Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1872-05-22

r heads of popular will, the extsmpore elc
: quence of the world, the daily pulpit {
practical religion" In the newspaper CO.
j umns, every subject of art, science, litera
: ture, politics, or whst-not, that presents 4
4 self to the human mind. is considered. Tn
attention Ofths people and Of public men
attracted TO the needs ofthe country, and {
corruption, peculation, and the working c
all kinds of law. Therefore, no one min
: can make newspaper. The scissors, ju
dieiouslY used, is, and must be the great an
legitimate aid.
ATTEND TO YOUR LOCALS.
But the chief, prime feature of q countr.
weekly is the Local department. That i
the original Hamlet in the play, sithOu
such feature, the weekly paper must be
failure. In pointed, tersely written, relia
bic ''lOesls," consists your only defiance Il
city competitors. You must take firm hOlt
of the advantage, and make your columns
complete record Of all local occurrence prop.
er to be published. Keep your eyes and
ears open, and your memory keen. Do not bs
satisfied with items that come to you alone,
but search for them. When the people un-
ders.and
ga chiefs amang them taking notes,
An faith he'll print EN-"
they will readily assist him in his work.
Ifs man sells or buys house-tesrs down
an old, or builds new One-changes his
place of business, forms, or dissolves CO.
partnership-leg broken; q finger cut of ;
runawsys, elorements, fires, foods, lorna
does, crops, large cattle, match horses, sheep
killed by dogs, and such like, mention them.
These apparently small things, in the sg-
gregate, make up much of the local happen
ings of a neighborhood, and constitute that
portion Of your weeks labor that will not
be altogether lost.
Give local court items when the cases a.e
of public interest, but don't pOllute your col
umns with every trial that comes before a
police magistrate. Look after County and
Independent fairs, make comments on what
you see and know about them. Give church
es and civic organizations due considers
tion, encourage every deserving home in
s;itution, and by all honest endssvor aid in
building up the town in which you reside.
Diligence and perseverance, are positive re-
quisi.es to good localizer. BE must pos
sess the watehfulness of hawk, the persist
ence Of bull dog, the industry Of a beaver,
ever remembering that the price ofsuccess
in this department of journalism like that of
Liberty, is eternal 7igilsEce.
Avoid personalities. As a general rule,
if you cannot say anything good of man,
do not lOcslize him at all, give him a severe
letting alone, and he will feel the neglect
more keenly than structures or abuse Do
not fight other peoples battles. Let no vic
ious, eowardly sneak make you cats paw
20 rake Goals of FIRE On ths head of some one
he dislikes. When such, land they are sure
to do SOY offer you one of their malicious ar
ticles in which they roundly abuse their
neighbor, and request you to print it as Ed
itoriaI, tell them it can only 60 into the pa
per as a communication, oUsT their ot0n sig
nataTe. They will then invariably think
of some correction or change they desire TO
make in the copy,-put the libel back into
their pocket-tske it away, and never pro-
duce it again. They would like 10 SANDER
and defame their enemy or competitor we'll
enough, but in doing so, hide behind the ed
itor and seek to make him responsible for
their villisny.
SECURE LOCAL COMMUNICATIONS.
Local correspondence is invaluable. II
possible have a reporter n every town in
the county. While it viii add greatly to
the interests Of the paper, the people will al
so be benefited in having their viilage-its
business and its local occurrences written up
every week or fortnight. Select wide-s-
wake correspondent. l do not mean q col
lege professor or college graduate, or q
man who has nothing else to do but rather
busy, observing person who sees what is
going on around him. II be never saw an
English grammar, no difference, and if he
never studies Webster's Unabridged Die.
tionary, all the better. He will give you
facts, and facts are what you want. In this
day. fer every kind of information, eagerly
the people
Turn to the Press-its tesming sheets survey,
Big with the wonders Of each passing day;
Births deaths and weddings, hghts fires aud wrecks,
Hsrangues and hail storms, braEls aud broken neekS
Where half-hedged bards on feeble Pinions seek
An Immortality Of near week
Where cruel sulogists the dead restore
In maudlin!praise, to martyr them once more"
GIVE GOOD MARKET REPoRTs.
Few local papers devote enough space to
market reports. No one thing more engrOss-
es the thoughts of the community than the
prices to be obtained for produce, or paid for
goods, If half page each week were
filled byA clear, well-written review of this
topic, every line would be carefully and
eagerly read by the farmer and merchant
alike. A mere brief, standing report of the
grocery market ofyour town, and that half
the time not corrected, will not satisfy you
country readers. Wise and successful jour-
nalism gives all such news it can possibly |
supply, and Of the very latest before going |
to press.
NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS.
Newspaper accounts are too Oflen very
kept, and collections irregular
ly made. On this rock, perhaps more than
on any other breaker, country journals are
likely 10 be wrecked. Every six months
every year-you should know TO
lime how you stand financially. How many
printers do Probably every publisher
kinks his own system Of housekeeping the
pest. Yet am persuaded if s simple plan
could be devised by which the value, ia
,resse, decrease, wear and tear Of material
n an office could be readily shown, ths gen
,ral and incidental expense accounts kept,
md the income and outlay accurately CON-
jared at s glance, it would become q source
# profit to every nineteen out Of every twen-
y printers to abandon their present method
md adopt IT, system and ACCURACY are