La Junta tribune., 1914-04-18
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~ Arikasaas valley -
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"a valley the other day. o. 3.
1 Haubrich. Of the Pueblo Chleel1S,
Itook me down in his new -. cll64
IOliyer went along for belfast ~ ~
car needs some heavy ballast
! THAT Is fine section Of ~ se1to
and looks more prosperous esegy
year. ! saw at least ten nswspoDoe
men in the different towns and ekoS
are fine bunch OF fellows. Entef-
prising, optimistic, loyal and always
on the job.
Il never heard SO much talk Of 10y
atty to the home town and loyalty Of
the home town to the newspaper u
among those fellows
..The papers are mostly wesklies
but fine weekIies. All look clean, up
to-date. prosperous and exceedinsly
well supported, Nothing is finer than
country weekly. II beats . daily
all to pieces A good weekly Il Z
holiday all the time as compared to
a country daily--nnd can be made
to pay better.
Prices are good. ad rates are
stiff Job prices are above the Az
erage In country towns. And have
never heard OF so much loyalty on
the part of the people to their local
newspapers as did down the valley.
Banks and the big seed and CONNER
cial houses throw practically all their
work to local printers. was told In
Rocky Ford that not single cAts-
logue that could be printed In the
town was sent out In this respect
Il beats my town all to pieces. A.
good deal OF the Job printing annual
" sent to the big cities from most Of
the counties is done by local printers
In this section
But the finest sight ! saw on the
| lfrip-rre finest thing ever saw In
any newsaaper office was the galley
proofs OF Fred s'sscn's La Junta Tri-
bune subscription list
II had heard that Nj. Mason re-
Quired cash. but I supposed that he
did 1t in most instances" like many
Others.
He told us that his list was all
paid In advance. We didn't doubt his
word exactly. but We asked him to
see the list. So he pulled II out--thc
printed sheets he mailed from. There
were about thousand names. Every
name had the expiration date after
It, Every date was In April. 1914.
or later. Probably two.thirds Of the
dates were 1915.
His price is $3.50, Always In
advance. He notifies every sub
scriber time or two before the sub
scription expires and II the cash isn't
In for q renewal by the first OF the
month following. off goes the name.
''It's worth trip to La Junta Just
TO see that subscription list Guy
u. Hardy. In the Colorado Press.
Yes. We have very classy SUBJ
scription list. We don't believe
there Is another one like II In the
whole state Of colorado-and after
three years experience We are thor
ouEhly convinced that It's the "only
way''-thc only system that will
prove satisfactory to both parties
concerned. Our paper reaches the
kind Of people that the advertiser
wants 10 deal with. Some class TO
them. The man who kicks on pay
Ing the small sum Of $3.50 In ad-
vance for his home newspaper. Is
not desirable man for . customer
In any line Of business. II he pays
cash for his Newspaper he will pay
cash for almost everything else
either on the spot or at least once a
month. That's the kind Of people
the merchants want to cultivate. n
they do. the less need they will have
for credit associations. II you want
10 find out whose good" In La Jun
IA. come down and look over our
subscription list. There isn't a sub
scribcr on the list whose crcdi, *
not good. Well guarantee Il. Is
your name written thcref II no,
now Is good time TO subscribe. be-
cause our subscription list IA going
to be 'on the roll that is called 90
yonder." II will only cost you 81 80.
Invariably in advance. TO have your
namc placed on the roll.
OF course. some Of our subserlb-
ers ret little huffy. sometimes
when We stop tho paper. they seem
to think We just stop the paper IN