They will be specially noted under the heads of their respective localities. The Adviser, established by Cotton Bros, in 1869, was a real estate paper. The Great Western Real Estate Guide was started by J. M. Byler, in February, 1869, and continued about one year. The Sedalia Republican made its first issue October 12, 1870. It was a liberal republican organ and suspended at the end of the campaign. The Real Estate Guide was issued in January, 1871, and in 1872 its name was changed to Magann's Opinion. We find the following in an issue of the Democrat, published in 1869:

Sedalia has two weekly and two monthly newspapers, which, though not the ablest of the state, are very far from being the weakest, and they stand as valiant sentinels of the public interest, and send out ten or twelve thousand papers monthly, into every state and territory of the United States, all of which have some good for Sedalia, Pettis county and Central Missouri; and thus influence and determine emigration to this section. It is safe to presume that 30,000 persons read the Sedalia papers every month, and our people are better of their being scattered among them.

The College Journal, a neat monthly quarto, is published by the business college and has a fair circulation.

The Independent was a daily started April 1, 1882, but was short lived.

Perhaps, in all business avocations, there is no better avenue of the present day reaching the hearts of the people, than through the press. Men may dislike editors and condemn their course, nevertheless read their papers. No man in Pettis Co. is superior to Gen. Bacon Montgomery as a journalist. He was educated in a printing office, fought in the printing office, and is always at home in the printing office. For five years he was on the editorial staff of the Sedalia Bazoo; since that time he has been connected with the Sedalia Democrat, and continues with the same as one of its most facile and vigorous writers.

RESIDENCE OF COL. A. D. JAYNES, SEDALIA, MO.

HISTORY

OF

CITIES, TOWNS & TOWNSHIPS,

INCLUDING A SKETCH

OF THEIR

ORIGIN OF NAME, EARLY SETTLEMENTS, PIONEERS, CONFIGURATION OF
LAND, CIVIL OFFICERS, WAR HISTORY, RAILROADS, ENTERPRISES AND
INDUSTRIES, CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SOCIETIES, CEMETERIES, STORES,
MANUFACTORIES, NEWSPAPERS, LOCAL ADVANTAGES, AGRI-
CULTURE, ELECTROTYPE VIEWS, MATERIAL GROWTH,
FACTS OF GENERAL INTEREST, STORIES, REMINIS-
CENCES, BIOGRAPHIES OF ENTERPRISING MEN,
ETC., ETC., ETC.

COMPILED WITH GREAT CARE

BY

SPECIAL HISTORIANS.