Before 1901, news was offered by three weeklies: the "Missouri Intelligencer", "The Columbia Patriot" and "The Columbia Statesman". In 1902, Earnest M. Mitchell joined and they moved it to the Whittle Building at 911 E. Broadway Street Suite A (now home to KOPN). Mitchell bought Strong out in 1905 but died shortly thereafter from typhoid fever. In 1905, Edwin Moss Watson bought the newspaper. His nephew, Henry "Jack" Waters, Jr., became publisher of the paper upon Watson's death in 1937, when Watson's sister, Margaret Watson Waters (Waters, Jr.'s mother), inherited the paper. In 1966, Henry "Hank" Waters, III succeeded his father and continued to operate the "Tribune" until December 31, 2010.