Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1853-11-10
Close Of Volume v.
Terms of the Courier
REDUCED TO $3.50!


REDUCED TO ST, so!
About the Is, of January next the
presen, Volume OF the COURIER expires,
and with the beginning Of the Sixth
Volume we shall commence on the
strictly ADVANCE PAY SYSTEM,
d, REDUCED PRICES!
For FIVE long years we have labored
assiduously 10 establish newspaper in
Wapello county that would be credit
to it. How far we have succeeded in
this undertaking, we leave for the public
10 say. During that time we have had
fair list Of subscribers, and reason
nble amour. of Advertising and Job
Work; but there has no,---and we regre,
exceedingly to say i,-been interest
enough manifested by our patrons in the
promp. paymen. Of subscriptions. to en-
sure Us anything like fair support
The credit system-tha. great destroy
er of public con6dence-has kept US
living as j. were from "hand TO mouth,
and we have resolved for the future to
publish paper. on that system, no long,
or. The change we think will be pro-
duc,iye Of good to our patrons as well
&C ourselves, while if the people of Wap-
clio and adjoining counties, and the
Wings more particularly. rally TO our
support--it will greatly increase The USE
fulness of our paper. The next VOL
ume then will be published on the fol-
lowing
TER M s.:
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-Four copies, 500
Ten IL 90
Larger Clubs a. the same rates.
el2o per copy.
Where club Of 20 copies are sent,
10 one address. q copy will be given
gratis to the ge.,er up ofthe club. These
terms will be strictiy adhered to in all
cases. All subscribers to the Courier
who are in arrears will have the paper
continued to them at our former publish
ed rates until full payment is made
No subscriber who is now in arrears will
be iaken as Club subscriber until he
pays up. 0
In the course of few weeks all our
delinquent subscribers will be waited on,
or have bills sent them, and we hope
they will be prepared to pay up punctu-
ally and TO subscribe for the next Vol
ume in advance. ~. .la-u.
Wapello county, and in fact the whole
Des Moines Valley, when we first cast
our lot among its citizens was a mere
pigmy in population and political i'm
por,ance, in comparison to what il now
is. Our county then could not boast of
q population of more than 1000. bat we
would be safe now in estimating it a.three
fines that amount. What has been the
cause of this great increase, but the dis
semination-through the newspapers
Of knowledge to people abroad of the
fine country we reside in! Is there a
man in this county that believes that this
Valley would have the population and
trade j. has, had we not these harbingers
of freedom and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
oers--published in our midst! Not one!
Conceeding this point. then. is it not
your duty as citizens to support and
build up local papers in preference 10 the
trashy publications Frequently abound.
ing in vulgarity and demoralizing mat
ter) that are daily issued in the East. and.
we are sorry to say. sought for with a.
sidiiy by too many of our intelligent
citizens. Subscribe for your county pa
pers, learn what is doing at home and
you will thus subserve your own pc
cuniary interest. and the general welfare
OF our whole State.
Address, postpaid.
r. H. WARDEN,
Ottumwa, Iowa.