The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-05-03
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E we nave several UIIn6S SPOKEN Through
the TELEGRAPH OF subscribers who let
their subscriptions run without pay
Iment and called upon them to make
j payment. We have also spoken OF
lst0pping subscriptions on account Of
lnon-payment. Anxious to avoid speak
ing through the TELEGRAPH again Of
IsloW-paying and non-payirg subscribe
ers, and yet under the necessity OF col
Letting, we concluded to write to all
subscribers whose subscriptions were
running in the second year without
| payment, and call on them to pay UP,
except perhaps a few who might be
called on by some one connected with
1.-THE Office. We commenced writing the
middle OF March and have written all
the time since That we could give to it.
/ We have written many letters but
have MOI yet written to ALL We hope
/ to complete the work i'm a few weeks.
/ Some written to responded promptly,
paying up their subscriptions. Others
Responded, paying in part. Some
I.Wrote saying they had not the money
and could not then get it, but would
pay as soon as they could set it. Some
Of these probably told the truth, and
others OF them probably meant that
they had not the money they could con-
yeniently spare, and could not conyen-
Iiently get it.
AS far as we remember only one
Subscriber, the time OF whose SUBJ
scription exceeded two years, has re-
lsponded by payment OF otherwise
And he did not pay UP to the end of
| the fourth year, but only to the time of
payment, and stopped the paper. AS
long as the paper was not to be paid
for it was all right; but when it was
TO be paid for it was all wrong, and he
could not afford to take it.
We are forced to the conclusion that
the most Of those who let their sub
scriptions run over two years without
payment intend to let them run as long
as they can. And many Of them will
make no response 80 letters calling for
payment, and, even if called on by
publisher or his agent, will neglect to
pay, giving some reason why they can
not.
AND this conclusion forces us to an
other conclusion, which, if we live and
are able to attend to business, we hope
to carry out. This conclusion is,
Never to continue q paper on q sub
ScliptiOn running over TWO years with
out payment, and to leave the account,
if not paid, with a Justice Of the Peace
for collection. And as a new volume
Of the TELEGRAPH is to be commenced
with the month Of June that will be a
proper time to commence carrying this
conclusion into effect. All such sub
scriberS will please note and heed what
is here said
1t must not be understood however
that the accounts Of those who are
back over two years, and who h&vel
been written to several weeks agOl
calling for payment and notified that
we must collect, will not be left with
q Justice till the frst0f June All such
accounts, if not paid, will be left as
soon as we can attend to them.
The subscriptions Of those to whom
we have written range in amount from
"a to 500 Only q few run up to $20I
but some do, and we were little sur
.prised to find that any did. And we
were somewhat surprised, after having
stopped so many papers on account eff
nonpayment during thelast three OF four
years to find that we were still sending
the paper to nonpaying subscribers.
Several Of these have been already
stopped and all Will be as soon as we
can find them out. 1
We have been q little disappointed in
receiving SO few responses from those
to whom we have written whose sub
ScriptiODS are going on the second year
without payment, We know it has
been q busy time with farmers who
have been engaged in getting in their
spring seed and otherwise, and that
money is scarce. For these we are
willing to make all due allowance. But
we know also thaG seed-time does not
last always, and we believe there are
but few farmers who cannot now with
out much Inconvenience pay up their
subscriptions for two years, and wei
trust they will all but the few feel it
their duty to do it. The amounts but
little for any one, but in the aggregate
it is much for us.
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The wandering MINISTRIES have been
Iflddling and harping around town dur
ing the past week.
Rain, Snow, Frost, Shunshine, and
Hot weather, all in one week.
-------=xzs Co. xsnsu-----
j. V. Aver, one Of Kenosha's early
settlers, died at his residence in Chicago,
last Monday.
General Halbert Z. Paine, formerly
Member Of Congress from Wisconsin,
has been rendered, rendered, by Secre-
tary Schurz, the position Of Assistant
Secretary OF. the Interior, but declines,
because he cannot afford to leave q lu-
crative law practice for a salary Of 49,
500, The General is a good man, and