The _Saturday Evening Chat_, started in Cedar Rapids by A. J. Huss. The _Linn County Pilot_ becomes the _Marion Pilot_, Rev. J. W. Chaffee, editor. 1886 The _Linn County Independent_ removes to Marion. 1888 _Kvinden og Hjemmet_, monthly illustrated magazine for the Norwegian and Danish women in America, with a Swedish edition, _Quinnan och Hemmet_, started at Cedar Rapids by N. Fr. Hansen. The _News-Letter_, started at Central City. 1889 _Town Topics_, started in Cedar Rapids by Ernest A. Sherman. The _Monitor_, started at Coggon. 1891 _Saturday Record_, started in Cedar Rapids by Sherman & Hatmaker. 1894 The _Herald_, started at Lisbon by W. F. Stahl. 1893 The _Record_, started at Mt. Vernon by Lloyd McCutcheon. 1902 _Iowa Post_ brought to Cedar Rapids from Iowa City by Henry Gundling. 1903 The _Tribune_, established by the Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor. 1906 The _Cedar Rapidske Liste_, Bohemian humorous weekly. The _Optimus_, started at Cedar Rapids by E. C. Barber. 1909 _West Side Enterprise_, started December 30th by W. I. Endicott, owner and publisher. Much of the early history of Linn county, and more especially of Cedar Rapids, is interwoven with the history of the _Progressive Era_, which afterwards became the _Cedar Rapids Times_. The _Progressive Era_ was established by D. O. Finch in 1851. It was democratic in politics and claimed to be devoted to the interests of Cedar Rapids and Linn county. It was a seven column, four page paper, and rather a credit to the town at that time. Worse papers have been published since. It was but a short time until Mr. Finch had all the newspaper experience he wanted. Joseph Greene then purchased the paper and ran it until 1854. During this time Ezra Van Metre, James J. Child, Esq., and James L. Enos were successively its editors. James L. Enos had something to do with nearly every paper that was started during the early days of Linn county. He loved the smell of printer's ink. The types had a fascination for him. He delighted to see his thoughts reproduced in print. In September, 1854, he and F. Augustus Williams purchased Mr. Greene's interest in the _Progressive Era_. They changed the name to the _Cedar Valley Times_. They changed the politics of the paper from democratic to the new Americanism of that time. Then came the organization of the republican party. Like other adherents to the American party living in the north, the editors of the _Times_ cast in their lot with the new republican party and warmly advocated and defended the principles on which it was founded.