The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-02-01
January Honor Roll.

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most eight hundred persons eth
er became new subscribers or re-
newed their subscription to the
FULTON COUNTY NEWS during
the month of December, and
when it is considered that there
were hundreds and hundreds of
subscribers on the list who were
paid ahead before December-for
there was a nice sized Honor Roll
every month during the entire
year-the Roll for January is
very satisfactory.
AS was stated two weeks ago,
subscriptions and renewals will
be received to the NEWS at the
old rate-one dollar year, until
the first day of March, when the
price will be advanced as per our
original announcement.
Att meeting of newspaper pub
fishers and paper manufacturers
in Chicago last week, the pub
fishers agreed that the present
high price of paper has placed
the newspaper publishing bust
ness in a position so hazardous
and menacing, that a remedy
must be found without delay.
Throughout the country, news
papers are being forced out of
business, or are doubling up 1.-TWO
or more going together) on ac-
count of the increased cost of
production. Any one familiar
with the history Of Fulton Coun-
ty newspapers cannot but be i'm.
pressed with the fact that they
change hands rather frequently
the Oldest paper in the County
having had no fewer than fifteen
ownerships during its existence
of a little more than &C years.
This fact alone is a strong argu-
ment in favor of increased rev.
enue for all the papers.
With last Monday the price Of
Philadelphia papers wss just dou-
bled; more than nine hundred
weekly papers in the Country
have advanced the price of SUBJ
scription-some of them making
ing the yearly subscription price
two dollars.
And there is nothing unreason-
able about it. The wonder, to
many people is, that it was not
done months before. Sauer
kraut has advanced. Last Sat
urday it sold in the local markets
in Harrisburg at Is cents a quart
one year ago you could buy all
you wanted at 5 cents a quart.
How's an editor to keep his
family?
The Governor of Pennsylvania
gets a salary of ten thousand dol.
lars a year. He is having an aw-
fully hard time to make ends
meet, and a bill has been intro
duced into the legislature to give
him a little lift-to make his sal
airy twenty-five thousand-anc
parsonage free!
Whether it be graft" or what
not, on the first day of March
the subscription price of the
NEWS will be advanced. The
Editor of the FULTON COUNTY
NEWS has had twenty-five years
experience in the.newspaper bus
ness in Fulton County, and dur.
ing that time owned the Fultor
Democrat ten years. He shoulc
know what can and what cannot
be done in establishing a price
that will de equitable between
/ publisher and subscriber.
Ninety-ninthly and lastly, ev
cry one who cares to stay witt
the Fulton County News, shoulc
keep his seat on the band Wagon
or get on if he is off. Subscrib
ers in arrears have the privilege
of paying up and paying aheac
!, at the old rate-one dollar a yea
/. until the first of March.
The Editor very well knew
when he decided that the rat
would have to be advanced tina
some of the people now takin,
the NEWS would pull out; but h
knew just as well, that peopl
who really preferred the New
y nonar in the Count'