The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1869-03-19
Items Worthy fNnfine

= SENSIBLE "a merchant at Loe
r Haven, Pa, has an advertisement i
the Democ, at of that place, eigh
columns long, covering an entir
page, engaged for one year, at an eA
lpense of one thousand dollars y
We hazard the assertion that n'
! business man ever pursued judiciou
systematic plan OF advertising and los
money by SO doing; but, on the cor
trary, We can point you to plenty o
men who will assure that they hav,
made fortunes solely by the use OF
rrinter ink.
CoULDN T AFFORD TO TAKE lT.-Las
summer one of our subscribers discon-
tinued his paper, because he couldn
afford, as he said, to take it. In Jan
uary his property was sold for taxes,
and he had to pay about ten dollars
penalty in order toredeem it, because,
as he told the party who had purchas-
ed 1t at tax sale, he never knew it
had been advertised for sale. How
much did that mar save by stopping
his county paper ?-Bel,nont Chtoni
Gle.
A parallel case came under our OBJ
last winter. While talkinc
with a business man one cold morning /
Turing the pork season, a farmer came
up and asked what he (the business
nan) would give him for his pork.
about Sl2 4 hundred" answered
he dealer. The pork was unloaded
It once. Had that man looked at the
of the week before, he
you'd have found pork quoted at Sl2
) and would have saved enough on
is pork to have paid his subscription
Or FIVE years In not taking his coun- ,
Y paper was not that man Saving at {
he spiget and letting it run ont at
he bung-hole ?'' Calm reflection will 7
onvince any sane man that be cannot
I'VE money by doing without his own
ounty paper.
''The county press helps to build
in great measure the prosperity
nd interests of the county. They pay Y
leir proportion of the taxes, State,
ounty, and local, and should not be >,
heated ont of the county printing by =
~ of the Printing Companies or IL
lnized throughout the State, whose n
cents penetrate the public offices,
ld often by fee to the officer, carry a
printing that the local press should
ceive. The same principle is good OF
every business, and, if practiced, ,o
ould tend materially to build up bus y, ~
ess at home. Every merchant is |
pendent upon the class of consum- ia
5 at home, for his support, and is er
ually bound to extend his custom -,
nong them. Yet, frequently they "
ly articles at distance when they sc
uld buy as good at home, and assist tn
by their custom. They OF
mot blame others if, acting upon Y
e example set them. they, too, go 49,
iewhere to buy. goods. Buy at "'
me. is good rule. Support those =,
business at home, let the town -
osper. and all are prospered togeth
The above extract is from an article
the Fremont Jcara9,, commenting "
the action Of the Commissioners Of .,
onroe county passing resolution, "
d placing it on the journal of their 70
1ceedings, forbidding the payment
any money to parties ostside of 7,
It county fer any printing done by q,
? county officer in that county. .,
lille we have no interest in and do
receive any benefit from any co'n- IN
printing, we fully indorse the abPve :.
icle. We believe it to be the duty /.
county officials to patronized their i,
nty press, wherever they can get u,
work as well and as cheaply exc IT.
ed. We do not know but the ;,
cials in this county are in the habit :,
so doing. While we believe the
,ple of this county are entitled to on
,at credit for the liberal patronage ov
y bestow upon their county press, tn,
know one or two instances where
n have sent abroad for work and
d a high price for doing it. Work,
/, that we would have been ashamed
let 90 out of our office. Bnt we at
IT think the same parties will again
est in that establishment. Patron Pr
home institutions, gentlemen, nm
you are certain you can do better bu
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