HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
"The firm  of Titus & Kimberley, printers, Esq., purchased the establishment,
together 
Chicago, will co ntinue, at 120 and 122 La Salle  with the subscriptions
of tihe paper.  Gay 
street. Under the excellent management of Mr. Sprague, a promising young
man and a good 
Titus, the business of that office will be correctly  printer, will superintend
the mechanical depart- 
and judiciously managed. Charles T.itus, a ment, and, as we are informed,
will publish the 
brother, will reprsent our interest,        paper. Burr Sprague is so well
and favorably 
"While we shall be ever ready and anxious to  known to all that it is
not necessary we slhould 
accommodate our friends with any-kind of ordi- say any more of him. As for
ourself, we have 
nary job work, at this office yet there may be, discharged our dirties to
suit ourself. If others 
possibly, some beyond or capacity. Anything .have been suited, all right;
if. not, all right. 
of this kind will be forwarded to our city office, The paper will remain
republican.  We hope 
executed by the best of workmen, and returned  the new helmsman will be liberally
patronized 
promptly.                                   by all classes of people. Sioux
Falls, Dak., is 
"The former proprietors, Messrs Stone &   to be our future home,
and in one corner of a 
Morse have our best wishes for success. Mr. new paper will read, Kimberley
& Morse. And 
Stone will return to Chicago and engage in   now to all a-fond farewell.

business. Mr. Morse, after two months-more                         E. 0.
KiMBERLEY." 
preparation, will present himself for examina-  On the same day was published
Mr. Spraguie's 
tion at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.                  SALUTATORY. 
We sincerely trust that his efforts may be sri6-  "By the transfer of
the independent, duties 
cessful. In the event of his being admitted, we and responsibilities with
which we are not fa- 
are sure he will advance rapidly, do himself miliar, have suddenly devolved
upon us, and we 
credit and honor the State of Wisconsin.    acknowledge that it is not without
some reluc- 
"We now leave ourself with the good people tance and misgivings that
we assume them. 
of Brodhead, and surrounding country, and sin-  "Trusting in the sympathy
and kind wishes of 
cerely hope to merit their good will and patron- our friends, and hoping
they will not demand 
age. We want to find a friend in every one. better results than we may accomplish,
we shall 
Shall this be our good fortune?              earnestly endeavor to'make the
Independent as 
E. 0. KiMBER1LEY."   good a local paper in the future as it has been

Mr. Kimberley continued as publisher of the in the past. 
paper several years. In June, 1878, he made a  "In its columns shall
be found as much of the 
trip to Dakota, from which he wrote some in- general and local news of the
day as necessary 
teresting letters.  Returning home Aug. 23,e         o       ni         
   it. 
economy of time and~ space will pert. 
1878, he offered the office for sale.  About a 
month later (September 19), he left for Sioux  "Whatever measures or
principles we may 
conceive to be in the interest of real reform, it 
F a lls  to  e n g a g e  in  b u sin e ss  a g ain ,  o ff e rin g  th e
wi l z a o s y d v c t a d d e n . 
office for sale, but announcing it would be kept 
up by his father and John E. Bartlett.        "Upon the present, political
issues it will re- 
On the 14th of October, 1878, Brrrr Sprague  main republican in letter and
in spirit; and in 
bought the office, and four days thereafter Mr. the cause of temperance it
may always be relied 
Kimberley issued his                         upon to tally one. 
VALEDICTORY.                   "In the interest of education, and especially
of 
"The last issue of the Independent (October the public'school system,
it will be ever ready 
11), closed our work upon its pages arid in the to disseminate encouraging
wor'ds; and in r'e- 
office. On Monday of this week, Brirr Sprague, gard to Churches and religious
i'ites and beliefs, 
 
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