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Note: The Sedgwick Pantagraph - 12 May 1938 Its time to say Good-bye. That bi-seldon condition known as change of ownership has settled in the sanctum - sanctarium of the Sedgwick Pantagraph, and the undersigned relinquishes his editorial pen to a successor.
The history of your local paper is to the effect that editors are treated pretty well in Sedgwick and once they get established, like the town, the people and surroundings so well that they decide to stay for a spell. We earnestly hope and fully believe that the new man will like Sedgwick and its people.
The writer and family do not step out of the picture without a liberal portion of "feeling" for associations that have been formed over nineteen years living in Sedgwick. We would be ungrateful not to show our appreciation of freindships formed, for business and moral support, for courtesis shown without end in the best way we can. There are more acknowledgements to be made than there are words to make them.
There may have been times that we have been so human that we have not always shown our appreciation at that time we should, but that does not mean a lack of appreciation.
In closing we want to leave our very best wishes for the success of the old home paper, for its every reader and for the community it serves. We would like to recommend the new man, Mr. Branch, to the community and hope that there will always abe a chord of cooperation between the two which is so essential. We hope everyone will get into the harness, and make the Pantagraph a better local paper than it has ever been before. Earl Leedy
Dodge City Daily Globe, Dodge City, Kansas, Saturday, June 22, 1968
Earl Leedy
Earl Leedy, 79, a for Daily Globe employe, of 1302 Fifth, died around noon Friday in Trinity Hospital, shortly after being taken there. Though he had been in poor health, his death apparently followed a heart attack and was unexpected.
Mr. Leedy was born Nov. 16, 1888, in Maroa, Ill., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Shadrick D. Leedy. The family moved to Atlanta, Kan., when he was a boy and he grew up there. He attended a business college. He and Miss Mable Hall were married in 1915, at Winfield.
Mr. Leedy owned and operated newspapers at Clearwater, Sedgwick and Larned, and he was editor of a Westlaco, Tex., newspaper for a year before coming to Dodge City in 1947. he worked for the Daily Globe and the High Plains Journal, and had been retired for about three years.
Mr. Leedy was a member of the Central Christian Church and had been an elder of the First Christian Church, for many years.
Survivors include the widow, of the home; a son, Harold E. of Seneca; a daughter, Mrs. Al (Virginia) Hickerson of Dodge city; a brother, Ernest, of Tulsa, Okla.; five grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
The funeral has been set for 10 a.m. Monday in the First Christian Church, with Leon Weece and Robert Pate, ministers, officiating. burial will be in Greencrest Memorial Gardens with Hulpleu - Swaim Funeral Home in charge.
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