Deliberations from Dorris: New Ink

A fresh slate.

New ink.

It’s always exciting to start a new year with the paper.

This year looks to be quite eventful.

We have an April election, so we’ll have features on candidates throughout the region.

The audit in Kennett should be wrapping up soon.

We pray for a productive year that will bring new business and families to our towns.

New goals to reach.

A vision realized.

We look forward to the upcoming year, and, as always, bringing you the best in area sports, your favorite columns, and news that is relevant to our area.

A famous quote reads, “The future is not something to predict. The future is something to build.”

One thing that has remained a constant is this newspaper.

This week I’d like to share with you portions of the editorial printed in the first edition of The Dunklin Democrat, a name change from the original Kennett Clipper.

June 22, 1893

E.P. Caruthers

Editor

The Dunklin Democrat greets its thousand readers today as the successor of the Kennett Clipper.

The change of the name was to further carry out the intentions of the present owners to publish a paper broad enough to cover all of Dunklin County and not being confined to the corporate limits of the prosperous City of Kennett.

It will be published as a clean, local newspaper, fit to go in any home.

It will fight for Dunklin County and demand recognition of Dunklin County’s statesmen and its institutions.

It will never fail to declare that here is the best land, the purest air, and the biggest crops.

The Democrat is of, in and for Dunklin County.

In 2025 we will still strive to be the newspaper for Dunklin County.

Our small staff tries to cover as much of the County as we can.

Much of our success in this comes from our subscribers, sending in local stories of news and sports in their town.

We appreciate it.

It may have have gone through many publishing schedules and name changes, but it never lost its original goal.

It still remains the paper for Dunklin County.

Thank you for all your support through the years.

See you out there.