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Mr. Baer bought Dcr Beobachter (the Observer) from Samuel Wagner and consolidated 

 the two papers under the present title. He continued his management of the paixjr 

 until his death, on the 6th of November, 1858, when he was succeeded by Kcuhen A. 

 and Christian R. Baer, under the firm of John Baer's Sons, the present publishers. 

 The Volksfreund is printed on a sheet 28 by 43 inches. 



The Lancaster Inquirer, (weekly,) was started on the first of Januaiy. IB-IO, by 

 Stuart A. Wylie, Jacob D. Gompf and J. W. Gaintner, doing business as the finn of 

 S. A. Wylie & Co. On the first of September folloAving tliey purchased the Amcriain 

 Press and BepuhUcan from Jacob Myers & Son, and united it witli the Inrjvirer, at tho 

 same time enlarging it from a six to a seven-colunni paper. In 18G0 Mr. Wylie V>ought 

 out the interests of Messrs. Gompf and Gaintner, and continued the publication alone. 

 On the 7th of July, 1863, he commenced the publication of the D(tily Inquirer, which 

 ■was published until Feb. 13, 1864. On the first of May, 1868, Mr. Wylie .sold an in- 

 terest in the Inquirer to Elwood Griest, and the paper was enlarged to eight cohunns, 

 being now published by Wylie & Griest, on a sheet 28 by 43 inches. In politics tlie In- 

 quirer is radical Republican. 



The Columbia Spy, (weekly,) claims a history as far back as 1816, but the office having 

 been twice destroyed by fire, and with it the files, we have been able to ])i-ocure very 

 little reliable data for its history. It grew out of tlie Pionetr, established in ^Marietta 

 by John Huss, which was formerly called the Filot. Huss may have started tlie Pilot 

 in 1816, as he was in the war of 1813, in Capt. Grosh's company, and engaged m the 

 printing business soon after his return. He had learned his trade in Hugh ^laxweirs 

 office. Huss sold the Pioneer to A. B. & R. K. Grosh, who, in 1830 sold to John A. 

 Sheaflf and Chas. H. Heinitsh, who resumed the publication under tlie name of the Co- 

 lumbia Oourant. In 1831 John L. Boswell bought out Slieaff & Heinitsh, and clianged 

 the name of the paper to the Spy. The paper was edited while Boswell Avas publislicr 

 by Thos. E. Cochran. In 1835 the concern was purchased by Preston B. Elder. It 

 was subsequently i^ublished by .James Patton, E. Beatty, Chas, J. Barnitz, J. G. L. 

 Brown, Eshleman ifc Kammerer, Stephen Greene, Coleman J. Bull, and Samuel 

 Wright. The present publishers being unable to give us any information on the sub- 

 ject, we are reluctantly compelled to leave the record incomplete. The *S^^ is now 

 published by A. M. Rambo & Sou, who established the daily edition on the 22d of 

 June, 1868. Size of the weekly, 38 by 43; daily, 20 by 26 inches. 



The Church Advocate, a weekly religious journal, published under the au.spices of the 

 " Church of God," was started as the Gospel Publisher, at Harrisburg in 1835, by Rev. 

 John Winebrenner, who was succeeded by Rev. John F. Weishampel, and then by 

 Rev. Geo, McCartney, as editor. Owing to the pecuniary embarrassments of the Board 

 of Publication, it was suspended. In 1846 the publication was revived by Mr. Winebren- 

 ner, who called it The Church Advocate, and continued as its editor for eleven years. Ho 

 was succeeded by Rev. Geo. Calder, who edited it for two years. In 1850 it was removed 

 to Lancastei/ and placed in charge of the present editor. Rev. E. H. Thomas, who, 

 during the ten years of his management, has doubled its size and circulation. It is 

 printed in quarto form, on a sheet 82 by 44 inches. 



The Father Abraham was started at Reading, as a Republican campaign paiKjr, in 

 July 1864, by E. 11. Ranch & Son, and continued during the campaign. It was rcvivetl 

 July 1, 1866, by E. H. Ranch and published during that campaign. On the 29th of 

 May, 1868, it was revived in Lancaster, as a campaign paper, by E. II. Ranch and Thos. 

 B. Cochran, and continued as a permanent weekly, Nov. 20, 1868. Size 23 by 33 inches. 



The Mo^vnt Joy Herald was started March 17, 1854, by F. H. StautVer, (who, we 

 omitted to mention in the proper connection, succeeded Mr. Goodall as editor of tlio 

 Inland Daily Times.) He was succeeded by Rev. E. II. Thomas, who sold out to tho 

 present publisher, J. R. Hoffer. It is Republican in politics. Size, 23 by 32. 



The Mariettian was established on the 11th of April, 1854, by a joint stock company, 



