Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1855-06-16
THE SIXTEENTH VOLUME.

| We this week enter upon the Sirteenh
| Volume of the Reporter. With this number
we also commence new system of payments,
which marks an era in the newspaper history
of this County From the time the first number
of this paper was issued from the press, on the
4th day of June, 1910, until the present, we
have had something to do with every weeks
issue which has appeared. In this somewhat
heightened experience interested in the pros
perity of the paper, we have had some oppor-
tunity to observe the difficulties and disadvant-
ages under which the publishers of Country
newspapers continually suffer. With business,
which ostensibly should afford return for the
labor and money expended, we have known
seasons when the receipts of the Office did not
equal the expenditures, and at times too when
the best men in the County were indebted to
the Office in a sum sufficient to relieve it from
all pressure and embarraSsments, which amount
was withheld through careIessneSs.
Since the Reporter first made its appearance,
great revolution has taken place in news
paperdom. The invention of fast steam presses,
multiplying newspapers with rapidity which
would seem marvellous to our respected typo
graphical apostles, and the cheapening of the
other appliances of the art, with the establish
ment of numerous daily papers in the City,
from which weeklies are cheaply made up, has
tended to the gradual reduction of the prices
of weekly papers. From the jaws of the re-
volving iron monsters of the City, newspapers
are issued at prices but little above the cost of
the white paper upon which they are printed
These are sent into the country in immense
numbers and to certain extent supply the
place which the Country newspaper should fill.
Under this state of affairs, it is very difficult
for the Country press to maintain price which
in reality it should command, because by SO
doing the majority of its patrons would be
driven to the cities for their newspapers There
are, to be sure, portion of the community,
who feel it their duty to support their County
paper, and some whose necessities would oblige
them to have it any rate,-but the number is
so limited that it would be too small to keep
paper in existence.
We have concluded at once to meet the
expectations and wants of the public, and at
the same time to relieve ourselves from the
embarrassments which credit system must
necessarily produce, when the patronage is
diffused through so many hands. We do this,
| by reducing the price to One Dollar and by
making it payable in advance. BY so doing,
we hope to merit and receive the patronage of
the reading public.
To make this plan effective, a rigid adher-
ance to advance payments will be necessary
We shall consequently, stop every paper, when
the subscription expires To give the subscriber
opportunity to renew his subscription, he will
receive printed notice four weeks before the
expiration of his time, from a wrapper around
his paper, when, if he fails to renew, it will be
stopped.
The adoption of these terms is an experiment,
and the favorable issue of which in good
measure devolyes upon our friends and the
public. To those who now feel an interest in
the success of the Reporter and the principle
it has so long, (if not ably advocated, we
particularly appeal. We need a long list of
subscribers, under our present arrangement
We start off with more than we anticipated,
but we look to our friends for such an increase
of our list as will afford some encouragement
and support. There is hardly subscriber but
could persuade some neighbor to subscribe for
the Reporter. The more active of our friends.
could under our present club rates, easily pro-
cure five, ten, or twenty subscribers. Will they
do it.
We would also say to those who wish to
| renew their subscription or to forward money
to US, that the mail affords an excellent and
ever ready opportunity. Enclose the amount
in letter directed to u.s. and we will be re-
sponsible for its safe delivery Uncle Sans
mode of conveyance is sometimes tardy but
generally sure.