The Morris Chronicle offered a prize for the best history of the Butternut Valley written by a student. You can read the result as it appeared in the March 26, 1890 edition of the paper.'
When I first looked into this I could not find any mention of a linotype in use at The Morris Chronicle, but I have since found articles in 1920 and 1922 showing that the Morris Chronicle had a linotype before the New Berlin Gazette. See the links below the text to read the articles.