THE COUNTRY BOY 77 



got tilings into the paper that they didn't see 

 till they were printed. I noticed an advertise- 

 ment once for a lost horse that read as fol- 

 lows : "Found, a bay horse fifteen and a half 

 hands high, left hind foot white, small star in 

 the forehead; any one describing the property, 

 and paying for this advertisement, can have 

 the same by calling at my farm." 



There was one strong opposition to the Sil- 

 verton Appeal, and it was a hard competitor. 

 It was the old covered bridge that crossed Sil- 

 ver Creek, on Main Street. Sometimes the 

 old bridge had more news on it than the 

 Appeal; people got so they posted some of the 

 town scandals, and it always had more local 

 news than the home paper. H. G. Guild, who 

 was the best editor the Silverton Appeal ever 

 had, was shrewd enough Saturday nights, 

 before the Appeal appeared on the streets, to 

 go out and quietly tear down some of the big 

 headlines that the bridge had and the Appeal 

 didn't, and in that way the Appeal finally got 

 ahead. 



The job work in connection with the Silver- 

 ton Appeal was advertised all over the bridge, 

 and throughout the Appeal the job work was as 



