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Rh got things into the paper that they didn’t see till they were printed. I noticed an advertisement once for a lost horse that read as follows: “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 Silverton Appeal, and it was a hard competitor. It was the old covered bridge that crossed Silver 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 Silverton Appeal was advertised all over the bridge, and throughout the Appeal the job work was as