Putnam patriot., 1916-08-18
PATRIOTS DAY
 OF PUBLICATION
Beginning with First Issue in September Paper will be Published Friday Afternoon
Change Made to Benefit Advertisers and
 Readers


 tember the PATRIOT will go to press Friday afternoons instead of Thursday afternoons. The forms will be put to bed and the paper issued in time to catch the city mail carriers and the afternoon outgoing mails.
 This change has been decided upon after careful consideration of the mat ter from the standpoint of the reader, the advertiser and our own interests with view to better service.
 We are not taking new step in making this important change. We are going back to the policy in vogue when the late Editor A. w. Mscdon- ald first took over the paper thirty.four years ago. The paper has ever since remained under a Friday date line. The change to Thursday was made years ago at the request of subscribers. At that time there was no free mail delivery in the city, no rural carriers, and subscribers in the outlying sections only received mail two or three times week. On account of the mail service at that time, when published Friday afternoon, the paper would, in many instances, fail to reach it's destin ation before the first of the following week. This has now been changed by the rapid strides insthe mail service.
 hn p lIfln papers put in the local post office be- fore three o'clock Friday afternoon will be delivered in the city within two hours. They will also go to the outlying districts lon the trains and stages to be distributed in the evening or at the latest, Saturday mornings.
 This change will in effect give ad- vertisers the same advantages that a semi weekly paper would give them. There has been some demand for a daily paper in Putnam. The field has been thoroughly canvassed several trres with lthis in view. As yet no one, after careful consideration of the situation as found to exist has thought well enough of the proposition to at- tempt the venture. The semi-weekly was given a trial some years ago but a return was made 10 the weekly issue. There are two week lies now issued in the city and the field is ample for two such papers. The question we shsve considered is as to how best to serve the advertisers and the public sunder existing conditions and we have come to the conclusion that by changing the publication day of the PATRIOT to Friday both the interests of the adver- tisers and the readers will be best con served. It will give them in effect a semi. weekly paper, editions on We'd nesday and Friday.
 While we have carefully considered this matter for some time and feel con- tident that the change will meet the approval of our readers and adverti- sers, it is our intention to give the pub lie our irst consideration and 1t would | be gratifying to hear from anyone re. garding their views and opinions on | the proposed change.
 In order that we may get all adver- tisements and correspondence from l surrounding towns in the paper, copy | will have to be in our hands by Thurs | day morning and earlier if possible. | We shall of course continue to receive | any important news from outlying sections up to an hour before going to | press but the general run of news and | advertisements should be in the office | Thursday morning.
 The PATRIOT is Putnam's oldest | newspaper. Year after year it has | gone on doing what it could to ad- vance the interests of the community | il serves. It has given many dollars | worth of space in its campaign for bus | mess. religious, civic and home better ment. It has endeavored to chronicle | passing events in an interesting man. 1 ner. It has endeavored to keep its columns free from undertaking, mud | singing and objectionable articles. It | has made no attempt 10 cover worldi country or even state news to any ex- tent but has devoted it's energies 10 i thoroughly cover the happenings and events of interest to the citizens of | eastern Windham County and to set | them forth in an interesting and read- able manner. It has made no effort to ! extend its circulation to the towns to | The south but has endeavored to give | 10 the citizens of Putnam and the peo- i Die of the towns of Thompson, Nood- { stock and Pomfret a painstaking &C., | count of the current events of each i week.
 It is not the policy of this paper to i take part in personal differences, or to i light the bsttles of others. We endea- Nor 10 remain neutral and to print the | faets on both sides ofsall controversies [ Editorially we accept the right, If ne- eessary, to print a fair and impartial i criticism of any matter after the facts l have been learned. Knowingly we do I not intend to injure the interests of ! our city or any of it's citizens or to hurt I the feelings ,of any person. Our col | nmns are always open to anyone who 1, has bit Of news, an idea or . sugges- i