The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-04-26
WHY WE CHANGED

Say you certainly have good supply
the December the sixteenth 1916
time received paper Therefore you
have amount of so cents other due from me.
! eff sent paper to Mrs -- it never reached
our Spokane up February of this
at will be well for to postage stamps as
you might themb
you bills promptly You people
copy since Dec &c. 1916
I'm forwarding remittance other
Show received the then you talk
Now we did not adopt pay-n-advance plan because
majority any considerable percentage of subscribers
this but because it is not always possible to tell which
like this and because life too short to be wasting
labor bestowing favors upon such trash. u.s
This subscriber Kennewick many years.
large acquaintance here and undoubtedly interested
in the of this community By continuing his paper after
December 1916 the date of it's expiration Thought
comforting favor him. His claims that he did
the absurd When he moved from Kennewck to Spo
his and address set and placed
Spokane mailing galley where it remained until April
From December L. 1916 until April 1917 treated
week just it had been each week prior December L. 1916
Either of two things has happened The Spokane postal
clerks by subtle intuition began December 16 throw
this in the waste basket and nothing
or this particular subscriber led And inclined believe
the Spokane postal clerks continued do after
just they had done before
We at loss to know why the subscriber singled out
December Sixteenth the date his paper stopped
scron books that subscriptions expire
the first of month and date within month";
probable that this subscriber prides upon his
recude paying his bills interpreted numerous
statements which read December 16 meaning December 1916
to December 10th.
But no. this can't either Had man of such sterling
qualities received subscription statement he would have mmed
lately replied with courteous note telling that he did
for the after the date of expiration requesting
stop it. Last November these
informing him that his subscription would expire December
and soliciting his renewal January 1917 another statement
mailed him. informing hm that his subscription had expired
and again soliciting his Between January April
two statements mailed informing him that April
his name would be taken from subscription list.
All these statements mailed to the address to
which his sent and all mailed class postage
have back But of of them reached this
ighinded punctous subscriber The Spokane postal
surng that subscription the
they had been throwing the waste basket just threw
them into the waste basket too It's all clear
with the exception of point And that how that letter
of April Ia allowed thru subscriber
"Tn have you know that pay my bills promptly" he
all Of them like he did this there's question it.
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PATRIOTISM AND PROFIT
ENERAL FARMERS and live stock producers do their
NJ country greater service than by seeking make their
production reach the very limit Of possibility
Men who to market immature and young stock that
could greater weight wasting the couns
all human probability they also sacrificing profits they
reap The unprecedented have temp
tation while the cashing good man sends
market underweght young breeding stock he is kiino
the that lays the golden He making it harder for
himself others to repenish feed lots and pastures
To be be expected and buy dear
hogs but is little less than economic at this time to
half finished 1000 to 12oOpound and $50 to 100
pound hogs Hz#@tT
Marketing of strictly dairy veal calves excusabe but
every calf that could into good beef should be all
be kept s.-.
Sending to slaughter pregnant and heers for
should absolutely at least period Of the
In national emergency should consider how
best help along The easiest way for every,
"do his Bit to see that every on;r,o1
market carrying much weight as practical IN MT On
We drawing upon the Nav June and Jul, .:
of beef, pork and mutton. - pf0