Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-20
PTACTICE WHAT you PREACH
AND PATRONIZE YOUR HOME
PAPER.

PAPER.
While we advise all business men
to advertise, and believe that bust
ness success can be obtained in no
other manner, we propose to practice
what we preach, and therefore we ad
vertise our paper as among the best
local papers in this section. It is a
journal which may be taken with the
most implicit confidence. It's pages
will never be soiled by anything OBJ
jectionable, and it's advertising col
umns cannot be purchased for i'm
moral announcements at any price. 1t
is emphatically a local journal, de-
signed to be a home history of the
living present. No movement for the
benefit of society will be allowed to
go unnOticed. No movement for the
benefit Of society will be allowed to
pass unapproved, but it will heartily
second the efforts of any individual
or any class where their objects are
for the Improvement of the commun-
ity, financially and morally.
Any newspaper is the companion
and friend of the family, but the
local paper is one identified with the
interests of the home 1t is conduct
ed by those whom you know. It's col
umns are filled with what is of spe-
cial value to you. In its prosperity
you have vital interest, and to its
prosperity you can best contribute
by giving your support and patronage
1t is your neighbor Your duty is
first to those who know your wants.
It is your friend, in preference to
any and all others No outside or
foreign paper can possibly have claim
upon you until your duty is discharg-
ed to the local journal. Of him who
says he can get a city paper much
larger than his own local journal for
the same amount of money, we would
inquire: Do the city papers say any
thing about your country, it's climate,
water, springs, healthfulness, soil, pro
duct, stock-raising, mills, minerals,
schools, churches, roads, bridges,
or other improvements? Nothing.
Do they mention your public meeting.
your town and county news, and the
other thousand and one matters of
interest which your home paper pub
fishes without pay? Not much. Do
they ever say a word, gratis, calcu-
lated to draw to your town or county
and aid in bringing in immigrants and
developing the wealth of your com
munity? Not a line. And yet there
are men who take such contracted
views of the matter that unless they
get as many square inches of read
ing matter in their own county paper
as they do in city paper they
think they are not getting the worth
of their money. Your local news
paper works for its Own town; does
all it can to build up the place, ad-
vance the interest of its citizens,
draw trade to the town puts money
into the pockets of the businessmen
and adds to the we'll being of all.
Such paper is entitled to the Ii
beral patronage from the town and
community it works for.
Our columns viii prove of great
value to advertisers, our subscrip-
ton list enabling us to place the an
nouncement for our business men be
fore a greater number and a better
class of readers than can any other
medium, and at much less expense
We shall give as much attention to
this department as to the reading mat
ter columns. ever striving to keel
them fresh, newsy, and attractive.
Our subscription rates win remain I'M
changed. A local journal cannot
compete with the steam presses and
immense calculations of city dailies.
Our jobing department is provided
with a line of type and ornaments
suitable for all commercial printing,
and we always keep on handthe best
brands of paper stock, etc. All or
ders viii be filled eXpeditiously, and
satisfactorily, and at city prices, We
invite a call, and promise to make