THE WAUPACA POST

(date not listed  ?December 1882?)

 

Five Years Gone.

 

            With this number the POST closes the fifth year of its existence. 

            The first number of the WAUPACA POST was printed January 19, 1878 by Ogden & Pitcher, and was run by them up to January 19, 1880.  E. E. Gordon became the owner at that time and continued the publication alone until the summer of 1881 when he sold a half interest to W. O. Stetson, who disposed of his interest to the writer, (one of the founders of the paper) December 1881.

            The POST started without private or public aid as far as gifts are concerned.  It never asked for anything only what it legitimately earned; it started upon its own foundation – paid for what it got; run upon business principals; use every body as if he were a man made of dust, and worthy of a good name so long as he did not trouble his neighbors sheep, cheat the POST, or do any other villainous act.

            Once or twice the POST stepped out of the even tenure of its way to cuff the ears of the deserved.  But it now candidly admits its foolishness and thinks it exceeded its jurisdiction.  Who don’t miss fire once in a while?  The POST has been a very decent paper from the start.  Its prosperity is conclusive evidence of that.  Respectable people are not apt to associate with disreputable parties.  Waupaca County is made up mostly of respectable people, and the greater part of them take the POST.  They use the POST probably better than it deserves to be used. Anyway they use it so good that its editors are getting swelled pated on the subject of circulation.  They tell such big things about the large circulation of the POST that it subjects them to some harsh suspicions relative to their truthfulness, and the only way some of the doubtful Thomases can be made to believe is to let them thrust their hands into Gordon’s side pockets and take there from a printed list of the POST’s fifteen hundred subscribers.  For a country journal the POST has reason sufficient to allow of considerable boasting as to circulation.  Advertisers have “got wind” of the POST’s habits and are monopolizing the space for their benefit.  The result of such actions, briefly told, will be the enlargement of the POST.  Not next week, however, but at a not very distant day.