The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1911-11-30
Shop Talk.

Beginning with the New Year it
Is our purpose to make The Herald
strictly a county paper. We do
not mean by this that heretofore
The Herald has been in spirit any
thing else but a county paper, be-
cause it has always stood for and
advocated those things that make
for the very best and highest in
an enlightened and progressive
citizenship, but like a majority of
its contemporaries it has devoted
too much of its space to affairs on
the outside and too little to those
on the inside.
BY making The Herald strictly a
county paper we mean that here
after every section Of the county
will be represented by a live and
aggressive correspondent The dali
ly happenings in every community
Will be told in the columns of The
Herald by weekly letter, which we
hope to make interesting and in
structive 70 the readers in other
communities as we'll as to the
readers in the community from
which the letter is written.
The wonderful progress of the
country, combined with the rapid ex-
tension of the rural route system,
opsned an avenue for the invas-
ion of the weekly field which was
too inviting for the daily publica-
ton to resist, and to-day news "a
hours old is not news, even in the
remotest sections of the county. The
farmer 16 miles distant from the
county seat has read his daily pa
pers. before the business man in
town has disposed of his morning
correspondence.
We saw this condition two years
ago and endeavored to meet it by
subscribing the the New York
and other metropolitan papers
that carried a fuller telegraphic
service. This plan enabled us for
a time to give our readers news of
happenings which could not be caI
ried by their daily papers, but in
the meantime the efficiency of the
service rendered by the state daily
mas been improving, until to-day
nothing of Importance happens in
the world that does not reach the
rural route subscriber almost as
quickly as it reaches the town
city subscriber.
Our object always has been to
give our readers NEWS, and not
re-hash of something they saw
some other paper several days be-
forehand. This has been a dif
cul1 problem. 1t is u problem that
conironts every publisher of
weekly newspaper. We have spared
neither time nor expense in improv-
ing the efficiency OF the news Ser
vice Of The Herald, but as before
stated some other policy must b,
followed, and hereafter our policy
VIII be TO cover our own county as
thoroughly as it is possible TO coy
er it.
beSlhnlng January 1st we hope
TO have a force OF active correspond
ents at work in every section of
Dillon county. The leading fea-
lures of The Herald will be "Coun-
ty News while state, national and
international news items will not be
neglected, but will be greatly con
densed. You can aid us greatly in
this new undertaking by handing to
our correspondent in your particular
section any news item that may b,
of interest to our readers in any
other section.
This is a rather frank and candid
statement which may draw the fire
of criticism from some of our week
iy contemporaries, but nevertheless
it is a condition which exists in
every weekly newspaper office and
its truthfulness cannot be doubted.
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