Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-11-20
WHAT WE Dox.r WANT,

murdered in attempted verse, served
up in execrahle photography and worse
| syntax.
We don't want 10 publish gratuitous-
ly for nice amiable people or any other
sort for that matter, local notices to be
read by the many thousand readers of
our Daily and Weekly COURIER of re-
ligious, philanthrophic, or any other
affairs. when at the same time the par
ties engineering the same, after dead
heading our columns, go to some 9TH
or office to get their little bills printed
and pay for them, especially since we
print such bills at fair rates. and in the
best style.
We don't want any long winded
communications on stale subjects,such
as Perpetual Motion or Symmes Hole.
We don't want any captious, fault
finding advice as TO how we shall run
the COURIER, raising a thousand and
one questions as to why we don't do
this, and don't do that. Those chaps
who deal in this kind of criticism, and
who don't like our way, might stop
looking over their neighbours shoulder
to read the CouRIER or getting hold of
their neighbors copy first, and keep it,
when the owner would be glad to read it
himself Those who pay hest carp the
least; in fact from all good paying pa
trons, we freely receive friendly ad-
vice.
| We don't want any shirt tails full of
wood on subscription, for a half cord.
There ia no shirt tail in this country
that we are acquainted with, that will
hold that much wood. We furnish
the cheapest mot to say the best) paper
published in Iowa, and persons who
have agreed to pay us IN wood should
give us as good measure az we mete
out to them.
Il We don't want any more Life Insu
rance. The editors, proprietors, com
positors, and devils, Of this establish
ment, are all fully insured. We arr
o constitutionally opposed to the shed
IS ding Of blood, vet nevertheless WI
0 hold il TO be our duty 10 inform III
n public that we have gone to great ex
Z pense in procuring doublc-back.ac
ton combined revolving mitraleuse
II and have employed special grave
[ digger for the entertainment Of Lit
/ Insurance agents.
Il We don't want TO subscribe for Fox
G Book of Martyrs, Josephus, Lorenzo
BOWS works, or any other light litera
: ture.
4 We don't want to buy any tickets tt
4 concerts, suppers, and SIGH. Littl'
:. and big children are advised that thu
4 stairs leading to our Office are rickety
J, and they might fall down and breal
!. their little necks while approaching
our den on their errands of mercy, and
. we assure them that we don't want Il
publish their obituaries, for ten cents ,
line, strictly in advance.
There are great many other things
which we don't want at this particular
time, too tedious to mention, Will,
there are good many which we d,
want. For instance, we would like Il
have several hundred of our good
friends in arrears with us, walk up tt
the captains Office and settle. Theil
: continued patronage is good thing
. and we fully appreciate it but in thes,
nard times IL IS too thin to run papc
on without semi-occasional accom-
IS paniment of money.
We do want good sensible person
i in every ncighborhood where our pa
e per circulates in this and adjoining
q counties, to sit down and write us, OF
e one side Of the sheet only, when any
g thing important occurs; say runa
way; a wedding death; an import
ant sale Of land; or o
anything else which it would strike ,
n sensible man or woman, would be o
!. interest to the intelligent general read
er, for these are the sort who, for tn
n most part, comprise the COURIER fami
}. ly of readers.
!. Finally, we want several hundred
% more subscribers in town and countr,
for the Daily COURIER at seven dol
II lars per annum, and the Weekly CoUR
=, IaR at one dollar and fifty cents pc
II annum, both invariably in advance.