By Rich Wicks | Times Vedette
People usually aren’t interested in old news, but one of the buildings at the Guthrie County Historical Village (GCHV) in Panora is an exception. The Bayard Lumberyard building was built in 1882 and served as the local lumberyard’s office building for many years. Sometime before 1920, Frank Pulver became the owner of Bayard Lumber and used the building until his death in 1940. When the building was moved to the GCHV grounds in 2002, the decision was made to use it to display the GCHV’s historic printing and newspaper items.
Among the items displayed are a hand printing press from 1885, along with various artifacts from how newspapers were made more than a century ago. Numerous examples of newspaper pages from those years are also shown.
In today’s technological world, it’s a challenge to imagine the work that went into printing a newspaper. In this case, old news is still interesting. The public is encouraged to check out this and the other buildings at the GCHV, which is located at 206 W. South St. in Panora. For more information, visit www.thegchv.com.
The Village News building at Guthrie County Historical Village in Panora.
An antique printing press.
Typesetting, the old fashioned way.
A vintage page from the Guthrie Vedette.