West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1881-03-02
WESTVIRGINIA FREEMAN.
FARMERS COLUMN.

from the country to call at the FREEMAN Of
flee over Vaughan & Co.'s store, Market St.,
and after telling us what kind of weather it
is give us items for this department. Drop
us postals, noting lots of cattle, sheep, hogs,
hay, corn, &C., that yourselves or neighbors
want to buy have for sale. Give us also
all items of news Of interest to yourselves,
that others may be interested
PINE FLATS, WOOD Co., w. Va.
Mr.. EDIToR-A nice looking
young man stopped at my house for
dinner last week and asked me if |
would 90 around among the neigh
bors and see how many subscribers
I could get for your new paper, and
to write you letter myself, with
all the neighborhood news in it. |
told him | would write a letter and
he could send me copy of the pa
per and | would see what | could do.
Well, | wrote the letter as best |
could and the paper has come. Of
course I naturally hunted for my
letter the first thing; but nowhere
could l find it, whole After read
ing the paper generally, 1 found it
all chopped up into mince meat ;
one item under the Farmers Col
umn," another in fine print in no
particular column-part done up
as sort of advertisement. Now,
before l go into this business regu-
larly, l want to ask you few ques-
tions and / want plain answers.
/ don't want them in fine print,
either, for we farmers like plain,
coarse print.
1. What sort of letters do you
want? That is, what do you want
US to put in them?
2. Will you advertise circuses,
shows and places we don't want our
sons to 60 to?
3. Are you so poor that a rich pol
itician can tempt you to shut your
mouth, or make you open it when
you oughtent-with money?
4. The women folks want to
know if you will swap receipts be-
tween them and the city women
occasionally?
5. Will there be anything for the
young folks?
| know you chalked out on one
of the pages, what you intended do
ing, but you wrapped it up in too
many words for us farmers, who 60
to bed early and can't read much
of that sort without getting sleepy
and | ask you these plain questions
so that you can write plain answers
underneath, for all the neighbors
will be apt to read my piece when
they see my name to it, and they
will take the trouble to read the an
swers, if you make them short
enough.
[ will close with a word of advice,
What you say to the young people
say in good, plain print.
Speak out bold and plain in the
temperance cause, but talk about
other things too. There are other
evils in the world besides intem
perance.
| will do what I can to g9tall the
neighbors to take your paper.
Those that wont take it, I'll try to
get to read it.
Your well wisher.
JOSHUA Brown.
We're in love with you, Mr..
Brown, and must answer your ques-
tions, right here, so the people will
read 'em, as you suggest
[. Common sense and news, Mr..
Brown. Well trust you for the COM
mon sense ;only add the news ofyou1
neighborhood, when there is any.
2. We won't advertise anything
that your sons and daughters too
ought not to patronize, if we know
it.
3. We're inconveniently poor, but
we've got shot gun, and hickory
club for the first rich politician that
attempts to buy us.
4. Tell your women, Yes. Ora
ham gems would be just as good il
the country as a good corn-pone
would in the city. We want to fine
all good things wherever we go, anC
will gladly publish receipts tC