BentonCourier.com is the online edition of local news publication of Benton, AR
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The Benton Courier
Description
Eleven years after the Civil War ended in Union victory, a Vermont Yankee made what must have been a pretty daring business decision.
At a time when Confederate fever still ran cotton plant high and old times in Dixie were not about to be forgotten, W.A. Webber boldly moved here and began publishing Saline County's first newspaper in 1876.
Printed in Benton, The Digest was a weekly publication with a paid circulation of around 1,000 copies reaching some 8,000 county residents inhabiting 17 different early day townships.
