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Obituaries
and Death Notices
in Pulaski County, Illinois Newspapers
1905-1925
Mound City, Pulaski County, Illinois
Transcribed by Darrel
Dexter
darreldexter@hotmail.com
The newspapers examined
for this study are on microfilm at Morris Library on the campus of Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale, and at the
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in
Springfield.
Ill.
Some original copies are available at Cairo Public Library.
The National
Emporium, later called
Mound City Weekly Emporium,
released its first issue at
Mound City
in June 1856.
J. Walter Waugh
was publisher and the newspaper's purpose was to promote
Mound City
and the Emporium Company as a better place for settlement and investment
than Cairo in neighboring
Alexander
County. The banner over each issue read,
"Devoted to the interest of Southern Illinois
in general, and Mound
City in particular." Dr.
Z. Casterline, who came from
Cincinnati, was the first editor.
After six months, Mose B.
Harrell became editor and in
September 1857 John A. Waugh became publisher.
Harrell sold his interest in the newspaper in June 1859,
returning to Cairo, and John A.
Waugh stepped up as
editor as well as proprietor until 1861, when he entered the U. S. Navy.
"J. A.
Waugh, now cashier of the
First State Bank of this city, was in 1856 one of the publishers of the
Mound City Emporium, a weekly four-page newspaper of nine columns to the
page and now has an incomplete file of the paper for that year which he
prizes very highly" (29 Jun 1906, The Pulaski Enterprise).
Unfortunately Waugh's 1856 file
cannot be located and extant issues begin in 1857.
The Mound City
Journal was started in 1864 as
a Democratic paper by J. D. Mondy, but he was soon replaced by S. P.
Wheeler,
who edited the paper until 1865.
In 1865 H. R. Howard, publisher of the newspaper at that time,
also became editor.
Capt. H. F.
Potter purchased the newspaper and press in May 1866 and continued it
until 1874, when he moved it to
Cairo and began the weekly
Cairo and Mound City
Journal.
The only extant
issues include 5 Oct 1865 (Volume 1, No. 47),
21 Jul 1866 (Volume 2, No. 33), and 7 May 1870 (Vol. 6, No. 25).
The Pulaski
Enterprise was published in
Mound City.
It started in 1889; however, the first extant issue is
20 Jan 1905
(volume 15, number 46).
The
banner read "Devoted to the Interest of the People of Pulaski County."
James F. Connell
was publisher and editor until December 1903.
H. C. Ashbaugh was editor and manager from 1905 until he
retired in October 1909 and his son W. H.
Ashbaugh succeeded him. The
control and management of the Enterprise
passed to Roy Adams with the 5 Nov 1909, issue.
Issues for 1912 and 1918 have not been preserved.
The Ullin
Times was a politically
independent weekly published on Fridays in Ullin beginning in July 1914.
W. B. Roberts was the editor and publisher in 1916. Arvle
Sowers was editor and publisher by August 1919.
None of the issues are microfilmed, but a small collection of sixteen
issues from 1916 to 1921 is owned by Paul Echols, formerly of Ullin.
Transcriptions included here were made from that collection.
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