The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-01-04
The Silver State for le1e-"How'. Work."
& AYRES, Publishers

~ ELL. ths old The Silver State. after a halfcensury o 70 or
MW less stormy existence the courssOf aae newspaper work never
IExyTYl did u smooth again appears with e names in the editorial
NNNGRTMTH flag" Probably the best thyg to do is to say at that it
HSSNIaD was sold the last gay of 1918 by Geneveve L. Harroun, admins
IEMX1l tratrix of the estate Of Edward R. Harroun deceased, to the
- First National Bank If winnemucca, as the osing episode of
administration of an insoivent estate We whose 42pear above, pr-
chased from the bank. 1t is a clean lew deal The estate severed its connec-
tTr if is sunnosea viii ennset N seeounts IN the estate to that time.
We open new accounts with all with whom we do business on the second day
bona nde SUBSCRIPTIONS to the sheet which have been paid in advance.
Now that the cruel formally Of a business statement are owe we
G. Z. Ayres and w H. Ayres, father and son, wish to put forth the right hand
of fellowship to all newspaper men land women) in Nevada, IN ask, after
the manner of the craft ~Hows work. We are here to work-and we rather
guess from the appearance of things in the old sagebrush State just at
present that our work is cut out for is. No don't get excited, brother Cor
sister,. were not going to reform anything; that is, nothing We know of
just now. If The time ever comes when some neal little job of reforming is
necessary, we1l be there with the reformers. though.
If we say a word about ourselves, we hope it will not be understood as
evidence of selfadmirauon. The "old man. has been in the newspaper game
nearly fifty years now, and he isn't swelling himself up none whatever"
The younger nal has been printing reading proof, linotype operating and
hand-press magc words!). We re known to the fraternity in several
Nevada towns where " e have worked. We IRE known pretty well over
o ~ "l - la - at We have neen in Nevada tbree wears
Why locate on the desert2 Well, wen tell you. It's because we love the
dream shont,n maxim more mone here han etevhere IN tbe world In tart
about making money with a three-tmes a-week newspaper. we-wen, we
viii refrain from talking about it. Probably there are better things. Money
is OF what a regular pnnter-man most cares for 1t has beer described as
the excess baggage of virtue. Go ahead and think whatever you want TO
about The silver State making IN everlasting fortune for US. We know
very little about money, anyway.
After all is said and done, we are proud of The silver State. We are
fond and proud of those " lines which for years have appeared o n the
the first page of the old sheet pioneer Mining Journal of Northern Nevada,
Established 1862 We arr almost entranced by the department headed
From the Daily Silver State-Twenty-hve years ago today" We shall keep
up that story and probably add another n to it, Ten years g today"
A glance backward fol a period ofe ever ten years-just a glance-is the best
and most entertaining kind offs story fol anyon who loves Nevada.
To revert to the practical once more, W have ordered pw printing
material new sob faces and such like things. than which nc print shop in
the world a have better. We haven't solicited subscribers, but We have
received some this second day of January, AID. 1919, and W re think more
will come. Anyway, W e intend to deserve more The Junior member of the
firm is out soliciting "adsg today; and while it is toe early, as this column
is written. to tell what success he may b having. it seems likely at the
Saturday Tissue of The Silver State-our frst-w1l show some results OF his
work and of the confidence. and good feeling which W e trust citizens OF
Winnemucca entertain for us.
The silver State has taken two holidays one for Christmas and n for
New Year-one under the old management, n under the new-and for this
we xpect Ieniency. We positively could not print the day w bought the
We ask your welcome.