Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-12-05

sent. vi persons having claims against the
ffn wfflpiease present them for pa ayment be-
fore that day, and all those indebted to the
0fhce, whethei an Subscription, Advertising,
or job Work, win be expected to make settle
msnt, by paysaeat or otherwise. by the same
date. T. \. PLANTS,
gA SSs5 81 "A L. MCLAUGHLIN.
To siae Patrons of ,l.e Telegraph.
: Itwill be seen from the above card
that my partner, MIR. A. H. Mclaughlin,
win retire from the post he-has so faith :
fully filled as Managing Publisher of
tins paper. AS he will engage in other
bustuesss / cannot foreSo this opportu-
Aity tolbear testimony to his energy, his
industry, and business integrity, and to
codimend him to the public in whatever
pursuit he may engage. nf
although the extreme pressure Of the
times upon newspapers, among other
considerations, makes this step neces-
sary, yet its patrons aie assured that
the Telegraph has beeoMe.too sacred an
: ipstitntipns ip the eyes of the wfiter, to
be given up. twill, therefore, be'con-
tinued for the good it is hoped it viii be
the instrument of doing, if not for the
profit it may bring to the publisher
This fact settled, few plain words is
neces airy to asfair understanding of the
future. 4! ~ =
,Al acknowledge the importance to
the community of the publication of
paper in Pomeroy. Five years ago /
took charge oftha Telegraph, then about
to expire for want of support. L have
labcred as faithfully as I could during
these five years to give the citizens of
Meiss County paper worthy eff their
support My.success in this respect is
leftto tsreaders. 1t is proper to say,
however, that its patrons have steadily
increased until it now stands amongt the
first OF tie county papers in the State in
circulation. Its patronage, in this re-
spect, has been liberal beyond cxpccta-
tor; and if times had continued pros
porous, good business would have been
built up. N
But, in the deransement and prostra-
tien of the business Of the country, no
branch has suffered SO much as that Of
publishing. Hundreds of Papers have
wholly stopped, and hundreds more are
exhaustipg their publishers in maintain
ing a feeble existence. The Telegraph
has fe.tthis pressure as we'll as others;
and if l expected to depend upon the
income of the office for support the com
ing year, this should be its funeral SER
! mon. But having learned to love
weekly talk with a thousand good, loyal
citizens and their families, around their
quiet ire-sidcs, l intend to keep talking
tosthem, at least ass aong as the relations
between us continue as pleasant as here
tofore. o. s 80
But the change in the business de-
partment makes settleheeu Of accounts
absolutely necessary While many have
paid promptly, many have been remiss.,''
and large amount, ia the aggregate, is
now due to the office. Those dues are
small, individually, and can be arranged
without serious difficulty by those in ar
rears- And expect all who intend to
pay at all, to do so at once. All who DO
50 In a reasonable time, aoiU be aHo,eed 10
price of so per fear. Those pho do
not araa themselves Of his liberal ofar,
aoW Je charged, IN erery instance, the ad
ditiondls sums nan,ed az oar pgb1ishcd
teraas.o Tliere will be no injustice in
this, and no ene will have any right to
complain. Please note this, assthere
viii be no waFering in the enforcement
of the rule
The great advance in the price Of ma
terial has induced nearly all publishers
to increase tile subscription price of
their papers. This has become neces-
sity in9lnost cases, as paper has already
risen fifty per cent, and is still rapidly
on the advance. But do not intend to
raise the price of the 7elegraph-at
least, not the coming year, if paper can
be had at all. But it will be necessary
to bring the business much more upon
cash basis than heretofore, and I shall
expect advance payments to BE-. the rule
and not the exception.
Those long in arrears, who do not call
and make settlement, by payment or
otherwise, will be understood as not de-
string to continue the paper, and their
names will be dropped, and accounts col
lected at published terms. A
In the probable decrease of other
business, I shall have more time to de-
vote to the Telegraph, and hope to make
it more Of family paper than it has
ever yet been, and one that will be "a
more welcome visitor in the homes of
Sour citizens. And in view Of all this, [
not only solicit the continuance of the
liberal patronage heretofore given to the
Telegraph, bat an extension of itstcircu-
lation. T. A. PLANTS.
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