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Waupaca Record

January 2, 1908

WAUPACA REPUBLICAN CHANGES HANDS

W.H. Holmes Sells the Paper Which He Has Edited Many Years

L.A. Drown of Edgar and D.F. Burnham of this city have purchased the Waupaca Republican form W.H. Holmes who has been publisher for 25 years. The new firm will be known as Burnham & Drown and Mr. Holmes will have charge of the mechanical department.

Mr. Drown is a former teacher in our schools and later publisher of the Edgar Press at Edgar, where he met with success in his work. He will move his family to this city to reside about Feb. 1.

Mr. Burnham was formerly superintendent of schools in Waupaca county and succeeded in bringing the schools up to a high standard. The gentlemen are both worthy and energetic and no doubt will make a success of their new venture.

Waupaca Post

January 16, 1908

ATTENTION SUBSCRIBERS

A new ruling of the postmaster general has been issued which went into effect January 1. This new ruling applies to all newspapers going through the mails. It is as follows: A reasonable time will be allowed publishers to secure renewals of subscriptions, but unless subscriptions are expressly renewed after the term for which they are paid, within the following period.

Weeklies, within one year; they shall not be counted in the legitimate list of subscribers, and copies mailed on account thereof shall not be accepted for mailing at the second-class postage rate of one cent a pound, but may be mailed at the transient second-class postage rate of one cent for each four ounces or fraction thereof prepaid by stamps affixed.

The meaning of this order is that subscribers to a weekly paper who are more than one year behind in subscription will not be considered legitimate subscribers. Parties who take a paper and wish to continue the subscription should see to it that they are not over a year in arrears as the publisher has no choice in the matter, and will have to affix stamps to their papers or remove their names from the list.

If stamps are affixed the subscribers will have to pay $1.75 per year for this paper.

Waupaca Post

April 23, 1908

L.A. DROWN RETIRES

The partnership of Burnham & Drown has been dissolved by mutual consent with Mr. Drown retiring and Mr. Burnham continuing as proprietor and publisher of the Republican. It has not been learned where Mr. Drown will locate, but probably not in Waupaca county. He was formerly proprietor and publisher of the Edgar Press, a small weekly in Marathon county. His plant there has been taken over by the youngest editor in the state, Walter Meyer, fifteen years old, who is now issuing it under the caption, “The Edgar News”.