Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1899-10-05
ANNOUNCEMENT.

plant, equipment, business ana good
will, to the proprietor of the REGIS
TER.
The publication of the Independent
ceased with yesterdays issue. Its
business will be absorbed by the REG
IsTER, which will fill its contracts.
The subscribers of the Independent
will be added to the subscription list
of the REGISTER, and this paper will
be responsible to all those who have
paid in advance. Arrangements sat-
isfactory to all such will be made by
us. In the transcribing Of the names
from one list to the other mistakes
may be made. We hope to be notified
promptly in such event, so that errors
may be rsctifed.
So far as we have been able to Judge
from expressions made to us, there will
be a general feeling Of relief that there
will be but one newspaper and one
printing Office in this community.
There is not now, nor has there been
at any time, real demand or desire
for more than one paper. The Ir'de-
pendent has been simply a burden to
support without giving corresponding
benefit. Merchants have been practi-
cally compelled to advertise in two
papers when one would have answered
every purpose. Subscribers have taxi
en- two newspapers when they desired
but one. Of course, there are doubt
less some persons who have become at
tached to the Independent and will be
sorry to part with it. We hope that
these may take kindly to the REGIS
TER and be satisfied with it. We shall
strive TO make it acceptable to all the
people.
We reckon it has been satisfactorily
proven that there is not room in Shep-
herdstown for two newspapers. The
Ladepeadent was started in June, 1895,
by Mr.. Jacob Wintermoyer and DR..
C. T. V. S. Butler. Untiring energy,
indefatigable activity, relentless com
petition, absurd cutting Of prices and
entire disregard of the ethics of jour
nslism characterized the management
ofthe paper. suppose that no other
newspaper in West Virginia ever had
such fierce opposition as has been
waged against the REG1sTER,and meth
DDS have been used at times that were
hard to patiently endure.
But the Independent was butting
against stone wall. The REGISTER
was too firmly intrenched in the good
will of the people for the opposition
to do more than effect some trifing
temporary damage or cause some small
annoyance. The REGISTER has gone
on its own way and is still here, the
Independent has collapsed, and the net
result of the establishment Of our COM
petitor is that our paper is-now in a
better condition than it would proba-
bly, have been had the other office new
er been opened.
The editor of the REGISTER desires
to record his sincere appreciation Of
the friendship Of those persons who
have stuck to him through thick and
thin and whose patronage and good
will were never affected in the slight
est degree by the opposition. We will
never forget these friends-snd they
are numerous-for it is by their help
that we have been able to keep the
REGISTER up to its standard. The
limited few of our subscribers who
have been tempted or cajoled or wor-
ried into temporary desertion will, we
feel assured, be glad to return to their
first love, as we will be gratifed to
have them to do so.
The price of subscription will re-
main the same-one dollar year, fifty
cents for six months, twenty-five cents
for three months. 1t is our desire to
get on the cash basis, or as near to 1t
as possible, and we therefore hope that
all the new subscribers who now come
to US, as we'll as the old ones, will re-
NIT the amount of their subscription at
an early date.
The presses, type and other material
of the Independent are for sale cheap
for cash. A good newspaper and job
printing outfit may be obtained at a
bargain.