The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1919-02-20

The Irit-Advocate comes to its
readers this week with voluminous
edition several times the size of the
regular paper. We offer you this
week the Sedgwick County Prosperity
Edition for your approval. 1t is need
less for us to say that publishing a pa
per of this size in a country newspaper
plant is a tremendous task and one
that has required an immense amount
Of labor and energy. But we have
tried to preform the task in the best
possible way and we feel that our
efforts will be rewarded two-fold.
The editor of the. Grit-Advocate
came to Julesburg in August, 1916
and a great many of our readers will
remember that at that time this paper
was reallp struggling for existence.
The plant was inadequate to meet the
demands required for tho publication
of progressive newspaper and it
was easily seen that re-juvenation
was necessary in order that we might
give this community a newspaper
worthy of the united support Of its
citizens.
We set about the task of re- juvena-
tion and although at first there were
great difficulties both financial and
otherwise, owing to the encourage
ment and cooperation which we re-
ceived from the citizens of Julesburg
and Sedgwick county it was possible
for US to accomplish results necessary
for the right foundation of pro-
gressive and live newspaper
The first material improvement
made to the Grit-Advocate plant was
the purchase and installation of our
big Model Ia Multiple Magazine Limo
type-then came the adding Of new
type and material involving hundreds
of dollars of investment. The bust
ness of the paper began to grow by
leaps and bounds, far above our ex-
d pectations. The subscription list has
grown from 450 to the two thou
sand mark and is ever increasing.
Two years ago the Grit Advocate
entered the Home-Print ranks. and
every line of this paper is printed
right here at home. We have elimat-
I'd the .four page patent inside over
two years ago.
The advertising columns of the
Grit-Advocate have increased mater
tally and advertisers have found this
to be one of the best advertising
mediums in this section. Co-inci-
ent with the increase of business the
management of the Grit Advocate has
endeavoreG to increase the service A
local reporter devotes her entire time
looking after local news features of
the community and aside from this
staff of correspondents from various
localities of this section contribu e
every week to the news columns of
this paper and every I ss.ble effort
is employed from week to week to
chronicle all items of news which will
be of interest to our readers.
. The Grit-Advocate at the present
time probably has the largest circul-
alton of any newspaper in northeast
ern Colorado or western Nebraska.
and we attribute this fact to the
hearty cooperation and united sup
port which we have received in the
territory in which this paper circ':-
lates. The Grit-Advocate plant rep
resents an investment of $lO,OOO.OO.
we having only recently installed a
modern folding machine and new faces
Of type involving an investment of
ever $4,000. This has been necessary
to keep pace with the prosperity Of
Sedgwick county and to meet the
needs of it's citizens in the publishing
Of a. progressive newspaper and pro-
vide quality printing which is pro-
vided in our up-to-date job printing
department; where only one was form
erly employed in the mechanical de
partment there are now three in addi-
ton to the editor and local reporter
who have charge of the business, edi-
torial, and local departments respec-
lively.
We cordially invite our friends and
patrons to pay this office a visit and
we will be glad to show them over
our modern printing plant. We
naturally are proud of the results ac-