The Calhoun Chronicle and The Grantsville News

The Calhoun Chronicle and The Grantsville News is a weekly newspaper serving the Grantsville, West Virginia community.[2] The older of its predecessors, the Calhoun Chronicle, was founded in 1883.[3] It merged with the Grantsville News (founded 1902) in 1984, continuing the original numbering of the Chronicle.[4]

The Calhoun Chronicle and The Grantsville News
Typeweekly
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Calhoun County Publishing
PublisherHelen Morris
EditorNewton Nichols
Founded1883
Headquarters353 Main St, Grantsville, Calhoun County, WV 26147
Circulation2,921.[1]
ISSN1040-399X
OCLC number12766699
Websitewww.calhounchronicle.com

As of 2016, the newspaper is published each Thursday by Calhoun County Publishing Company and has circulation of 2,921.[1]

History

In the early 1880s Calhoun County was one of two counties in the state without a local paper.[5] The Chronicle filled that gap with a democratic weekly. By 1898 the Weekly Register counted it as one of the best papers to come to their office.[6]

In 1900, founder S. C. Barr announced that though the paper was Democratic, it would not be endorsing the Democratic nominee for U.S. president, William Jennings Bryan, citing the failure of the disasters Bryan had predicted in 1896 to appear:

"A rule of law is where a witness is impeached, or is overtaken In false statements; that his evidence Is not entitled to the same degree of credibility as it was before. If the statement of Mr. Bryan that the country was on the verge of ruin if we did not get 16 to 1 was untrue, might not his Imperialistic views also be far-fetched?"[7]

Bryan went on to lose the election, and the paper was sold to S. C. Barr to Sam P. Bell and Robert E. Hays shortly afterwards.[8]

As of 2016, the publisher was Helen Morris and the editor Newton Nichols.[1]

See also

References
  1. 2016 West Virginia Press Association Newspaper Directory (PDF). West Virginia Press Association. 2016.
  2. "Newspapers Currently Received in the West Virginia Archives and History Library" (PDF). West Virginia Division of Culture and History. State of West Virginia. December 2016.
  3. "About The Calhoun chronicle". Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
  4. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85059590/
  5. "State and nearby press". The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer. 19 June 1883.
  6. "Items". The Weekly Register. 22 June 1898.
  7. "Barr's Dilemma". The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer. 22 September 1900.
  8. "What is Thought of the New Editors". Calhoun Chronicle. 27 November 1900.


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