The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1899-08-09
A City Subscribers Apostrophe to the
Cross Roads Press.

S1OSS NOauS fTcss.
The country newspaper? Life with
out you would be dreary waste. Your
weekly visit is anxiously awaited, and
should the mail carrier fail TO bring
you on the day expected, my heart is
sad. says the Chicago Times Herald.
Fifty times year you bring me all
the news from home. You faithfully
chronicle the deaths and marriages Of
the ucighborhood. You keep me posted
on parties, church socials and village
gossip and you tell me what the pros
poets are for good or poor crops, as the
case might b.. II Farmer Jones. on
the Ridge road, brings prize pumpkin
: to your Office, know all about 1t. al
pugh hundreds of miles away, as soon
,mc of his neighbors.
b, country newspaper! Well may |
hat "life without you would be II
ry waste" Once week you are to
an oasis in the desert Of this hurly-
life in u great city.
he city man who does not take his
rome" paper, providing he was reared
in the cuuutry, does not know what real
enjoyment he misses. The news | get
out of one issue is worth more than the
yearly subscription. | devour every
line Of the lcc;d gossip and neighbor-
hood correspondence. and when | lay
the paper aside | praise the country
editor Tor giving me this privilege.
Letters from home are very welcome.
but one doesn't get as much news in Il
hundred letters as he does in one issue
OF the home paper. And letters are so
uncertain; you sometimes have to wait
six months for reply to your lest one
But ii you are subscriber to the coun-
try paper. it comes to you regularly
every week. rain or shine. You may
be n little in arrears. but the country
editor sends the paper right along in
the hope that you will some day settle
matters.
To the man who cannot visit his old
home every year or two the weekly
perusal Of his home paper is almost as
reads whore the little freckle-face girl
who sat behind him at school was mar
ried to a city chap who holds "lucra-
tive position with street car company"
probably motorman; he is informed
that the boy who was known AS the
bully OF the school was arrested for
wife desertion and is ''incarcerated in
the county bastile:" he learns from his
home paper that ''the Thornton family
will hold reunion"
The midnight marauders steal sew
enteen chickens from Jake Becker's
COOP" 1t is nicely told in the country
paper, and the editor would be driven
out OF town If he failed to make a note
of the benefit party at the Odd Fellows
hall for the M. Il. church, which was
''grand success socially and financially"
The receipts, by the way, amounted
TO over seven dollars"
II your wife dies he tells of her many
good traits of character and that she
'bore her last illness with christian
fortitude;" If your son gets married the
country editor tells what promising
young man he is and what an ''estimabe
and charming young lady" is the bride
II the crops are bad the country editor
sympathizes with the farmer, and if
the harvest is good he rejoices. He
gives away hundreds Of dollars worth OF
advertising every year for which he
scarcely receives polite 'Thank you:"
he is looked upon by many people as an
object OF charity, and when they pay
him their subscription they say to them
selves, 'Well, it will help to keep him
out of the poorhouse for awhile;" he
/ works harder and puts in more hours of
abor than any man in town-if he
idn't, he would be in the poorhouse.
Oh, Country Editor! Dear friend, l
herive much happiness every week from
reading your paper, and wish it were in
my power to make your business ten
fold better paying than it is. May your
advertising increase until you are COM
pelled to print larger paper, and may
your subscribers come to your Office or
send you by mail the money due you.
May your days be full of happiness and
at night when you sit around the family
hearthstone may your thoughts be
those OF sweet contentment.
Extension of Limit on Seashore Excursion