It took two counties and two juries to put him there and there have been many and futile attempts to get him out by pardon and parole.

Other Newspapers The Morrill Mail and the Henry Item constitute the papers not mentioned heretofore in the little live cities of their position. Each have been very useful for their communities and the editors deserve all the support that they are given. In fact that is true of practically all the editorial and journalistic people of the county.

The Midwest One of the youngest journals in the county and yet one of the most virile is the Midzvest of Gering. The once state publicity agent Col. Will R. Maupin is the editor. Col. Maupin formerly published the York Democrat and the Midwest Magazine. Prior to those associations he had been in the newspaper game for a life time.

Colonel Wood's Story A. B. Wood, the dean of western Nebraska newspaper men has furnished the compiler a statement of journalistic history of this county and the adjoining county of Banner, which owing to his first hand knowledge is a valuable contribution. It is a matter of congratulation that we are able to include this story for permanent record. In the history of Banner county will be found a story more in detail of the newspapers of Harrisburg and Ashford.

Scotts Bluff County Journalism By A. B. Wood

The Gering Courier, which I have conducted personally from that day to this, was first issued on April 27, 1887, and was a patent inside sheet with the two outside pages printed "at home." The honor of being the pioneer in the North Platte valley was not easily achieved for less than a week later the Minatare Trumpet appeared, its publisher being John F. Ringler. Neither the Trumpet nor my own paper were established with any large vision of the later greatness of the North Platte valley.