Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1882-01-02
TEN YEARS.

mences its eleventh year. On this an
niversary We may be pardoned for a few
words personal and historical. In the
fall of 1871, the Independent Standard,
which the citizens of this place paid for
coming to this village, was sold out to
the Express of Newport, and was con-
solidated with that paper. By urgent
solicitation and some material aid, E. II.
Webster, an experienced printer and
handy writer, was induced to start a
new paper, which he christened "OR-
LEANS COUNTY MONITOR" and launch
ed, under suspicious circumstances, at
the beginning of 1872. He soon OBJ
tanned list of between ten and twelve
hundred subscribers. In the spring of
1873, the labors incident to the paper
and the job office being too severe, Mr..
Webster invited the present owner to
assist him in the capacity of editor.
We afterwards purchased the MONITOR.
Mr.. Webster still continuing to run his
business in connection with the paper.
The hard times Immediately came on,
and it was not an easy matter, for some
years, to enlarge the business, but the
list and patronage of the paper has con-
tinued to increase, until no paper in this
section, except the Lyndon onion,
equals it. In the southern part of Or
leans county this paper almost complete
ly covers the field, while in the north
ern part Of the county and in the north
ern tier of towns in Caledonia county, its
list is large and constantly on the in
crease. Two or three hundred papers
are sent abroad. Three years ago, the
times being hard, and paper and other
things being somewhat lower, the price
of the MONITOR was cut down to ad-
vance subscribers 90 cents, making the
price to this class $3.50 year. Since
then, labor and material have advanced,
making the margin above cost on each
paper too small, indeed. The large
majority of home printed papers through
out the state, still adhere to their form
er prices. "5 H't
Our readers know what the MONITOR
has been, and are better able to Judge
of its merits than we are we can only
say that it has been our intention t.
make a neatly-prlnted, moral, reliable
paper, which should be valuable, mo-
only on account of matters of local i'm
portance, but for the many useful ant
interesting things prepared and selected
for its various departments. We vel
understand that there have been fault
and errors, which greater watehfulnes
or better judgment might have prevent
ed, but our patrons have ever been leni
cot, yes. more, they have been forbear
ing.
In the future, we hope to make tn
MONITOR equal in every respect to wha
it has been, and better in that it vii
be increased in size, and treated to
new dress of type. In certain season
of the year, our advertising encroache
on our reading space, and we hope b
increasing the size, to be able to give
sufficient amount of reading matte
every week to satisfy our patrons.
We cannot close this article withou
thanking our patrons for their libers
patronage and their generous forbeal
ance. 1t will be our aim to make tn
MONITOR so useful to everybody in il
natural sphere of circulation, that n
family will feel that they can do will
out it; to this end we invite such NOR;
and financial supporters as our frienC
can conscientiously grant