Semi-weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings Co., S.D.) 1894-1898, 1898-10-18
YOUR LOCAL PAPER.
HAvHYou ANY IDEA OF WHAT IT HAS
DONE FOR youi
And, NJ 20 What You Might DO In
Return, Have You Ever Given That
a Passing Thoughts-An Editors
Interesting Review of the Subject.

ents were married.
1t announced to the world when you
were born.
1t recorded the great events OF your
childhood, when you were lost as
wandering baby, when you had the
measles and scarlet fever, when you fell
into the washtub and nearly drowned,
when you fell from the cherry 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 recited your
graduating Grafton.
1t told Of your entering high school or
academy. 1t told of your contests in
baseball and tennis. 1t told of your de-
parture for college or your first venture
in business.
It told of your various visits back to
the old home neighborhood, and it al
ways wished you we'll in your greatest
undertakings.
It limited modestly about the first
time you went courting and gave
timely warning to "her folks" that the
neighbors knew that matters were grow
ing interesting over their way.
It announced the time of your expect
ed wedding, and it published the notice
of the marriage license and gave you a
nice puff concerning the wedding cere-
mony.
1t told of your extended honeymoon
tour and Of your settling down to house
keeping.
When you were sick, the home paper
week by week informed your more dis
tant neighbors of your lapses and inn
provements.
1t told about your lost cow and led
to her recovery. It told how your horse
had been stolen and led to the arrest of
the thief
When you were getting duliand tired
through the monotony of your labor,
the paper urged that the people get up
| celebration, and you were named as
one of suitable committee on arrange
ments. 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 peo-
| pie. And you would never have had
your lucrative Office or your honorable
recognition from the community but for
the kind aid of the local printer.
If you~are member of Sunday
school or society of any sort, that same
paper publishes your announcements
and the various proceedings Of your
meetings.
It 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 affairs,
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
rejoiced and wept when you wept. Ii
you are good and enterprising citizen,
the paper will always be your friend
and will back you in your enterprises
and will help to find your business
friends.
1t tells you where to buy and where
to sell. It tells Of rogues to be avoided.
1t tells you of current prices and pre-
vents you from being cheated and swim
died in 100 ways.
| Finally, when you die, the paper will
publish your obituary and will cover
over your faults apd will recRte 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 dc
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 its Improvement. Yet your local pa
per does all this free Of cost to you, j
you are willing to receive it that way
However, for your sake, we hope yor
are too generous to accept so many un
requited favors and that yonare.wilhnt
| to reciprocate the same.
Help the editor. Be his friend, andth'
will prove his friendship to you.
| Subscribe for his paper an d pay fo
it regularly in advance and get you
neighbors to do the same.
Send him the news or occasionally {
watermelon or peck Of peaches.
Invite him to your picnics and fam
lily dinners, so that he can eat a~squar
meal occasionally.
Don't call the ticket you givehim t
the church concert deadhead. II
can't buy tickets FROM everybody t
everything, but he will say kind word
of your performances al I'd thus lead 9th
ers to buy your tickets.
If you have anythini to buy or-selI