The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1898-03-30
MAKINGA NEWSPAPER
Suggestions Dictated BY Experience for
the aiiidAnee Of Local cotemperaries.
PRINTERS AND orHER BILLS.

| tnouS1utiS oi dollars IN c1lSn ana aofer-
Using 10 worthy local charities II has
paid all Of its obligations and no man can
say that the HERALD owes him as much
as a penny.
For more than half century the HER
AID has gone irto a majority Of the best
homes In Somerset county. That Its
weekly visits have been appreciated Is
best evidenced by the fact that II has by
far the largest circulation in the county,
and, with the exception of the Meyers
dale Commercial. more than double the
circulation of any Of its other local cotem-
poraries- 1t has striven to publish the
local news, and to intelligently comment
on local and public affairs. It's best efforts
have always been given for the advance
ment and supremacy OF the Republican
party in county, state and nation. and we
can add without boasting that it has ex-
erted potent influence in keeping to-
gether the party in the county, when enc
mics within and without its ranks have
attempted 20 destroy it.
For many years the HERALD was with
out competition in the local field, bat
when competition appeared it was honor
ably met and no obstacles were cast in
the way of honest competitors. In short,
the HERALD has hoed its own row. and
proposes to continue to do so regardless
of the hirelings who hound its footsteps,
and it is entirely too we'll satisfied with
its past success and future prospects to
give even passing kick TO the envious
ours that snap at its heels.
That our course has been fully and lib
orally sustained by the residents Of the
county and the general public in whose
interests it has been conducted, reference
TO our advertising columns throughout
the year bears convincing evidence.
We have a firmly established schedule
of advertising rates which is strictly ad-
hered 10, the same as every other success
ful business concern must adopt, and We
have exerted no greater effort to secure
patronage than have other successful bus
iness men.
Discriminating advertisers, those who
know thevalue of printers ink as an aid
to business, avail themselves Of the col
umns of clean, wholesome papers, and
ungrudgingly pay higher price for the
service secured, as in the case of the HER
AID, with its large and established circu-
lation, than they do to charaeteriess pub
Iications with circnlations varying from
| 100 to COO weekly.
The above lines are written as sugges-
tions to Prothonotary Henry F. Barron,
| Commissioners Clerk John G. Emert,
and Chairman of the "fake" County
Committee J. a. Berkey, all of whom are
financially and otherwise interested in a
local publication recently established at
Salisbury, The owners and editors of .he
"Eaken journal, and such other would-be
publishers and newspaper owners as are
willing TO have their advertising rates
dictated by such ohicious sham reformers
as S. U. Shober, George F. Kimmell, ct al.
The Baker ballot law was passed by
the Pennsylvania general assembly in
1891. Under its provisions the sheriffs of
the several counties of Pennsylvania are
required TO make proclamationo of general
elections in the county newspapers. The
first proclamation printed in this county
was in 1891, when F. J. Kooser, Esq, di-
rected the sheriff, Isaiah Good, as to the
shape 1t should appear in the newspa-
pers. 1t was published in the same form
in majority of the counties of the state,
and was paid for at the card rates in force
in the various newspaper offices, with the
exception of here in Somerset, where S.
u. Shober attempted to override the au-
thority of the sheriff as well as the act OF
assembly, and declined to pay for the
publication. The result of his refusal is
known to all OF the taxpayers of the
county, who were called upon to pay, not
only the newspapers for advertising the
proclamation, but for interest on the
money withheld, and the costs of trial
and attorneys fees, amounting in all to
some few hundreds of dollars in addition
TO the original charges of the newspapers.
The Meyersdale Commercial, Somerset
Standard, Somerset Democrat, and the
HERALD were all interested in this suit,
and all of them were allowed identically
the Same rate.
The sheriff's proclamation for the cleo
tion of 1896, owing TO the numerous candi-
dates for Congress in this district, and the
further fact that the electors of this county
voted for full county ticket that year,
was the largest Published in Pennsylva-
mia, although publication was made in
the same form in majority of the count
les of the state. When it came TO paying
for the publication Commissioner Shober,
lei, - r,.-.,- =, n; .souSDacS again rafraad
to pay for the same. and, as result,
suit is now pending in court, in which
the newspapers seek to recover. We do
not wish to anticipate the decision of the
court, but the suit is based upon precisely
the same grounds as the former suit in
which the Somerset Standard partic-
ipated.
The newspapers of Somerset county or
of the state are not responsible for the en-
actrnent of the Baker ballot law, or for
the conditions and expense it imposes
upon the sheriffs of the various counties
and the taxpayers thereof, and so long as
the newspapers charge their advertised
rates for county or state printing they
can not be held responsible for collecting
what the law allows them any more than
can Prothonotary Barron be held respon-
si5le for presenting and collecting the
following bill against the county Of SOM
erset, which was approved and paid by
the county commissioners without even
question of its necessity being raised:
Commissioners of Somerset County, Penn'a,
To H. f. Barron, Clerk Of the Oyer & Ter
miner Court, DIR.
Commonwsa Off In the Court Of Oyer. &
James Roddy and Somersot County, Pa.
John Roddy. J No. ?. December T., lSis.
(Mnrder,D
To certifying Record to the Governor Of
Pennsylvania, as follows, to-wit;-
Words
Oyer & Terminer Record--..-....---.-.--..---. 5eo
10 bills OF costs-.--.----- -sSs
Bond ~
Opinion 4 order on motion for new trial 5sO
lnQictmen H. w
Petition for ~
Demand for separate triais.--..-..,.---..-.-- 100
Challenge List 90
Withdrawal of demand for separate tri. %
Defendants 'points--..--....--,-.------. ~
Motion for new trial ----.-.----.--...-.--rss iUO
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