The Talbotts have taken part in the phenominal growth of Chappell, in which their energy and enterprise have most materially assisted. Active in Chappell's Chamber of Commerce, of a hundred members, and on the Register, they lead the pace for other business people and of the city's forward progress.

Big Springs has long been without a newspaper. When Mr. O'Day gave up his paper there and the Journal ceased to exist, there was not much for a number of years to encourage a new man to take up such an enterprise. However, the Progress has come into existence and being during the last part of 1920. It was first printed in Denver, and the new plant at Big Springs is not yet fully installed in January, 1921. but there is the promise that Big Springs will have a live, energetic news sheet in the near future.