The first newspaper was established in 1912, "The Grace City Journal", R.T. Mitchell, editor. I do not have the dates that it ran. The "Grace City Gazette" started in January 1916 with Julius D. Peterson, editor. G.K. Ness took over the editorship in August 1917 and ran until late 1919 with a weekly paper. On January 7, 1918 the Gazette was moved from the basement of the McGrath store to a building on the east side of the street. The Journal was in a building just south of what is now the Scanson garage. There was also a telephone exchange in the building. Another telephone exchange was just north of the First State Bank; Mrs. Olga Melby Haberlein ran it. At that time nearly everyone had telephones but as times got tough and in the dirty thirties only the Bell phone in the Hotel and the privately owned Topp line stayed in existence until the R.T.A. came in.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 322