The Florence daily tribune. (Florence, Colo.) 1898-1903, 1898-10-15
YOUR LOCAL PAPER.
HAVE YOU ANY IDEA OF WHAT 1T HAS
DONE FOR your

Tho paper has done 20 things for you
and is only anxious to do 90 more.
( 1t told your friends when your par.
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 u
4 wandering baby, when you had tho
measles and scarlet fever, when you fell
into the washtub and nearly drowned,
I 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 conf
| pleted the studies of the district school
and how eloquently you recitea your
4 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.
/ 1t told 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 counting and gave
! timely warning to cher folks" that tho
neighbors knew that matters were grow
/ ing interesting over their w,v
| IL announced tho time ~ vonroxr.o,.
| ed wedding and il ,nblisbed tho ,ntico
| of the marriage licenso and gova Won ,
| nice puff ooncerniny tho xyadd;n, cora-
mony.
/ IL told of yonr eXto,5od ho,aro,,,
| tour and of yoor sett,ip, DOWN IN ho,sa-
| keepiup.
When Won yyere sick tbe homo ,,,r.r
wee,r hv ,yaaL ;nforr,aa ,,o,,, -, II" X
tant neiphbors of your ianses and i'm.
proyements.
1t told nbout vour lost cow aud led
TO her recoverv II told how vorr hors,
had been stolen and led 10 tho arrest Of
the thief.
When Won yvero pettipy dpI, and TRAD
through tho ,nonotonv Of yonr ,alor
the paper urged that tho peop,e Get nm
a celebration. and Won were named 40
one of a suitable committee ON nrranoc.
ments Aud who, n ,yos al, orar :.
gave Won inst nraise for tho spccess of
the undertaking.
In numerous WAYS tho nnner b,s
helped to nut your name before tho neo.
ple. And Won would never have Ind
your lucrative Office or your honorable
/ recognition from the community but for
the kind aid of the local nripter
If YOU are member Of n Sunday
school or society of apv sort that Same
paper publishes your apnouncements
and the various proceedinps Of vour
meetings.
1t tells tho people much which Won
! would like to have known. Init which
modesty or necessity prevents Won from
telling. ~
If YOU and all YOUR folks have been
prosperous and fortunate in your affairs.
/ the paper has boosted Won NIL tho yvav
/ II you have had misfortune. the naper
asked for sympathy in your behalf.
Thus the paper has reioiced when Won
rejoiced and wept when Won went. II
| you are good and enterprisiug citizen.
the paper will always be your friend
and will back Won in yonr enterprises
and will helm to find your business
friends.
1t tells you where to buy and where
to sell. 1t tells of ropues to he 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 and will recite tba
story OF your good deeds.
All these things the local editor will
cause his paper to do, bnt no one else
in the world will do them or can do
them for you even for love or money.
/ The outside paper is n stranger To vonr
:ee.le Il. s:iti Is s4ttt IL al,
in its improvements Yet your local ma.
per does all this freq of cost to Won. if