Statement of Policy, 1946

From The Chrisman Weekly Courier, November 7, 1946

Our Statement of Policy

Stanley R. Kent and Frances E. Kent have acquired control of The Chrisman Weekly Courier, and have taken possession this week. This is our first issue of the paper.

The basic policy of The Courier will be to continue to give Edgar County and our many subscribers the very best newspaper which The Courier's employees can produce, and to help promote every worth-while enterprise that is beneficial to the people of this community.

We hope to carry on the fine outstanding traditions that The Courier enjoyed tor so many years under the guidance of the late Charles R. Livingston, and which have been capably carried on more recently by Fayelle and D. E. Bradley, the retiring publishers of The Courier.

We are strangers in this community, but we •don't expect to remain strangers very long. We want to meet all of you and get acquainted with you. Until we do become acquainted and familiar with names and places, please excuse us for any errors that we may commit. They are not intentional.

And until we do become better acquainted, we will appreciate having you telephone your news to the office or bring it to the office so that we can become better acquainted with you.

To the business men and merchants, let us assure you that we will be around to see all of you soon. So far, we have been too busy, but we'll be around within the next week or two.

Deane Radabaugh and Leo Reagan are going to remain with us, and we are all here to serve you, whether it be news, advertising, job printing, or anything else.

Dedicated to a policy of common sense, common honesty, and common decency, The Courier offers friendly and constructive cooperation to the churches, the schools, the civic organizations, business institutions, farmers, and farm organizations. We will strive always to be clean, broad-minded, progressive, fair, helpful, patriotic and above all, truthful and accurate.

This is The Courier's creed. On this policy, we solicit the continued confidence, support, and good will of all of the citizens of this community, this county, and this state.

Stanley R. Kent

Frances E. Kent

Publishers.