The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-05-07
BULLETIN IMPROVEMENTS.

Some improvements are TO be made
in The Bulietin. which doubtless will
be appreciated by iis readers. In
addition 10 the regular Associated
Press service averaging 50f.s words
per night. service Of from l.50o 10
$500 words per day will be i ceived
from another news gathering agency.
which win place The Bailesin's geneF-
al news pages far beyond those Of
any o;aer paper in its own class. This
service win h gin tomorrow.
Next Sunday high class comic sup
plement will be started. Tie business
Office OF The Bulletin has had some
sheet of this kind. The comic sup
plem M Is by far the most important
part Of the Sunday newspaper for the
little folks OF the family and II serves
also as bit If diversion for the older
folks LIS popularity has brought
many specimens into the market,
some of them worse than worth IS.
The sheet which has finally been sa-
cured for Bulletin readers. young and
old. comprises fc full-size pages of
comic pictur &. representing eharac
tiers With some OF which the little
people are doubtless already ac-
qualnted. Tho first instalIment OF
this supplement has been shipped and
will be issued with The Bulletin next
Sunday. and II win be a regular Sun
day feature of The Bulletin there
after.
Tie B;i,oiin Company has cans
TO fec, grateful TO the people Of Cairo
Tor thc.r geacsous patronage, both
IS reader and as advertisers. When
lie company took the paper tn news
paper business In Cairo was al low
ebb. The people Of Cairo had made
great strides in ma erial Improvement
and In all lines Of human activity. BIT
there had been practically no I'm
prov ment In newspapers Of the city.
which were content TO jog along In
the same rt In which they had been
running for two decades. tagging away
behind the community generally and
falling short correspondin:ly in i'm
pressing the outside world with
Cairo's Importance as the m 1fropoiis
Of this section of the country. The
men who put their money into The
Bulletin at thai time land for some
time afterwardsl, had some misgiv-
ings at first and met with some dis
couragements. They wfre even ridi-
culed as foolhardy by contemporaries
which refused to recognize that Cairo
had made any progress during The pre-.
vious quarter OF a century or had any
prospects worthy of anticipation in
such a venture. They point d to the
experience of The Bulletin itself
twenty-five years before. when Il
adopted a telegraphic news srvlce
and was compelled TO abandon il. as
proof that such a service was not suf-
ficientiy appreciated by the people
of Cairo 70 make il profitable. or
even permissible. BIT III gentle
men Of The Bulletin company felt diff
ferently about il While they knew
that a newspaper Office has 4 eaYern.
Gus nav into which thousands may be
shoTeIled for y ars with little sign OF
saiIating il and small prom 50 Of re-
turns. they knew also that the Cairo
Of 1904 was Bof the Cairo of twenty
or thirty years before and they had
confidence in the ciiy's fature-cOnfi-
dence. also. in The p ople ef Cairo rs
an apprecistive. a. well as an enter
prising aud progressive community
They we're pui TO a har and hong
struggle. but they we're not disaps
pointed in their slimale Of the PEG
PIE Of Cairo. and although The Bul-