Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1875 — That "Special Notice.” [ARTICLE]

That "Special Notice.”

For some cause a misapprehension exists among certain readers and patrons of The Union in regard to the special notice to churches, societies, which appeared in last issue. That announcement was studiously worded to guard against ambiguity, and it was hoped that nobody would mistake the idea intended to be conveyed by it to the public. It was said that no gratuitous publication would be made in this paper of any festival, theatrical performance, concert, show, fair, or other entertainment where an admittance fee is charged. Now that announcement was intended to apply only to speculations of the character described, when those who conducted them Would make money for themselves or a purpose in which they bad greater interest than the general public. It was furthermore announced that “resolutions of condolence” on the death of a | member of a secret society, and , obituary notices, would be charged I for. This does not mean that we

intend to exclude from The Union all announcements of deaths that are hot paid for. The publisher of this paper proposes to .collect and present in his columns all items of local value, or in which his readers may be presumed to take an interest, free of charge; and lie respectfully asks to be "informed of events transpiring throughout the county. Hut he does not intend, that, because he may be a member of any lodge or society, (and if not a member the imposition would be greater), to, bear the whole expense Of publishing five or ten dollars’ worth of sorrow which the brotherhood resolve they mutually feel. Condolence and grief that sponge an expression are entitled to no more respect than other dead beats. An omission from the notice published last week may as well be supplied here as anywhere else. It is this: The Union is not an ‘‘organ” published in the interest of any party, sect, or clique, either political or religious; but it is the means of procuring a living for its owner and his family—when it fails in this it will cease to exist, and the proprietor will engage in some remunerative occupation—hence in any future political campaign regular advertising rates will be charged tor publishing the calls for caucuses and conventions, and for advertising the tickets in nomination.