The Forrest City times., 1893-10-13

himself. his family and his country to help to sustain his county paper, re-.
 gardless of it's political differences, or
 personal like or dislike of its editor or
 policy The poorest county newspaper
 ever printed was worthy of support. and the better the support the better the paper would have become. The
 reasons are obvious and too numerous
 to mention at this time. It is an invest
 ment not to be measured in dollars ana
 cents alone. There are thousand and
 one benefits accruing to the citizens ot
 the county, directly and indirectly
 through the silent workings and tEe
 splendid influences of the live and en-
 terprising county paper. Business men
 are doubly indebted to the paper for
 it's noble services along this line. Every
 fair-minded man knows this and appre-
 ciates it.
 TIE TIMES is strictly local paper
 for St. Francis county, and will ever De
 found defending it's best interests. It's interests are the interests of the people,
 and we ask that the people give us
 their support in the way of subscrip- tions. As stated above. there are many who do not take THE TIMES. There are hundreds who borrow it from their neighbors, and contribute absolutely nothing towards it's support. Many of these are fully able to pay for the
 paper, and to all such we say, call or send and have your name enrolled on
 ,ur list. If there be those who.are not
 able to pay S1 50 a'year for their county
 paper. we will send it to them gratis The unstinted support of the people is
 uecessaryr enable us to give them q
 paper they will be proud of.
 A glance at the advertising columns If THE TIMES will show what we con sider a very fair advertising patronage. Forrest City has some of the most pro
 gressive and enterprising business men m the world. and we believe they ought, or strictly business reasons, patroniZe $ liberally as possible any enterprise which is credit to their town and
 county, and which can be of service to them in reaching the people of this and surrounding counties, whom they desire to come bere to trade. This is especial ly true of THE TINES,
 Observation has taught us that the merchants of Forrest City do a pretty fair business the year round. This is especially true of those who advertise
 constantly. Business is more equally distributed throughout the whole year now than it was formerly, and the peo- pie do not spend alptheir money'before Christmas, as they formerly did. hence the intelligent and enterprising adver- tiser will avail himself of the newspa- per columns all the year round. A newspaper may print columns of mat ter eulogistic of the town in which it is published, but it Is necessary tthat every business man should patronize
 his home paper. It's brightest sayings will be received with much doubt, un- less it's advertising columns bears the impress of enterprise. A newspaper
 to be of practical benefit to a town in the way of attracting attention of all classes of investors, must be the joint T nc ha lish nd p local business men. There is not a business man in town who cannot af- ford to invest from one dollar to ten dollars per month in advertising for the l indirect benefit they receive from TIE | TIMES, to say nothing of the direct re suits of their advertising, and yet We regret to say that there are at least twenty business houses in town who scarcely ever spend nickel for adver-
 tising. They will do nothing them selves and some of them sneeI when
 others do anything. It would be more
 in keeping with the eternal fitness of things" if every business man ill town would help. and llberaily, support the
 county paper. Even though the amount be ever so small to each indi- vidual the aggregate to the paper would enable it to meet it's obligations
 and improve with the country.
 The editors of TIE TIMEs have de-
 evted seveuyears and d half of their time
 and best energies to the work of try ing to do something to develope and
 advance the best interests of this town
 and county We believe we do not Maver lrona the truth when We say that