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Show An I'Apksiun. Last year the Jii igham Cily "JFcrald" died here in town from natural causes. Before giving ils last gasp, it asserted that it hail the "largest circulation of any paper in the county" and many, many times declared it actually bad 1,000 readers, that means. S0O real subscribers. Some people really believed these statements because be-cause they were set. down in black ! and white. We only laughed at the impossibility of (he thing. The "ycviM" books were turned over to us, they are now in our possession, and Tuesday, this week, we took the j trouble to count tin; names on the list. There were 171 names; 'io of j whom had had the courage to J pay in advance, from one dollar up. j Turn on red lights curtain! |