Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-05-24
YOUR LOo-
HAVE YOU ANY IDEA OF WHAT Ia Has
DONE FOR YOU!
And. rs to What You Might Do In
Return. Have lOu Ever Given That
~ Passing ThOuEht:-An Editors
Interesting Review of the Subject.


Return. Have You Ever Given Tha;
~ Passing Thought:-An Editors
Interesting Review of the Subject.
The paper has done so things for you
and is only anxious TO do so more
1t told your friends when your par
ents were married.
1t announced to the world when sou
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 70 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. 1t told of your contests in
baseball and tennis. 1t told of your de-
parture for college or your first venture
in business
the old home neighborhood. and it al
ways wished you well in your greatest
undertakings.
1t limited modestly about the first
time you went a counting and gave
timely warning TO cher folks that tho
neighbors knew that matters were grow
ing interesting over their way.
1t announced the time of your expect
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of the marriage license and gave you Il
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 and led to the arrest OF
the thief
When you We're getting dull and tired
through the Inonotony of your labor,
the paper urged that the people get up
q celebration, and you were 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.
If you are 4 member of a 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.
If you have had misfortune, the paper
asked for sympathy in your behalf.
Thus the paper has rejoiced when you
rejoiced and wept when you wept. If
you are good and enterprising 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 viii
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 stranger to your
little world and is not at all interested |
III its Improvement. Yet your local pa |
per does all this free of cost to you, if |
you are willing TO receive ii that way. |
However, for your sake, we hope you |
are too generous to accept so many I'M
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 |
it regularly in advance and get your
neighbors to do the same.
Send him the news or occasionally a
watermelon or a peck of peaches.
Invite him to your picnics and fam |