We intend to devote our energies to the development of the varied resources, and promote the interests of the citizens...We shall 'seek nothing that is to be won by kneeling,' but go on in the path of duty with a firm and vigorous hand, and leave to time to test the question whether we shall succeed or fail.

[4] Beatty echoed his predecessor's apolitical sentiments, writing in the July 23, 1875 issue of the Clarion, "Our paper will take no part in the bitter strife of party politics.

"[8] Cassell and Root admit their inexperience again in their salutatory in the same issue, writing, "Although we are not tyros in the profession, yet...our determination to win, aided by an unsparing and intelligent criticism, may reasonably be expected to bear their fruit in due season.

"[13] Cassell ended up selling the paper to the Clarion Publishing Company and moving to Hanover, Pennsylvania in 1905, at which time Charles C. Waters took over editing.

"[14] However, some notable topics were recorded during this period of ownership, including the impact of local women's suffrage movements and coverage of a major Spanish Flu outbreak.

[18] The Enterprise was published by George Carlton Rhoderick, Jr., a "good journalist" and a "self-made man" who had inherited ownership of the paper from his father after his death in 1906.