Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1875 — Meeting of Auxiliary Publishers. [ARTICLE]

Meeting of Auxiliary Publishers.

An informal or initial meeting of the publishers of auxiliary newspapers was held at the Commercial Hotel parlors in this city at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon, the object being to consult together as to the propriety of discarding the advertisements from auxiliary sheets or to receive pay therefor. The meeting organized by choosing S. P. Connor, of the Gazette, Kcntland, Ind., as Chairman, and George Burt, Jr., of the Republican, Henry, 111., as Secretary. A discussion pertaining to the interest of publishers of patent insides was participated in by the chairman and members present. It touched upon the prices now paid for auxiliary sheets, which were cons idered too h igh, and particularly on the necessity and justice of discarding the use of advertisements in the auxiliary sheets, unless remuneration was received for such service. The subject was thoroughly ventilated, when a Committee was appointed to draft an address to be sent out to all publishers in the Northwest nsing the auxiliary sheets, setting forth the objects in view, and asking their co-operation, and reque sting them to be present and participate in the meeting, to be held at the Commercial Hotel, in this city, the second Tuesday in February, 1876, to which this meeting adjourned.— All the “Inside” publishers in the States of Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin, are invited. —Chicago Tribune.

It seems proper that the local celobrations of the Fourth of July, 1876, which will be held throughout the land, should be made to contribute to a permanent historical memorial of the Centennial Celebration. In each county provision should be made' for the delivery of an address tracing the history of that particular community for the past century, or from the time of its settlement, and including a sketch of its growth, its resources, industries, prospects, etc.— These addresses should be published in a uniform size, that of the Congressional documents, for instance, —in order that they may be bound together by States. To competent persons the preparation of such addresses would not be an unduly burdensome task ; but in the aggregate they would constitute an invaluable historical repository such as no nation has ever had the opportunity to collect. Designations of the historians ought to be made without delay, in order that they may have time to accomplish their work. It is to be hoped that the press will give general circulation to the project, and that the siightexpense involved be assumed by (be county or town authorities.