The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-12-18
THE EBEPORIA NEWS TO BE
ENLARGED
THE LARGEST COUNTRY PAPEE
IN THE STATE!
THE BEST LOCAL PAPER IN THE
STATE!
5000 Lawton Blackberry Plants as
Presents.
500 New Subscribers Wanted.


subscribers that THE News should be
made larger and better so soon as there
was a prospect of obtaining sufficient
increased Electromagnetic justify the add
ditional expense.
Although the prospect is not as GER
tain as we should like to have it, we
have concluded to greatly enlarge the
paper on the first day of january, hay-
ing faith that the people of Lyon and
adjoining counties will do their duty in
the way of patronage.
We have made it rule to keep lit
tie ahead of the actual demands of the
public, and we make this venture feel
ing that if it does not Immediately pay,
it will at no distant day.
The paper will contain thirty two col
umns printed on sheet 28x42 inches.
We shall add one column to each page
and two inches to the length of the col
umns, making in all nearly as much adj
ditional matter as is contained in one of
the pages of the present size-or seven
| columns more than the present amount
of reading matter. This addition will
make THE News the largest, and we in
tend to put forth new efforts to make it
the best country paper il the State.
| Our special Efforts will be used for
the advancement ofthe interests of Cen
trail and Southwestern Kansas. In say
ing this we donot mean Emporia alone,
but every county, township and neigh
borhood in this section of the State
We shall do everything in our power
for the up-building of Lyon, Green
wood, Butler, Chase, Marion, Morris
and other surrounding counties. We
shall take as much pleasure in setting
forth the advantages and inducements
of each and every neighborhood in the
above counties, as we do in our own.
Everything of local interest to any and
every section of Southwestern Kansas
will find in The News a warm friend
and advocate.
In politics we shall continue radical
ly and progressively Republican. We
are under obligations to no party or
'ring,' and will be as independent and
as free from them as any journal in
Kansas or anywhere else. While The
News will be independent it will con-
tinue to support the nominees of the
Republican party, when properly made,
unless their characters are such as to
make it wrong for us to do so. Dem
agogues and men whose exclusive aim
is to build themselves up by tearing
others down-men who engage in any
sort of attempt to form s'rings" or run
offices for their own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
will in the future, as in the past, find in
The News an implacable enemy. This
country is broad enough for all, and we
believe i'll fair play and merit.
We shall give market reports, and
much other matter each week which
has heretofore been crowded out for
want of room. There has justly been
some grumbling because our columns
were too full of advertisements. We
don't intend that any reasonable man
shall have room to complain hereafter.
We don't expect to try to please unrea-
sonable people.
This enlargement will involve an adj
ditiOnal cost of $500 per year. We are
mourning this large increased expend-
iture for the sole benefit of the People
of Southwestern Kansas and now want
them to come up and do their share.
To justify this increased expense we
ought to have at least 500 new SUBJ
| scribers. You all want a good local
paper, and we intend to give you your
two dollars worth. We must have a
large increase of subscribers or fall
back to the old size in few months.
We have made arrangements by
which we shall distribute to our sub
scribers in Southwestern Kansas, S12O
worth of Lawton Blackberry plants
Every subscriber for 1869, new or old.
living in Lyon, Greenwood, Chase, But
Ter, Marion, Morris, or Sedgwick coun-
ties, who pays for the year in advance,
will receive through the mail, or other
wise if directed, half dozen, of these
plants as present, if they are desired.
The design is to have them planted and.
cultivated, so that their delicious fruit !
may be had in every household.
There is no use of urging the advant-
ages of good local paper to the coun-
try. We simply ask our friends to /
show the paper to their neighbors who |
do not take it, and ask them to become |
subscribers. In this way our list can be |
increased very materially. Urge them
to try THE NEWS a year or at least six |
months. Tell them it will contain, each |
week, two to four columns of local and |
State news, all the important news |
items, editorials on the questions before |
the people, the market reports at home I
and abroad, besides large amount of |
most interesting miscellany each week. /
1t will be our aim to make The News /
so complete as to save the expense, to
people of moderate means, of sending |
abroad for papers.
George Francis Train, the Irish mar
tyr and patriot, has been released from
the British prison and is on the way to