The Clinton Topper was established in 1938 by local businessmen Harold W Napper, a grocery store owner, and Jack Dalton an implement dealer.  The Editor was C. A. "Cam" McMullen, and the paper flourished becoming the only news source in the community after the Clinton Times-Observer ceased publication in 1941. The paper changed hands several times over the years, with William Rust, Don and Betty Walrath, Herb Miller and his wife Joyce, and Fred Wagner owning and operating it.  

The Clinton Toppers are listed by Year/Month. Within the month are the individual weekly issues published each Thursday of that month.  Not all of the issues are available and some pages have had clippings cut out of them.  Because we are working with bound volumes, the images may not capture all the text on each page.

We will be continuing to add to this archive as processing is being completed.