96                  HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY

begun December 1, 1888. After the expiration of seven years, a change
having taken place in the proprietorship, the Times was published by the
Henkel Publishing Company. The publication of the semi-weekly edition
of the Times was begun August 1, 1896. Succeeding the death of E. M.
Henkel, the senior member of the firm, July 5, 1905, A. W. Adams having
acquired an interest, the publishing company is now Henkel & Adams.
    The first number of the Clay City Truth was issued on the 10th day
of May, 1890, John E. Travis, publisher and editor. The Truth was a
seven-column folio sheet, Democratic in politics, published Saturdays.
September 1st, of the same year, the office was sold to William E. Naugle,
who changed the name of the paper to Clay City Sentinel, the same size
and politics of its predecessor.
    The Clay City Democrat was established in April, 1896, the first
number appearing on the 14th day of the month, a six-column quarto,
Democratic in politics, edited and published by John E. Travis. At some
time in the fore part of the month of November of the same year the
Democrat was transferred to George E. Oberholtzer, who, within the
same month, transferred it to Sanders & Goldbach, who conducted it one
year, selling and transferring it to Benjamin F. Goshorn the first of
November, 1897, who was publisher and editor until the 7th day of
April, 1909. when be sold to Pius Lankford.
    In the month of November, 1896, C. M. Needham moved his print-
ing-office from Coal City to Clay City and began publication of the
Republican Leader, Republican in politics, which, after a very brief
experience in a field already occupied, suspended.
    In the fall of 1895 appeared the Knightsville Magnet, by George
H. Scheutz, publisher and editor, issued weekly, which lived about one
year, suspending publication in the fall of 1896.
    The Hawkeye, a weekly paper of 12 pages, 4 columns to the page,
was launched at Clay City, the first of January, 1904, by the Clay City
Publishing Company, Pius Lankford, editor, Mrs. Carrie H. T. Gardner,
assistant. The Hawkeye was non-political, its object and aim that of
filling the want for a good local and family paper. Twenty-two numbers
of the weekly edition were issued, after which it appeared but monthly
until the close of the year, when it was discontinued.
    The Carbon Globe, the first paper at the town of Carbon, a five-
column folio sheet, published and edited by Calvin Goss, made its first
appearance Friday, September 24. 1886. At some time within the second
year of publication the Globe was discontinued and the office located else-
where.
    The Carbon Chronicle, at first a five-column quarto, later a six-column
folio, edited and published by Edward C. Scheutz, began publication July
28,1891.In the sixteenth year of its publication, Mr. Scheutz sold the
paper to Marvie Wilson, who took charge October 1st, 1906, and after
conducting it one year, sold out to Arthur R. Zenor, who took charge
November 1, 1907. In February, 1908, the Chronicle was enlarged to an
eight—column folio.
    Under an enactment of the legislative session of 1875 providing for
the insertion of legal advertising in German papers in counties maintain-
ing publications in this language, a weekly paper of German print was
published and edited by Simon Hirsch, for a time, within the year named,
at Bowling Green.