CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - SAW FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN COUNTY
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CEDAR COUNTY NEWS  December 21, 1922

SAW FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN COUNTY

FRITZ SCHALLER, A PIONEER RESIDENT OF THE COUNTY, TELLS INTERESTING 
FACTS

At the present time when Cedar county has seven weekly newspapers, 
several of which have gained a wide reputation because of their 
unusual merits, it seems a far cry back to the time when the first 
newspapepr was published in the county. Very few people are living 
today who actually saw that paper printed, but Fritz Schaller of 
Fordyce is one of them.

According to Mr. Schaller, the first paper to be published in the 
county was printed at St. Helena in 1873 or 1874. It was called the 
Cedar County Bulletin, and was published by C.W. Chandler. The 
building in which it was printed was only 12 by 16 feet in size, and 
it is still standing, being occupied by George Hausman. Compared with 
the modern newspapers, it wasn't much of a publication, and the method 
of printing it differed widely from present day methods, as it was 
printed on a hand press.

In telling of the history of that paper, Mr. Schaller also traced up 
the family tree of the Cedar county News. The first paper in the 
county he says was the Cedar County Bulletin. Later its name was 
changed to the Advocate, then the Nonpariel, and finally to the News. 
Mr. Chandler, the first publisher, sold out his business after it was 
started, and went to Vermillion, where he went into the hotel 
business.

Mr. Shaller, who has been a resident of Cedar county since 1872, left 
this week for Tucson, Arizona, where he exepcts to make his home.  He 
was accompanied by his son, E.M. Schaller and family, who are also 
going to Tucson because of Mr. Schaller's health. 

F.M. Schaller has been the station agent at Fordyce for twelve years 
but has not been able to work for the past ten years because of ill 
health.