If you already know this info, please disregard. Both the Salem Headlight and Mammoth Spring Democrat were microfilmed before 1978. I don't remember exactly when, but the Arkansas Press Association came and took all the old newspapers to date in the 1970's to Little Rock; and then sent most of them back to the news offices in Salem and Mammoth Spring. I don't know how far back the Salem paper went, but since Dale and I worked at the Mammoth office, I know the newspapers went back to the early 1900's. Some were a single half sheet of paper. Also, when the 2 newspapers were consolidated, the bound books and old copies were moved to Salem and I don't know where they went from there, but the office is supposed to keep the bound copies in house for reference. Paddi Paddioo@netscape.net __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp

I remember going to a butane gas company in Mammoth Spring in the early 1980s and looking through all the issues of the Mammoth Spring Democrat. I've researched at the State Archives in Little Rock in the 1990s, but I never saw referenced the MSD copies. Ruth Ann Davis Gurley, Alabama Email: radavis@nehp.net Genealogy Research: Porter, Whiteside, Michaels, Lunn, Hazlewood, Golder, Taylor, Wheatley, Whiteside, Frazier -----Original Message----- From: Paddi [mailto:PADDIOO@netscape.net] Sent: Tuesday, 21 June, 2005 5:11 PM To: ARFULTON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ARFULTON] Re: Newspapers in Fulton County If you already know this info, please disregard. Both the Salem Headlight and Mammoth Spring Democrat were microfilmed before 1978. I don't remember exactly when, but the Arkansas Press Association came and took all the old newspapers to date in the 1970's to Little Rock; and then sent most of them back to the news offices in Salem and Mammoth Spring. I don't know how far back the Salem paper went, but since Dale and I worked at the Mammoth office, I know the newspapers went back to the early 1900's. Some were a single half sheet of paper. Also, when the 2 newspapers were consolidated, the bound books and old copies were moved to Salem and I don't know where they went from there, but the office is supposed to keep the bound copies in house for reference. Paddi Paddioo@netscape.net __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp ==== ARFULTON Mailing List ==== NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx