...from the Streator, Illinois, Daily Times-Press, Friday, April 6, 1945 W. Ross Bean Dies Suddenly in Family Home... Stricken with a heart attack shortly before midnight last night at his home, 214 S. Sterling street, Warren Ross Bean, 74, veteran Streator newspaper man, died at 12:15 o'clock this morning. Although he had been suffering with a heart ailment the past six years, his passing was sudden and a shock to his family as well as the community. Mr. Bean, with Mrs. Bean, had attended the Republican Victory dinner last evening, becoming ill after he returned home. The son of Mr. and Rms. W. W. Bean, .....Mr. Bean was born in El Paso May 10, 1870. He came to Streator with his parents when he was nine months old and for 71 years had resided at the South Sterling street address. STREATOR'S NEWSPAPERS Mr. Bean was associated in business with his father, owner of the Streator Monitor, the city's oldest newspaper, now no longer in existence, and founder of the former Free Press and Independent Times, which merged a number of years ago to become the Times-Press. The Monitor was founded in October, 1869, by Rutan Bros., who sold it in a few months to F. W. Dalton. It was later sold to Sam Plumb, who in turn sold it to W. W. Bean. In May, 1882, the year Streator was incorporated into a city, the Monitor became a daily paper, Mr. Bean also published a weekly paper. The Monitor office was located on North Sterling St., where the Sieg La Salle Company is now, and later moved to the building at 126 S. Sterling street built by Mr. Bean, in 1912. Three years later, November 8, 1915 publication of the Monitor was suspended, but W. R. Bean continued to operate the Clinic Printing Company, doing job printing at the same address until three years ago, when he retired form active business. Despite his retirement, he kept an active interest in the business which he sub-letted. ..... His marriage to the former Pearl Patterson of Muncie, Ind., took place in that city June 18, 1893, and Mr. Bean brought his bride to reside in the family homestead. The celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in June, 1943. Mr. Bean is survived by his wife; two daughters, Mrs. E. F. Kinson, (Laura) of Eureka, and Mrs. Yolanda Guhl of Chicago; four grandchildren, Mrs. Robert Henry, the former Marion Guhl, of Salinas Calif., whose husband, an army sergeant, is now in the Mariansaa, H. R. and Priscilla Kinson of Eureka and David Kinson of Chicago. A grandson, Robert (Beanie) Blake, who was reared by the Beans, preceded Mr. Bean in death in March 1939. Final rites are to be conducted in the Elias funeral home Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, Dr. E. W. Smith, pastor of the Park Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Bean was a member, will officiate, interment will be made in Riverview cemetery. (end) I THINK the Monitor resumed publication and finally shut down in the 1920's. Seems like the "Press" was running down the Monitor in earlier editions, but the Monitor was "above that" type of journalism. That is just my opinion. Maybe, I just have not read as many editions of the Monitor as I have of the "Press" Joanie