Hunter Times

Hunter Times. . Hunter's first newspaper, The Hunter Hawk, began in 1883 and was published by local surgeon Dr. Charles McKay. Following Dr. McKay, Henry and Charles Stone took over and published The Eye from 1885 until 1891 when they started a new newspaper in Casselton, ND. The next newspaper published in Hunter was The Hunter Herald by Roy T. Porte. He printed The Hunter Herald in 1894 as its youngest editor and the company grew to become Hunter, North Dakota's and Cass County's official newspaper. Porte later moved to Fargo to work with a different printing shop and The Hunter Herald continued with different editors. The printing shop was renamed the Hunter Times in 1928 and continued publishing until 1960 when Clark Potter took over the newspaper and combined it with the Casselton Reporter., The Hunter Times building stood near Hunter's State Bank on Main Street. In September 1932, a bank robbery took place while Henry Hegle and his wife were operating the newspaper and their kids played beside the office. Judy Hegle recalled hearing the announcement and ran out front to see the getaway car speeding off with two men in the front seat and a woman in the backseat firing a shotgun out the window. Judy ran to the side of the building to check on her children, who were not harmed, and noticed bullet holes in the tin wall of the Hunter Times which faced the street., (Captions) , Front of The Eye Printing Office, ca 1887 Photo by Almon Sayers , The Hegle Family, Courtesy of Judy Dunham