The Rural Press

The periodical publications in the rural field fall into three classes: agricultural journals, rural organization periodicals, and weekly newspapers, the combined circulation of which exceeds that of the large city dailies. The country weelky newspapers are still widely read and are most numerous in the north-central states. The militant type of country weekly is being superseded by a less partisan paper that caters to the needs of the entire community. The Chapel Hill Weekly represents a successful type of village newspaper which makes itself indispensable through its attractive presentation of local news. The vast majority of country weeklies sitll use boiler plate and are poorly edited. Such papers are not of great value as socializing forces and are finding it increasingly hard to compete with city dailies

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