The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-12-29
Hail the Country Paper!


The country newspaper! Life wi thout
you would be a drealy waste Your
weekly visit il anxiouslv awaited and
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on the uay expected my heaft Is SAD.
Fitty-two times year You bring me all
the news from home. You faithfully
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III Oh us anu ma %
OF the nelghborhood. 4ou keep me post
ed on parties, church soeials and village
gossip, ana You tel me what the prospects
are for good OF poor crops, as the case
might be- Ii family moves away OF
newcomer moves into town know 1t the
next week. Ii Farmer Jones OF the Ridge
road, brings a prize pumpkin 10 your office
| know all about il, although hundred of
miles away, as soon as some OF his neigh
bors You keep me posted on the i'm
provements that Farmer Brown, of the
Lake road, contemplates making to his
barn I'm the near future And when
Farmer Smith, OF the Lexington road
started cheese factory at hldder 5 Cor
ners l kne" 1t here in Chicago the day al
ter publication
y, country newspaper, Well may |
say that ''life without you would be a
dreary waste" Once week you are to
me an oasis in the desert of this hurry
burly life in great city.
The city man who does not take his
home" paper, providing he was reared
in the country, does not know what real
enjoyment he misses The news | get
out of one issue is worth more than the
| yearly subscription. | devour every line
Of the local gossip and neighborhood
correspondence, and when | lay the paper
aside | praise the country editor for Civ
| ING me this privilege
| Letters from home are very welcome.
/ but one doesn get as much news in
| hundred letters as he does in one issue of
| the home paper. And letters are so I'M
certain; Won sometimes have TO wait six
months for a reply to your last one. Bur
if you are a subscriber to the country
paper ii comes to you regularly every
week. rain or shine. You NAV be a little
in arrears. but the country editor sends
the paper along with the hope that you
will some day settle up matters
To the man who cannot visit his old
home every wear or two tie weekly peru
sal of his home paper is almost as good as
a trip to boyhood scenes. He reads where
the little freckled face Girl. who sat behind
him at school. was married to a CITY chap
who holds s'lucrative position with a
street car company''-probablv a motor.
man: he is informed that the boy who was
known as the bully of the school was ar
rested for wife desertion and is ..incarcer-
ated in the county bastile:'' he learns
from his home paper that '.the Thornton
family will hold a reunion. and the news
is also conveyed that "Aunt Eliza Robert-
son will be nipety-tbree wears old next
man wishes he was able to he at home 10
celebrate.
If ..midnigbt marauderso steal severn
teen chickens from Jake Becker,s coon it
is nicely told in the country paner and the
editor would be driven out of town if he
failed to make note of the henefit marty at
odd Fellows Hall for the M. r. Church.
which was ssa GRAND success socially and
financiallv.'' The REGENTS nv the way.
amounted to over seven dollars''
am interested in the personal oossin
of NV old home and If is with feelinps Of
genuine pleasure that | learn ssMr' and
Mrs. Fred Mayers wheeled over from
Edinboro last Sunday or that "Miss
Ina Wessler is soiourning for few DAYS
with friends at Keepyille." The pres
epce in town of Mrs. Frank Cooley (nee
Baxter) of Buffalo. ssformerly a resident
of our BURG ,, is dulv chronicled with ad-
ditioual information that s.she is accom-
panied bv her two months old babv bov. ,,
The burning of .,Hawk'' Edson's barn is
big piece of news. as cit is the most
disastrous contlagration that has visited
this section since the Fire King DESTROYED
Brown Brothers cider mill in 1879
If Won are sick the country editor
writes nice little paragraph about vour
illness. and he trusts that YOU will soon
be able to appear upon our streets apain:''
if your wife dies he tells of her MANY
good traits of character and that she
s.bore her last illness with Christian for