Howard Weekly Examiner

[W. Gray]

From the Howard Weekly Examiner, April 5, 1878.

"When we got up last Monday morning and looked across the street we found that a meat shop had come to town."

"Dr. Stephens and Tom Miller of Longton had a little fisticuff the other day, all about nothing as usual, we suppose."

"Only one divorce granted during this term." [In the thirteenth district court]

"Tommy Thompson acted as assistant District Clerk."
[Tommy was eighteen years old at this time. Asa Thompson, his father, was the court clerk. Two years later Tommy was editor of the Elk Falls Signal. Three years later, he became a one-third owner of the Elk County Herald. He and his partners folded the Herald a few months after purchase in order to buy the Howard Courant.]

"The court held that the corporation of the city of Howard was legal."

"The Hotels do not have sufficient sleeping facilities for court week."

"Court was held in the School House without cost to the county."
[There would not be a finished courthouse until the following year. The new courthouse courtroom was carpeted.]

The Weekly Examiner started publishing earlier in the year at Elk Falls. After putting out a newspaper for one month, it moved to Howard where it lasted three months. This newspaper is not related to the Elk Falls Examiner, which in February 1871 was the first newspaper in Elk County and moved to Winfield two years later becoming the Winfield Courier.