Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-04
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! Our : PROMISES REDEEMED.-We
greet our readers this week through the
lenlMged HERALD. We have added -four
columns to it and now print it from
Burgeois type, which Is equal to one
fourth more matter to the same space,
The average reader does not readily APP
preciate the change fully. There are
now 80 instead of s2S. columns lust
two incees longer, which makes 81 inch
es more space, or a fraction over two and
a. half columns. Add this to the four
columns and the paper is just six and a
half columns larger than it has been in
the past. The difference in the size of
type considered, and we are supplying
just about double the quantity of reading
matter hitherto given. The type is the
same purchased for the Democrat just
previous to consolidation, with the addi-
ton oftwo fonts, and while it is much
reduced in size of body the face is almost
as large and quite as readable as the
Long Primer usually used on weekly pa
pers. We have certainly spared no
pains to present our paper in the most
inviting style and to give the greatest
quantity of reading matter possible. This
issue is not a fair specimen Of what it
will be in its Typography. Our press
being new and the weather very cold, it
is impossible to make it do its best work.
A week Or two of experience and lit
tie smoothing down Of rough corners will
greatly improve us. Our four presses
are a novelty in the country, and we
cordially invite ourreaders to call and see
them when they visit CIR town. We
are satisfied you will be aston,shed
at or facilities for doing good,
cheap and rapid printing. We
confidently assert that we have the best
outfit to be found in any newspaper office
in the State. We would again remind
advert sers that the HERALD is now
first class medium through which to reach
the public. Our bora .fde subscrip-
ton is ire bic the average, and
our readers are today numbered by
thousands. Our terms for advertising
are the same as when we had less than
one thousand Of circulation. There is
not post Office in the county to which
the HERALD does not go. and to most
OF them by scores, 1t also finds its way
to mere than thirty offices III adjoining
counties, to say nothing Of the hundreds
sent out in wrappers to single subscri-
bers. We are neither exaggerating nor
Boosting but merely mention these
things to impress upon our readers the
work we are trying to dc for the paper
and for the country, and by way Of Sc
curing that liberal and prompt patronage
which tie enterprise merits and which
must be mutually profitable. 1t is not
to be conroverted that the advertiser in
this paper gets double as much for his
money in space and circulation as IS
given by nine-tenths Of the papers.
We are laboring earnestly and zeal
ously in every department. The editor
ial columns will huthfully and candidly
present all the live questions Of the day
and our views concerning them. The
local will contain every item Of inter-
est that comes to our knowledge. The
agricultural will contain all the most use
ful and practicable information that can
be collected. while there will always be
ore page observation-disclosures read
ing for The family circle. OGr effort IN
news giving will be to ccndense and
ayoid all that is sensational and tmreli-
able. When we reject that the reading
matter Of the HERALD in one year is
equivalent to four books Of four hundred
pages each, we feel happily conscious Of
giving every subscriber full measure of
value. Now let US vie with each other
in friendly competition for honest and
fair dealing.
A LEGISLATIVE RIDE.-The MEM
Der of the house Of delegates who came
home to enjoy the holidays with his
family and friends availed himself of
the splendid opportunity to take a
sleigh ride. By dint of extra exertion