Franklin County, Nebraska

For Another Day

Fifty years of Work

This week’s article is a continuation of a half-century of thoughts (in 1931) of the late Bloomington publisher Herb Crank:

“With this issue of the Advocate we have finished a half century upon our work. This is a distinction that few newspapermen in this state can boost of, and in honor of which we are issuing our Jubilee edition that will probably be of some interest to our readers, especially those of fifty years ago.

“We have had our ups and downs, and in the early years, more downs than ups.

“We have published the paper in two towns in this county, and during a period of fifty years have watched the growth of the country from the ox and horse age of travel to the auto and flying machine.

“ When we came to the county, the best land in the north part of the county, owned by the railroad company, could be had for $5.00 per acre. There were but a few, if any, section line roads, and the schoolhouses were very few.

“We have always labored for the community in which we lived and the county in general. We have filled most of the positions in the local government and served a term as postmaster, being displaced by a faithful democrat when Wilson was elected president.

“We are proud of the fact that we were the defendant in a $10,000 libel suit that was filed by a gay female agent for the insurance company. After being on the docket for several years Judge Dungan dismissed the case, thinking we had derived enough publicity our of it. We have made a few enemies of which we are proud of, for a newspaper man without any convictions is simply a figurehead and is of no benefit to himself or the community.

“The editor has not become a bloated bondholder, but we are proud to state that we do not owe any person on earth and still have extra good health and start out on the next fifty years full of ambition.

“We are mighty grateful for the large number of friends who have given us their patronage for the brief half century and we hope to be able to merit a continuous patronage.”

Rena Donovan, For Another Day.

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