Gunter History: I was checking out the possibilities in my Netvibes private experimental genealogy page this morning and found a link to Library of Congress: Chronicling America Newspaper Archive. I followed up some search terms for Gunter, but didn't find a lot useful. I did go to the list of newspapers archived and found the Gunter Star. It began publication in 1916 and has only a question mark for the end date. J.O. Nash was the first publisher of the weekly newspaper. Microfilm copies of the Gunter Star are available in two places. The Panhandle-Plains History Museum at Canyon, Texas has microfilm copies of the Gunter Star, 1940-1943, and 1945. The University of Texas at Austin has a microfilm master of the 1918 Gunter Star.
Does anyone have any copies of any issue of the Gunter Star tucked away in family keepsakes? Maybe you are re-doing an old house and find parts of an old issue used as wallpaper? Don't destroy such an historical treasure. Let someone on the staff of the Gunter Library & Museum know about it, or someone from the North Texas History Center at McKinney. Useful local history files grow from bits and pieces and one man's trash is another's treasure.