Smyrna times., 1898-12-21
YOUR LOCAL PAPER.
HAVE YOU ANY IDEA OF WHAT 1T HAS
DONE FOR your


And as to What You Might Do In
return, Have You Ever Given Tint
Passing ThOughts-An Editors
interesting Review of the Subject.
I Inc paper has done so things for yor
ana is only anxious to do so more.
1t told your friends when your par
ents were married.
1t announced to the world when vor
were born.
1t recorded the great events of you,
cnlldhood, when you were lost as 8
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
Droke your collar bone, when you first
started to school and when you earned
your first prize.
Later on 1t told how you had com.
pleted the studies of the district school
and how eloquently you recited you1
graduating Grafton.
1t told of your entering high school NJ
academy. 1t told of your contests in
baseball and tennis 1t told of your de.
parture for college or your first venture
in business.
Ii toId 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 a counting and gave
timely warning to ''heI folks" that tho
nelghbors knew that matters were grow.
ing interesting over their way.
IL 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 i'm
provements.
IL told about your lost cow and led
TO her recovery. 1t told how your horse
mad been stolen and led to the arrest of
the thief.
When you were getting dull and tired
through the lnonotony 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.
II you are member of Sunday
school or society Of any sort, that same
paper publishes your announcements
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
II you and all your folks have been
prosperous and fortunate in your affairs,
the paper has boosted you all the way.
Ii you have had misfortune the paper
asked for sympathy i'll your behalf.
linus the paper has rejoiced when you
reJolced and wept when you wept. If
you are a good and enterprising citizen,
the paper will always be your friend
and will back you III your enterprises
and will help to find your business
friends.
1t tells you where to buy and where
to sell. 1t tells of rogues to be avoided.
1t tells you of current prices and pre-
vents you from being cheated and swim
died i'll 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 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 if
you are willing to receive it that wav.
However, for your sake, we hope YOU
are too generous to accept so many un-
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
1t regularly in advance and get your
neighbors to do the same.
Send him the news or occasionally O
watermelon or peck of peaches.
Invite him to your picnics and fam
lily dinners, so that he can eat square
meal occasionally.
Don't call the ticket you give him to
the church concert a deadhead. He
can't buy tickets from everybody to
everything, but he will say kind words
of your performances and thus lead 9TH
ers to buy your tickets.
If you have anything to buy or sell,
let the paper assist you to find custom
ers Advertising that really pays the
printer benefits both advertisers and
readers.
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 a pointer occasionally
or write him sensible short articles and
don't get mad if he fails to see every
thing 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
per.-Richmond lind. Enterprise.
Severe Thump.
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