Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-01-21
L. g. GOULD, Editor.
EATON, O., JAN, 81. 1858.
A Female Lecture.


ladies of Eaton, IN the Town Hall, on
Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, on
"Health as connected with the Female
Organism" She will also give a pub
lie lecture in the evening on4"Female
Medical Education" The price of ad-
mission will be 10 cents
'Gtl"tt >o~1I~A~~~N-
Tai h0-We' invite the attention of our
democratic friends to the communica-
ton on our first page, over the signature
-eEABsscrry1ed. Especially do we ask
it to be read by those democrats in the
county who have 1abored so u~ntiringly
very lately, to obtain a large list of sub
scribers for the Dollar Weekly Enqui-
rer and Statesman, to the detriment of
their own county paper. This course
on the part of Democrats who have al
ways appeared particularly anxious that
the party should have an Organ in Pre-
bic county, seems a little strange to us.
But, it has ever been thus. We know
of several Post Offices in the county.
where from twenty-five to fifty Weekly
Enquirers alone are received, to say
nothing of other Weeklies, and only
about one third that number Of the
"Democrdtr r Why is this Why do
democrats exert every effort in their
power to extend the circulation of a
foreign paper, and allow their own paper
to drag along in a miserable condition,
and eventually "peg out" for the want
of support? Is it because these Week
lies, which are made up with the matter
that has been used for the Dailies days
before the Weeklies are issued, are su-
perior to their home paper? Or is it
because there is a difference of about
thirteen cents in the price of the subscrip-
ton, that these stale city Weekly pa
pers are preferred by the mass of the
democratic party in this county? If it
is the former, do they suppose that they
arc pursuing the proper course to in
duee an editor to spend his labor and
money to improve his paper and make
it superior, or even equal, to those they
receive from abroad? We think not.
If they think the paper is not what it
should be, let a democrat in each town
ship take a Prospectus in his hand, and
labor increasingly until he obtains forty
or fifty names, and send them in with
the cash, as is done for these Weeklies,
and see if there will not be a difference
in the appearance of the paper in a very
short time. 1t is folly to suppose that
an editor, who has a weekly circulation
of only about t,oo quires, and all the
time pecuniary embarrassed in the pub
LEGATION of his paper, can have the heart
to write it full of spicy editorials or to
make it as interesting as if everything
waA going on smoothly, and the man or
the party that looks for a good paper
under such circumstances, knows moth
ing of the trials of editorial life. We
do not object to democrats taking other
papers, only when they do SO to the
neglect of their own, and we are sorry
to have it to say, there is not another
county in the State of Ohio, where the
Organ of the Democratic party is so
much neglected. as in "Old Preble."-
We hope however, that the Democracy
will resolve to act differently in the flu
ture, and that during the present year
We may have the pleasure of adding the
names of many to our list, who have
never yet contributed anything to the
support of their home paper.
By~ At an election of the stock,
holders of the Dayton and Great West
ern Turnpike Road Company, held al
West Alexandria, on Monday the It'll
instant, the following gentlemen were
elected Officers and Directors for tho
ensuing year: Abner Dunlap, Presi
dent; W. G.. Gilmore, Sec'y; DaviG
Heck, Treasurer. Owen G.. Shiyely
John I. Weaver, Enoch Taylor, anc
Jacob Dillman, Directors. They are al
Hgood men and true" and will faithful
ly disch1rge their duties.
SH-Ei
n Those individuals who gave u
money to send for the "Golden Prize
are requested to call and get it, for w
believe it to be a swipdling affair, ant
those connected with it liars and cheats
We will continue to have this opinion
until the Proprietors pay us what theJ
agreed to for advertising the Prospectus
of the concern.
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