GEORGE W. MARBLE

GEORGE WATSON MARBLE was born in Scott township, Bourbon county, a mile south of Fort Scott, in 1870; went to work on the Fort Scott Tribune on September 1, 1885, and learned the trade on that paper under J. B. Chapman, the publisher. In May, 1891, he took a position as reporter on the Tribune, and a year later became associated with George W. Martin, formerly of the firm of Martin & Chapman, publishers of the paper, as one of the proprietors, continuing, however, his work as reporter until 1902, when he bought Mr. Martin's interest and became manager, with R. B. Barr as a partner in the business. In 1904 the Tribune took over the old Fort Scott Monitor, and the legal designation of the paper became The Fort Scott Tribune and the Fort Scott Monitor, and it has since been published under that heading. The paper was originally Democratic in politics, it having been originally organized and published as a party organ. Upon assuming control of the paper, in 1902, Mr. Marble made it independent in politics, with Democratic leanings, and it subsequently merged into a distinctly nonpartisan newspaper, supporting Republicans or Democrats according as their individual qualifications appealed to the editor. The paper represents the consolidation of the old Fort Scott Monitor, established in 1862, the Fort Scott Banner and the Fort Scott News.

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