Show PURELY BUSINESS to till all those who are one year or over in arrears for the express wo we are mailing subscription statements and in a deiy few weeks we must trim down own our subscript sub scrip tion list cutting out all sub subscribe scrib ers who have boon been delinquent for more than one year in order to comply with the lows laws and regula tiong of the postal department in some casks cases this will be a hard thing to do there inay maybe be some who are old life long friends readers and supporters of th the e paper who have taken and paid for the paper sinco it was a wee small hut but who may at present be behind it will bo be like parting from a near and dear friend wo ave shall regret this na as much perhaps 3 mor ethan tiler ender how nice it would bo be if everything was on a strictly cash basis strictly cash in advance would avoid a world of trouble in all 1111 branchen branche 8 3 of business all this book keeping and waste of time in in toiling over keeping accounts straight already we have spent several collais for postage stamps besides the time and stationery in sending out these statements and we nie are not over half through yet the biggest half of our sub scribers bers keep paid in advance two thirds of the other half always pay but its whenever they think of it or can make it convenient and a few lieve levei pay at all and such fellows usually get behind ise several eral before we find them out take it as a whole we nse behee this new ruling of the postal department part ment is a good thing for the legitimate newspaper paper published publish pu blishel ei whose paper stands on its merit alone who puts puls an all earnest effort into his business and gives the subscriber interesting news and readable articles that create a demand for his paper instead of otie ie sorting to all sorts of soliciting seli schemes enies and premiums to beccie n large subscription list in order to get advertising no matter of what character tho the express regrets that it will no doubt ann have e to part ith a few old readers and friends but we nie aie going to comply with the postal laws laas its aa near as we know how tho express stands on its merits alone if you want the it is 2 a year if you ou dont say so ao the sanie same as if buying any ally article of merchandise oer the counter no offense we con sidel it purely in alio liht light of a business transaction |