Clark County Courier

Clark County Courier
TypeWeekly newspaper
FormatBroadsheet[1]
OwnerKarli Paulson
FounderE.F. Conklin
Founded1880 (as the Clark Pilot)
LanguageEnglish
Headquarters119 1ST Ave E, Clark, South Dakota 57225 United States
Circulation1,880 (as of 2015)[2]
Websiteclarkcountypublishing.com

The Clark County Courier is a weekly newspaper published in Clark, South Dakota, United States. The newspaper serves the counties of Clark and Codington. It is published on Wednesdays.[1]

History

In 1880, E.F. Conklin founded the Clark Pilot, the first newspaper in Clark County.[3] In 1887, it merged with the Clark Review to form the Pilot-Review.[3][4]

The Clark County Republic dates back to at least December 1892.[5] The paper's printing plant was destroyed in February 1893, and was revived that April by A.E. Goodspeed.[6][7] In August 1893, H.G. Sasse took on the Republic with help from C.D. Boucher.[8] In April 1895, E.T Miller bought out Sasse.[9]

In March 1899, E.S. Ashley became co-owner will Miller,[10] who a few months later suffered a stroke and became paralyzed.[11][12] Miller soon died and Ashley acquired full ownership that August.[13] J.W. Sheppard bought the Republic in September 1902,[14] and soon renamed it to the Clark Courier Republic. It was acquired by R.E. Hartman, of the Egan Express, in October 1904,[15] followed by J.K. Coe, formerly of the Hamlin County News, in June 1908,[16] and then Ralph A. Dunham in March 1911.[17] Dunham renamed the paper to the Clark County Courier and in May 1914 sold it to E.A. Silfies[18] in order to concentrate on his legal practice.[19]

In August 1918, Garfield E. Morrison took charge of the Pilot-Review.[20] In November 1923, F.A. Fuller became Courier co-owner.[21] In June 1925, Silfies acquired the Pilot-Review from Morrison and consolidated it into the Courier.[22] In May 1945, B.W. "Jeff" Condit bought the paper from Silfies,[23] and he and his son-in-law Bert Moritz in August 1947 bought out Wayne Peterson.[24] In March 1955, Condit was elected president of the South Dakota Press Association.[25]

Condit died in August 1968.[26] He was inducted into the South Dakota Newspaper Hall of Fame in 1970,[27] and Moritz's inducation followed in 1989.[28] Moritz died in November 2001,[29] and he was succeeded by Bill Krikac, who in June 2007 was elected president of the state newspaper association.[30] In December 2022, Krikac retired and sold the Courier to Karli Paulson.[31]

References

  1. 1 2 "Clark County Courier". sdna.com. South Dakota Newspaper Association. Retrieved May 13, 2015.
  2. ↑ "2015 South Dakota Newspaper Directory". South Dakota Newspaper Association. December 16, 2014. Archived from the original on March 3, 2023. Retrieved May 20, 2023.
  3. 1 2 Hipple, John (1921). South Dakota Legislative Manual, Volume 17. State Publishing Company. p. 210.
  4. ↑ "The Territory". The Mitchell Capital. December 24, 1886. p. 6.
  5. ↑ "Personal Items". The Madison Daily Leader. December 24, 1892. p. 5.
  6. ↑ "Local Brevities". The Madison Daily Leader. April 17, 1893. p. 3.
  7. ↑ "Notice". The Madison Daily Leader. May 3, 1893. p. 2.
  8. ↑ "Weekly Registering". The Brookings Register. August 11, 1893. p. 5.
  9. ↑ "Notice". The Brookings Register. May 1, 1895. p. 2.
  10. ↑ "South Dakota ..Notes.". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. March 25, 1899. p. 7.
  11. ↑ "Clark Crumbs". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. July 6, 1899. p. 1.
  12. ↑ "Editor E.T. Miller". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. July 8, 1899. p. 6.
  13. ↑ "Notice". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. August 4, 1899. p. 8.
  14. ↑ "Snap Shots At The Pencil Pushers". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. October 2, 1902. p. 4.
  15. ↑ "Bought a Newspaper". The Sioux Falls Press. October 20, 1904. p. 3.
  16. ↑ "Clark Paper is sold". The Sioux Falls Press. June 20, 1908. p. 2.
  17. ↑ "Printshop To Real Estate". Saturday News. Watertown, South Dakota. March 24, 1911. p. 5.
  18. ↑ "Editor Dunham Gives "Swan Song In Paper"". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. May 8, 1914. p. 14.
  19. ↑ Kingsbury, George Washington (1915). South Dakota: Its History and Its People. S. J. Clarke Publishing Company. p. 379.
  20. ↑ "Notice". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. August 19, 1918. p. 4.
  21. ↑ "Newspaper Man Buys Interest Clark Paper". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. November 5, 1923. p. 4.
  22. ↑ "Two Clark Newspapers Are Formally United". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. June 2, 1925. p. 4.
  23. ↑ "North Dakotan Buys Clark County Courier". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. May 26, 1945. p. 5.
  24. ↑ "Clark, S.D.". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. September 2, 1947. p. 1.
  25. ↑ "B.W. Condit To Head S.D. Press Group". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Associated Press. March 27, 1955. p. 10.
  26. ↑ "Former Newspaper Publisher Dies". Rapid City Journal. Associated Press. August 14, 1968. p. 13.
  27. ↑ "Former Publisher At Clark Cited". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. November 1, 1970. p. 16.
  28. ↑ "Delivering the Clark County county news". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. October 8, 1989. p. 23.
  29. ↑ "Obituary | Bert Moritz". Argus-Leader. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. November 28, 2001. p. 15.
  30. ↑ "Clark publisher to lead group". Mitchell Republic. Associated Press. June 12, 2007. p. 19.
  31. ↑ Pfankuch, Bart (June 15, 2023). "Weekly papers: How these South Dakota communities are keeping local news alive". South Dakota News Watch. Retrieved July 30, 2026.
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