The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1917-07-19
Well Supplied in Reading Matter

Not long since The Independents
Reporter asked it's readers to report
as to the daily and weekly papers and
other periodicals they were receiving
A small prize was offered for the best
letter. In reply to this invitation the
following is one of several letters
which have been submitted in COM
petition for this prize.
The IndependentRepor Co,
Skowhegan, Maine.
Dear Sirs:-
In a recent issue of your paper.
you requested your readers to write
YOU about the papers to which they
subscribe and the ones they would
recommend to others.
Since moving from the farm to the
village, nine years ago, we nave let
our subscriptions to numerous period
icals expire, until at the present time
we have but one Boston daily, one
county weekly, The Youths Compan-
ion, one monthly magazine, The "o
mans Home Companion and the pa
pers received at Sunday School,
Cooks, The Young Peoples Weekly
and The Girls Companion.
While one should never have so
many periodicals that there is not
some time to devote to books, yet
our present number would be made
ouate from the farmers standpoint
for the intelligent, up-to-date farmer
is the best informed man there Is
among the people who earn their live
| lihood by manual labor.
Then from an economical point OF
view and for the needs of the average
farmers family in this state, they
| should have one of the leading Maine
weeklies or dailies. The kenneDec
Journal, Lewiston Sun, Wateryille
Sentinel or Bangor Commercial. they
are all good; one county paper; one
agricultural paper; one religious pa
per, and always and forevermore,
The Youths Companion, Boston, Mass.
at $500 The last has been in our
family for nearly twenty-five years
and we couldn't think of doing with
out it. 1t is just as good for adults
as for the younger ones. When any
| great matter of national or interna-
tional interest Is agitating the coun-
| try and your mind is troubled to de-
eide aright,-fo the Republican edl-
tors will tell you one thing and the
| Democratic editors will tell you
something else,-then turn to the
Companions editorial page and read
the calm, unbiased and wholly patri-
otto version that you find there and
your yexed spirit will find relief.
For dairy paper there is nothing
ahead of Hoard's Dairyman, Fort At
kinson, Wis. The subscription price
is $1.00 for single copies, weekly re-
duced rates in clubs.
The Christian Herald, New York, is
one of the best religious papers, and
can be obtained with one or two maya
zines at reduced prices. For the wo-
man of the house the only two of the
lower priced magazines which | could
| recommend are the Ladies' Home
Journal and the Woman's Home Com
| panion.
For several years we took the New
York Thrice-a-Week World in combin-
alton with several monthly magazines
which greatly reduced. the cost of all
OF the several Boston dailies which
| We uoNO hdu, luluh We llhe TIC / Wv
as we'll as any. Like the World it is
independent, democratic, politically
land we are all for Teddy but it is
! patriotic and the editorials are usual
ly written in a fair-minded way
Nearly all Sunday Schools supply
their scholars with papers from the
David c. Cook Publishing Co, Elgin,
Ill. If a family is so unfortunate
as to be situated where the children
cannot attend Sunday School they
should subscribe for them. There
are four grades, appropriate for all
ages and the price is low
If this paper should prove to be
even little helpful to you, l shall be
glad.
RESPECTFULLY yours,
MRS. F. L. NORTON.