The Florence daily tribune., 1899-01-06
YOUR LOCAL PAPER.
HAVE YOU ANY IDEA OF WHAT 1T HAS
DONE FOR YOUi

And, to what You Might Do 4.
Return. Have You Ever Given That
Passing Thouxhtf-An Editors
Interesting Review of the subject.
The paper has done 30 things for you
and is only anxious 10 do 80 more.
1t told your friends when your par
ents We're married.
1t announced 10 the world when you
were born.
Ii recorded the great events of your
childhood, when You were lost as n
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 cold
pleted the studies of the district school
and how eloquently you recited your
graduating Grafton.
Ii 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 a courting and gave
timely warning 10 "hei 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 home paper
week by week informed your more 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 ard led to the arrest of
the thief
When you We're getting dull and tired
through the monotony of your labor,
the paper urged that the people get up
celebration. and you were named us
one of a suitable committee ON arrange
menS. And when it was all over, IL
gave you just praise for the success of
tie undertaking.
In numerous ways the paper has
helped to put your name before the peo-
PIE. And you would never have had
lt,C tua of 4. L.
recognition from the community but for
the kind aid of the local printer.
II you are n 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 in your behalf
Thus the paper has rejoiced when you
re1oiced and wept when you wept. If
you are good and enterprisine citizen,
the paper will always be your friend
and will back you in 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 in 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 "a stranger to your
little world and is not at all interested
In its Improvement Yet your loeal pa
per does all this free of cost to you, II
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 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
watermelon or peck of peaches.
Invite him to your picnics and fam
lily dinners, so that he can eat a square
meal occasionally.
Don It 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,