The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-08-21
PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH.

While we advise all business men
to advertise, and while we believe
that business success can be obtained
in no other manners, we propose to
g practice what We preach, and there
fore we advertise The Pioneer as.
the best local paper published in
north-central Minnesota. It is
journal which may be taken with
the most implicit confidence. Its
pages will never be 5soiled by any
thing that is objectionable, and its
advertising columns cannot be pur-
chased for immoral announcements,
at any price. h.. ~zal tnIa 9znyqxs /
The Pioneer is emphatically a
local journal, designed to be home
history Of the living present. No
movement for the benefit of society
will be allowed to go unnoticed; but
we will heartily, second the efforts
of any individual or any class where
their objects are for the improve
.ment of the community, financially
and morally.
~: Any newspaper is the companion
and friend of the family, but the
local paper is one identified with the
interest of the home. 1t isconducted
by those whom you know. Its
columns are filled with what is of
special value to you. In its pros
perity you have a vital interest, and
to its prosperity you can best con-
tribute by giving your support and
patronage. 1t is your neighbor.
Its interests are your interests. 1t
is your friend, it, in preference to all
others.
No outside or foreign paper can
possibly have claims upon you until
your duty is discharged to the local
journal.
OF him who says he can get city
paper much larger than his own
local journal for the same amount of
money, we would inquire:
Do the city papers say anything
about your country, its climate,
water, healthfulness, soil, products,
improvements, mi Is, churches
schools, etc., etc? Nothing, volun-
tarily.
Do they mention your public meet
ings, your city and county news, and
the other thousand and one matters
of interest which your home paper
publishes without pay? Not much.
Do they ever say a word, gratis,
calculated to draw to your city or
county and aid in bringing immi-
grants and developing the wealth of
your community? Not line.
And yet there are men who take
such contracted views of the matter
that unless they get as many square
inches of reading matter in their
own county paper as they do in the
city paper, they think that they are
not getting the worth of their money.
Your local newspaper works for
its own town; does all it can to
build up the place, advance the in
terests of it's citizens, draw trade to
the town, put money into the pockets
of the business men, and adds to
the well-being of all.
Such a paper is entitled to the
liberal patronage from the town and
community it works for.
The columns of the Pioneer are
of great value to advertisers, our
subscription list enabling US to
place the announcements for our
business men before a greater num-
Der and better class of readers
than can any other medium, and at
much less expense.
A local journal cannot hope to
compete with the improved presses
and immense calculations of big
dailies; but there is much satisfaction
derived from local news in local
papers.
Our jobbing department is pro-
vided with a line of up-to-date type
suitable for all classes of commercial
printing, and we always keep on
hand the best brands of paper stock,
etc. The Pioneer Printery is second
to none in north-central Minnesota.
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