The Times later became a primary source of Civil War information for Goshen residents, providing battle reports from colonels and Indiana regiments.

“I congratulate the News-Democrat upon achieving such usefulness to the community that it has completed a full century of publication,” Roosevelt wrote.

I trust that the community which your paper has served for so long may continue to enjoy happiness and prosperity as the years come and go.” When Kinnison died in 1954, his majority interest in the News Printing Company was transferred to his nephew, Frank L. “Budd” Hascall, and niece, Jane Hascall Spencer.

In March 1999, the Gemmer family sold the News Printing Company to Gray Communications Systems Inc., out of Atlanta, Ga.

Seven years later, in April 2006, NPC and The Goshen News were acquired from Gray by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. (CNHI) based in Alabama.