Dixie County Advocate

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From its inception, the Dixie County Advocate has been devoted to the people of Dixie County and the news and events that are a part of this rural county's life and fabric. The Dixie County Advocate is the only newspaper to be continually published in and for Dixie County, and it has been at the same location on Cedar Street, two doors west of the Courthouse, since 1921. Will, with a lot of help from his wife, Rose and Matilda Locklear, who ran the press for the newspaper's first issue in 1921 until the mid-1940s, was the backbone of the Dixie County Advocate. When Will died on September 2, 1942, Rose sold the paper to another newspaper publisher, Louis Wadsworth of Live Oak. Wadsworth, who was the publisher of the Suwannee County Democrat, considered the acquisition of the Dixie County Advocate a step toward expanding his influence in North Florida. As it turned out, Wadsworth's tenure was a relatively short lived 4 years, and he sold the paper to the former Sheriff Al Parker and his wife Vee. There is some dispute about the exact date of the sale, but it was either in the late 1940s, or perhaps 1950 as some remember. Prior to buying the Dixie County Advocate, Parker worked at a newspaper in Lake Butler under the tutelage of Tommy Green. Parker sold the newspaper in the summer of 1963, and on August 7, 1963 the new owners F. W. Kressman, Jr. and O. K. "Kimmey" Jones published their first edition...

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