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Recently I found copies of the Madisonville Meteor’s 50th anniversary edition, which was published August 24. 1944. The 32-page issue aimed to fully relate our county’s history, though war-time conditions handicapped such efforts. With publisher H.B. Fox serving in the U.S. Army, his wife, Mrs. Fox, acted as editor, with Mrs. Eli Smith as the associate editor. The newspaper began printing on January 19, 1895. At the time of the anniversary edition, the subscription rate was $1.50 a year in Madison County and the county trading area but $2 elsewhere.