 The Stuart News grew out of the merger of the "Stuart Times" (1913) and "Stuart Messenger" (1915), which was sold to the Clyma family in 1922.They converted the publication into a daily newspaper called the "Stuart Daily News" in 1925, claiming then that Stuart was the smallest town in the U.S. to have a daily newspaper.Sold to Edwin A. Menninger in 1928, it was renamed the "Stuart News" when it became a weekly in 1934.