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ITEM 5 · TWO TESTS, TWO DIFFERENT ANSWERS
The branch asks after a paper's wars and its prizes; the two tests split — the prize is answered whole, and the war is named as this section's residue with its settler. The Pulitzer test: the Pulitzer rolls were checked for this paper and its publishers — no Walkerton newspaper and no Endly name stands on the Pulitzer record, in any category, in any year. The negative is unsurprising and is printed anyway, because the checklist's discipline is that the test, not the expectation, is the article: the Independent was a small weekly in the prize's founding decades, and its honors were of another kind (longevity, the archive it became), carried in Newspapers & Media. The crusade test: the equivalent war for an Indiana paper of the Endlys' era was the Ku Klux Klan's ascendancy of the 1920s, when the Klan organized across Indiana — St. Joseph County included — and a paper either fought it, served it, or stood aside. Which of those the Independent did stands in the paper's own 1921–1928 file, and that file was not reached in this run; the item closes as a named gap with its settler stated — the Independent's run for the Klan years, on Hoosier State Chronicles and the society's microfilm — printed in the run note, and the branch records the question as open and answerable rather than filling it from the era's general record. The contraction's end: unchanged and restated for the branch's completeness — documented publishing in 1996, the cessation date unsettled, GAP-W-NWS-1 standing with the Chronicling America record (LCCN SN87055952) as its settler, exactly as Newspapers & Media leaves it.
Principal sources: the Pulitzer Prize records, checked by name and paper, November 2026; Newspapers & Media and GAP-W-NWS-1; the Independent's 1921–28 run named as the crusade test's settler.