It is the antecedent of the Bayard Transcript as we now know it. It was at Minatare in 188S.

G. E. Mark Will A. Hale once ran the Homestead in Gering. Geo. E. Mark of the Mitchell Index acquired the outfit and it was later moved to Mitchell where for twenty or more years Col. Mark has run the Index, the only paper of the city. Mr. Mark is one of the old timers who takes particular interest in old history.

The Republican Next in the order of seniority is E. T. Westervelt. Col. Gene has been at the helm of the Republican at Scottsbluff during the life of the city. His original little frame shack was put up in a cornfield.

The Star-Herald

Harry J. Wisner has for a number of years been at the helm of the Star-Herald, and with him is associated one of the best writers in

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

the county, Col. Cross. The origin of this paper is two-fold. Earnest F. Moon established the Herald in the early days of Scottsbluff and a few years later Peter J. Barron established the Star. Col. Moon was a consistent progressive and for a clean town at all times. Col. Barron arrived on the scene when the village was emerging into a city and was foremost in the movement that made Scottsbluff the leading city of the North Platte valley country.

Col. Wisner associated with A. B. Wood consolidated the two and have made it a live journal. They inaugurated a daily edition but gave it up at the end of a year as unprofitable.