Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-10-31

gave you nice puff concerning thes
wedding ceremony.
1t told of your extended honey
moon 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 had 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 a celebration, and you were
named as one of a 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 hon
orabIe recognition from the commun--
ity but for the kind aid of the local
printer.
If you are member of a Sunday
school or society of any sort, that
same paper publishes your announce
ments and the various proceedings
of your meetings.
[ 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
behalf.
Thus the paper has rejoiced when
you lrejoiced and wept when you wept.
IF you are a good and enterprising
citizen, the paper will always be your
friend and will back you in your en-
terprises and will help to find You
business friends.
1t tells you where to buy and
where to sell. It tells of rogues to-
be avoided.
It tells you of current prices and
prevents 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 re-
cite 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 a
stranger to your little world and is
not at all interested in it's improve
ment. Yet your local paper does all
this free of cost to you, if you are
willing to receive it that way. How
ever, for your sake, we hope you are.
too generous to accept SO many I'M
requited 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, occasionally a,
watermelon or peck of peaches.
Invite him to your picnics and
family dinners, so that he can eat a.
square meal occasionally.
Don't call the ticket you gave him
to the church concert deadhead. He
can't buy tickets from everybody to,
everything, but he will say kind
words of your performances and thus
lead others to buy your tickets.
If you have anything to buy or SELL.
let the paper assist you to find GUS
toners. Advertising that really pays.
the printer benefits both advertisers
If you have any job printing to do,
don't take it to an outside office,
but give your newspaper the first
chance.
Give the editor pointer occasion
ally or write him sensible articles
and don't get mad if he fails to see
everything your way. When he does
say good thing, tell him so.
In short, remember the golden rule
and don't forget the editor of your
local paper.-Richmond Qnd.) En-
terprise.