HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                  95

pended temporarily, July 4, 1876; resumed February 1st, 1877; then
discontinued May 22d following, the office having been sold and removed
to Worthington.
    The Clay City Independent, a six-column folio, published Fridays,
William Travis, editor and publisher, was begun February 11, 1881. On
the 7th of June, 1883, the Independent was enlarged to a seven-column
folio. The first of May, 1885, Mr. Travis sold the Independent to George
W. Levis, of Brazil, who continued its publication until the time of his
death, within his first year of publication, when the office was transferred
to James T. Buck, who launched the Clay City Reporter, which he con-
tinued to issue until the first of January, 1889, when William J. Ward,
of Worthington, purchased the office, making his first issue of the paper
on the 25th day of the month under the same name, who is at this time
proprietor of the plant, which is not being operated, The Reporter having
suspended publication in the month of August, 1908, on account of the
failing health of the proprietor.
    In the month of March, 1891, Riley sold The Miner to J. W. Jarvis,
who assumed possession and took charge of the plant and business on
the 23d day of the month. On the 11th day of May following, the
Daily Miner, which had been previously issued by Riley for several
months, was discontinued. Subsequently, Richard M. Compton having
become interested, the property passed into his possession, which was
transferred to C. J. McCullough in the year 1894, who continued the publi-
cation of the weekly edition, associated with William Travis from August,
1895, to February, 1897, when Compton again took possession of the
property. In the month of February, 1898, the plant was purchased by
Charles L. Mace, who resumed publication of the Weekly Miner at once,
and of the daily edition in the month of May following. The Daily Miner
was the only morning paper in the history of Brazil. The daily edition
survived about three years, until the early spring of 1901, when it ceased
publication. The weekly edition of The Miner survived a year longer,
until the spring of 1902, when it was suspended and the plant sold to
Haviland, of the Democrat.
    When A. F. Bridges discontinued publication of The Register be
sold his material to A. W. Adams, under whose management was issued
The New Era, in the publication of which George E. Law was associated
for a short time. Adams having resold the material to Bridges, publica-
tion of The New Era was suspended.
    In the latter part of the year 1891, Samuel B. Riley. who had pre-
viously published The Miner for a number of years, established a plant
on North Franklin street and began publication of The Orthonomic Era,
a quarto weekly devoted to reform in politics and the public service. In
the christening of his new venture, the publisher thrust an innovation
upon the reading public in the nomenclature of newspaperdom. But the
name was not inconsistent with the motto. An era is but a time, or period
of time. “Orthonomic,” in its etymological sense, means, simply, pertain-
ing to right naming, hence, by the adoption of this title, or caption, the
publisher signified that the time had come for calling things by their right
names, or, in other words, for “calling a spade a spade.” The Orthonomic
Era acquired a wide circulation during the nearly fifteen years of its pub-
lication. It ceased to appear on the 23d day of February, 1906.
    Publication of the Brazil Daily Times, the pioneer daily of Clay
county, a six-column folio sheet, patent inside, by Henkel & Grimes, was