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Wuconsin Signal, a weekly described in the 1925 History of Dunn
County as "another populist paper issued weekly." In the following
year it was sold to the Signal Publishing Co., a firm made up of
about 100 Dunn County farmers. For the next two years it was
edited by Leona Windsor, followed by a Miss Anderson. Its business
manager was Jeremiah Burnham Tainter, a brother of Captain
Andrew Tainter. He held that post until November 1898, after
which the Signal appears to have just faded away.
For eight months, from October 1903 until May 1904, Thomas
Dreer published a weekly designed for juveniles called the
Menomonie Badger Another local publisher, H. W   Rintelman,
issued the quarterly Facts and Figures for the Wisconsin Anti-Saloon
League. Henry Coleman was the editor. The "quarterly" was issued
for only four quarters from April 1900 to April 1901.
Another paper edited by a doctor was published in 1888, the
Dunn County Herald a temperance newspaper with a very short
life. Dr. Kate Kelsey, the first woman physician to practice in
Menomonie, and E A. Vasey shared editorial duties.
Throughout the 1930s and into the early 1950s the Dunn
County News published the Daily Shopper, a four-page tabloid-sized
paper. In later years called the Menomonie Shopper, it was published
on Mondays and Fridays. Each issue included current news but it
was primarily a shopper's guide packed with local business
advertisements. It was distributed free of charge to all residences in
Menomonie and, in later years, beyond the city limits. In 1996 the
Shopper was revived as a weekly.
It had competition from a mimeographed publication the Daily
Reminde, owned and edited by Hugh McGowan. This was strictly
a shopper's guide without news items. Now called the Dunn County
Reminder it continues as a weekly publication distributed free to
residences throughout the county.
In 1987 Philip Diser began publishing the Visitor's Guide to
Menomonie and the Red Cedar Valley four times a year. That same
year, in June, Steve Lampman, owner of Boothby Print Shop, began
publishing a monthly tabloid called the Lamp Lighter. After five
entertaining issues featuring stories on local points of interest and
profiles of residents, organizations, and activities, it ceased
publication with the October/November issue.