Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Editor | Ezra DeVore |
Founded | 1967 |
Circulation | 13,627 weekly |
Website |
The Barry County Advertiser is a free weekly newspaper located in Cassville, Missouri, the county seat of Barry County, Missouri. The Advertiser is funded purely by advertising and is distributed through the U.S. Postal Service. The Advertiser is distributed each week to 13,500 homes across Barry County, [1] and focuses on local news.
The first issue of the Advertiser was published on December 13, 1967, [2] and was at that time one of three weekly papers in Cassville, a town with a population of 3,206 as of the 2020 census, but less than 3,000 at the time. Both of the existing papers, the Cassville Democrat and the Cassville Republican, had been in existence for nearly a century at that time, but in 1984, the 112-year-old Cassville Republican folded. Both the Advertiser and the Cassville Democrat continue to be published.
The paper was owned and founded by the late Missouri State Senator Emory Melton and his wife, Jean. The current owner is the Meltons' son, Stan Melton.
Barry County is a county located in the southwest portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 34,534. Its county seat is Cassville. The county was organized in 1835 and named after William Taylor Barry, a U.S. Postmaster General from Kentucky. The town of Barry, also named after the postmaster-general, was located just north of Kansas City, not in Barry County.
Cassville is a city in Flat Creek Township, Barry County, Missouri, United States. According to the 2020 census, the population of Cassville was 3,190. Cassville is one of the primary markets and job centers for an estimated 14,000 people living in the surrounding area. It is the county seat of Barry County.
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The Cassville Republican was a weekly newspaper in the town of Cassville, Missouri, the county seat of Barry County, Missouri. The newspaper was founded in 1872 and ceased operation in 1984, after 112 years of operation. The newspaper was established to provide the Republican Party viewpoint to counter the Cassville Democrat, which had been established a year prior. For its entire history, it competed with the Cassville Democrat and then with the 1967 establishment of the Barry County Advertiser, Cassville, with a population of less than 3,000, became home to three publications all competing for limited advertising revenue. Of the three, only the Cassville Republican folded, with both the Cassville Democrat and the Barry County Advertiser continuing to this day.
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