Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1913 — Temperance Paper Will Be. Printed at Winamac Hereafter. [ARTICLE]
Temperance Paper Will Be. Printed at Winamac Hereafter.
Winamac DemocrabJournal. Dr. W. L. Overholser and Foster Riddick this week purchased the newspaper known as “Clean Politics,” which has been published at Indianapolis, and will move the fixtures to Winamac and continue its publication here. The paper will be at the Republican office and will be a 6-column folio in size. It is a prohibition paper and is intended to circulate throughout the United States. The. circulation, which has at times been up to 80,000, is now about 13,000. The new publishers will dhange the name of the sheet to “Get Together,” and will attempt through Its columns to unite the varlbus factions of the prohi party into a formidable power for the elimination of the liquor business. An editor will b& hired to take charge of the business. The parties who have been publishing the paper were on the verge of bankrutcy and Dr. Overholser was able to get control of the business for q small figure: The first Issue will be pripted In Winamac will be dated April 3. Very often a visitor arrives in town whom The Republican does not hear about and whose friends would like to know was here. Some time persons visited tire reluctant to inform the paper about their guests. Very.often some one says to the reporter: “I had a notion to telephone you about a visitor we entertained last week, but hated to do iti” No one should feel that way about it. We want to publish all the news and must depend upon our friends to help us out. We often are plaeed under great obligations to some persons for furnishing us items of news. The school board at Richmond has issued a statement showing that If all the teachers who had served twenty years or more In the nubile schools of that city would retire on pensions, It Hrould cost the city $15,070 annually.
