People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — A Few Whacks at Marshall. [ARTICLE]

A Few Whacks at Marshall.

Remington Press. Notwithstanding the “valid reasons” in the Republican this week, the editor failed to show why a newspaper should be allowed to charge $1,000 a column for public advertising when their regular rates for other work are only $80 per column. * * * The hustling (?) local editor of our esteemed contemporary, the Rensselaer Republican, devotes nearly a half column to announcing that two of Rensselaer’s bright and progressive young men have secured a job ou tho World's Fair grounds for next summer of wheeling invalids around in reclining chairs to see the sights. * * * Bro. Marshall does not use shears, he merely tears a slip off of his Columbia calendar each day and hands it to the compositor, also gets a few “tariff pictures” out of the New York Press, “rehashes” the local news printed in the PILOT the week before, and then has the gall to put his sheet before the public as a newspaper. * * * There is an old tradition that a skunk always smells out his own hole first. Judging from the abuse the Republican has been heaping upon us for the past few weeks because we have shown up public printing in its right light, it is striking a sore spot in the Republican man’s anatomy. Please remember that we have never mentioned his paper at all in connection with the above work until this issue. * * * If the reader who is so unfortunate as to be a subscriber to the Republican will take the trouble to compare its columns with the Press, he will find that our columns are about 2 1/2 inches longer and, that including this extra length, our paper contains 16 columns of matter each week more than the former. If he will go a little further and take into consideration this 2 1/2 inches in length on each column and the fact that our type is of a smaller size than the Republican is printed with, then take out his standing ads and pay locals, (run in with other reading matter) he will find that the Press as a general thing contains more purely local news by a good deal than our modest (?) neighbor. Mr. Ryan, a holiness preacher living at Remington, was instantly killed last Saturday afternoon at Jordan’s bridge, in Carpenter township. Ever since the bridge was built it has been a dangerous place, owing to the height and narrowness of the grade leading to the bridge. Teams could not pass on the grade. Mr. Ryan and another person were on a wagon loaded with hay and just as the horses stepped on the bridge the wagon slipped on the ice which covered the grade and Ryan was thrown off, a distance of at least twenty feet. He struck head first on the ice in the creek below and was instantly killed. The ice was broken through where his head struck. He leaves a wife and several childdren in poor circumstances. In all probability the widow will bring suit against the county for damages, with a good prospect of getting a nice sum from our treasury. It is clearly a case of carelessness on the part of the commissioners for accepting such a piece of work from the contractors and a piece of stupidity on the part of the man who superintended the work of construction.