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Show IF EVERYBODY WERE'JUST LIKE HIM, WHO COULD PRINT A PAPER He was a prominent citizen of the community. He controlled quite a bit of property, and had financial power in the community, but he did not take his home paper. He either could not spare the small sum1 per year to pay for the paper, or he was too big a man to fool with takinga paper like that. At any rate he did not take the home paper. If everyone in the community had been like him there could have been no home paper. His wife gave a swell reception. The local paper gave a good account of the affair. He would have thought it awful if it had not been in the home paper. But if everybody every-body had been like him there could have been no home paper. His daughter got married. It too, was a swell affair,, and the local paper gave a proper account of it. He felt that a ma?i of his importance was deserving of such notice by the home paper. But if everybody had been like him there could have been no home paper. He got seriously sick, and the home paper told all about it. His friends looked to the paper to know how he-was he-was getting along, and when his condition got worse, they all knew about it through the paper. But if everybody had been like him there could have been no home paper. He died and was given an appropriate funeral. Care was taken to see that the home paper got full informiation regarding the important events of his life, so as to give him the final "write up" that a man of his standing deserved. deserv-ed. But if everybody had been like him there could have been no home paper. The family requested several copies of that issue of the paper, and sent in a card of "thanks. But they acted as if seriously aggrieved when asked to pay for tle card of thanks and the extra papers. Thought all this ought to' be free too. And the minister who had charge of the funeral, a former resident of the place but now living elsewhere, else-where, wanted the paper to send him a copy containing an account of the funeral free, of course. Sometimes the newspaper wonders how "prominent"" a man can be when year after year he will, fail to have his name on the list of the home paper, but expects that the-home the-home paper shall show him the same consideration as it does a patron. NormBngee Star. |