LOCAL REPORTER

One of the most interesting and valuable papers of Henry County is the Local Reporter. Mrs. Hannah M. Bryan is editor and proprietor, and her son, Oscar D. Bryan, is the manager and local editor. It was started in the spring of 1880. Mrs. Bryan is the only lady newspaper publisher ever in the county, and her success is such as to encourage ladies in the future to enter this field of industry and possible great honors. Mrs. B. is the possessor of a pointed pen, writes poetry fluently, and through all her prose and poetry is a true vein of genuine wit.

The Local Reporter, as its name indicates, is devoted to home affairs mostly, is independent in .politics; and until the ladies can vote we shall not blame Mrs. B. for keeping her bright and cheery little paper an independent, if not an indifferent looker-on in the boiling cauldron of politics. It is a five-column quarto, and every column in its pages is filled with evidences of financial and general prosperity

 

Portriat and Biographical Album of Henry County

Submitted by W. Caudell

 

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