The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1874-03-04
STOCKTON, N. j., MARCH ed, 1874.

Mr.. EDITOR IL have been thinking for
some time past that you ought to have
regular correspondent from our village. We
are getting to be quito town, and a cores
pondent would not have much trouble to find
items for letter each week. Perhaps you
may not know how to secure one, as you never
had regular correspondent for your journal,
and having deep interest in the welfare of
your enterprise, Twill tell you how ono may be
secured.
First. Pdpcr~a correspondent needs paper,
writing paper-foelscap paper. Agree to fur
nisr the paper And then stamps--postage
stamps. Furnish the stamps also, and then
agree to make him an agent to receive and COL
lect subscriptions and give him about fifty
cents for each yearly subscriber. This will
not be very expensive, and if you should hav.
any old books on hand, give him few volumes
Patent Office Reports will answer as well a.
any kind. have known this plan to work
well and a first-class correspondent secured. -
Try it" Nothing ventured, nothing had
The correspondent will also need inst u !,
ton, and perhaps it would not DO out of p &C
w 6i'o Hsth nuhic tsofiCcs WIFI YOUR COuStuI
will try to do so. 1t is not, by the way, as
hard task as you may imagine to be cor
respondent. l have known some very COM
mon people to be suoh.
would say, First. Supply yourself with
blank book and lead pencil, and when you go
the book and pencil with you, as you may see
or hear something to write about. If you
should go to temperance lecture on Monday
evening, write down how many ladies in the
choir are sleepy. These items are very inter-
csting to the public. You can also be about
town and listen to the conversation passing
between the citizens. These items are also
instructive and often much valuable informa-
ton is gained by knowing about our neighbours
business affairs. If you should hear of any
one being out early on Monday morning, tell
where he is from, and which way he went.
And then you could commence and praise
all the business mon Of the village, and after
you have got through with that, you could
commence again and denouncc them, ami then
you could tell how many houses there are in
tho village, and how many families, and how
many citizens, and then the dogs Of tho town
would afford another interesting item.
You could say something about tho stone
quarries and the steam saw mill occasionally
lin fact, if you would only try it, you would
be surprised to SEQ how the items would open
up before you. And if You should be good
reader, you could read your letters in the pub
lio places Of the village. and this would add
Iiia,iy new subscribers to the list, and both
correspondent and editor would be benefited
in their financial interests.
You need not write a letter upon any one
subject, but have an assortment. There is
nothing like variety. was reading letter
only last week written by one Of our first
class correspondents. He commenced with
prayer meeting, and then followed with con-
versions, baptisms, building and loan associa-
ton, funeral, eulogy upon the dead, contempt
and ridicule upon the living, and his expe-
ricnce in driving cattle, promising to write
soon religious letter concerning the churches
and Sunday schools of his village.
Ihope that you will be successful in secur-
ing correspondent, and If you think the ex-
pensc would be too heavy upon your purse
PERHAPS the business men of the village would
assist in the enterprise, il you win give your
consent for the correspondent to give them
puff occasionally and allow him to receive a
contribution from them, either in cash, orvege-
tables, Or bthcr necessaries of life that may 10
of use in a Family.
shall carefully watch the Record" and
will with many more Subscribers rejoice when
we can read at tile head of one of its columns
in large print Oar Stockton Letter. x. x.
Tho crotop Post Office was robbed few