Mr. GLEASON retired from the paper because there was not money enough in the enterprise to support both him ad Mr. BANNON.
Ill health compelled Mr. BANNON to give up work in July 1881 and he went West for a few months.
He increased the material until the outfit of the office was equal to that of any similar enterprise in Western Pennsylvania.
The [21] circulation of the WEEKLY NEWS has been increased in the County, until in the Country districts is equal to that of all the other papers published in New Castle.
"[3] The first issue of the Weekly News appeared on December 15, 1880, under the ownership of George E. Treadwell and William J.
On July 30, 1882, Fred L. Rentz, a farm boy of 13, began work at the News as a Printer’s Devil, doing odd jobs.
He later became part-owner, although the Treadwell family remained majority stockholders until the newspaper was sold in 1988.