Part 20 (1/2)

The _Independent_, started at Springville, editions also being printed for Prairieburg and Central City.

The _Stylus_, started at Cedar Rapids by Ralph Van Vechten.

1882 The _People_, started at Cedar Rapids by A. J. Huss.

The _New Era_, started at Springville by J. F. Butler, pa.s.sing the same year into the hands of C. S. Shanklin.

1883 The _Walker News_, started at Walker by David Brant.

The _Daily Gazette_, started in Cedar Rapids by Otis & Post.

1884 The Gazette Company organized in March and takes over the _Daily Gazette_. In July all the stock purchased by Fred W. Faulkes and Clarence L. Miller.

The _Sat.u.r.day Evening Chat_, started in Cedar Rapids by A.

J. Huss.

The _Linn County Pilot_ becomes the _Marion Pilot_, Rev. J.

W. Chaffee, editor.

1886 The _Linn County Independent_ removes to Marion.

1888 _Kvinden og Hjemmet_, monthly ill.u.s.trated magazine for the Norwegian and Danish women in America, with a Swedish edition, _Quinnan och Hemmet_, started at Cedar Rapids by N.

Fr. Hansen.

The _News-Letter_, started at Central City.

1889 _Town Topics_, started in Cedar Rapids by Ernest A.

Sherman.

The _Monitor_, started at Coggon.

1891 _Sat.u.r.day Record_, started in Cedar Rapids by Sherman & Hatmaker.

1894 The _Herald_, started at Lisbon by W. F. Stahl.

1893 The _Record_, started at Mt. Vernon by Lloyd McCutcheon.

1902 _Iowa Post_ brought to Cedar Rapids from Iowa City by Henry Gundling.

1903 The _Tribune_, established by the Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor.

1906 The _Cedar Rapidske Liste_, Bohemian humorous weekly.

The _Optimus_, started at Cedar Rapids by E. C. Barber.

1909 _West Side Enterprise_, started December 30th by W. I.

Endicott, owner and publisher.

Much of the early history of Linn county, and more especially of Cedar Rapids, is interwoven with the history of the _Progressive Era_, which afterwards became the _Cedar Rapids Times_. The _Progressive Era_ was established by D. O. Finch in 1851. It was democratic in politics and claimed to be devoted to the interests of Cedar Rapids and Linn county.

It was a seven column, four page paper, and rather a credit to the town at that time. Worse papers have been published since.

It was but a short time until Mr. Finch had all the newspaper experience he wanted. Joseph Greene then purchased the paper and ran it until 1854. During this time Ezra Van Metre, James J. Child, Esq., and James L. Enos were successively its editors.