The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1882-12-07
NEW PAPER TlVADDLE,

We hear that several persons have re-.
Gently been il Worthlngton asking
about the prospects for starting new
paper, and We are Informed that sever
III parties have actually encouraged
them to make the attempt. From what
We know Of these parties they would
patroniZe the new paper to the extent
of about 1911 cents year aud would
higgle with the publisher about the
and Jew him down OIL that. This is
about the way they patronized their
paper when it was running, and they
let it starve.
Now We want to say a word to any
brother printer who may be looking
for a location. The .neu in Worthing-
ton who will talk to you about starting
another paper here will, III the end,
prove to be your worst enemies. They
are III about every instance, small n.en
who are not liberal in any sense and
will leave You to starve as they did the
Journal. They have some silly persen-
al! or church, or religious, or social
feeling against the editor of the AD-
VANCE, aud they want t. do something
to injure us. Two papers cannot live
III Worthingtoa no,c. Tie Journal
tried it five years and died , miserable
and jgnominious death.
But if you will wait till there is bus
mess enough here to support two pa
pers, (and it vii! not be l""g) ard will
start up here as a legitimate brother
printer seeking 4 livelihood, we prem
ise you that you will find friend in
US, and that there will be no bitter
contest. But if You start up as the Or
gan Of the small set Of men whe are
now misrepresenting things TO you,
and sail in AZ the Journal did to vent
their personal spites and dislikes, you
will have sorry time Of it. We prom
ise to be \ thorn III your flesh and to
make it the poorest pay and the hard
est work you have ever run against.
The men who get something for no.
thing" are more numerous in WORTH
ington than ia any county town with
in a radius Of 100 miles. Tie adver-
Using done by Worthington business
men will not average $40 = year to eacl,
business man. They are the '|pokiest"
III that respect to he found in Mime
sofa, Iowa or Dakota.-ADvANCE
Nov. 80.
This little reminder, coupled with
the invitation to live business men to
come to Worthington and double the
business of the town, had tho desired
effect, for it stirred up the men REFER
red to and % net them to thinking and
going for the ADVANCE. So far 80
good. But some of them claim that
we said there were no business men in
WorthinRton, and that We included all
in our structures. But We didn't. We
said they 1.-THE nor. advertisers) were
''more numerous than in any county
tswn around here. We said the adver-
Using Of Worthinqton would not aver
age $40 year to each business man.
The majority Of them do not advertise
their business at all, except in an occa-
sional line or two in the local column,
and many Of them do not even do that;
80 that the few who do advertise can
not do enough to make the average $40
year.
Of course our remarks were OF q ee.-
eral nature, and referred to no .indjvid.
ual. We might have mentioned enc or
two, a. We hsye frequently done by
name, as liberal advertisers, but it was
not necessary. They know We don't
mean them when We speak Of non -ad-
vertisers.
We are quito sure that the business.
of Worthington could be greatly in
creased by advertising judiciously, BY
frequently letting tho people know
what you are buying and selling, what
rates you are paying for grain and pro-
duce, what specialties, if any, you arc
working. -.
We shall have much moro 70 say
about this hereafter.
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