St. Mary and Franklin Banner-Tribune

Mary Banner encountered competition from the Franklin Tribune, an offshoot of the Patterson Tribune in 1931. In December of that same year, the owner of the St. Mary Banner died and the two papers merged to for the St. Mary Banner had quite a pedigree, having been formed by soon-to-be-Governor Murphy J. Foster, Sr., and sitting Senator Donelson Caffery. Its early 19th century predecessors were hig

hly the regarded Planter's Banner and the Attakapas Register. The paper became the first Louisiana installation of the Goss Suburban Press in 1959. In the 1960s the paper was sold to the Walls group, becoming the headquarters of the Walls' Louisiana properties, overseeing Franklin, Morgan City, Houma and Thibodaux from the Franklin Office.