Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1878 — Your Local Paper. [ARTICLE]

Your Local Paper.

Public spirited citizens fully appreciate the necessity of supporting a good local paper, and will heartily indorse the following from the New York Times: “You might nearly as well forget your church, your academics and school houses, as to forget your local paper. It speaks to ten times the audience your local minister does. It is read regularly each day from beginning to end. It reaches you all, and if it has a lower spirit and less wisdom th«p a sermon, it has. a thousand times better chancfs at you. Lying, as it does, on every table in almost every house, you owe it to yourselves to rally liberally to its support , and extract from it as able and lilgh-wmed a character as you do from an educator in your midst. It is in no sense beneath notice and care, unless you yourself are beneath notice and care, for it is your representative. Indeed, in its character, it is the summation of the importance, interest and welfare of you all. It is the aggregate of your own consequence, and you cannot ignore 'it, without miserably depreciating yourselves.” Prisoners in the Connecticut State Prison get a reduction in time of two months from each year of their term, by good behavior. This to a man serving a life sentence must amount to considerable at the end of Kls time.