Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1899-08-26
THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER.
A City Subscribers Apostrophe to
the Cross Roads Press.

Your weekly visit is anXiously
awaited, and should the mail carrier
fail to bring you on the day expect
ed my heart is sad.
Fifty two times year you bring
me all the news from home. You
faithfully chronicle the deaths,
births and marriages of the neigh
borhood You keep me posted on
parties, church socials and village
gossip, and you tell me what the
prospects are for good or poor crops,
as the case might be. If family is
away or a newcomer moves into
town, / know it the next week. If
Farmer Jones, of the Ridge road,
brings prize pumpkin TO your
Office, | know all about it, although
hundreds of miles away, as soon as
some of his neighbors. You keep
me posted on the improvements that
Farmer Brown, of the Labe road,
contemplates to make on his barn
''in the near future And when
Farmer Smith, of the Lexington
road started cheese factory at
Kidd's Corner, | knew it here in
Chicago the day after it's publica-
ton.
o, country newspaper! Well may
| say that ''lite without thee would
be dreary waste. Once week
you are to me an oasis in the desert
of this hurly burly life in great
city.
The city man who does not take
his "home" paper, providing he was
reared in the country, does not know
what real enjoyment he misses.
The news | get out of one issue is
worth more than the yearly sub
scription. / deyour every line of
the local gossip and neighborhood
correspondence, and when lay the
paper aside / praise the country
editor for giving me this privilege.
Letters from home are very vel
come, but one doesn't get as much
news in hundred letters as he does
in one issue of the home paper.
And letters are so uncertain. you
HAVE W hd1Q 5lA IttuGllS
for reply to your last one. But If
you are a subscriber to the country
paper, it comes to you regularly
every week rain or shine. You may
be in arrears but the country editor
sends the paper along with the hope
that You will some day settle up
matters.
TO the man who cannot visit his
old home every year or two the pc
rusal of his home paper is almost as
good as trip to boyhood scenes.
He reads where the little freckle-
faced girl that sat behind him at
school was married to city chap
who holds Lucrative position with
a street car company probably a
motorman; he is informed that the
boy who was known as the bully Of
| the school was arrested for wife de-
sertion and is .sincarcerated in the
county bastile;" he learns from the
home paper that "the Thornton
! family will hold reunion" and the
news is also conveyed that "Aunt
Eliza Robertson will be ninety. three
years old next Tuesday week, an
event which the city man wishes he
was able to be at home to celebrate
| If midnight marauders" steal
seventeen chickens from Jake Beck
er's coop. it is nicely told in the
country paper and the editor would
| be driven out of town ii he failed to
make note Of the benefit party at the
Odd Fellows hall for the M. f.
church, which was ga grand success
socially and financially" The re-
ceipts by the way, amounted to over
seven dollars"
/ am interested in the personal Cos
sip Of my old home, and it is with
| feelings Of genuine pleasure that
learn 'Mr. and Mrs. Fred Myers
wheeled over from Edinboro last Sun
day." or that 'sMiss Ida Wheeler is
sojourning for few days With friends
at Keepyille." The presence ia town
of Mrs. Frank Conley (nee Baxter), of
Buffalo, sformerly resident OF our
burg, is duly chronicled, with the
additional Information that she is
accompanied by her two-months old
baby boy The burning of Hank"
Edson's barn is a piece OF news, as
sit is the ~most disastrous confagra-
tion that has visited this section since
the Fire King destroyed Brown broth
er's cider mill in 1879.
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