The Watchman And Southron

Extraordinary American Newspaper

Atchison, Kan., May 10.—The Atchison Globe is "all stuck up" because it has been selected as one of the seven most extraordinary American newspapers by the Editor-and-Publisher newspaper magazine. It is given first place for its personal news.

"Out in Atchison, Kan.," says the awarding committee in its report to the Editor and Publisher, "the Globe has set the standard in the compilation of personal items, told with a fine sense of the news involved in the small common places of street and town."

The Globe was founded in 1877 by Edgar Watson Howe who is—well known as the Sage of Potato Hill. His country town sayings and other writings have been published widely in magazine and book form. He retired from active editorship of The Globe in 1911 and was succeeded by his son, Eugene A. Howe.

"The Atchison newspaper is the only small daily listed. The other papers selected for their superiority in different fields were: The New York World, public service; The New York Times, news; The Springfield Republican, editorials; The Ohio State Journal, editorial paragraphs; The New York Sun, feature stories; The New York Tribune, typographical display; The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, use of arts; The Christian Science Monitor, ethics; Boston Transcript, dramatics and literary criticism; The Chicago Tribune, merchandising and advertising."