Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30
THE ARIZONAKICEER
A Western Editor With Something to Live
For.
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Detroit Free Press.
A recent issue of the Arizona Kicker
contained the following:
ExPLANAToRI.-The absence of our so.
ciety column for the last three issues
seems to call for explanation. The
trouble was jealousy among the Bon tons
If We happened to make a five line an
nouncement that Mrs. Col. Dash expected
her brother -in-law direct from the Cali
fornia Penitentiary On a certain date, and
only four line item to the effect that
Mrs. Judge De Sofa her hustle direct
from Zanzibar, there was an ill-feeIInp
which stirred up the whole community.
We BooM.-Whi,e the towns about us
have been Dragging of their progress, we
have kept quiet and got in our work with
OUT kicking up any cloud of dust. Drag
is all right in its way, but We don't pro.
pose to come out with a double headed,
scare-head article every time a citizen
hangs new front gate. Booms ere good
enough IN their way, but there must be
merit behind them.
With no disposition to claim this as the
only growing town in Arizona, and with
no desire to kill the growth of rival
towns, we humbly call attention to the
fact that since January 1, IA new saloons,
three poker rooms ana four retail tobac-
co stores have been opened in the place,
and at the present moment Is men are
engaged in building jail capable Of &C
commodating 80 prisoners. We have
all this without any brsg or buster, and
we propose to keep right on in the same
quiet fashion, leaving the outside world
to judge for itself as to where it shall
seek new homes and invest its capital.
IT PAYs.-Several months ago we es-
tabiishsd grocery and feed store in con-
nection with the Kicker. The New York
World, Herald and other effete daiiies of
the metropolis predicted a dismal failure.
but the result shows that they were mis-
taken. We figured that this other bust
ness would be just what was needed to
distract our minds from the harassing
thoughts of editorially running this
country, and that We would be all the
better and brighter for being occasion
ally interrupted in our literary labors.
The result has justified our prediction
and more. We were never in as good
mental condition as now, while our sales
rave kept increasing week by week until
we have been compelled to hire clerk to
assist US. The editorial entitled, "Advioe
to the President" was written with more
than dozen Interruptions to measure
corn, draw molasses and sell clothes pins,
and yet he will put it against anything
which ever originated from the pen of
the stuck-up and exclusive New York
editors.
Our JEALOUS CoNTEMPoRARY.-The dys-
peptic old excresence who claims to edit
the mush and milk publication down at
the corner of catfish alley is Jealous of
patronage. In a labcred
article this weeS, in lis poorly printed
apology, he says that we practice BULLDOG.
ing to bring advertising? What a liar!
The Kicker practice bulEdozlng! The
idea is Imaginable, and if was worth mind
ing We should walk down to his shanty
and choke the assertion down his brazen
throat.
There used to be several firms here
which didn't believe in advertising. WEI
couldn't make 'em believe il until we
went at it and found out that they were
composed of gentlemen who had skipped
from the East for barn burning, horse
stealing, bigamy, embezzIement, ETC.
Then we wrestled with 'em, and they
came to see that the life of the trade was
in using printers ink. We simply con
WINGED not-bu.ldozed. The efforts of
our knock kneed contemporary to smirch
the fair fame of the Kicker will simply
call forth smiles of pitv.