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Madison's Musings
Madison Smith

And that’s all she wrote

Posted Thursday, November 10, 2022, at 12:00 AM
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  • I am so very proud of you Madison! May you always write and photograph your heart out! xxoo

    -- Posted by TheJuJu on Fri, Nov 11, 2022, at 12:23 PM
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    I do not know you, nor do you know me. But from reading all your articles and blogs over the past year and a half or so, I feel like I do know you. I was born and raised in Linton many, many years ago. My wife and I moved to California in 1960, lost touch with so many of our friends and school mates over the years. About 7 years ago, right after my wife passed, I drove from my home in Houston area to a high school reunion. My first thought was "I was in the wrong place, all these people are old". After getting over the shock and starting to renew old friendships, I was talked into becoming the class connection. So, I obtained as many addresses and emails as I could and over the years have, with the help of google, collected at least some information on everybody. Now whether it is correct or not, well I figure it is better than what we had which was nothing. When I hear of any information concerning any of our classmates like birth of a great grandchild, and currently the basketball career of a young lady enrolled in Iowa University who is the granddaughter of a school mate and of course the passing of one of our classmates, I send this information along. This last task is not my favorite but is the one I do most now since our two combined classes for get-togethers and such was in 1955 and '56. So, this explains why I subscribe to the Linton Daily Citizen. Tell Patti she can call it whatever she wants, but it will always be the paper I delivered and read as a kid. So, this task given to me by my classmates and my reading every day's editions (yes, I know it is not daily anymore) has led me to reading the blog and articles of a great journalist named Madison. And you think you get "wordy", look how long it took to tell you why I read the paper. Good luck on your new adventure and my prediction is that you will meet many new friends and some of them might be real people instead of the clients of your new employer. I have enjoyed reading your musings over the last year and a half! My advice, always do whatever makes you happy.

    -- Posted by don_hurt on Mon, Nov 14, 2022, at 10:00 AM
  • don_hurt, I didn't actually name the newspaper. That would be a fun thing to do, but mostly they just require me to write content and wrangle staff writers. If, in fact, I could "call it whatever I want," I would call it something much more silly and definitely something with a pun in the name. Here's the history of the name, if you care to know: The Greene County Daily World, formerly the Linton Daily Citizen and Bloomfield Evening World, is over 100 years old. This newspaper is the sole survivor of a group of early weeklies and the Daily Call. It remains the largest daily newspaper in Greene County. The Greene County Daily World publishes on Tuesday and Friday.

    The Greene County Daily World began as a semi-weekly publication in 1905 and was owned by Joe E. Turner. Turner sold his interest in the Daily Call to start a newspaper of his own.

    In 1909 the Daily Citizen and the Daily Call were combined and the paper was renamed the Linton Daily Citizen.

    The paper was purchased by Rust Communications on Jan. 1, 2003.

    On April 1, 2003, Rust Communications purchased The Bloomfield Evening World.

    The Linton Daily Citizen and Bloomfield Evening World were published until Jan. 1, 2006 when they were merged into the Greene County Daily World.

    -- Posted by pattidanner on Fri, Nov 18, 2022, at 4:08 PM
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