West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1891-01-15
OUR DEAD BEAT SUBSCRIPTION
LIST.
Ok" Look Out for Its Publication Ia
the Near Future.

We are determined to have oui
old accounts squared up to the first
Of tins year, and those parties who
are behind from two to four years
will soon have some trouble on
hands if they do not make satisfac.
tory arrangements with us at once.
We have subscriptions To tdc
amount of two or three hundred dol.
lars on our books due us from sub.
scribers woo are three and four
years behind, and who do not intend
to pay up at all If they can get out
OF it In any way. We have lost our
patience with this class of dead beat
subscribers. We have sent out
statements AMI written letters 10
them, and had trouble enough al
ready TO earn the money trying 10
collect it. Beginning with January
LIST, we have gone over the books
carefully and weeded out this class
of subscribers and are now placing
their accounts out for collection.
We have taken their names from
our subscription list. and when they
want the ARGUS after this they will
have to whack up the Geld cash in
advance. Some of these parties are
nigh up in the social world and
want to be regarded MS prominent
men in their community. Perhaps
they will enjoy reading their names
in our "Dead Beat Subscription
List" We will have some satisfac-
ton out Of them if we can't get any
thing else.
We are going to make one more
big effort to collect this money, and
then those who are still trying to
beat us out of it, will be published
to the world as the impostors they
arc.
Some of these parties have taken
our paper for year or two and
then move away without saying any.
thing abont it, and leaving the pa.
per dead in the Office. Others will
get behind for year or two and
thon mark it refused without pay
ing up or notifying us to stop it.
Some people will take paper and
have no notion whatever of evei pay
ing for it. There may be worsc
people in this world than these
newspaper frauds, impostors ana
dead beats, but they are il the pen
itentiary, or at least ought to be.
We are establishing the strictly
cash in advar ce system as rapidly az
we can, but we have hard prece-
dent to overcome. However. we do
not propose to allew our patrons TO
get so far behind after this. They
won't get the chance with us. Some
Of our patrons who are behind are
perfectly good for it and mean to
pay, but we find it 10 kindness to
a subscriber to allow him to get so
FAR behind. because the time slips
away so fast and he forgets it, think
ing that it is not much, and the
first thing he knows he is behind
three or four years and owes Eve or
tx dollars. Then when you wants
him to pay mp, he either gets mad
or thinks it such big bill for lit
tie county paper that he orders it
stopped. lie could pay in advance
every year just as easy, if he would
only think so.
We are in bloody earnest about
this Dead Beat List, and are max
ing it out as fast as we can. Settle
up. Examine your receipt and see
whether YOU name is entitled to q
place on this list. We hope not.
We will still give thirty days grace
before publishing it. II you fail to
receive your paper after this. you
will know that your name has been
taken of the books and your ac-
count placed for collection. So
hurry mp, now.
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