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Show Back to Town Crier J M How many residents of any small H community havo over considered what H might happen If tlicro wero no nows- H papers? Just previous to "Sub H scrlbo for Your Homo Town Tupcr H Week," which ls to be observed tha H country over November 7-12, is a good H time to recall tho plight of Macon, H Mo., not long ago, when lire put the- H Chronicle-Herald out of business for H two weeks. M According to Tho Tubllslicrs' Aux- H lllary, tho old town crier, relic ot H many years back, was yanked from H his hiding place, dusted off, and put H back on his Job, with a Jangling bell, H a megaphone, and a fog-horn voice only H a little worso for long disuse. H It may have been a novelty for two JM weeks. Dut Uilult of a community H without printers' Ink, compelled to jet H Its announcements of auctions, sales, H court sessions, births, marriages, jH deaths, epidemics of sickness, dog or H dlnanccs, board meetings, commence H ments, tax notices, advertisements jH of help and situations wanted, accl H dents, end tho rest, through a shouted H word llko that of tho ordinary train H announcer In a city depot. Tho town H crier was a romantic flguro In his day, H but few towns would like to return to jH his ministrations now. H When ono thinks of the temporary H plight of Macon, and that It might H become tho permanent handicap of H many towns. It Is well to think ot sup H porting tho local paper. H |