This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AW.2ADE/789.1 Message Board Post: Jo Ann, In regard to the typhoid fever epidemic I will be happy to investigate that for you. In regards to an Augusta paper for that time period here is what I have: Woodruff County Free Press, Augusta Advocate The Free Press was established in Augusta in 1892. In 1906 it was purchased by J. Ross Chambers who operated the weekly for a number of years. In 1921 it was sold to C.O. Wahlquist and the name was changed to the Woodruff County Free Press. In 1924 it was purcahsed by Lewis M. Layer who changed the name to the Augusta Advocate. Layer was the editor and publisher of the Advocate until 1929 when H.V. Alexander assumed the two positions. In 1930 Mr. Laura Davis Fitzhugh and her son, Davis Fitzhugh, purchased the paper; Davis Fitzhugh became editor and publisher. After operating the paper a few years the Fitzhughs leased it successively to Fred L. Hedges (1935-36), Arthur Wilson (1937), and Randall Ford (1937-38). In 1938 Fitzhugh sold the Advocate to Edwin Tillery; the next year E.B. O'Bryant was listed as editor and publisher. In 1940-41 Artie Peffley was the publisher; he was succeeded by his son-in-law, David G. Griffin. Griffith edited the Augusta Advocate for 15 years, selling in 1956 to Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Tyson, former editors of the Atkins Chronicle. LeRoy Tyson was editor and publisher of the Advocate until June 1, 1959, when it was sold to Star-Progress, Inc., of Wynne. The next year Tyson returned as editor and manager of the Advocate for Star-Progress. In 1961, Harlan V. Walker withdrew from Star-Progress and took with him the Augusta Advocate, the Cotton Plant Democrat, and the McCrory Leader, all of which he printed at his McCrory plant. Walker was editor and publisher of the Advocate until February 27, 1967, when it was sold to R.E. and Mary B. Dickson of Dickson Printing Do., Inc., McCrory. The Woodruff County Monitor was established on October 1, 1990. The MONITOR purchased the McCrory Leader and the Augusta Advocate on May 11, 1995. The Leader was established in December 1923. In 1988 it consolidated with the Cotton Plant Democrat. The Augusta Advocate, established in 1858, was the successor to the Woodruff Free Press, the Augusta Vidette and the Sentinel. Paula Barnett is the Monitor's publisher and manager. The Woodruff County Monitor is rapidly becoming the most popular newspaper in the state of Arkansas for it's genealogy information. The paper publishes obituaries, wedding announcements, birth announcements, birthday celebrations, family reunions as well as anniveraries that are celebrated and other sources of genealogy interest.Gary Telford, Family Roots columnist, has a weekly column entitled "Family Roots" which tells the history all of the old families who have lived and died in Woodruff County and also the history of Woodruff County. The next three weeks we will be honoring all the War Veterans of Woodruff County beginning with the war of 1812 and coming forward. This featured article will have a tremendous amount of genealogy information on all the War Veterans of Woodruff County. The Monitor's address is as follows. Woodruff County Monitor Atten: Gary Telford P. O. Box 898 McCrory, AR 72101