Hi Clayton co. Listers, I'm hoping someone out there will be able to help find the missing issues of the North Iowa Times, published in McGregor, Clayton co. Below is an email from the McGregor library director, Michelle Pettit, that details the search. Should you have ANY information, or even a clue, please contact me privately [email protected] and I will pass the information on to Michelle. Thanks, Sharyl Ferrall http://iagenweb.org/clayton Michelle's email............. This letter was sent to the McGregor Historical Society and Courier Press: I recently contacted the State Historical Society of Iowa as I began a search for missing issues of the North Iowa Times. As you know, the McGregor Library has microfilm copies of the North Iowa Times going back to the first issues of 1856 to the present time. These microfilms are invaluable for documentation of McGregor’s history. Over the past year we have had newspaper reporters looking for information as well as representatives of KWWL Our Town series, a man writing a book about the Ringlings, and an average of four genealogical requests each week from all over the country. I am proud when our library finds answers for these requests. There are two large gaps, however, in what we can provide. Microfilm issues are missing from January 1889-June 1897, and January, 1911-April, 1913. I wrote to Shari Stelling at the State Historical Society in order to try to fill these gaps of information. Her answer was, “The list of the newspapers from McGregor that you’re looking for corresponds with those newspapers that are unavailable anywhere as far as we know…We do not have them here at the State Historical Society of Iowa and A Bibliography of Iowa Newspapers shows that there isn’t anyone holding these titles and dates either…It is always disappointing when issues you want don’t seem to have survived the ages.” Shari asked me if I knew if there were any newspaper copies in existence. I knew of only two possibilities. Perhaps the McGregor Museum had newspapers for these dates, or perhaps the North Iowa Times newspaper did. This is why I am contacting your organization, as well as the owners of the North Iowa Times. If you know of the existence of these missing issues, please let me know. If these newspapers are not found these pieces of history will be lost forever. I sincerely hope these newspapers exist. I would also like to know if they do not exist. I will exhaust the avenues I know of in finding this out, and I hope you can help me. Thank you for your time and consideration. Michele Pettit, Library Director