Show announcement prices are going up that exclamation cla mation has become rather familiar to all ot of us and now the news is forced to join the great company which has raised prices practically all the magazines have been forced to advance their subscription prices and many of the country weeklies took advantage of the situation early in th the e war and advanced their subscription rates the news has never changed its sub tion price since the beginning despite the fact this paper changed from a weekly to a semiweekly semi weekly a number of years ago thereby just doubly increasing the cost of getting out the paper and that Is not all prices ot of news print paper have jumped from Vs to 13 cents a pound a difference ot of per ton and the only way a newspaper can possibly protect itself against complete ruination is by advancing the price of subscription therefore on january 1920 the semiweekly semi weekly box elder news will be all subscribers who are at present in arrears however who pay up their arrears and one year in advance will be taken care of at the old or present subscription rate the news has consistently endeavored to give its readers full value tor for their money that the paper has accomplished complis hed this purpose Is evidenced by the big and growing list of paid up subscribers and to our patrons w we e take this opportunity to say that it shall be our future purpose to be worthy ot of this confidence and support and give you a publication that will be worth all that is asked tor for it in a monetary way at the advanced price we have refused to advance prices until actually forced to do so by the exigencies of the case and for that reason have permitted many opportunities tuni tunit ties les I 1 pass unused to make war w ar profits with the price of paper mounting to dizzy heights however it is a case of asking our patrons to aeeti us part way it should be understood der stood by all newspaper readers that if a newspaper depends entirely upon its subscription accounts to furnish capital with which to finance the publication it could run only about one month in our own business the subscription accounts are not considered an asset whatever and no account account Is taken of them whatever we are not making any profit whatever ov even en at a year but are simply simpli asking the subscriber to help us meet 1 the cost of getting the paper to him 1 we recommend e c ammend to our patrons that ak they take advantage of the opportunity to get in one year at the present subscription price by coming in before the first of the year and paying a year in advance |