Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1917-11-22
NEW DAILY
NEXT MONTH
Staff. Organization Is Com
and the Equipment
Nearly Ready For ~
Daily Citizen

l.. u. Baird, recently from .Eurekt
Springs. Ark, has taken the position
Of advertising manager. and local ed
itor on the News, and after the first
of December, on The Baxter Daily
Citizen, succeeding Bagdasar X. Bag
digian, who recently resigned his po.
sition. Mr.. Baird is newspaper mar
Of long experience in preparing ad'
vertising and will always be glad tC
offer suggestions and help in the pre-.
paration of advertising copy for the
newspaper. Friends of the News will
help US immensely in getting out @
good newsy paper by giving Mr.
Baird such items of interest in the
city and mining field as may como
to their attention. He will also re-
ceive orders for job printing. The
News job printing plant by the way
is one of the best in the country. The
equipment is entirely new and the
very highest class Of printing is the
only kind that goes out Of our shop,
We handle all kinds of work for min
ing companies, also office stationery,
pamphlets, price bills, etc.
Harry Jackson, who is we'll known
in the city, will continue to occupy a
place on. the new daily, doing local
and assisting Mr.. Baird in
The advertising work, and will con-
tinue to look after the circulation of
the paper. For the past two weeks
Harry has been canvassing the city
for subscribers to the Daily Citizen
and has met with splendid success.
Over $50 people in Baxter alone have
ordered the daily delivered to their
homes every night. That number is
larger than the paid list of the Miami
Record Herald when that daily was
started few months ago. We are
now sure that the daily will start out
with paid list of 1000.
The Daily Citizen will make its bow
to the Baxter public on Monday, De-
cembex 3. We are still waiting for
our newspaper folder shipped from
Cleveland last month, but whether the
machine gets here or not, we will be-
gin the daily on the above date.
The United States Press Associa-
ton will serve The Daily Citizen
with a carefully prepared telegraph
report each day, Of the worlds hap
penings. This is a feature that is
going to add enormously to the RIM
ming expenses of the new daily; but
a good many Baxter business men
have given US to understand that they
want a daily that is right up to the
minute as a newspaper and these men
have assured US that they would get
behind such a paper with an advertis-
ing patronage that will make it pos
sible for it to continue.
So we are going to take the people
at their word. We are going to pub
lish daily that will be a credit to
this city and a big asset to the COM
munity as a boosting medium. 1t
won't take long to determine whether
the public and business people really
want live daily here. If they do, we
shall be glad to ''hit the ball." if not
the daily will be stopped before the
management goes entirely broke.
It should not require long argu-
ment, in this day of keen competition
for supremacy between communities
in the Oklahoma-Kansas field, to con-
vince Baxter people that q live daily
is a very necessary propo-
sition here at the present time as the
medium through which the Chamber
of Commerce will expect to present,
largely, the advantages of Baxter
Springs. Nor do we have the slight
est doubt that the new daily will be
well received and given every help
needed by a young industry.