Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1897 — TheSemi-Weekly Republican [ARTICLE]

TheSemi-Weekly Republican

With the issue of last week ended the eighteenth volume of the Rensselaer Republican and with the beginning of the nineteenth volume, we have decided to put into effect a plan we have had in contemplation quite a long time, namely the changing of the paper from a weekly to a semi-weekly. ■ Not many semi-weekly papers are published in Indiana, blit in states they are quite common and seem, by all reports to be very popular with their subscribers and advertisers. Whether a Semi-week-ly paper in Jasper county will meet with sufficient public favor to justify the much increased labor and expenses is a problem which only actual experience will solve. In the belief that it will The Republican is now making the experiment. Our publication days under the new arrangement will be Tuesdays and Fridays, it being our intention to go to press Monday and Thursday afternoons, to permit the mailing of the papers early the following mornings. For the present at least, and until we feel justified in purchasing a faster press, we shall adopt the plan, quite common with semiweekly papers, of issuing a four page paper on Tuesdays and an eight page on Fridays. The four pages of Tuesday will be wholly given to local matters. The eight pages of the Friday’s issue will consist of four pages of home matter and four pages of general news and miscellaneous matter. The Friday’s issue will be the same size as the weekly Republican has been heretofore. The issue will be half that size. It will thus be seen that taking the two issues of the week together we are giving our patrons what is equivalent to a twelve page paper, or an increase of 50 per cent, over what it has been before. In spite of this great increase in size and the great additional expense and labor it will entail, the subscription price will not be increased but remain at §1.50 per year, as heretofore.