The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-03-01
THE HERALD AND NEWS.

THE HERALD AND NEWSs
We told you few issues back that
we were going to print the best news
paper this year that we have ever
printed, and that means some paper
We have had our troubles for the
past several months, and sometimes
the future looked gloomy. am op
t:mistic by nature and can't help Il,
and don't deserve any credit for 1t,
though I am CAD that l am. During
the past several months my optimism
his been put to the severest test. II
locked one tine that l could not geS
any help, and that I would be unable
70 print any sort Of paper. But {
feel that has now been settled, ami
while We are not swifts or recofaM
breakers, We are getting there ally
the sane. and as soon as we catch
up ana take new hold, which wii
be very soon, we are goins TO noEesy
some
During these months Of trial we
lost some OF our subscribers. 1 sup
pose they thought it would not bs
well 70 renew with US, and so went
elsewhere. st any rate, all who did
net renew and whose time was ou~
prior to January have been taken
from our list. We should have been
glad to have had them remain, but
if they preferred to do otherwise We
have no quarrel with them. There
are a good many whose time is ex
piring in January and February.
These We have not taken of. II
they do not renew when the first OF
February comes off they viii go We
want the fellows who stand by you
when trouble comes. They are the
! friends who count. 1t is easy to be =
friend when everything goes along
smooth, but the testing time comes
when everything goes dead wrong.
But l have no quarrel or scolding for
any one.
Beginning today and continuing up
to and through March 2, am going
to sell The Herald and News for tex
months for the sum Of one dollar. No
more, no less. This applies to the
/ 1900 now on cur list and to all who
may desire to join the family. T. $
too cheap at $3.50 a year but there
are many who could not get to towI
! during the bad weather and this
! plan will be easy just to enclose
dollar bill in an envelope and give
your name and postoffice and We wiz
do the rest. We get the dollar and
you save twenty-five cents. The time
will positively not b. extended. So
if You want real newspaper for one
dollar, start the dollar rolling. We
are going to treat every one Just
alike. If you have paid in advance
you can have the date extended the,
ten months by the payment OF the
dollar. If your time is out you can
get ten months for the dollar Il
you are not on our list, you may get
there for ten months by the paymene
of the dollar.
Beginning next week We are going
to commence printing lover the Top !"
by Arthur Guy Empey, an American
boy who got into the war two years
shead of his country anu 40 writes
a very interesting story of his 'expe-
riences for year and half until.
he fell desperately wounded in No
/ Mans Lond. He saw more actuaE
fighting and real warfare than any
war correspondent. and more, prob
ably, than any other man who has
written about the war His expert
ences are grim, but they are thrill
ing and their recital is lightened oy
touch of humor-the same humof-
that has enabled this boy to pass
through the scorching fires OF war
and come out, wounded in body but
sound and sunny in spirit And that
gives you a fair idea of his book.
read it and with a great deal Of