Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-02-16
From the Lyons Mitror.
Some of our Iowa Exchanges,

! Iowa is not only fortunate in her rich
soil, her timber, her coal, her lead; not
only in her proximity to, river outlets,
ANA her railroad facilities not only in
her enteri,rising people, but also in her
press -- in the newspapers which are
sent forth from almost every county,
one, two, three, four or five from each
daily from the cities, and weekly fl, III
towns large and small. Scarcely one of
these bat bear the marks of Industry
and good sense, many OF them, energy
and talent.
Foremost among our exchanges, we
rank the DtcGnpOrt gazette. IT the
Daily is not 50 large rs those of Eastern
cities, Chicago and st. Louis, the def
cheney, 10 an lowan, is made up by its
careful summary OF really important
events, its devotion to State news and
Interests, its tcrseDcss. and ability.
Its weekly is large, aud is actually
more valuable to the citizens Of this
state than any of the still larger from
abroad. The G0:ctte is largely read in
localities westerly OF the city of publ
cation.
The Dubuque Times is next nearest
us, and consists OF Daily, Semi w eetty
and Weekly is conducted with mark
ed ability, and rejoices in Il local who
Possesses poetical talent OF no meaa or
4er. The people on the western and
south western reads depend upon the
Times for their news, and are well serv-
ed.
The Register, OF Des Moines, has one
of the largest weea!ies in the State, Il
good sized Daily, and is fully equal to
its position as the organ of the domi-
pant party at the Capital. It is indis-
pensable to the residents Of half Of the
state.
The Burlington Huck- Eye is most
excellent paper, Daily and Weekly,
and is said to enjoy about the best sup
port of any in the State which stands
OH its own bottom.
The cate city, of Keokuk, furnishes
that city and portion OF the State with
a superior Daily and Weekly, and If too
far away to benefit us here, still adds to
our pride in the Institutions Of the State.
The Masculine journal. hitherto q
valued exchange, will soon feel tae
spur of the genius and patriotism OF l..
ID. lngersoil, who has just finished his
history, OF Iowa Troops, and is to enter
upon associate editorial charge OF the
JoUrRUk in Il few weeks. This paper
has also IA Daily and Weekly.
In Council Bluffs there is also n good
Daily Republican paper, the NonpdreH.
OF Democratic Dailies there are the
Davenport Democrat, the Dubugue
Uerald and the Keokuk Constitution,
which run regularly !; and Kascatinc
Courier, the Council Bluffs Bugie and
the Des Noines Statesman, which pub
lish Dailies part of the time. they
are nearly all able papers, and politics,
out add.to the reputation Of the press OF
the State.
Among the best of the papers issued
but once week, we enumerate the
Iotcd CITY Republican little slow, pos
sibly, bHt edited with superior ability
and sturdy independence the CEDAR
FALLS GAZETTE, decidedly not slow,
and as decidedly sharp and racy, the
NarshoH Times, scarcely second to none
in talent, and up to time snd a score of
others might be mentioned, il We had "a
space to speak of their merits.
There are several German papers in
the State - De-. Dem0hrat, OF Davenport,
and the Io,ru 1iitune, OF Burlington,
both published daily, we believe, and in
Lyons, the Banner, a weekly.
1t is unnecessary To refer to the press
of our County, as every one understands
we have the best as well as tile greatest
number ef papers of any County in the
State--a Mirror to reflect abroad every
thing that is good. great and glorious !;
an Observer to keepa sharp eye out, a
Heratd to loudly proclaim. an Airocate
To defend, and a Banner to march un-
der.
Iowa papers have the peculiar West
ern snap about them. The stereotyped
styles of the East, do net answer the
purpose ofour people. The plan of Civ
ing up half the reading space to silly or
even sensible stories has become obso-
lete, and it any desire suck reading they
look to story papers or Magazines
for them. FACTS, varied only by short
miscellaneous articles, find place in the
columns of most of our NEWS papers,
Novel reading is not objected too neith-
er is serm@u reading; but readers are
left to seek them in papers whose speci-
alties they are, and the excellence of the
papers OF our State is gratifying iHdi-
cation that our communities approve
this and other positive improvements.
VANITY is so constantly solicitous of
self, that, even where its own claims
are not interested, it indirectly seeks
the ailment which it loves, by showing
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