The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-18
NEWS ANNOUNCES
 PURCHASE OF THE LEDGER
Afternoon Paper Will App pear for Last Time Today After "A Years
 Publication

Formal announcement was made last night/of the purchase of the Birmingham Ledger by the Birmingham News Com pany. The Ledger will carry an an nouncement this morning that today's
 issue will be the last number of that newspaper after continuous daily pub
 ication for twentyfour years.
 Rumors of the purchase have been current for several days but it was
 only last night that formal announce ment of the transaction was made. It
 is stated in the formal announcement
 of the Ledger that the sale was at figure and under conditions that are satisfactory to both parties.
 The Ledger will carry the following statement this morning:
 After twenty-four years of continu- ous publication the Birmingham Ledger
 will not be issued after Sunday morn. ing, April IS, 1920.
 'The Ledger has been sold to the Bir-
 mingham News Company at a figure and under conditions that are satisfactory
 to both parties.
 l "All the subscription and advertising
 contracts, as well as the good will of the Ledger have been acquired by the News, with the agreement that they be 1 carried out by that company The 1 Ledger earnestly hopes the News will | measure up to it's larger opportunities
 and responsibilities.
 The Birmingham Ledger Company de-
 sires to thank all of its readers, friends
 and patrons for their support and for
 their many expressions of approval Of
 the work the Ledger has conscientionsly
 done for the moral, intellectual and in-
 dustrial upbuilding of Birmingham, Ala
 bama, the south and the nation, and to assure them that whatever mistakes
 were made came from error of judg- ment and not from the heart.
 1 ITO all the loyal attaches the man | agement of this newspaper feels keen
 sense of gratitude and deeply regrets | the parting. Wherever they go or in whatever worthy field of endeavor they 1 are engaged, each will carry the sincere l interest and best wishes of the manAse- l ment for success. As slight token | of appreciation of their services eac win receive two weeks additional salary. | '.To every reader of the Ledger, to every man, woman and child who holpeo to make this paper a power of whole
 some influence and an agency of con structive service, the Ledger tenders its thanks and good wishes, with the hope i and belief that the effects of it's en- deavors for community upbulding, for
 higher standards of citizenship. for bet
 ter motives and purposes toward im- | pr ovement of industrial and commercial ethics, will long live as an inspiration 1 to larger and higher achievement. THE BIRMINGHAM LEDGER, By Robert c. Hiden, "Editor and Publisher" i NEWS STATEMENT The Birmingham News will also carry l in it's columns this morning formal an nouncement of the purchase and an edi- torial statement on the subject The
 News statement, which is signed by the
 publisher Victor N. Hanson, says in 1 part:
 Tn way. forward step though 1t | unauestionably Is, the disappearance of The Ledger has a touch of sadness. /, For nearly twenty-four years 1t has
 been an upstanding, constructive force | in the community. In politics and gov | ernment the News has frequently found cause to differ with it's competitor, but fit was always felt that the Ledger was
 striving. just as was the News, to ad-
 vocate those things that meant the most and best for the whole community. | 'In absorbing the Ledger and taking over it's circulation, the management Of | the News is deeply cognizant of it's in- creased responsibilities and the obliga- 1 lions those responsibilities entail. The
 News will endeavor in every way | humanly possible to measure up to its new and enlarged duty to the public It undertakes solemnly to administer ] the new power for good that devolves upon it and pledges to the whole public
 with the best of it's heart and mind and | spirit to stand for the things that mean
 most for Birmingham and Alabama. -