Warm Springs Advertiser/Mirror

HISTORY

Newspaper

• November 14, 1930: Stuart M. Stout publishes the first issue of the Warm Springs Advertiser; the paper circulates weekly for the rest of its run.

• October 30, 1931: C. D. Veeder and L. M. Weinberg, both patients at the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, assume editorial control and change the title to the Warm Springs Mirror. Stout remains owner and publisher.

• Fall 1933: H. E. Poor purchases the Mirror from Stuart M. Stout who later revives the defunct Chipley News and becomes Warm Springs mayor in 1950.

• January 1951: Ralph M. Rice, publisher of the Manchester Mercury, expands his newspaper business by purchasing the Warm Springs Mirror and Tri-County Review (Chipley).

• January 29, 1954: Mirror ceases publication.

• According Griffith, L. T., Talmadge, J. E., & Drewry, J. E. (1951). Georgia journalism, 1763-1950. University of Georgia Press (pg. 410): "Edward Stout [later editor of the West Georgian and Red & Black college newspapers] for a time was leasee, editor, and publisher, assisted by his father, but the Mirror reverted to the elder Stout. . ."

Other

• New Georgia Encyclopedia entry on Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation

City

• City in Meriwether County

• New Georgia Encyclopedia entry