The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1904-04-28
THE HOME NEWSPAPER.
Why 1t Should Appeal to Your Sup
port In Preference to the Big City
Weekly Even if 1t Does Cost More
A Comparison Between the Two.

We occasionally meet q man who
announces grayely that the price
| charged for the local newspaper is
too much when he can get some big
weekly from way off yonder for one
half or One-third the cost of the home
paper. But, did it ever occur to such
persons that it costs the local news
paper management more to issue the
same sized paper? Did it ever occur
to them that the city weekly does not
tell anything about the neighbor-
hood i'll which they live, and where
their principal interests are centered?
If Il wedding. or a death, or a birth
day party, or a fire, or some other
red letter occurrence takes place in
their family the local newspaper takes
pleasure in writing it up. and one
copy of the paper containing such
notice is more than d bushel basket
full of city weeklies The record OF
one birth or death, of one marriage,
or other events of local Importance
is filed away with the deeds and notes
and pondered over years after to the
intense satisfaction of the persons
concerned. To get into the city weekly
it is necessary to do something strik-
ing and the shadier that is the more
space you are given. Kill a man, rob
a train, rob your grandmother, loot
Il bank, make Il stake gambling on
futures, invent some new method of
bilking the people, or a unique form
of homicide and your place in the
city weekly is assured. But the home
paper tells OF your progressiveness,
speaks we'll of your family when they
do that which justifies it, spreads the
mantle of charity over misdeeds and
seeks to make the life Of those around
better by its existence Is it not
worth what it costs you to get such
Il paper? If not, we beg you at least
to consider these things before you
say the price charged for the local
newspaper is too much.-LeXingtOn
Dispatch.
While Oh this subject the following
which is taken from an exchange is
timely. Under the heading of "The
Old Home Paper'' it says:
''WhO is it that does not know how
to appreciate the old home paper?
None. unless it is some poor soul who
never learned to read. The very
pleasure of this old friend brings
about recollections of bygone days
some pleasant to remember, others
sad reflection. In its columns will be
found a few names of those we learned
to love long ago, many other names
appear we fail to recognize Time
brings changes and in the course of a
few years we find that many dear
ones have crossed to the golden shore
while Others have wandered away to
foreign climes-girl friends married,
their names changed and forever
lost. There is nothing so dear as a
true and tried friend, and this makes
it all the more sad when we reflect
shall we ever meet again? But the
old paper is sometimes a source of
great relief in that it reveals to us
the home of u childhood companion.
We, in other States, maybe after
years of absence, with pleasure find
our names mentioned in it's columns.
Probably our early friends had for
gotten we ever existed, but this per-
sOnal mention has revived failing
memory and we are once more estab-
lished as 'an old time friend The
home paper is an absolute necessity,
it is a comfort, frequently a source of
sadness, but the world at large could
not get along peacefully in mind
without it. However, many OF us do
not contribute as much as we should
for its observation-disclosures rock along
and neglect our duty But this is
not right and should not be. To
maintain it above the average takes
liberal patronage, so let's all join
hands and circle through the old
home paper-write for it, read it and
place our ads, if any, in it,