The New Prairie Town Crier: a directory title, 1970–19??

1970 – END NOT ESTABLISHED · the directory's third New Carlisle title; its character a named gap

The directory's third New Carlisle title is a name keyed to the town's second identity: the New Prairie Town Crier, carried from 1970 to an unknown end in the 1900s, LCCN SN87056632 (OCLC 16826656). "New Prairie" is the name of the school corporation that serves New Carlisle and Olive Township, and a Town Crier under that name suggests a school or community paper — but suggestion is all the record reached supports, and this section prints the title at directory size and no larger: a paper of that name was published at New Carlisle from 1970, and nothing reached establishes who published it, how often it appeared, whether it was a school paper, a shopper, or a general weekly, or when it stopped. Because the second Gazette's end is likewise unestablished, the record reached cannot show whether New Carlisle was ever a two-paper town in these years — the Town Crier and the Gazette may have overlapped, or the one may have followed the other into a still one-paper town. The checklist question is therefore printed as it stands: at every dated point where a source describes the town whole — 1884–85 and 1916–17 — it describes one weekly; no joint-operating or two-papers era is established anywhere in the record reached, and none is printed.

Sources:

1. United States Newspaper Directory record via Chronicling America, at directory-listing strength (LOC item page denied, HTTP 403, not retried): New Prairie Town Crier, 1970–19??, New Carlisle, Saint Joseph County, LCCN SN87056632, OCLC 16826656.
2. Polk's gazetteers of 1884–85 and 1916–17 as above — the one-weekly descriptions of the town at those dates.