Beginning our 136th year serving Wichita County
One hundred thirty-five years ago tomorrow, the first issue of the Wichita Standard left the press in the spanking new town that would become the Leoti we know and love today.
Charles S. Triplett, a native of LaGrange County, Indiana, was the proprietor. A man of 35 years, Triplett had some experience with establishing newspapers in up-and-coming places, having done such in Marion, Kansas, fourteen…
