Lewis County Newspapers
Centralia
Chronicle,
established in July, 1889, by Thomas Scammons and J. E. Whinnery.
Independent.
News. Rowell &
Rathbun began the Naparvine Western Washington Farmer in August,
1886. On April 1, 1887, the plant was sold to A. E. Partridge
and W. F. Pattison who moved it lo Centralia and began the News.
On August 14, 1889, Charles Prosch wrote: "One month ago Mr.
Partridge commenced the publication of the Daily News which
makes a better appearance than many a first daily in the older
and larger towns." (Washington Press Association Proceedings,
1887-1890, page 43.)
Sunday Independent, established on November 9,
1889, by Hull, Kerr and Julian. It lived but a few weeks.
Chehalis
Bee-Nugget,
the combination of two pioneer journals. The Lewis County Nugget
was first issued on July 14, 1883, by Tozier & Meybrick. It was
not attractive. The Asotin Transcript said: "We have seen many
poor papers, but never worse." J. E. Willis secured the paper,
changed its politics to the Democratic column, secured the local
postmastership and sold the paper to A. H. Wehner, who continued
it as a Democratic organ until November, 1889, when he sold it
to Owen & Morrison. In February, 1890, the paper was acquired by
A. E. Partridge. The Lewis County Bee was established on June 6,
1884, by Bull & Francis, who changed it to a semi-weekly on
August 1, 1884. It skipped one week and appeared again on
September 12, 1884, as a weekly by W. W. Francis, with Charles
Weston as editor. On August 4, 1886, W. W. Francis sold out to
J. T. Forrest. (Edwin N. Fuller, in Washington Press Association
Proceedings, 1887-1890, page 82.) Besides the files in the
office of publication, there are series of them, especially
since the successful combination of the two papers, in the
University of Washington Library, in the State Library at
Olympic, and the Public Library at Chehalis.
Napavine
Western Washington Farmer, established in August,
1886, by Rowell & Rathbun, and moved to Centralia on April 1,
1887. See Centralia News.
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Source: Washington Historical Quarterly,
Volume 13-14, 1923
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