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Show TIIK COUNTRY N K WSl'APER. In commenting on the attack of a Tnetropolltan daily which attempted to belittle the political influence of Tie country weekly and daily over the land, Harry Hammond, editor of the Byron (California) Times, one of the livest and most progressive papers in the country, says: "While the country paper is small, it is doing just as much, in its way, for the progress and development of the section it serves as any of the larger papers, and in some cases a 'thought of by the country weekly, which boosts its locality all the time without thought of receiving pay for such service. "The people of a country community commu-nity swear by, and not at, their local paper. It carries far greater weight, politically and otherwise, with them than does the paper of metropolitan pretentions. The country weekly is closer to the hearts of its readers than is the case with the larger newspaper." |