The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19
Newspapers in Nearly Every
Town That Has 500 People.
Publications Scattered in Far
Away Parts of the World.
HAVE MANY QUEER NAMES
Poetic License i'm the Titles of
Hundreds of Newspapers.
Country Editors Clean Out
Scanty Existence in Villages.

Have you ever stopped to figure out
the magnitude of the newspaper and
magazine business in the United States?
Do you know that more than ninety
per cent of the cities, towns and vii
lagos in this country with over 800 pop
ulation have at least one paper? Do
you know that there are between
q, 900 and $4,000 different periodicals. in
the United States with calculations
totaling several hundred millions.
There is wonderful network Of
newspapers throughout this nation.
From the big metropolitan dailies, to
the little four page weekly in a Kansas
village. each serves its purpose, to give
the news. The per cent of people ir
the United States who are regular SUBJ
scribers or readers of newspapers il
much greater than in any other part
of the world. The farmer gets his news
paper daily, or the weekly from the
county seat town. The citizens of the
smaller cities read their evening and
morning newspapers. with their pony
telegraph or "grapevine' reports. In
the other cities, with populations from
$4,000 upwards. the people buy their
paper from the newsboys, or at newe
stands. or get it by mail. or carrier.
Everybody reads the newspapers.
Queer Names.
Newspapers seem to have poetic Ii
cense in the naming of the different
publications. A few of them from Ala
bama: The Southern Aegis, Ashville;
the Centre Harmonixer: the Admission
Professionalism, and also the Star and
Hot Blast; in Galloway, Montana, is
published the Loup Valley Queen: Blk
by. N. c., volunteers with the Weekly
Hornet: Graham. in the same state Of
fers the Alamance Cleaner; the town
OF Leaksville has an appropriate paper,
the Spray-News; Marshville has a local
Democratic paper. Our Home; More
head City has the Coaster; another
town has the Hustler; Maxton has the
Scottish Chief; Moravian Falls has the
Yellow Jacket. and to top this list, Yad-
kinville has the Yadkin Ripple. One Of
the greatest papers in the south is the
New Orleans Picayune.
Kansas is not exempt from such
pretty names for papers. For instance
at Larned. there is the Tiller and Toiler
and the Chronoscope; Elmer Peterson
publishes an excellent newspaper at
Cimarron, the Jacksonian; Americas
looms up with its Greeting; the oldest
paper in the state Is the Champion. at
AtchiSOn, with a young man and for
me- Baker football star as city editor:
Atwood is proud Of its Square Deal;
Belleville has paper with a wide cir
culation.- the Telescope and Freeman;
comparing in rhyme with the North
OdA OllAa X1uSIlcI Is tie 1NuSCICI dl
Chanute; two towns. Highland and
Cloyton. publish Videttes; Cold
water is blessed with the Talisman,
and w. B. Lowry, at Columbus,
has Democratic sheet. Modern
Light; the famous Arcadia Sunlight
editorial writer's; De Sofa has an Eagle
Eye, looking over the banks of the
Kaw; there are a bunch of Signals
Holton. Alma. Westmoreland, Dwight
and other places; Edmond has turned
over a New Leaf; Ford has a Promoter;
Garden City has its Prolocutor; Grain
field has the Cap Sheaf; Haviland is
ever ready with w. E. Lawrence and
his Onlooker; Hugoton presents
Hermes to its readers; F. NJ. Cook is
editor Of the widely quoted Jamestown
| Optimist; there is the Mission-T idings
at Lindsborg, and the fact that it is
published at Lindsborg explains the
cOnslOmeratiOn Of cOnsOnants: Mime
apolis is pleased with the Better Way;
Netawaka people read the news of the
locality in the Talk, while Della at one
time boosted of just THE Paper"
there is the Palladium. one of the Par
sons newspapers; Peru boosts the vi
entity with a Derrick; Mack Gretchen
is the owner of the Sedgwick Panta-
graph. while Sam Hallowell. in Topeka,
runs a Pantatorium; Uniontown pre-
sents to the public the Cicerone; in
the old days when times were bad for
the farmers, George Hartman. at Val
| ley Falls, brought out the Farmers
Vindicator, which is still a leading
weekly newspaper: Wilsey must be a
musical center. for a Mr.. Pirtle is the
editor Of the Warbler, and an interest
ing and instructive newspaper has been
esta blished in Wilson. the Kansaske
Roxhledy, which is affiliated with the
Osveta America of Omaha: the Min
nesota Noviny of st. Paul: Cesky Ibzor
Schuyler. Neb, and the Wilberke Liety.
WILDER, Neb.
In Small Towns.
| The newspaper business is certainly
wide. and extended one. Editors
CLEAN out an existence in small towns
of less than 200 souls, with one press
and two or three cases of type. The
country newspaper, in many instances
| is a profitable investment and in many
cases it is not. But there is one thing
the subscriber who pays a dollar for q