Connecticut western news., 1916-11-16
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When the present management took Mold of The News it was predicted by some of our contemporaries that it would never amount to anything again. prediction, it does not. However. as none of those who were so liberal with their free advertising had any way of Knowing what the future of the paper would be, and the majority of them never contributed cent towards it's support, and so long our subscription list continues to talk to us as it has Been doing of late, we can only say i've should worryp'
 1t Is encouraging to note the interest talat many of The News subscribers take in the "Reminiscence" column which is found on page 4 each week. Not enly the older readers but those of all ages find here much information, both Historical and amusing, to be had from no other source. In fact, it is com Rlete condensed history of all important and interesting happenings in this sec. siun, including all sorts, from the sub. lime to the rediculous. Those who lived here in those "good old days" find among these items many reminders of the varied incidents that made life what it was in the 70s: and, too, how frequently and effectively one is i'm pressed with the truthfulness of Item. pus fugit," as our memories are re- freshed with the chronicling of certain events which occurred forty odd years ago, that seem to us now to have trans pired less than half as far back.
 We have returned to the old-style custom of publishing the vital statistics HI a classified department in the last column on page 4, so that reader may learn the latest "hatched, matched and 'spatched" news (as our devil calls it) without raking the whole paper with a.fine- tooth comb" to find the inform ation among the other news matter and we know that this feature is ap- preeiated by large percentage of our subscribers, because many have told rs 50.
 We are also running two columns sf general state news-short items of interesting happenings about the state, that were never given in The News be- fore.
 We lost subscriber recently be- canse,~ under the head of "Letters from the People, some one wrote some thing that did not agree with this par NcuIar subscribers ideas, so he "got even with the other fellow" by taking 1t out of us. AS this subscriber lives more than fifty miles from here, and, so far as,we know, has not, nor never had, any interest in anything in this part of the state. we cannot under stand why he should ever have taken the paper. However, as we added two new names to our list when we took this one off. we are going to try to worry along a little while without him.
 With the increased cost of every shing that goes to make a newspaper, sisa subscription price of The News re. mnins the same. The paper itself up. sn which The News is printed costs twice as much as it did a few years ago which means several hundred dol Iars in year. The costs of produc' tion have doubled, yet no one suggested shSt we raise the subscription price one sent-and we predict that great how would go up if we did.
 While we may be considered as talk ing from a prejudiced standpoint, WI Really think that, as papers go, and al 50 many are raising, or have alread. raised their prices, The News is wei worth it's price, especially to the new xubscribers who, by starting now. ge sse paper fourteen months for two dol lars.
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