Show A newspapers BUSINESS an exchange ot of considerable standing in this state recently recently y commented comy editorial editorially iv to the effect that thai q a newspapers list alist business I 1 is to icy i ake money because it does doeh it cant be a f fitting representative 0 of ille the community in which it is published nor vill its editor have the influence and pre prestige that lie he should leaving that thought th aught tor for the moro mor eit nent ve called on oil a prominent business mail of the county recently to solicit some advertising his first question was what is your circulation cu lation agan again we learned of a contemplated land sale in this county that notice ot or same would have to be published in the county count for five weeks before the sale we wrote immediately to soli cit cil afia that business wo we get it neither did we get the advertisement from the businessman referred to we have no positive evidence lence as to the reasons for out our not getting either but we have hake a lingering suspicion that 1 wk ack of sufficient circulation named figuried prominently in each case those are only two of the many man y instances in which we have failed to get et outside money into this community and int into 0 our business to make it profitable prof bitable an ana to enable us to put out a better paper simply because our circulation and particularly oura oil local circulation 1 n is not what it should be we appreciate that probably we are chiefly to blame but not entice ly iv our circulation locally is considerably better than it was ahen we took over the paper from cur predecessor aho vho ho is a newspaper man of long experience what we wint want to say sail at this time however is that at the besin begin ing of its nineth year we want to start to make the TIMES a better representative of this community and we want YOUR support and the support of avrey other citizen 11 of the community in our oar effort to make it better it so much the money we IL might get from you ro for r your subscription scrip tion as it is the money we would get from outside sources by teason leason of having your subscription cut but we must have yours and every other good citizens in ii order to get that outside brioney in on PV and in orlier order to make the TIMES bitici bellr if you are already a sub iber all well and good we are coun counting ling on byoir conr continuance if yu yiu are not then you must become 0 e it is very necessary its a trifle to youless you less than aca ac a week ana LL it aliers a hundred ways fr for i you to get more than your moneys rooneys roo worth but it mearis means much more than that to the success of the paper we ari are adopting as w our slogan gati A TIMES TIME S IN VERY EVERY E ROME E and we are going to accomplish that if possible before the end of the he year will vill you Y u help us incidentally right iab t now is a a good time to subscribe qu because we ure are be ginning in ill an eaily issue a new serial three men and a maid by P G a liki ilk imm ensley dont miss a single issue may we suggest Migg too that there is is nothing more appropriate nothing that will be mure appreciate a resents present p either for christmas C or otherwise for that or loved ore oe away from home than a years ea subscription to tile almes I 1 |