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410 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
sible, the files for 1840 of both Norwalk papers were investigated for an
account of the hanging of Evans on September 23, 1840, no report of
the matter being found. The Clarion for 1824, for instance, in its issue
of May 26th, advertises the sale of Huron town lots to take place June
15th. In its issue of June 9th it advertises the Milan dry goods store
of R. & G. Lockwood. The issue of June 23d contains an advertisement
of a runaway slave named James, owned by Williams Adams, of Mount
Vernon, Kentucky. The issue of July 14th advertises the removal of
the Clarion office to the Old AVhite Store, and the issue of September
22d described the welcome to Lafayette.
The Clarion of 1825 in its issue of January 22d publishes the advertisement
of J. N. Sloan as a silversmith, the first Sandusky jeweler. The
issue of May 7th contains the ad. of Dr. II. Brown, with his office at A.
Root's Tavern, and described the meeting of the Huron County Medical
Society, with Doctor Tilden as president. The issue of May 28th contains
the advertisement of the cabinet factory of Thomas T. White on
Wayne Street, opposite the Steamboat Hotel. The issue of June 18th
advertises the drug store of Doctor Anderson, and Seth Hull's tailor shop,
'opposite the Steamboat Hotel. The issue of July 9th contains the advertisement
for the first time of a stage line twice a week from Columbus
to Sandusky. The issue of October 29th contains an advertisement by
Abraham Everett and A. N. Boalse, as blacksmiths, for apprentices, and
the first temperance meeting of which there is any record in Sandusky is
advertised in the issue of August 15th.
According to a communication in the Register of August 15, 1878,
one column of the first issue of the Daily Sanduskian, April 24, 1848,
was devoted to an editorial by D. K. Campbell on the necessity of a daily
paper for Sandusky. He says that twenty-six years ago this date as a
young man and newcomer he printed the first number of the Weekly
Clarion, and, among a good many discouragements, ahvays got his paper
oiit every week. He states that then there were no steamboats on the
lakes, as the one was wrecked that had been built: no Erie Canal, no
railroad, no telegraph. There were about forty schooners on the lake
doing the lake business. It took more than two weeks to get news from
New York. He then embarked in an experiment, and now, with his tAvo
sons, was about to embark in another experiment. The paper cost $5 a
year. There was one column of telegraph, then a new thing, and one
column of a" bank note list. There AA'ere advertisements by P- Cook & Co.,
W. T. & A. K. West, Taylor & Lee, W. F Converse, J. G. Camp, Beecher
& Leonard, and A. W. Hendry.
D. K. Campbell issued his valedictory editorial May 23. 1851, four
columns long, saying he had sold out to younger men, and this is the last
issue of the' Clarion, which he had labored over and loved for twentynine
years. He laments the death of his two sons and the removal of the
third, and the impossibility of continuing publishing the paper. The
first issue of the paper appeared May 27, 1851. which was called the
Daily Register, with Earl Bill and Clark Waggoner as editors. The
office Avas then where the Commercial Bank is now.