Fifty Years In The Northwest / With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes

by William H. C. Folsom

Isanti County Press, weekly, C. W. Van Wormer, established 1874.

BENTON COUNTY.

Watab Reveille, weekly, J. W. Chasanack, editor, established 1850.

Free Press, weekly, A. De Lacy Wood, established 1885.

In 1854 Jeremiah Russell and George W. Benedict started the Sauk Rapids Frontiersman, and continued the publication three years, when the New Era made its appearance, published by W. H. Wood assisted by G. W. Benedict. The Era was afterward merged in the St. Cloud Times. In 1868 G. W. Benedict established the Sauk River Sentinel which, with a few changes, has continued to the present time.

ANOKA COUNTY—ANOKA.

Anoka County Union, weekly, Granville S. Pease, established 1865.

Anoka County Herald, weekly, Alvah Eastman, established. 1865.

DAKOTA COUNTY—FARMINGTON.

Dakota County Tribune, weekly, C. P. Carpenter, established 1884.