The ''Barry County Advertiser'' is a free weekly newspaper located in

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Barry County, Missouri Barry County is a county located in the southwest portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 34,534. Its county seat is Cassville. The county was organized in 1835 and named after William Taylor Barry, a ...

. The ''Advertiser'' is funded purely by advertising and is distributed through the

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. The ''Advertiser'' is distributed each week to 13,500 homes across Barry County, and focuses on local news. The first issue of the ''Advertiser'' was published on December 13, 1967,About This Newspaper; Library of Congress; http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn79009317/ and was at that time one of three weekly papers in Cassville, a town with a population of 3,206 as of the 2020 census, but less than 3,000 at the time. Both of the existing papers, the ''

Cassville Democrat The ''Cassville Democrat'' is a weekly newspaper located in Cassville, Missouri, the county seat of Barry County, Missouri. It has a weekly circulation of about 5,000 and has been published continuously since its founding in 1871. The newspaper's m ...

'' and the '' Cassville Republican,'' had been in existence for nearly a century at that time, but in 1984, the 112-year-old ''Cassville Republican'' folded. Both the ''Advertiser'' and the ''Cassville Democrat'' continue to be published. The paper was owned and founded by the late Missouri State Senator Emory Melton and his wife, Jean. The current owner is the Meltons' son, Stan Melton.

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Newspapers published in Missouri Newspapers established in 1967 1967 establishments in Missouri