Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-10-29
YOUR LOCAL PAPER.
HAVE YOU ANY IDEA OF WHAT 1T HAS
DONE FOR YOU?

And. rs to What You Might Do In
Return. Have You Ever Given That
Passing Thought:-An Editors
Interesting Review of the Subject.
The paper has done 90 things for you
and is only anxious to do so more
1t told Your friends when your par
ents We're married.
1t announced to the world when you
were born
1t recorded the great events of your
childhood, when you were lost as a
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. Is 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 the
neighbors knew that matters were grow
ing interesting over their way.
1t announced the time of your expect
ed wedding, and it published the notice
OF the marriage license and gave you
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 homo paper
week by week informed your moro dis
tant neighbors Of your lapses and i'm
provements.
1t told about your lost COW and led
to her recovery. 1t told how your horse
had been stolen and led to the arrest of
the thief
w iSh you w GlC SJbUlllS uull anu tlrSU
through the nonotony of your labor,
the paper urged that the people get up
a celebration, and you We're named as
one of Il 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.
If 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.
Thus the paper has rejoiced when you
rejoiced and wept when you wept If
you are good and enterprisiEg citizen,
the paper will always be your friend
and will back you i'll 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
i'll 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
i'll its Improvement. Yet your local pa
per does all this free of cost to you, if
you are willing to receive it that way.
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 bis 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 or occasionally
watermelon or Il peck of peaches.
Invite him to your picnics and fam
,ly 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, bat 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 oditora 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 a
good thing, tell him so.
In short, remember the golden rule
and don't forget the editor of your local
paper.-Richmond (Ind. ENTERPRISE.