Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1882-02-04
WHY!!
Fifty Three Reasons Why You
Should Subscribe for the
Intelligencer.

WHY J!
Fifty Three Reasons Why You
Should Subscribe for the
Intelligencer.
Because it is all home Print.
Because 1t is the peoples paper.
Because you can't we'll de without It.
Because it publishes the sherif's sales.
Because it is reliable In all its statements.
Because it costs only iouI cents per week
Because it constantly seeks to do you good.
Because 1t has no jealousy OF others SUCCESS
Because 1t is the official paper of the county
court.
county.
Because 1t publishes all the local news Of the
county.
bought.
schools.
Because your wife and children will enjoy
reading 1t.
column.
criminals.
the county.
the county.
Because it publishes nearly all the transfers Of
real estate.
Because it publishes all the marriages, births
and deaths.
Because it gives you correct time tables on all
the railroads.
Because it pays to keep posted in your own
county affairs.
Because il has no personal or political quar-
rels to ayenge.
Because it publishes nearly all the public sale
advertisements.
Because it publishes nearly all Of the orders
OF publication.
Because it publishes nearly all Of the sdminIs-
lrator's notices.
Because it asks your patronage on the grsund
of Its merits only.
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settlement notices.
Because it is your duty to do COED to those
who do good to you.
Because it neither counteAances nor supports
any cliques or rings.
Because it has a correspondent in every neigh
borhood in the county.
Because II ia energetic, entsrprising and al.
ways up with the times.
Because it publishes all the political and gen
eral news In 3 condensed form.
Because it is the advertising medium of ne: y
sll theibusiness men Of the county.
Because partnership In wives and newspa.
pers are prolific causes Of trouble.
Because you ought not to be ignorant Of whal
is transpiring in your ewn county.
Because it prints all the news-from every
nook and corner of the entire county.
Because it gives correct market reports from
Kansas City, St. Louis a.n LaAing: On.
Because the proc els y o.,c lu,re hen up,u
the farm will pay the u, cI. I.ti y .ve.
Because it contains lu,ni < wnicn 9: unrt with
propriety he read ailui u, u i.ln,Iy .ircie
Because it publishe, t.s i.,c3rt, A.n ,.r ceed-
ings Of the circuit, c. u... al s,Lb. . AL cou.
coRrts.
Because you will ieel better reading your ewu
paper than you do while reading one bor-
rowed from your neiShbor.
Because it VIII not be forced upon you afte I
ths time paid for has expired and after you have
given nctice for it's discontinuance.
Because your neighbor. Though too polite to
refuse yeur request for the loan Of his paper, is
still annoyed by your continual borrowing.
Because it will impart more information to
your children in any given time than they will
learn from any other source for the same
money.
Because it is your duty to give your support
to the paper that always socks to advance your
interests, socially, morally, relisiously I'd
financially.
Because every man should have his own wife
and his own newspaper. The arst can be had
merely for the asking, and the att or costs only
,rine more.
Because it gives the women folks ssmething to
think about beside the routine Of Household
matters and objects within the range of their
vision about the farm.
Because it ls published On Saturday and
reaches all parts Of the county before noon OF
the snnle day, thus giving yoa the latsst reliable
news when you have the most time to read.
Because it discusses public questions with
dignity, preferrlng reason to dogRatic assertion
and abuse; and because 1t eeeks in an earnest
way 10 elevate and purify politics aud journ.
alism.
Because your wife, mother and sisters, cousins
AMI aun's cannot 60 10 town every week, stand
on the corners or loaf In the stores and hear the
news which you forget ~ to tell them when yor
get home.
Because its poetry column. II preserved, vii
furnish a library Of verse second to no oths,
selection, the best collections being cullet
with view to the customs, habits and tastes O
it's readers.
Because 1t will save much hard fselisr ant
many emphatic expressions from your nsighbo
when his paper comes home worn out or tor,
after you have had 1t borrowed until be has ha,
to send for It.
Bill Arp thus explains he protectiv,
tariff: :-"One time there was an old maj
who had ten children and lots of grand
children, and one of the boys was
shoemaker, and the old man said ths
all the other children should buy shoe
oil Bob at 81 a pair just to encourag,
him and keep the money in the family
Every day there was an outsider com,
knocking at the outside gate with jus
as good shoes at dollar . pair, bu
still they all had to buy from Bob, ant
Bob got rich off his own kinfolks. 81
with the tariff. 1t Is a good thing fo
Bob, but mighty hard on the rest OF th'