The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-12-18
SIXTY YEARS AGO.
Gleanings From an Old Copy of
"The Bedford Gazette"

WneD william WlDk, OF Belfast
township called at the News office
a few days ago to advance his
subscription to the latter part of
1908, he handed us copy of the
Bedford Gazette published Sep
TEN Der ., 1S43 almost sixty
years ago 1t is a small five
column four page paper and is a
poor apology for the 9-column
blanket sheet of the Bedford Gaz-
cite OF the present day.
1t was printed and published
at that time by Col. John Bowman
for the moderate sum of two dol
lars year, payable within the
year, or two dollars and fifty
cents after the year expired,
While a paper of that size would
not cut much of a figure in mod
ern newspaperdom, it, no doubt
at that time welded an influence
that was felt throughout the en-
tire county, which then embraced
not only the present area of Bed
ford county which is 1908 square
miles, but Included all of Fulton
and part of Blair. One of the
things that strikes the newspaper
man of to-day most forcibly Is the
difference in editorial language
used now, compared with that of
sixty years ago.
1t would seem that the printers
bills in those good old days were
called into question much as they,
sometim IS are at the present.
The political party who did not
get the public printing tried to
make the impression that Col.
Bowman was robbing the public,
and this is the way the Colonel
relieved himself in an editorial in
the old paper we have before US :
For the last five or six months
the Bedford Coous have been will
fully, wickedly, and maliciously
circulating report that the edi-
tor of this paper charged the
State an UNPRECEDENTED
sum for printing the State Treas.
urer's Report'-that 'he has plum
dered the Commonwealth out of
several hundred dollars more for
doing this work than would have
been charged by a COON, &c.
&c. &C. Now mark how a plain
tale will put those infamous Ii
AIRS down
The Treasurer's Report for
1871 was printed by HI. MONT
GOMERY, the man who printed
the LOG CABIN RIFLE in 1910 I!
1t made 44A pages, for which
this same log cabin rifle coon
charged the Commonwealth $500
for the PRINTING ALONE =
The Report printed by us in 1912
makes 595 pages, a difference Of
I5I pages, for which we charged
$670.50, being precisely at the
SAME RATE charged by this
Log Cabin Reform Printer, which
any man will find to be the fact
by making the calculation for
himself. The difference IN the
pages is what makes the differ
ence in the price, and no one but
FOOL or a VILLAIN would say
that the printing of a book con-
tanning 595 pages ought not to
cost more than the printing of
one containing only 444 pages ! !.
In addition to this, there is no de-
cent man who will compare the
two works that will not say that
there ought to be difference OF
500 in our favor in consequence
of the very handsome manner in
which the Report of 1912 is exc
cuted over that of l94l, yet we
only charged at the rate estab-
lished by the Log Cabin Reform
ers of 1910! Messrs. Hickock g.
Cantine's bill for folding and
stitching, and IS charged for
printing 600 handsome covers,
makes the whole work amount to
$718 and 80 cents hence it will
he seen that the degraded scamps
who are set forward as the lead
ers of the coen party in Bedford
are a united band of LIARS that
are a disgrace and reproach to
the community. Whilst, howev-
er, these infamous liars are at
tempting TO impose the falsehood
above alluded to upon their read
ers, the public records show that
the coon printers in Bedford have
charged the tax payers $50 more
than the editor of the Gazette for
printing the one item Of Receipts
and Expenditures, and the soft
creature who is now made to fa-
ther the silly productions of a
nest of half-nedged GOSLlN' pet