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Hi, I’m Karen Bonar and I’m the new editor/ publisher of the Ellsworth County Independent-Reporter.
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In the Spring of 1872, Warren Y. Jenkins traveled from Panama, Ill., to Kansas in a two-mule wagon with Mr. Cuno Clawson. The story was related in The Jenkins, Boone and Lincoln Family Records, written by Jenkins in 1925.
Read moreIt’s hard to believe it has been more than 20 years since Sharon Montague and I walked up and down Douglas Avenue, talking to business owners about the possibility of starting a second newspaper in Ellsworth.
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The final week in the general session of the legislature consisted of work in conference committees and on the House and Senate floor.
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In the early morning hour of 2 a.m. Saturday, March 28, 1863, the steam boat “New Sam Gaty” was laboring against the current of the Missouri River near the bluffs below Sibley’s Landing, about 30 miles east of Independence, Mo. The side-wheeler was loaded with freight that included government wagons and supplies. The passenger list included 76 former slaves that had been freed by Union troops.
Read moreWe relearned a hard lesson earlier this month — one that after so many years of covering county commissions, city councils and school boards should be stenciled on the wall in front of our desk at the newspaper. Our mistake? We failed to attend a special meeting of the Ellsworth-Kanopolis-Geneseo School District board. There were several reasons for this, but the bottom line is that the newspaper should have had a representative there. And we didn’t. For that we apologize.
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I have often been tempted to publish a newspaper article in its entirety, but have always felt that the reader deserved more research on my part. But in this case, I didn’t think I could do better than Eli Perkins had done in his wonderful piece “Fun on the Plains,” originally published in the New York Daily Graphic and copied by the Omaha Daily Bee in its March 30, 1874 edition. I hope that you agree that in this case, Mr. Perkins has given us everything we need to know.
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