Charles Morris Merry, age 88, a resident of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota for more than sixty-six years, passed away on Saturday, September 16, 2023, at Essentia Hospital in Fargo, ND. All his children were present during the week and a half he was at Essentia.
If the mass of citizens is unenlightened and resourceless, the blind are apt to lead the blind in the direction of unconditional surrender to a force that may furnish leadership but not freedom.
Starting with George D. Hamilton and continuing with Lou and Jack Benshoof, most of the Detroit Lakes newspaper's leaders over the past 150 years were long-haulers. Read on to learn more about some of these leaders, along with other well-remembered editors, columnists and other characters who've worked at the newspaper, in light of the paper's Sesquicentennial on May 18, 2022.