The classifieds section of this week’s edition of The Chesaning Argus provides some insight into local Native American culture, and furnishes an epilogue to the story of a brutal murder.
This week we receive some insight into both the past and the future of The Chesaning Argus, and one local pioneer gives his own personal recollections of the great Indian chief Shako, who once made his camp near Chesaning.
While the second issue doesn’t contain anything as singular as last week’s frolic with a naked wild man, it does capture an important moment in Chesaning’s transition away from the lumbering industry to a more diversified economy.
We begin with the very first issue of The Chesaning Argus, brought to us courtesy of its two young publishers, Dewitt Clinton Ashmun and George La Munyon. The village had benefited from having its own locally produced news sources in the past, but had been without a regular newspaper ever since The Chesaning Times had ceased publication in 1874.
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