HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                      97

    At some time in the month of May, 1896, F. B. Bangs began the pub-
lication of the “Center Point Press,” which was issued every Thursday
until the 21st day of October, 1897, when it was suspended. After an
interval of some months, publication was resumed, under the same name,
by W. H. M. Smith, at some time in the year 1898, and continued up to
the close of the year 1899, or to a date early in the succeeding year. As
there are no files of the “Press” in preservation, more exact data cannot be
given. Bangs is remembered by the population of Center Point as hav-
ing been a man of equable temper, courteous in his mention and treatment
of his patrons and readers, issuing a readable sheet, unexceptionable in
tone and print; Smith, as a man of aggressive, precipitate temper, prone
to seize upon pretexts and opportunities for showing up and criticizing the
faults and mistakes of his readers, thereby incurring their displeasure and
in some instances their open resentment.
    The Boomerang, a monthly, edited and published by R. L. Keith,
Brazil, now in its thirteenth year of publication, an advertising sheet, In
the main, which is distributed by carriers at the different centers of popu-
lation within the area of its circulation. Comparatively large editions of
The Boomerang are issued regularly.
    Two weekly papers were published temporarily at the town of Staun-
ton. The first venture was that of The Star, by C. C. Orrell, in 1892;
the second, that of The Sentinel, in 1901, by Roy Stewart. As no files
are accessible, the only source of data is personal recollection on the part
of Staunton people. Neither had a home plant, the printing having been
done by a house at Bloomington. The Star is said to have, survived two
years and The Sentinel one year. For these facts the reader is indebted
to Dr. P. H. Veach.
    The first periodical publication in the county was The Sunbeam, a
small quarto monthly of eight pages, devoted to popular education and
general information, of which the first number appeared April, 1869,
Center Point, William Travis, editor and publisher. For the first year the
composition and press work on The Sunbeam were done at Indianapolis,
when, having bought the printing office at Bowling Green, the pub-
lisher issued it thereafter from the home office. In July, 1870, The Sun-
beam was merged into the Archives.
    At some time in the year 1872, Cassell & Earle began the publica-
tion of The Crusader, issued from the Miner office, Brazil, a monthly in
magazine form, devoted to the cause of Temperance. As the crusade
sought to be launched and promoted by this publication was in advance
of popular sentiment and appreciation, it survived but a few months.
    In the month of October, 1897, The Analecta, a monthly of six-
teen pages, four columns to the page, was launched upon the fickle sea
of local periodical journalism, at Brazil, by William Travis, publisher
and editor, Miss Emma F. Combs, assistant editor. The object and field
of The Analecta, as intended, may be well understood from the follow-
ing quotation from the publisher’s introductory:
    “In the publication of The Analecta we can have no higher mission
to fulfill nor more laudable ambition to gratify than to reflect the sun-
light of truth and dissipate the mists of error. If we shall succeed in
awakening in the public mind a more acute sense of appreciation and
interest in the higher lines of thought, which conduce to a correspond-
ingly higher standard of life, individual and social, then The Analecta
will not have been conceived and launched without its reward. As society

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