Quoting [email protected]: > Are there obituaries also? I ran across a couple of one-line mentions of death and about half dozen obituaries in the months I looked at -- the deceased were from other counties (Green, Ripley, etc.) Of the four pages per issue most content was political and religious debate, national and international news. The legal notices were nearly the only local news in the paper during this time frame -- at least for the Springfield Advertiser. > > Question: Have these papers been microfilmed? > I don't see them in the > catalog for the LDS Library in Salt Lake at > www.familysearch.org The microfilm is at the Library Center (Springfield, Mo). There may be another copy at the state archives. I'll post any Dade County news dated after Lawrence county's formation to the Dade County list. By the way, a reprinted editorial from an eastern paper noted that pressure should be put on Congress to do something about the influx of undesirable immigrants -- the Irish!! They amounted to "barely more than marketable cattle" and were the scourge of the nation in 1844. I hope the author's dreams were infested with leprechauns. Judy