Warren County has had a variety of community newspapers through
the years. The Western Star published in Lebanon was the first and is now the
oldest weekly newspaper published in Ohio.
This page will be used to record news type items relating Warren
Countians from both newspapers and other sources. Your help in expanding the
collection would be greatly appreciated. You can Email your images and/or transcriptions
to Arne H Trelvik
- Western Star 30 April 1821
- Western
Star 10 Mar 1828 contributed by Dorothy
Wiland. Name Index
- Battalion Orders; Boat Ahoy; Moses
McKay Estate - The Western Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Saturday May 3, 1828
- Brigade Orders; Brigade Request
- The Western Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Saturday May 3, 1828
- Administrator's Sale [Jonathan
Clark Estate] - The Western Star, Saturday August 30, 1828
- Hymeneal - The Western Star,
Lebanon, Ohio, Friday November 14, 1828
1848
- Western Star 11 Jun 1849
- Obituaries contributed by Judy
Simpson on 11 June 2004
- Western Star 6 Jul 1849
- Western Star 13 Jul 1849
- Western Star 20 Jul 1849
- Western Star 27 Jul 1849
- Western Star 3 Aug 1849
- Western Star 17 Aug 1849
- Western Star 24 Aug 1849
- Western Star 31 Aug 1849
- Western Star 26 Oct 1849
- Western Star 19 Oct 1849
- Obituaries contributed by Judy
Simpson on 11 June 2004
- Western Star 2 Nov 1849
- Western Star 7 Dec 1849
- Western Star 30 Sep 1853.
- The Western Star 31 May 1860 - "Marriages"
Thomas Kiphart to Caroline Kirk and Joseph
Robinson to Rebecca Stibbs
1865
1866
1868
1870
- The Valley Chronicle, Franklin, Ohio 11 Feb 1880 - "Obediah
Craig"
- Maineville, The
Western Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Thursday June 7, 1894
- The Western Star 20 June 1901
- The Western Star 12 Dec 1901
- The Western Star, Lebanon, Ohio, October 23, 1902
- Adair County [KY] News, Wednesday, December 21, 1904 - Approaching
Marriage [Elder Z. T. Williams & Miss Mary Smith]
1909
- Loved Her In Youth
[John Benjamin Bryant], The Western Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Thursday, August
19, 1909
1910
- Middletown News-Signal, Middletown, Ohio, Monday, January 30, 1911 contributed
by Vivian
Combs Moon 23 Mar 2006
- Middletown News-Signal, Middletown, Ohio, Tuesday, January
31, 1911 contributed by Vivian
Combs Moon 27 Mar 2006
- Middletown News-Signal, Middletown, Ohio, Tuesday, February 7, 1911
- Western Star 16 Mar 1911
- To Close Shaker Colony, The New York
Times, May 24, 1911
1916
- Josiah Holbrook
Campaign Advertisement , The Western Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Thursday June
8, 1916
- The Men of Morrow, The Western
Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Thursday June 8, 1916
- Receives Sad News,
The Middletown (Ohio) Journal, Friday June 9, 1916
- New Hope - The Western
Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Thursday June 22, 1916
- O.S. & S. O. Home Statistics
Given - The Western Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Thursday December 28, 1916
- Western Star 13 Sep 1917 contributed by Chuck
Griffen of the Warren County Genealogical Society
- "What Classical Scholars
were Early Teachers in Warren County" which mentions Francis
Dunlevy, Rev. Jacob Grigg and Francis Glass
- "How Were the Early Teachers
Paid" which mentions Anthony Geohegan teaching in the brick schoolhouse
in Westfield (Red Lion) in 1817
- "When was the first teachers'
institute in the county?" which mentions Josiah Hurty, C. W.
Kimball, W. T. Hawthorne, J. S. Morris, C. W. Harvey, L. A. Hine, C. Knowlton
and James F. Murdoch.
- "What were the facilities
for high school education?" which mentions Ghauncy Giles and
John W. F. Foster plus the formation of the Lebanon Academy in 1844, the
Maineville Academy in 1848 and the Lebanon free public high school in
1853.
- "What are the leading facts in the
history of the Lebanon Normal School". Brief history of the old
National Normal University. Only named
mentioned is that of its President
Alfred Holbrook
- "Women of Lebanon"
and "Mrs. McDonald takes
a trip to Walnut Hills" The articles mention Mrs. Ed Johnston,
Mrs. John A. Blair, Miss Arley Swearingen, Mrs. LaFrance Coryell, Misses
Helen and Beatrice Ullum, Mrs. D. C. Meloy plus Mrs. J. J. McDonald and
little son, John James.
- Western Star 8 May 1919, "Some
Items of History" by John
A. Jameson. Contributed by Katherine
Lollar Rowland on 13 June 2004
- Colt-Wood Wedding - The
Western Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Thursday July 10, 1919
- Fite-Marlatt Wedding
- The Western Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Thursday July 10, 1919
- Peach Tree Reunion - The
Western Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Thursday July 10, 1919
1921
- Commissioner's Proceedings,
The Western Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Thursday June 23, 1921
- A Surprise Dinner
[for Mr. & Mrs. Cecil Pence], The Western Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Thursday,
June 23, 1921
- An Old Resident
[Geo. F. Harris], The Western Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Thursday, September 22,
1921
- Harmon Hall, The
Western Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Thursday, September 22, 1921
- Uncle John Perrine Celebrates
Birthday, The Western Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Thursday October 13, 1921
- Uncle John Perrine, The Western
Star, Lebanon, Ohio, Thursday, November 10, 1921
1924
1928
1931
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