The Springdale news., 1899-05-12
ABOUT OURSELVES,

old last week and with this is sue We start on our thirteenth year, The first issue of this paper was printed May :. 1887 It seems but short time ago. but many changes have taken place since that May day when the writer thrust upon kind
 hearted ahd forbearing people the result of his first efforts at journalism. While the paper ot twelve years ago met the wants of the people at that time, to day it would only be q target for ridicule. The peo. pie, the town and the country have changed and TIE NEWS has changed with them. It has been our constant endeaYor to improve the paper and make It better each week, keeping pace with the progress of the town In this laudable effort We believe We have been fairly successful, thanks to an indal- gent and appreciative public. While our work during the past twelve years has hot been without it's trials and it's diff eulties, still, on | whole, it has been very pleasant and fairly profitable. We are satisfied with the result, feeling that while 1t might have been i'm proved upon in some respects, it might have been worse in others. While it is pleasant to dwell upon the past, with its successes and failures and it's triumph over difficulties, it is to the future we would look.
 TIE NEWS now ranks with the best country papers to be found anywhere. In mechanl cal equipment, it is exeelled by no office in the county, and we believe it surpasses them all. The office is fitted to do all kinds of commercial job printing in a manner pleasing to the eye and satisfying to the pocket book. By reading pa
 pers and magazines devoted to the printing business We are enabled to keep in close touch with all that Is new in the art, and the man who orders ilis printing from TIE NEWS can rest assured that he will get neat, clean, up to date work.
 While the paper speaks for itself from week to week there are few things to which we wish to refer just now. The writ
 CT has earned from experience that it is impossible, and a useless waste of time and energy, for a country news
 paper to attempt to cover the whole field of news, and as our subscribers have no doupt dis
 covered, We make a special feature of county and nelgh bor- hood news, leaving the outside world to the city papers. HE NEWS publishes every week more news of a local nature than any other paper in North west Arkansas, and coming down nearer home we believe we print more strictly county and neighborhood news than all the other papers ln the county combined. We do not say thls in a boastfnl spirit, nor do we wish to detract from the merits of any other paper.
 We simply mention what we believe to be fact, and the doubting ones are invited to take TIE NEWS, any issue ih any month, and compare It With
 the other county papers ana see If 1t is not so. Although
 the paper is apparently giving excellent satisfaction 10 It's
 patrons, and its circulation Is
 constantly growing, we expect
 to make it better Tn the future
 than ever before, adding new
 features and otherwise lmproV
 inc it. In fact we expect 10
 V g,ve our subscribers better
 value for their money than any
 other paper circulating in the
 same territory. To aid us Tn
 ,his work we ask the continued
 snnnort and encouragement ol
 ths friends of the paper
 Every reader can do much good
 hv sneaxing a kind word tol