Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-07-17
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NEWSPAPERS
CLOSING OUT
State Journals Lose Patronage
and a 4. Are y e Forced to ] Discon- o
inue.

.f,& ASA0AAASkAS Az OsS y uAy ~10
field and Wing, prosperous central
North Dakota villages, are without
newspaper for the first time in their
history, and Braddock, another
thriving little town, soon will be as
q result of the Brinton newspaper
act, which was approved by a small
majority at the referendum election
June 26.
This NEWSPAPER D1sCON-
TINUBD WITH THIS ISSUE -
CAUSE: SOCIALIST POLITIC-
IANs," read q streamer appearing at
the top of the first page Of the last
issue of the Hurdsfield Herald, I
breezy weekly which had been pub
lished for years on the Turtle Lake
branch of the Northern Pacific in
Wells county.
In his valedictory and benediction.
G. B. Coon, publisher Of the Wing
Statesman, in northeastern Burleigh
county says:
"This issue is the seventh ami
versary of the Statesman, this being
No. 1, Volume s. It is also the last
issue Of the Statesman, for the time
being.
1.-TWO weeks ago we stated that If
Senate Bill 157 became effective, We
would cease publication, and after
talking the matter over with the
leading business men of Wing, whose
advertisements appear in these col
umns, they finally agreed that we
were justified in deing SO.
Eve wish to thank our advertisers
for their liberal. patronage. They
have surprised US with their liberal
ity, and we appreciate it. We also
wish to thank those five voters In
Wing township who broke away from
the Vote Yes Seven Times slogan.
and voted NO five times on the news
paper bill, giving majority Of ten
in favor of the Nos. 4 We don't know
who you are, but you know, SO we
take this opportunity to thank you.
''The Statesman equipment is not
for sale. We will stow it away as a
souvenir of the good and bad it has
done in the seven years Of It's tenn
pestuous voyage on the sea of newc-
paperdom in Wing, until such time
as necessity might demand its resur-
rection.''
The Brinton newspaper bill con-
centrates in the hands of one "offi-
cial'' newspaper in each county al:
public and private Official or legal
printing, publicity and advertising Of
every description. Under the old
law three official newspapers were
selected by the board of commission
ers in each county for the publication
of official county business, only. No
attempt was made to interfere with
other legal publications, such as
bank statements, proceeding Of vii
lage and city councils or commits
sions; notices of school boards; re-
ports required by law corporations
and court processes of various de-
scriptions. Under the Brinton bill,
fathered and forced thru the assem-
bly, by man who had organized and
who was heavily interested in league
in more than half the
of the state, the one official
In each county, to be se-
lected by a state board of three dom
mated by Townley, is given monop-
oily Of all this business.
Many Of the newspapers which
will be affected by the Brinton bill
never had been official county news-
papers. but they received their share
Of other legal or official printing and
especially such as orig
mated in their own towns. Under
the Brinton bill public notices Of
paving or sewer improvements or OF
school elections or Of foreclosure,
or bank statements. sales or court
actions cannot be printed legally In
the home newspaper, unless this
chances to be the one Of
ficial newspaper in that. particular
county. s5l ss8
The result will be that every tax
payer in. each county will be COM
PEELED to subscribe for the one Of
fetal newspaper,if II he desires protec.
tion, no matter how little use he may
have for the news columns or edt-
torial views Of that particular organ.
was stated on the floor Of the
house during heated debate on this
bill last winter and has also been
urged ins defense of the act, during
the recent referend dums campaign that
a counties where the mai jority vas