Connecticut western news., 1884-01-23


 wo patent outsldes in Litchfeld county hat are similar in make up or in read ng matter. 2. No wonder publishers ,f home-printed outsides don't like pat mt outsides, the truth is, the patent outsides cut in fearfully on the circula- ion of the home-printed outsides as we ticle, but simple illustration right here is in order. The Winsted Herald has not even one paying subscriber with in the delivery of Canaan post office. It has one dead head however, while on the contrary the CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS has 27 regular subscribers in West Winsted and Winsted, also two papers taken by advertisers and several extra copies are sold there each week. 3. Ex- anime the outside of the Winsted Her aid from week to week and ascertain what proportion of it is patent medicine advertisements and what proportion is local news. The Gazette enumerated the interesting articles it published on it's outside pages during 1883. "A short horse is soon curried" and it did not take long to reach the end of the list. Every issue of the CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEWS contains interesting local articles, sketches, letters, reports of meetings, conventions, etc., etc., and its patent outside is full of news, stories and gen. eral information on variety of subjects of interest to its subscribers; yes ''as full as an egg is of meat" Take the Ga zette and spread it out on the table, then place the NEWS beside it you will ob- erverthat last week the Gazette pub. lished only trife over 12 columns oi reading matter and the NEWS published nearly 20 columns. The last census shows the following population North Canaan, 1537 in 1880 and 1895 in 1870, g loss of 158 in the last decade; New Mil ford, 3907 in 1880 and 3586 in 1870, ar increase of 321. Winchester, 5142 ir 1880 and 4096 in 1870, an increase oi 1O46; Litchheld, 341O in 1880 and. SIS in 1870, an increase of 297. The Litch field Enquirer is on it's 18th volume anG the Winsted Herald on it's 31st volume The New Milford Gazette is consolida tion of the Housatonic Ray, established in 1872, and the Gazette established il 1876. THE CONNECTICUT WESTERN NEW: was established in 1871. Now the ques tion arises, has the circulation of these long established home-printed outsidei kept pace with the increase of popula tion in the towns where these paper are published ? While the population of North Canaan has decreased 10 pc cent in the last decade, the NEWS. pat ent outside by the way, has acquired
 large circulation and is willing to com pare its record with some of the long es tablished home-printed outsides, and i asks them if their circulation is an. larger in proportion to the population of their respective towns than the clrcu lation of the NEWS is, in proportion to tn population of North Canaan. The Ga zette says i've venture the prophec, that patent outsides will not be SO desir able in the future as people grow in in telligence." Now Joshua of old was prophet, but the latter day Joshua prediction is sad commentary or rehec tion on the intelligence that the publi have derived from reading for the las 50 years these home-printed outside pa pers. The Gazette's attack on the Ne York daily papers is encouraging; says ''the deterioration of the metropo itan journalism will react i'll favor of th smaller city papers and the country pI pers, which keep up their prices an luallity. The influence of the smallt papers will increase while the great ont will be on the wane p Inasmuch { the home-printed outsides considt themselves the great ones, we wond' the Gazette made this prophecy. I'll Gazette closes its remarks with the fo lowing confession "We recognize tf iact that the editors of papers whic print home outsides often fail to fill th outside pages with as interesting matt
 IS they might. They often hastily Ill
 my miscellany that is handy, and q
 lot pick out the best matter available
 An that explains it. We'll,
 . "'Iis true, 'tis pity,
 And pity 'tis, 'tis true"
 In old times people were content
 wear homespun and home made ga
 ments they answered well enough f those days, but at the present age tn, are not wanted, and the old style
 journalism and home-printed outsid
 have had their day and are giving Wi
 before the march of improvement, vi
 the patent outside. In conclusion V
 hope soon to see the Gazette and oth
 neighboring journals don the latest al
 best, in fact the only fashionable sty of newspaper dress, viz, patent outsid
 Put away that old threadbare homespr suit, accept the modern style of plea ing dress, conform to the custom of u present age and become a member the excellent family of patent outside We invite you, we will welcome you, : don't stand any longer out in the coll
 RESOLUTIONS
 By Montgomery Lodge on the Dea- of Col Lorenzo TunmAr.