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University of Notre Dame, Building South Bend and Hesburgh Libraries carriers; the Tribune's own record as this build's files cite it
The town's paper is South Bend's, and this build's own files prove it. The South Bend Tribune was founded as a weekly in 1872 by Alfred B. Miller and Elmer Crockett, Union veterans who had begun at Schuyler Colfax's St. Joseph Valley Register; its first edition appeared on Saturday evening, 9 March 1872, and on 28 May 1873 it began the Daily Tribune — the first daily paper in South Bend. In 1887 it bought out the Register itself; its one major rival, the News-Times (formed 1913 by merger of the Times of 1883 and the Morning News of 1908), ended publication in 1938, leaving the Tribune the city's and the county's surviving paper of record. It was locally and family owned — Schurz Communications, based in Mishawaka — from its founding until 2019, when it passed to Gannett; its headquarters since 1921 stood at 225 West Colfax Avenue, and the University of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Libraries now hold its complete digital archive, 1873 to 2018. All of that is South Bend's record, carried at pointer; what is this town's is the use the record makes of it. The township's dead reach this build through its columns — the News-Times of 23 October 1916 for the Wells funeral at the Ullery church, the Tribune of 16 July 1920 for the Jones funeral and of 7 February 1928 for the Greenwood burial. The town's modern acts reach it the same way — the Tribune of 13 March 2026 previewing the fire-territory merger vote this build records whole, the county candidate lists against which the frame pass tested the town's elections. A town with no press of its own is not a town with no record; it is a town whose record was kept, for a century and a half, by the county paper — and kept, on the evidence of these files, carefully enough to build on.