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414 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
in an office located on the third floor of the Cooke Block, over Avhere
Echvard Alstaetter's insurance office is HOAV located, being edited by
Addison Kinney and Frank B. Colver. A brother, John C. Kinney, soon
joined the firm. At the end of six months Mr. Colver retired, and the
paper was published by Kinney Brothers until January, 1868, Avhen M. F.
McKelvey became associated Avith the firm, but retired in September of
the same year. The daily Avas suspended but the AA'eekly continued until
in 1879. Compelled by failing health to retire, John C. Kinney sold
the Journal to Frank and Charles A. Layman, AVIIO, in turn, sold out
the establishment on March 1, 1886, to Frank Stible and Felix Breen,
AVIIO published a daily and Avcekly for six Aveeks, at which time Mr. Breen
retired, and the publication continued until January, 1887, Avhen A. E.
Merrill and C. C. Bittener became the OAvners, and AA'as consolidated with
the Sandusky Local, Avhich had been in existence several years as a democratic
opposition publication. Later C. C. Bittener purchased the interest
of A. E. Merrill and for several years published the Journal and
Local as sole OAvner. Another democratic paper, the Star, was later published,
and after a feAV years was combined with the Journal and Local
and published under the name of the Star-Journal by the Alvord Peters
Company, in Avhose hands it is understood to have been a profitable
enterprise.
THE MILAN ADVERTISER
From the statistical information furnished by RaAvell's Directory of
Ohio neAvspapers, it is learned that the Advertiser is a weekly paper,
issued each Saturday, in size 30 by 44, and having a circulation of over
500. It appears as a fact, but not upon the above quoted authority, that
the Milan Advertiser is issued only in this county, the type and press-
Avork being performed in Tiffin. W. B. Starbird, noAV an attorney of
Sandusky, is the resident editor.
A paper of this same name Avas founded in the year 1869 and. Avas
issued through that part of the county as an advertising sheet, and
Avithout expense to its readers. In the year following it became a subscription
paper at $1 per annum, but subsequently the price Avas raised
to $1.50. Several changes and enlargements AA'eer made in the size of
the paper to keep step Avith its increasing circulation. Of this paper
the present Advertiser is the outgroAvth. It is IIOAV succeeded by the
Milan Ledger AATUCII is successfully conducted by Miss Anna HOAVC.
The Register of June 15, 1915, says: "The Vermillion NeAVS, Thursday,
celebrated its nineteenth birthday.
'' The NeAvs made its bow in June, 1896, Avith Robt. M. Whitmore as
publisher. The equipment Avas moved to Vermillion from Greenspring,
0. The first file to be found at the office however is of June 24, 1897,
and from its columns it is learned that F. E. Engelhry AA'as the tOAvn's
Mayor; J. A. Klaar, clerk; I). IT. Stevens, marshall; John Wagner, postmaster.
"Pearl Roscoe is the present editor of the NeAA'S; Basil N. Henry,
assistant editor, and Miss Ethel Battomley, compositor."