Milford chronicle., 1952-07-25
ARGUMENT IS BREWING-

marked article in the News had the follow
ing to say about the Milford Chronicle.
ARGUMENT IS BREWING
"Last week, Tom Palmer, a former
Greenwood resident, sent us a copy of the
Dover (Delaware) Index. 1t was a 16-page
sheet and Tom sent it with a note Passing
through Dover, capital of Delaware. This is
their only paper-a weekly Tom was re-
turning to Florida where he resides after
making a business trip to New York.
''We commented that it wasn't much of a
sheet for state capital and this week, Ralph
Broughman, of Greenwood, brings us copy
of the Milford (Delaware) Chronicle, the
largest weekly in the state.
''Ralph says: Those of us who have lived
in Milford think it better newspaper than
the Index. The Chronicle serves part of Kent
County and all of Sussex County
"We'll have to put in with Ralph on this
one. The Milford sheet is a much better
paper 1t even has correspondent and
community named Greenwood.
In the flag on the paper where the name
of the editor, publisher and details of the
content is printed, it says: The Milford
Chronicle is Delaware'S largest weekly news
paper-both in size, number of pages printed,
volume of news carried and lineage of ad-
vertising presented in each issue. All adver-
tising is sold on the basis of guaranteed
circulation of over 1000 copies each week.
Nov we'd like for Palmer and Brough-
man to send The Johnson County News out
to Delaware and see what the people out
there think about an Indiana sheet. We'd
like to print the cOrnmentS-that is if they're
good"
Tie favorable comment, of course, is
pleasing. But Dover, our State Capital, does
have another excellent newspaper-The Del
aware State News. 1t is too bad that Mr.
Tom Palmer did not mail copy of that
paper also when he passed through Dover
We have looked in the N. w. Ayers & Sons
Directory of Newspapers and Periodicals for
1862 and find that the Johnson County News
is published in Greenwood, town of 1906
population. The circulation of the paper is
given at 3,705. We were impressed with the
News, as we are with many of the western
newspapers. The paper is well-edited, the
issue sent us, contained twenty pages. The
reading content was ample and the adver-
tising was well-placed throughout the three
sections of the newspaper. The editor of the
Milford Chronicle has never ha0 the pleasure
OF meeting Mrs. Herbert Harris the editor
of this excellent Indiana weekly. 1t was our
good fortune to know well the late Walter
Grim, of Salem, Indiana, who published a
thriving weekly in his home town. Mr.. and
Mrs. Grim visited us here at our plant several
years ago and we were happy to show them
HSW We H0AS III IGCAS DSidWd1S IududSeu Cne
editorial, news and mechanical details of pro-
ducing weekly newspaper such as the Mil
ford Chronicle. Should our friends in Green
wood, Indiana, ever travel east an invitation
is extended now for them to stop in and make
themselves known. The Chronicle, for you
westerners' information, has been rated
among the first fifteen of the Nations lead
ing rural weekly newspapers for the past
twenty-five years. 1t pleaSes us immensely
to have newspaper people whom we have
never met give us gentle pat on the back
and it makes the effort expended each week
more worthwhile.