*** Source: Thompson, Robert A., Historical and descriptive sketch of Sonoma County, California. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts & Co., 1877, 122 pgs. Notice: This data is donated to the Public Domain by TAG, 2004, and may be copied freely by anyone to anywhere. *** ---page 90--- satisfaction to those who patronize them. There is a very commodious public school building, with an efficient corps of teachers, at which there is a daily attendance of more than three hundred and twenty-five students. The prin- cipal of the public school is O. S. Ingram, A. M., and his assistants are Miss Peterson, Miss Black, Miss Gales, Miss Givens and Miss Allen. There are also several excellent private schools in the town. There is one bank and five hotels, all well patronized, some of which make a specialty of receiving guests for the summer, who come up from the cold and dust-laden atmosphere of the metropolis, to spend the summer months in the delightful climate of Healdsburg. There are fifteen dry-goods and grocery stores; three drug stores; six blacksmith and wagon shops; one paint manu- factory; one flour mill; one planning-mill; sash and door factory; two lumber yards; one glove factory; two tanneries; one patent knitting establishment, and one soap factory. The history of newspapers in Healdsburg has been varied and interesting. In January, 1860, the pioneer published, A. J. Cox, issued the Review, and continued the published somewhat irregularly until 1863, when it suspended entirely. In May, 1864, Fenno & Warren commenced the Advertiser, with Mr. Cox as editor. It suspended; was revived in 1865 with J. E. Fenno as publisher, and Mr. Cox as editor. Its revival was but the flickering of the light in the socket, which preceded the total extinction of the Advertiser. On the 7th day of October, 1865, the first number of the Democratic Standard was issued in Healdsburg. It was published by W. R. Morris and W. A. C. Smith, under the firm name of W. R. Morris & Co. On the 3d of October 1866, Mr. Morris became the sole proprietor, and a few weeks after transferred a half interest to J. B. Fitch. In January 1867, Mr. Fitch became sole proprietor, and a month late sold out to Boggs & Menefee. A few weeks later Mr. Boggs retired, W. A. C. Smith taking his place, and the firm became Menefee & Co. In the winter of 1867-8 the office was again transferred to Fitch & Davis. In the fall of 1868 the material and good-will of the paper was sold to John G. Howell, and it was suspended. Mr. Howell immediately commenced the publication of the Russian River Flag, which stills survives, a credit to the city of Healdsburg and its publisher, L. A. Jordon. The Flag has always been Republican in politics, and its first editor, J. G. Howell, gave it high rank as a local paper, and impressed his individuality on its editorial columns. In 1876 Mr. Howell sold the paper to Jordon Bros., Mr. L. A. Jordon suc- ceding as sole proprietor. The paper is under the editorial control of S. P. Mead and L. A. Jordon, and is an able, well conducted and influential journal. The Flag has been an important factor in the growth of Healdsburg, and we hope the proprietor will reap the rich reward for his labor which is so justly his due. The Healdsburg Enterprise was started in the spring of 1876 by Mulgrew Bros. & Wood. It has achieved a remarkable and well-deserved success. It is Democratic in politics. The Enterprise seemed, from its inception, to make a specialty of promoting the local interests of Healdsburg, and it has ever *** end ***