Jackson County IA Archives News.....The Sabula Gazette July 30, 1966
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Jackson Sentinel July 30, 1966
Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, July 30, 1966

The Sabula Gazette

Today the Sabula Gazette building stands amidst the memories of a once-fine 
community newspaper and a great tradition. For most adult Eastern Jackson 
County residents, the Sabula Gazette meant Wade Guenther and in post-World War 
Two period, Craig Shouse.
The Sabula Gazette was founded in 1862 and had a succession of editors and 
publishers. Following founder R. B. Rice came J. B. Kulp, J. F. H. Sugg, Alex 
B. Fanning, Dr. J. F. Fairbank and Frank Hand.
In 1880 Thomas Lambert and Alexander Gray bought the paper and upon the 
latter’s death a few months later, Lambert acquired complete ownership. 
However, he was so busy by 1902 with his duties in the State Legislature and 
as  finance committeeman for the Iowa State Board of Education that he turned 
over the editorship and management to a young fellow named Wade Guenther. Wade 
had started out in the shop as a printer’s devil in 1897.
The Sabula Gazette was a colorful, well-written, well printed paper and 
continued to prosper following World War Two when Craig Shouse managed the 
newspaper and related commercial printing business. Mr. Guenther completed 55 
years in the business at the time of his sale of the paper to Robert Fulton of 
Clinton in 1952. During the last decade of his service he confined his 
activities to writing his popular “Column Left” column and a limited amount of 
news and advertising solicitation.
Mr. Shouse joined the staff of Maquoketa Newspapers. Mr. Guenther completely 
retired with the sale of his paper. And in a very few years, the Sabula 
Gazette, which had formerly thrived on a mixture of Sabula, Clinton, Savanna 
and Miles advertising, went into an obvious terminal illness and died a 
natural death.
More recently, Jim Peterson, a Sabula insurance man, has been publishing the 
Sabula “Post Gazette”. Weekly publications proved to be more ambitious than 
the advertising budget would bear, so it has become a monthly. Offset prepared 
copy is photographed and printed on the Maquoketa Newspapers Goss offset press.
But the old Gazette building stands bare, with even a broken window or two. 
It’s a vivid reminder of a glorious chapter in Iowa and American history…the 
time of settling and building a nation…chronicled for Eastern Jackson County 
by the Sabula Gazette.
-Bob Melvold


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