Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1853-11-24
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About the LIST Of January next the
present Volume Of the COURIER expires,
and with the beginning of The Sixth
Volume we shall commence on the
strictly ADVANCE PAY SYSTEM,
at REDUCED PRICES!
For five long years We have labored
assiduously TO establish q newspaper in
Wapello county that would be credit
TO it. How far we have succeeded in
this undertaking, we leave for the public
TO say. During that time we have had
a fair list of subscribers, and reason
nble amount of Advertising and Job
Work; but there has noi--and we regret
exceedingly to say it--been interest
enough manifested by our patrons in the
prompt payment of subscriptions, to en-
sure US anything like a fair support -
The credit Systens-that great destroy
er Of public confidence---has kept US
living as il were from "hand to mouth.
and we have resolved for the future to
publish paper, on that system, no long
err. The change we think will be pro
ductve Of good TO our patrons as well
as 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
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Larger Clubs at The same rates.
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terms will be strictly 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 taken as a Club subscriber until he
pays up.
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.
Wapello county, and in fac! the whole
Des Moines Valley, when we first cast
our lot among its citizens was mere
pigmy in population and political i'm
portance, in comparison to what it now
is. Our county then could not boast of
a population of more than 1000, but we
would be safe now in estimating it three
times 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 it has, had we not these harbingers
of freedom and civilization--newspa pa
Ders--published i'm our midst! Not one!
Conceeding this point, then, is it not
your duty as citizens TO support and
build up local papers in preference to the
trashy publications Frequently abound
ing in vulgariiy and demoralizing mat
tef) tina, are daily issued in the East, and
we are sorry to say, sought for with a.
vidiiy 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.
II. Ii. WARDEN,
Ottumwa. Iowa.