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advertising patronage was necessarily very limited, and it was obliged to rely for support upon its subscription list. It is well known that the present subscription rates for newspaper scarcely pay for the paper and press work. Yet, with all its disadvantages, the Echo was a large, newsy well conducted and well edited paper. It deserved a better fate. But it does not complain of a want of proper spirit among the citizens of its county. It frankly confesses that they did all that could be expected and that its suspension was because there was not sufficient field for a paper. The citizens of our sister county sustain a serious loss in the suspension of the Echo but none will regret more sincerely than The Exponent the absence of this esteemed friend from our table hereafter.
“The editors chose their announcement in the following appropriate language.
‘But we do not regret the past, we are proud of the record our unit
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