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THE WELLAND TRIBUNE
One of the Oldest and Best Weeklies in Ontario
[From the Toronto News]
[Welland Tribune, 11 January 1895]
The TRIBUNE is among the oldest weekly papers in Ontario, having been published continuously since 1854, and spasmodically for ten years previous to that date. J.J. Sidey assumed the paper when but twenty years of age, in 1865, and has continued the publication ever since, latterly in connection with his brother, S.J. Sidey. The Messrs. Sidey are natives of the county of Welland, of Anglo-Scotch descent. Both have had experience in printing in both city and country, and the business under their management has grown from a small beginning to be one of the largest and most prosperous of the kind outside the cities. The TRIBUNE has a handsome and commodious brick building, built especially for its business, with water power, steam heating, etc. Its permanent staff numbers about fifteen, and its work finds place from one end of the Province to the other, and beyond. The paper has a sworn circulation exceeding 3,300, the management attributing this mainly to the excellence of its local news departments and the plan adopted of stopping papers to subscribers who do not remit promptly. Both J.J. And S.J. Sidey have held municipal office, the latter being last year warden of the county of Welland. In politics the TRIBUNE has always been Liberal, and to its influence is largely credited the fact that the county of Welland has passed from a Conservative stronghold to be ranged on the Liberal side, being now represented by Reformers in both the Commons and Legislature.
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