Beal Boys Out The Register

BEAL BUYS OUT THE REGISTER

Will combine it with the courier.

WORD TO BUSINESS MEN.

Elimination of another advertising medium a good thing for them.

A deal was consumated yesterday by which Junius E. Beal purchases the Ann Arbor Register and will combine it with the Ann Arbor Courier, under the name of the Courier-Register.

Mr. Moran, who has so long published the Register, will devote himself exclusively to the instruction of short-hand, in which he has a rapidly growing field.

The combination of the Courier-Register makes a strong republican weekly in this city, just as the combination of the Argus-Democrat made a strong democratic weekly, and from a very important point of view the business men of Ann Arbor are to be congratulated upon it. It removes one advertising medium from the field, which called upon the merchants for the funds necessary to keep it running. The combination of the Weekly Argus and Weekly Democrat was duly appreciated by the merchants, and we have no doubt the Courier-Register combination will also be heartily approved.

The advertising field of Washtenaw county is now fully covered by the Daily Argus, which circulates in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Saline, Dexter and Chelsea and the Argus-Democrat and the Courier-Register, two strong weeklies circulating all over the county. If special attention is desired in the eastern part of the county the Ypsilanti Sentinel which thoroughly covers the country districts in the eastern portion can be used.

It is in the power of the business men to save themselves money by frowning down any attempt to start up another paper in a field that is so thoroughly covered at present. When there are two good papers in an eastern city of double the size of this, the merchants refuse to encourage a third. It would be money in the pockets of the advertisers if this were the case here. The Argus - daily and weekly - and the courier have cleared the field at the expense, to themselves, of purchasing rivals. Were the merchants to stand solidly with them they could cover the advertising field more thoroughly with less expense to themselves.