D. A. VALENTINE

D. A. VALENTINE has owned, edited and managed the Clay Center Times continuously since January 1, 1884—thirty-two years. In January, 1881, he became half owner of the Clay Center Dispatch; three years later traded his interest in the Dispatch, and other things, for the Times. The Times is Valentine; Valentine is the Times.

He was born in Iowa; came to Kansas without protest, as a baby, with his parents. His father was D. M. Valentine, long associate justice of the supreme court. After loafing around a print shop as a small boy, D. A. Valentine naturally graduated into a correspondent, a reporter, and then into the field which he has held nearly a third of a century against all comers.

For the past thirteen years L. F. Valentine, a brother, has been largely responsible for the successful conduct of the paper. For nearly three years, in the boom days, the Times was run as a small-town daily, and it ranked at that time as one of the very best small-town affairs in the state; but it was too good to live, and too proud to pay. To be sure there had been accompanying political honors all these years, but the pride and the glory and the satisfaction and the mainstay has been the Times. It has always been a model typographically, and always will be so long as the Valentines preside over its make-up.

It has the largest authenticated circulation, field considered, of any weekly in the state; has the finest line of country correspondents; no editorial page to speak of, except during election campaigns, and from a business viewpoint is as steady as an eight-day clock. In fact, it is the only country weekly in the whole United States holding active membership in the Audit Bureau of Circulations—its circulation guaranteed by successive outside audits.

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