Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-11-18
YOUR LOCAL PAPER.
HAVE YOU ANY IDEA OF WHAT 1T
HAS DONE FOR YOU2

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the Subject.
The paper has done so things fo
you and is only anxious to do so more
1t told your friends when your par
cnts were married.
1t announced to the world whel
you were born.
1t recorded the great events of youl
childhood, when you were lost as 6
wandering baby, when you had tn,
measles and scarlet fever, when you
fell into the washtub and nearly
drowned, when you fell from the cher.
ry tree and broke your collar bone
when you first started to school and
when you earned your first prize.
Later on it told how you had com.
pleted the studies OF the district school
and how eloquently you recitcd your
graduating oration.
1t told of your entering high school
or academy. 1t told of your contests
in baseball and tennis. 1t told of your
departure for college or your first ven
ture in business.
1t told of your various visits back to
the old home neighborhood, and it al
ways wished you we'll in your greatest
undertakings.
1t limited modestly about the first
time you went n courting and gave
timely warming to her folks" that
the neighbors knew that matters were
growing interesting over their way.
1t announced the time of your ex-
pected wedding, and it published the
notice of the marriage license and
gave you nice puff concerning the
wedding ceremony.
1t told of your extended honeymoon
tour and of your settling down to
housekeeping.
When you were sick, the home pa
per week by week informed your more
distant neighbors of your lapses and
Improvements.
1t told about your lost COW and led
to her recovery. 1t told how your
horse had been stolen and led to the
arrest of the thief.
When you were getting dull and
tired through the monotony of your
labor, the paper urged that the people
get up II celebration, and you were
named rs one of Il suitable committee
on arrangements. And when it was
all over, it gave you just praise for the
success of the undertaking.
In numerous ways the paper has
helped to put your name before the
people. And you would never have
had your lucrative Office or your
honorable recognition from the com.
munity but for the kind aid of the 10.
cal printer.
If you are member of Sunday
school or society of any sort, that
same paper publishes your announce
ments and the various proceedings OF
your meetings.
1t tells the people much which you
would like to have known, but which
modesty or necessity prevents you
from telling.
If you and all your folks have been
prosperous and fortunate in your af.
fairs, the paper has boosted you all the
way. If you have had misfortune, the
paper asked for sympathy in your be.
half
Thus the paper has rejoiced when
you rejoiced and wept when you wept
If you are good and enterprising cit
izen, the paper will always be your
friend and will back you in your en-.
terprises and will help to find your
business friends.
1t tells you where to buy and where
to sell. 1t tells of rogues to be avoid.
ed.
1t tell you of current prices and pre-
vents you from being cheated and
swindled in 100 ways.
Finally, when you die, the paper
will publish your obituary and will
cover over your faults and will recite
the story of your good deeds.
All these things the local editor
will cause his paper to do, but no one
else in the world will do them or can
do them for you even for love or
money. The outside paper is strang-
er to your little world and is not at all
interested in its improvement. Yet
your local paper does all this free OF
cost to you, if you are willing to re-
ceive it that way. However, for your
sake, we hope you are too generous to
accept so many unrequited favors and
that you are willing to reciprocate the
same.
Help the editor. Be his friend, and
he will prove his friendship to you.
Subscribe for his paper and pay for
it regularly in advance and get your
neighbors to do the same.
Send him the news or occasionally
a watermelon or peck of peaches.
Invite him to your picnics and fam
lily dinners, so that he can eat square
meal occasionally.