Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-17
YOUR LOCAL PAPER.
Have Won Any Idea W hat l. has
Done For Nou.


! yoa and is only anxious 10 ia fifty nor.
IL tald your friends when yanr pareu,
. were married.
Ii announced 70 the world when y0
were born
Il recorded the great events Of you
childhood, when your were lost a.
wandering baby, when you hai IN,
measles and scarlet fever. when yea Sci
into the weshtah and neNrly drowned
when you fell from the cherry tree am
broke your eaEzr bone, when you frs
started 20 school and when Won earned
your first prize
Later on il told how You had .com
pleted the stndies Of the district schoo.
and how ~eloqEently Won recited youl
graduating Grafton
IL told Of Feur entering high school "a
academy. II told of your contests in
baseball and tennis II told Of your
departure for college or your frs;
venture in business.
1t told of your various visits back 10
the old home ~Reighborhood, and ii al
ways wished you wen in your greatest
undertakings.
1t limited moasstly about the first
time You went ACQUIRING and gave
timely warning u ~her folks and the
neighhorS knew that matters were grow
ing interesting over tseir way.
Ii announced the tiEne q your expect
ed wedding, and II published the notice
Of the marriage license and gave you a
nice puff concerning the wedding cere
mouy.
1t told Of your extended honeymoon
tour and Of youC settling down Ia house
keeping.
Wien you were sick, year home yaper
week by week Informed your uaast dis
tant ~neighhors of yuur Epses and i'm
~provements.
II told about yoUr lost cow and led 10
her recovery. 1t told how your horse
had been stolen aud led To the arrsst OF
the thief.
I'm numerous WAYS the paper has
helped 10 pat your name before the poo
Pile. And Won would never have had you-
lucrative Office OF your honorable rexOg
milton from the community but for the
kind aid of the local printer.
If you are member Of a Sunday school
or society Of any sort, that saule parer
publishes vonr announcements and the
various proceeding of your meetings.
IL tells the people much which Won
would like To have known but which
modesty or necessity prevents vou srom
telling.
If YOU and all your folks have been
prosperous and fortunate in vour Affairs
the papers has boosted you all the way.
If yor have had misfortune. the paper
asked for sympathy in your behalf
Thus the paper has reioiced when you
reioiced and went wien Won wept. IL
YOU are a good and enterprising citizen
the paper will always be your friend and
will back YOU in vour- e~nterprises and
will help to find your business friends.
Ii tells o where to buy and where 10
sell. Ii tells of rorues 10 be avoided.
IL tells YOU of current prices and pre-
vents Won from being cheated and swind- |
led in 100 ways.
Finally. when you die, the paper will
publish your obituary. and will cover over
your faults and will recite the starry of
your good deeds.
All these thingstie local editor will
cause his paper to da, but no one else in
the world will do them or can do them
for YOU even for lhSe or monsy. The
outside paper is a. stranger to yuor little
world and Is not,ar all interested in its
Improvement. Yet your Local paper
does all this free.os charge 10 yua. If O
are willing to receive IL that way. How
ever. for your sake, we hope yon are too
generous 20 accent so MANY ~unreauiting |
fayors and that Won are willing To re
ciprocate the same
Han The edinr Re he his friend. and