The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-08-07

WOR1I4INGTON As SEEN BY OTHERS.
Bro. Herr, Of the Sl'ytOn Gazette, as
heretofore noticed, pald Worthington i,
visit recently and on his return wrote
up his impressions as given below
Like all other journalistic visitors, he
admits the beauty and thrift..of the
town and is amazed at the way the
business men don t;ldvertiSe. The fact
is, a large proportion of our business
men are too good, too truly good, to
advertise. Thy t,lso ~>t,.t el-e I-~'a
sends them with thanks and no ques-
tionS asked. Judicious advertising and
push would double the trade of Wor-
thington in one year. But that might
he "sinful." Worldly men do such
tlrings and most Of our people are not
worldly. They are a 'peculiar people" :"
set apart to be II ''ensample' to the
surrounding heathelI.
But here is what the Gazette says:
wORTHINGToN.
On Monday last We had occasion to
visit WOrthingtun, one OF the most
thriving towns in the Blue Grass Re
giOn of Minnesota. OF urse we called
On Bros Miller and Penn, OF the A
VANCE and Record respectively. The
Record is the only Democratic paper
published in this part Of the State, and
under its present management Is Il
credit to the town. The ADVANCE is
one of the oldest as we'll as one OF the
brightest newspapers published in this
section, and none have worked harder
to develop this portion OF the country
than Bro. Miller has. One thing sur
prises us more than another, and that
is the poor advertising patronage both
papers receive at the hands of the mer
chants Of that town: Some of them do
not seem to know the value of adver-
tising. They do not seem to know that
a paper sent among strangers for the
purpose of showing up the business and
enterprise Of the town in which it is
published, should be we'll patroniZed
with ''hOme advertisements Nine
out OF every ten strangers will try to
form an estimate of the population and
business of a town by perusing the ad-
| vertisements in the local paper. WOr-
thington has a population of about
1900, while the advertisements in the
two papers would not indicate pOpu-
lation of over 400. Talk about boom
ing a town! 1t takes more than we'll
written editorials setting forth its
| advantages. A liberal display Of ad
| vertisements is a standing proof that
the good things said of town and
country in the editorial columns are
| true. Liberal, enterprising and sue
cessful merchants advertise literally,
and they are benefited as much, or even
more, than the printer is by so doing.
Our trip to WOrthington W; simply
| one of business, but through the kind
ness of Bro. Miller it turned out to be
| one of pleasure as we'll. We were
agreeably surprised to find it thriving
town, with large stores, good hotel
accommodations, full of fine and enter
prising people, whose only fault. as a
whole, seems to be their lack of faith
| in printers ink.
Editor Haislet, of the Adrian Guar
dian, was also in town a few days ago,
and on his return wrete up a number
of the Worthington ''old boys'' as
follows:
We spent an hour or two in Worth
| ington on Monday, for the first time in
three months, and though we found the
town dull, as all towns are at this sea.
son "f the year, we enjoyed our stay
very much. At the court house we
met Treas. Wigham, Aud. Mills, Reg
ister johnson and Clerk of the Courts
Bennett, all of whom we found at their
posts busy, but polite and agreeable.
The county commissioners being in
session, all were too much engaged to
spend much time in chatting, and after
transacting what business we had there
we started for the printing offices. Our
first call was on the ''culchared" editor
of the Record, whom we found in his
sanctum, and after learning that our
mission was peace and not war, he
came down from his high perch, and
engaged in ten minutes conversation
with us. We were pleased to learn that
he was thriving. He showed us the
new power press of the IS. w. Mime
sofa Home Association" that is soon
| to grace the Record Office, and also in.
formed us that Peter Thompson was
erecting new building near the Wor.
thinqton Hotel for the ''Uome'' and
the Record establishments. Mr.. Penn