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HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

rectly recorded, and there was no doubt about it. Sometimes we wonder if the press has deteriorated, or, having taken cognizance of the weaknesses and frailties of ourselves and our brothers, most of us speak with observance of the rules of charity. The next generation will perhaps understand us better than we understand ourselves.

On September thirteenth, eighteen eightyeight, the Sioux County Journal was born. \Y. E. Patterson was proprietor, and L. J. Simmons was assistant. Ed Satterlee had started the Sioux County Herald in eighteen eighty-six. Charlie Verity ran it for a while. He referred to Slingerland of the Record as "The Bucktown dude" because he wore a Prince Albert coat. The Bodarc Record was moved to town and merged with the Herald at a later date.

In August, eighteen ninety-two, volume one, number one of the Independent appeared. It was published by A. L. Baumgartner. This paper burned out not long after it started, and the proprietor came very near losing his life in the fire. He was evidently discouraged in the venture, for he sold the paper to Charles E. Verity in November, eighteen ninety-three.

The Herald was published by Ed Satterlee on a street fronting the present site of the depot at Harrison, and the post-office was next to it. Judge Hunter had started the Republican at Bodarc, for the purpose, so his political enemies declared, of having an organ through which he could exploit his theories and opinions. That some of these opinions were not of the highest and the judge had a sharp way about putting the matter, we do not wonder that his enemies endeavored to make light of his venture.