Howard Courant-Citizen

[W. Gray]

When I was young, I knew only of the Howard Courant-Citizen newspaper and read it every time we visited Elk County.

However, the two Howard newspapers, the Republican oriented Howard Courant, and the Democrat oriented Howard Citizen, were both going strong when I was born in 1941.

What year did the two newspapers merge?

[Diane Amberg]

1942? It was before I was born, but Daddy always took the paper by mail.They were here by then.

[W. Gray]

1942? It was before I was born, but Daddy always took the paper by mail.They were here by then.

1942 is the correct year.

Thomas E. Thompson, the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame editor, had died in 1935 leaving Maude Thompson his wife to run the newspaper. She sold out to the Howard Citizen at the age of almost eighty and then lived another 19 years.

Son Clad Thompson was in the newspaper business but apparently had no interest in running a country paper. He was on the staff of the Kansas City Star and even contributed to TIME magazine. Maude even outlived her son by several years.

[W. Gray]

1942 is the correct year.

Thomas E. Thompson, the Kansas Newspaper Hall of Fame editor, had died in 1935 leaving Maude Thompson his wife to run the newspaper. She sold out to the Howard Citizen at the age of almost eighty and then lived another 19 years.

Son Clad Thompson was in the newspaper business but apparently had no interest in running a country paper. He was on the staff of the Kansas City Star and even contributed to TIME magazine. Maude even outlived her son by several years.

On November 9, 1911, Thomas E Thompson, aka Polk Daniels, stated that he had traded subscriptions to the Howard Courant for poultry, produce, peanuts and a pair of young mocking birds, which turned out to be catbirds. He balked at swapping a year of the newspaper for a coyote pup.