NORTON A. TURNER

NORTON A. TURNER, editor and owner of the Russell Record, spent practically all his life in western Kansas. He came to Rawlins county, Kansas, in the fall of 1885, at the age of nine years, from Grundy county, Missouri, with his father (Rev. H. H. Turner, a Baptist minister) and his family; lived on a homestead until the fall of 1890; moved to Colby, Thomas county, Kansas; worked in a printing office and attended high school. He succeeded P. A. Troutfetter as owner of the Colby Tribune in 1896. He was then not yet twenty-one years old, and was the youngest proprietor of a printing plant in Kansas. The Tribune prospered under Mr. Turner's management, and was recognized as one of the leading papers in the sixth district when he disposed of it in the spring of 1912. He served as sergeant-at-arms of the house of representatives during the session of 1911. Mr. Turner purchased the Russell Record, the oldest newspaper in Russell county, from L. H. Boyd, Ira S. Fleck and J. H. Hill, March 1, 1912. The publication in its more than forty years of existence has never been more prosperous or influential than now, and is recognized as a power in western Kansas Republican politics. The Record's well-known "Loom End" column is widely quoted. Lately a new up-to-date intertype was added to the Record's complete equipment.

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