News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1901-04-17
SERVES THE PEOPLE.
VALUE OF THE LOCAL PAPER TO A
COMMUNITY.

Fills Demand That Cannot BE Sum
piled In Any other Way-Fovv the
People Can Help 1t AIOng-Benefits
of Advertising.
Some time ago the editor of the Rich
mond QndJ Enterprise published an
article in which are catalogued all the
services of the local paper. coupled
with injunctiOns as to how to help the
editor thereof in return for the papers
help. He says:
"The paper has done 80 things for
you and is only anxious to do 80 more.
1T told your friends when your par
ents were married; it announced to the
world when you were born.
at recorded the great events of your
childhood-when you were lost as
wandering baby, when you had the
measles and scarlet fever, when you
fell into the washtub and nearly drown
ed, when you fell from the cherry tree
and broke your collar bone, when you
first started to 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.
at told of your entering high school
or academy. 1t told of your contests
in baseball and tennis. 1t told of your
departure for college or your first ven
ture in business.
at told of your various visits back to
the old home neighborhood, and it al
ways wished you well in your greatest
undertakings.
1T limited modestiy about the first
time you went accounting and gave
timely warning to her folks that the
Fneighbors knew that matters were
growing interesting over their way.
ut announced the time of your eX-
pected wedding, and it published the
notice of the marriage license and gave
you a nice puff concerning the wedding
ceremony.
''It told of your extended honeymoon
tour and of your settling down to
housekeeping.
"When you were sick, the home pa
per week by week Informed your more
distant neighbors of your lapses and
Improvements.
4 at told about your lost COW and led
4 to her recovery. 1t told how your
horse had been stolen and led to the
arrest Of the thief.
"When you were getting dull and
tired through the monOtony Of your la
Dor, the paper urged that the people
get up a celebration, and you were
named as one of a suitable committee
on arrangements. And when it was al
} over it gave you just praise for the sue
cess Of the undertaking.
"In numerous ways the paper has
helped to put your name before the
4 people, and you would never have haC
n your lucrative office or your honorable
recognition from the community bu
for the kind aid of the local printer.
, eff you are a member of a Sunday
school or society of any sort, that same
paper publishes your announcements
and the various proceedings Of you
meetings.
! at tells the people much which yol
J would like to have known, but which
, modesty or necessity prevents you from
telling.
, "If you and all your folks have beer
} prosperous and fortunate in your af
, fairs, the paper has boosted you all thu
, way. If you have had misfortune, TIL
paper asked for sympathy in your be
r half.
2 "Thus the paper has rejoiced whel
r you rejoiced and wept when you wept
If you are a good citizen, the paper will
= always be your friend and will bacl
7 you in your enterprises and will he'll
to find you business friends.
at tells you where to buy and wher
to SELL 1t tells of rOgues to be avoided
at tells you of current prices an
/ prevents you from being cheated ant
! swindled in a hundred ways.
"Finally, when you die, the pape
, will publish your obituary and wi
, cover over your faults and will recit
3 the story of your good deeds.
3 "All these things the local editor wi
cause his paper to do, but no one els
In the world will do them or can d
2 them for you, even for love or money
Q The city paper will tell you of tn
| world, but it won't tell the world abou
I you or yours. The outside paper is
, stranger to your little world and is nc
( at all interested in its improvement
Yet your local paper does all this FIRE
r of cost to you if you are willing to n
ceive 1t in that way. However, fC
r your sake, we hope you are too genel
GUS to accept so many unrequited fl
r vors and that you are willing to recil
O rocate the same.
y Help the editor. Be his friend, an
he will prove his friendship to you.
Subscribe for his paper and pay fc
= it regularly in advance and get you
neighbors to do the same.
i, "Send him the news.
= "Tnvite him to your picnics and fan
. fly dinners, so that he can eat squal
= lAeal occasionally.
- Don't call the ticket you give him
the church concert deadhead. Il
= can't buy tickets from everybody to e
. erything, but he will say kind words
- your performance and thus lead othel
- to buy your tickets.