| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION DELTA-FILLMORE TodayMillard County Chronicle Progress ismerger of papers which were published for many years in Delta and Fillmore The Progress launched February 1894 in Fillmore is the older of the two in keeping with that community being established many years before Delta Jacobson was editor and manager acting forgroup of eight men none of whom were newspaper-oriented Jacobson had briefly been associated with the Millard County Blade at Deseret before coming to Fillmore and in fact bought the equipment of that paper in order to start the Fillmore publication succession of owners followed Lorenzo and Arthur Gaisford were editors and publishers in 1896-98 and Lorenzo alone had it until the beginning of the new century Merged with the neighboring Clear Lake Review early in 1901 it became the Progress-Review with Aldrach the manager and Greenwood the editor Co-published in 1905 by the team of Knapp and Frampton whose first names have been lost to history the paper was then successively owned by Christian Anderson 1908-12 and Joseph Smith who sold it January 24 1919 to James Mountford On November 20 1925 the Progress was purchased by local residents Vance Wilson an attorney and his wife Jane An Iowa native Wilson had lived in Fillmore since 1919 first asteacher thenlawyer His wife the former Jane McBride waslifelong Fillmore resident They were co-publishers until his death in 1962 after which Mrs Wilson formedpartnership with their son William who had joined the paper in 1953 In 1970merger took place with the Millard County Chronicle of Delta creating the Chronicle Progress Bill Wilson moved to the Indio California Daily News in 1978 but his mother continued to be active in the Fillmore paper until her death September 10 1980 The Chronicle dates to July 1910 when it was launched by Norman Dresser It was not in Delta however for two names -Burtner and Aiken -were applied to adjacent areas 84 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
