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was removed by Mr. Lehman to Mount Union, lluntingJoii county, and establisliod 

 there as the News. 



In 1858 the Strasburg Herald was started in the Borough of Strasburg by AVni. .1. 

 Kauffman, and continued until the spring of 1861. 



In the political campaign of 1860, the Constitution, an organ of the Bell and Everett 

 party, was published in Lancaster, by Samuel B. Markley. 



In the same year ]\Ir. Markley published a monthly magazine, called the Educational 

 Record, which was edited by T. L. Sanders. 



In 1859-60, the Parje MontUy, an organ of the Page Literary Society of the State 

 Nonnal School, at Millersville, was published by B. H. Ilershey; at the same time tlie 

 Normal Weekly, the organ of the rival Literary Society at Millersville, was published 

 in the Weekly Express. 



On the 26th of June, 1868, a daily paper called the Morning Telegram was started in 

 Columbia, by Frank S. Taft. It was published only a few months. 



Of all the towns in Lancaster county. Marietta has been the most prolific in news- 

 paper enterprises. In 1816 or 1818, William Pierce commenced the publication of a 

 monthly magazine called The Ladies' Visitor, which was continued two or three years. 

 About the year 1820, John Huss started The Pilot, a weekly newspaper, which he con- 

 tinued until 1825, when he changed it to The Pioneer. He afterwards sold out to 

 Charles Nagle. In 1827 or 1828 Nagle sold to A. B. and R. K. Grosh, who published 

 it as an Anti-Masonic and Adams Organ, until about 1830, when they sold the material 

 to Sheaflf & Heinitsh, of Columbia, who started the Columbia Courant. The Marietta 

 Advocate\Y?i.s commenced in 1832 by Wm. R. McCay, and continued for about four yeai-s, 

 when it was removed to Lewistown. The Washingtonian was commenced in 1841 or 

 1842, as a temperance paper, by Taylor & Goodman. It was succeeded by The Orb, by 

 Thomas Taylor, who afterwards changed the title to The Ant. The Argus was stalled 

 by Goodman & Baker, April 20, 1844, and continued for three years. The Litth Mis- 

 sionary, published by John F. Weishampel, was cotemporaneous with The Argus, but 

 was published only about a year. It was a religious royal octavo semi-mouthly. 

 The Mariettian was started in 1854. (See page 483-4.) 



The foregoing embraces all the material now at hand relating to the dead past of the 

 newspaper history of Lancaster County. The following is a brief record of the living 

 present : 



The Lancaster Express, (daily and weekly.) The weekly E-rj^ress was started by 

 John H. Pearsol, on the 10th of February, 1843. It was then a six-column paper, about 

 the size of the present Lancaster dailies. Mr. Pearsol continued the publication until 

 August, 1849, when Wm. Meeser purchased an interest in the othce. In August, 1850, 

 Mr. Meeser re-sold his interest to Mr. Pearsol, who enlarged the paper to the double- 

 medium size, and remained sole publisher and proprietor until August, 1856. In the 

 interim he was assisted in the editorial management of the paper by different writei-s, 

 the late Mrs. Hugh Maxwell having been one of the most energetic and successful in 

 adding to the interest of its columns. Up to this time the Express was the acknow- 

 ledged organ of the Temperance movement, and maintained a neutral position in rela- 

 tion to the political parties of the day. On the 1st of August, 1856, J. M. W. Geist, 

 who had been the managing editor since 1852, purchased a half-interest in the Express, 

 when the Weekly was again enlarged and arrangements commenced for issuing the 

 Daily Express, which made its appearance on November 3, 1856. In the meantime, 

 the Kansas troubles having assumed the magnitude of a great national question, the 

 Express abandoned its neutrality and advocated the foniiation of the Ropul)iioan party, 

 caUing the first meeting which convened for that purpose. May 31, 1856. The Express 

 is still published by its founders, Pearsol & Geist, and is independent Republican in 

 politics. The Daily is printed on a sheet 22 by 32, and the Weekly 31 by 47 niches. 



The Lancaster Intelligencer, (daily and weekly. ) The weekly Intelligencer was estab- 



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