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o> write about All the many Ba thére is much that ki ake very "sensational news- Tsing -it. were written up in atter-of-fact manner in the kind newspaper personality and uarelia- y for the country newspa-| po , and forth an exciting topic "azound town, vanish into thin air when we fhe ce, @ story started hereabouts not many had "murdered his mother. That 2 ess knows. It ran like id Mother with an ax and had iver Oil is an acientific. BO can take N als Klmison |, fect the Deed of 3 sores DL at "heard knew who told 'him, Py Sut he had it anyway. {the alleged ihurderér had merely shut his old mother up and |refused to let her have "hi bea for fear she would will away : some property to which he thought he should become tréngth-giver ~ who' BE oan . po weak Y ondition. y the body and fortify the nervous large bottle soc. pie t; CHASSING THE FACTS ; The only thing that was mirdered. was a sensational i" story that had been heard." "Really sensational news inh quiet country 'commuoity must; be rare. As in the enforcement of law, 50 -in the pub- ing of News; we must KNOW the facts before. we can publish i People who leuk for this kind of news are disappointed 'often grumble, saying that he paper r is full of ROSSIp, and 'they "never buther their heads about such stuff." Yes they do, ifsit happens to interest them personally. = fit refers 1p then' quetheir friends, it no is longer Me stuff," but ain i item of of ews that shows that the invigwiiel all that'is the 'mae sting. -Huadreds | of other : e dn one. of our 'Subscribers haye told us how fe oer paper because it tells the Nome news--the| birth od anid deaths, the removals, the successes and Al i are set forth from week to week in so for 2s _ [llthey are known, There is nothing like the country pa f i when you get away from home. Then all the little Spite [lif becomes. news. Out on the prairies many homes wait eagerly { for the "home " per, which is as good or better than a letter This is: gd reason the country paper. exists. It is successful and well run-to the extent that it keeps track of the | comings and goings of the local people, | iL City dalies supply thé news of events that concern il H | | th < comnry at large. The country weekly is a local: : f . ha. Ee the ome: pep Another office of _ country newspaper is to keep pegging away at ques- tions of importance to the community. This office is "kept ew antly before us by Finally it turned out that|. and Orde ned by is Bons small sums to any part veoSe 81 ale ie foe Drafts issued for larger amounts. Savings Bank Department at E Branch) Port Perry Branch: no Eioneedd Blackstock Branch J = 3. WiirTR, Nestleton Station Branch | Acting Manage ee erie anderen a a Br niiRY, Claremont must do office work, read the papers, attend meetings, and & time permits, edit the paper. of Canada. ooo 10 Joe 15e Generally if he depended em the paper for a living he'd se as poor as Job's turkey, be- cause he'd have so little = gobble. Yet iu spite of all hardships running a country weekly is a good job. The editor ges "next" to the people; learn their failings and their virtues and while he is at the joh, at po catches a glimpse of his owas wehad, Tot Running a newspaper takes the rainbow colors from many enthusiasms that are perhaps not practical, and finally the things worth while are those tha form the fighting ground and the weekly topics of comment . It is unfortunate in many cases that country newspa- pers have lost caste, and find it hard to make the people be- lieve in their importance any more. "When one puts the best and sincerest thought into as article, and finds that it is not read, it is discouraging; but # the country editors wonld write more, they could still have a big influence in their communities. ill throw 5Wa the paper, and sayl 7 those patticulat items' are F Government Reports Peter McArthur has well said that Government reports «wm t| Agriculture often lack interest because of the way in which they ame written and prepared. They lack the human touch of everyday life. "'reports" prepared by a College and as such do not enter into he They a= veal life of the farmer. As such they are outside his life. If the reports could be boiled down, put into readable form aul indexed well, it would be better. At random I pick up a report of the Agricultural Societies. is full of gaod things but they areali of ajumble. Given an uninvited amount of time and a determination to secure information, the rear will get it but it is. probable that the ordinary reader will miss much. Its a pity, too, forthe information is needed and the cost «ff getting out these reports must be great. Better to have a man like Peier Mac Arthur to put them togethme in the simplest possible language and in a form that makes it easy @ get information on short notice. If a farmer wishes accurate knowledge on any subject i & persons who think that theflikely he &ould get it somewhere in the reports; but where? thats he editor should be a "*kicker" of undoubted capacity. Such RE ation with| Town. Council the extra advice vice that we egu - give South good and Srpnci] was held on Manday sven a few such mi wa question. copy of this resolution to the chair man of the school Board, carded. It is intended to have a plébis- cite on the cow estion, at dhe Municipal 'election oT 204 Weddi g b:lls are ringing. Mrs. Harry Lakey and Miss Sin Putt recent guests of Mr. fos ie Gears W. Phillips, of Bes: Mr. George W. onto, spent Friday with Mr, asl Mgs. Bentley. The regular meeting of the Present, Rezve Chinciion Hutcheson and Car- "The following accounts were for Hallowe'en-- Wms: Cook; $1.00; John Abbot, $1.00; Frank Woodley, $1.00, charge to contingént)account, A. J. Davis, $1.20. :W, EL. Parrish, streets, 32.12 | YES ros, streets, $21.52 W. H Harris is $lo.gt rgualina, greets, 2.15 "We" lmichas, Mr. and Mrs . Asthur Reynolds, , of Bethesda, vi vicited her Jarcats rebate 70¢ me and George Howsam Pani oh Millstone farm on B Suede ; erson anaccount |.