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W. Gray

April 24, 2008, 12:39:41 PM
From the Elk County Ledger (Howard City), April 28, 1877

The LEDGER office boasts a new "devil." Johnny Thompson proposes to learn the printer's trade. "Tommy" has been promoted, and now has somebody to "boss" over.


Tommy, 17, was Thomas E. Thompson. Johnny might have been a cousin.

Three years later Tommy was editor of the Elk Falls Signal.
"If one of the many corrupt...county-seat contests must be taken by way of illustration, the choice of Howard County, Kansas, is ideal." Dr. Everett Dick, The Sod-House Frontier, 1854-1890.
"One of the most expensive county-seat wars in terms of time and money lost..." Dr. Homer E Socolofsky, KSU
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