Book Description

The Cullman Banner published from July 1937 until about 1952. It was established by Jack N. Huie and his older brother, William Bradford Huie. The Banner published in competition with the older established county papers, the Cullman Tribune and the Cullman Democrat. William Bradford Huie soon moved on to another job in California leaving his brother Jack and a handful of associates in charge of the fledgling paper. Jack ran the paper until he joined the Armed Services during WWII. In 1944, the paper was sold to Claudia Kinney, mother of Probate Judge Horace H. Kinney. Claudia ran the paper for a few years and hired a procession of new editors and business managers. In 1949 the paper was sold to Alexander and Hudson Miller, who ran the paper until it was sold again in 1952 to Robert Bryan and associates and renamed the Modernistic Times. The name "Modernistic" was soon dropped and the paper became knows as the Cullman Times. The editor of the Cullman Democrat retired in 1954 and that paper was bought by Bryan and associates. Each paper published for the next few years under its own name until the papers merged in 1961 and published daily under the name the Times-Democrat. The word "Democrat" was dropped in 1963. The history of a county is written in the pages of its newspapers. These papers contain information found in no other source. You are sure to enjoy reading about Cullman events of many decades ago.