The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-09-08
F. D. LANDER. Editor.
AN ANNOUNCEMENT.


the beginning of the financial panic
which came like a hurricane and
swept the country that year and the
next, banks and business houses of
all kinds toppling and falling, max
ing heap of ruins, the like of
which was never seen before in this
country, and we trust will never be
seen again. Our little daily braved
the storm for eight tempestuous
months, then finding itself getting
in deep water, it pulled for the
shore and anchored in a safe harbor
until more propitious weather. 1t
was our expressed purpose then, and
has been our intention ever since,
to run a daily afternoon paper in
Columbia whenever tine condition
of the times and the business out
look of the city justified it.
That time we believe has arrived,
and therefore we announce that on
or about the first day of October, the
COLUMBIA DAILY HERALD will
come forth from its moorings and
make it's bow before the general
public.
We venture the assertion that
there never was paper more
universally complimented7 endorsed
and enjoyed by its readers, than was
that little afternoon daily; and we
indulge the hope that it may be no
less SO in the years to come. We do
not expect it to supplant the great
dailies of the metropolitan citiess
we do not hope to give all the news
of the world, or extend our circula-
'tion to the uttermost parts of the
earth; but we do promise to cover
our small territory well, to give all
the home news while it is fresh and
crisp, and to run a clean, newsy4
local paper, with more or less
amount of foreign news condensed
that will be credit and help to the
growing, prosperous little city in
which we live, and from which we
expect to draw our inspiration and
support.
Our first effort was started doubt
fully, timidly, as a venture. This
is started advisedly, confidently, as
a business enterprise, and with our
first issue we shall have burned the
bridges of questioning, doubling
and figuring behind US, and will
have come to stay.
The President and Secretary OF
the Chamber of Commerce tell ue
that Columbia actually needs and
must have daily. Secretary Floyd
says he cannot accomplish his work
without the aid and support a daily
will give him, and the advertise
ment it will give to the town. The
merchants say they will need it in
their business; the people, we know
want their home news as often a:
they can get it; the consensus o.
opinion is that the time, the place
and the occasion are ripe for the en-
terprise, so here we are, ready
cheerfully, always to help along
with the daily at your door.
If Columbia is to be built up, il
cannot be done without daily pa
per. All progressive, enterprising
men, of whatever profession or bust
ness, recognize that in the life anG
growth and progress of a city, the
daily paper is its most potent in
tluence. When our subscription
canvassers come to see you, there.
fore, do not keep them waiting, dc
not put them off, but have your an.
swer ready and send them on then
way rejoicing. 1t will cost only ter
cents a week, SO resolve now that
you will neither a borrower nor q
lender be-" Our constant effort will
be to build up ourselves by building
up the town; foF we realize now,
and shall constantly keep in mind
that the success of the paper de-
ponds upon the success Of the town.
Therefore, as our effort will be Ia
help others, We shall expect other:
TO nslp rs; and as our purpose shall