Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-02-24
THE WORM HAS TURNED
Revolution in the Management Of The
Old Home Paper.

Revolution in the Management Of The
Old Home Paper.
The Old Home Paper is to adopt
new policy concerning the publication
Of news. That is, the Old Home Paper
thinks it is about to adopt a new poll
cy because the editor is on the, war
path this week But next week the pa
per will contain the same kind o. news
that has made it so popular with its
readers in the past.
The occasion for the wrath Of the
I editor Of The Old Home Paper this
week as related in the issue which
reached you yesterday (for the well
come visitor from the little town al
ways arrives by Saturdays maiD, was
a letter received from one Of its sub
scribers.
Please send me as many extra
copies, free, Of last weeks issue Of the
paper as you can find around the Of
fice," said the letter. 1T contains a
long obituary Of my aunt who lived in
Illinois. Also, please publish the in
closed clipping from a Texas paper
about the marriage Of my niece. Mo-
body knows her here, but it will help
you fill up the paper. If it does not
cost anything I wish you would also
put in piece in the paper to say that
l have two good calves for sale. Last
week received a notice that my sub
scription is due. Please stop the paper
as times are too hard for me to waste
money on newspapers"
1t was not the nerve Of the subscrib-
er in imposing upon the editor Of The
Old Home Paper that offended him,
and which promises to revolutionize
the policy of lifetime in the liberal
ity of this old publication. No, indeed,
for ever since the paper has been es-
tablished the editor has never fsiled
to record the death Of the aunts Of his
subscribers and to print long obitu-
aries clipped from any other state al
though nobody in all the little old town
knew anything about the deceased
aunt or was at all interested in her
death. But that is the way the editor
has of pleasing his subscribers. No
one in the little old town ever gets a
letter announcing the death Of a rela-
tive or the marriage Of a relative with
out insisting upon The Old Home Pa
per devoting as much space to the
event as the local paper back in Ulster
county, New York, where the folks
lived, devotes to 1t.
II have some news for your paper"
a woman telephones the editor. This
morning I received letter from
cousin Of mine who lives at Paducah,
KY, and it announces that her daugh-
ter was married there last month to
one of the most prominent young men
in the city. He drives hack from the
Illinois Central depot to the Paducah
House. My cousin also sends me
clipping from a newspaper there. If
you will send somebody up to the
house I will send it down so you can
print it. 1t is only a short notice, and
I would like to have it returned after
you copy It,"
Did this relative Of yours ever live
in this town, or visit here?" asks the
editor meekly. Does anybody in the
town know her"
NO" answers the subscriber. "But
lots Of my friends have heard me talk
about my cousin in Paducah, and they
1, .,.to L., haf
daughter is married"
So the editor prints the piece from
the Paducah paper with a notice at the
bottom that "the bride Is the accom-
Brown Of our city"
And on the strength Of Mrs. Brown
having given the editor this news story
to enliven his paper, Mr.. Brown comes
down and tells the editor about his pen
of Plymouth Rock chickens and gets
him to insert line in half-column
story about the chickens to the effect
that "Mr. Brown has concluded to part
with number of these chickens in or
der to encourage the production OF
blooded poultry in this community. He
will sell them in trios at $5 per trio,
and will sell eggs for hatchings at 50
per Is eggs"
No less than four of the six columns
Of The Old Home Papers news section
are given over to the newspaper spong-
ers in the little old town, and the edi-
tor has never made q complaint. But
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