The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-12-04
500 New Subscribers Wanted.

subscribers that THE NEWS should be
made larger and better so soon as there
was prospect of obtaining sufficient
increased patronage to justify the adj
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,
having faith that the people of Lyon
and adjoining counties will do their
duty in the way of patronage.
We have made 1t q rule to keep
little ahead of the actual demands of
the public, and we make this venture
feeling that if it does not Immediately
pay, it will at no distant day.
The paper will contain thirty-two
columns printed on a sheet 2Sx42 inch
es: We shall add one column to each
page and two inches to the length of
the columns, making in all nearly as
much additional 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 intend to put forth
new efforts to make it the best country
paper in the State.
Our special Efforts will be used for
the advancement of the interests of
Central and Southwestern Kansas. In
saying this we do not mean Emporia
alone, but every county, township and
neighborhood in this section of the
State. We shall do everything in our
power for the up-building of Lyon,
Greenwood, Butler, Chase, Marion,
Morris and other surrounding counties.
We shall take as much pleasure in set
ting forth the advantages and induce
ments 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 warm
friend and advocate.
In politics we shall continue radically
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 continue 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. Demagogues |
and men whose exclusive aim is to |
build themselves up by tearing others |
down-men who engage in any sort of
attempt to form 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 in fair play and merit.
We shall give market reports, and |
much other matter each week which |
has heretofoNe 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 I'M
reasonable people.
This enlargement will involve an
additional cost of $500 per year. We
are mourning this large increased ex-
penditure 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 subscribers. You all want a good
local paper, and we intend to give you
your two dollars worth. We must
have large increase of subscribers or
fall back to the old size in a few
months.
We have made arrangements by
which we shall distribute to our sub
scribers in Southwestern Kansas, $I20I
worth of Lawtoh Blackberry plants.
Every subscriber for 1869, new or old,
living in Lyon, Greenwood Chase,
Butler, Marion, Morris or Sedgwick
counties, who pays for the year in adj
vance, will receive through the mail, or
otherwise if directed, half a dozen of
these plants as a 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 import
ant news items, editorials on the
questions before the people, the market
reports at home and abroad, besides a
large amount of most interesting
miscellany each week. 1t will be our
aim to make TIE News so complete as
to save the expense, to people of mod
crate means, of sending abroad for
papers.
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