Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1899-03-16
LOCAL PAPER.
NAVE YOU ANY IDEA or wnAT IT HAS
DONE FOR your

Ana. an 20 What You Might Do IN
Return Have rou Ever Given That
a Passing ThouGhts-An Edi-Or's
Inreresting Review OF the Subject
The paper has done 20 things for you
and is only anxious 70 &c 80 more.
1t told yonr friends wnen your par
Dts were married
II announced TO the world when you
were born.
II recorded the great events Of your
thildhood. when you were lost as n
wandering bahy. when you bad the
measles and scarlet fever. when yen fell
Irso the washtub ard nearly drowned,
wi you fell from the cherry tree and
tro "a your cellar bone, VIXEN you fvst
st4rtad to school and when yoa Earned
yuur lTst prize,
Later On il told now you bad COM
lleted the Studies of the district school
and how eloqueRtly you reeited your
r. 3nztiug oratiCB.
Ii told Of your entering high school or
academy. 1t told Of your confests in
baseball and tennis. 1t told Of your de-
parture for college or your first venture
La business
1t told Of your various visits back TO
the old home n~eighborhood, and it al
ways wished you well in your greatest
undertakings
Ii limited modestly about the first
time you went a counting and gave
timely warning TO ''her folks" that the
peighbors knew that matters were grow
Ing interesting over their way.
Ii announced the time of your expect
cd wedding, and IL published the notice
of the marriage license and gave yon a
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 yonr lapses and i'm
provements.
Ii told about your lost cow and led
Do her recovery. 1t told how yonr horse
had been stolen and led TO the arrest OF
the thief.
" nen you were getting uull and tired
NJ ~ hhG AADLJt0IF vi fOuf AaUNI
I'll per urged that the people get up
az )~ration, and yen were named as
on { a suitable committee on arrange
N Aud when ii was all over, il
g. you jast rraise for the success Of
th undertaia z
numerous ways the paper has
b. 10 put yu ne "a before the peo-
p u VII NsE.i never haze had
your lnerati oiice or your honorable
recoaaition from the con munity but for
TIN E.nd ali ~ t8el - ID printer.
If are a laenalcr Of z Sunday
school or saaicty cf any sort. that same
paper Publishes yonr announcements
AMI the various proceedings Of your
meetings.
Ii tells the people much which you
would like 10 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.
III you have bad misfortune, the D
asked for sympathy in your behalf.
Thus the paper has rejoiced when you
rejoiced and wept when you wept. If
you are a good and e~nterprising citizen,
the paper viii always he your friend
and viii back you in your enterprises
and viii help TO find your business
friends.
IL tells you where TO buy and where
TO sell. 1t tells Of roguest to be avoided.
Ii Tells You Of current prices and pre-
vents you from being cheated and swim
died ia 100 ways.
Finally, when yon 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 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 local pa
per does all this free Of cost 10 YOU, if
you are willing TO receive il that way.
However, for your sake, we hope you
are too generous to accept so many in.
requited favors and that you are willing
TO reciprocate the same.
AlCAp LILO tu1tDIs Dc us lrltuQ, dQQ ne
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 q
watermelon or a peck Of peaches.
Invite him TO your picnics and fam
lily dinners, NO that he can eat a square
meal occasionally.
Don't call the ticket you give him to
the church concert a deadhead. He
cant buy tickets from everybody { o
everything. but he will say kind words
OF your performances and thus lead 9TH
ers to buy your tickets.
II 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,
W don't AXE IL To An oufsida ofiica hnf