Union County Times (Lake Butler, Fla.) 1920-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
927 issues from 1934 to 1963, published in Lake Butler, Florida, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Union County Times was first published in 1912 in Lake Butler, Florida, and is still published today in digital format. The Times is the longest-running newspaper in Union County, Florida.
In 1934, John W. Bridwell acquired the paper and listed himself as editor and publisher and B.L. (Red) Kerce as associate editor. The Sprintow Publishing Company was also listed. His sister, Enola Bridwell, edited the “Society” section. In addition to publishing the Union County Times, John Bridwell also was justice of the peace in Lake Butler, a city council member, and editor and publisher of the Columbia Gazette in Lake City, Florida. In February 1935 John Bridwell died suddenly, and his widow, Bernice Bridwell, took over as editor and publisher of the Times.
In 1936 F.R. Pound of Mayo, Florida, purchased the Union County Times from Iva Townsend Sprinkle of Ocala, Florida. Sprinkle was Marion County’s first female superintendent of schools and was appointed the state director of education for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) adult education program.
By 1946 Robert Alexis (Lex) Green had acquired the newspaper. Green was a lawyer and politician from Lake Butler who was a U.S. representative from 1925 to 1944. After serving in the Navy during World War II, he returned to his legal practice in Starke, Florida, where he was city attorney and published the Union County Times. In 1947 D.L. Whitehurst, a close friend of Green’s, acquired the Times and ran the paper alongside…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Lake Butler, Florida, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress