Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1918-03-05
STOP. LOOK AND LISTEN.

The first number Of the South
Kentuckian was issued January i,
1879, by Wilgus & Townes. 10 was
a weekly paper Of four eight column
pages. The paper was printed with
materials leased from Col. J. NJ.
Dodd. who had printed first the Con-
servative and later the Democrat
from 1866. In April 1879, Chas. NJ.
Meacham became local editor of the
new paper and in August Of the same
wear bought the interest Of W. L.
Townes. W. A. Wilgus a few days
later selling his interest to J. w.
Goblin, a printer in the Office. The
paper started a subscription cam
paign in the fall and became firm
ly established by Jan. 1880, when
Mr.. Wilgus again acquired the in
terest he had sold and the firm OF
Meacham & wilgus published the
oaper for the next nine years. On
Jan. l, 1888, Mr.. Meacham tenn
porarily retired on account Of I'M
haired health and spent that year IN
California, being connected with a
daily paper in San Diego. He re-
tzrned in December and purchased
the Kentuckian from Mr.. Wilguf'
which had for several years been
unfinished as semi-weekly. For
nearly 80 years the paper has pur-
sued the even tenor Of its way with
out change of management. In 1895
IL was published for several months
as a daily and some time after re-
suniing its old form became tri-
weekly. In all Of its various forms
weekly, semi-weekly and tri-week-
ly-the subscription price has been
uniformly So a year. During its long
career of 40 years, the kentuckan
the name having been changed
by dropping the South-hSs stood
for all that was best for Hopkins
vile, often making a single handed
fight in the face Of public opinion
Its first great victory in such a oca'
test was in 1880 when il led the fight
for free graded schools. IL has al
WAYS supported home Enterprises
home institutions, its home people
in political contests its home can
djdates. On next Saturday the Ken
tuckian will take another forward
step and become a morning daily
thus placing itself in a better posi-
ton TO serve Hopkinsville and Chris
tian county. For the first time there
will be change in the subscription
price. The daily viii be SO year
by mail or So a year by carriers. The
paper will have the international
News Service By mail and wire az
10 midnight and will deliver the lat
est news 70 your doorsteps IN th'
city before breakfast and all oVel
the county by noon, and ahead OF
any other paper.
The people have always gwen th'
Kentuckian a generous support an'
we are counting upon the same II
the future. Many subscribers on ~
books have not been of in all thes'
40 years In other cases, sons haN'
succeeded fathers and have neve
let the paper stop coming. The mer
ehants-and Hopkinsville has tn
best merchants on earth-have SAID
Go ahead, we arr with you" An'
so we shall go ahead" not with am
great flourish or blast Of trumpets
but in quite business-like way, print
ing only such a paper as will sue
coed financially, from the start. W.
don't care to lose any money anC
take on extra work just for the fur
Of running daily paper. But when
ever the business men Of Hopkins
Vile say "go ahead" we are read,
10 take them at their words. Sc
Stop, Look and Listenl The morn
ing Daily Is Coming