Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2022 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Anoka Star Saturday, January 28, 1865 DEATH OF AN UNPROFITABLE SUBSCRIBER - Thus discourseth the Vincennes Gazette: We cheerfully announce this week the death of one of our subscribers, who had been taking the paper for the past two years and who has shuffled off this mortal coil indebted to us for the same. On last Saturday in the prime of life, hale and hearty, enjoying good health, he called on and informed us for the ninety-ninth time, that if alive on the following Monday he would bring us a load of wood. - Monday came, Tuesday do., Wed- nesday and Friday the same, and no wood. We have come to the conclusion that he is dead -- deader than a mackeral, and that its thorny spirit has taken its everlasting flight and found a resting place in the wood heaven, where all liars receive their just reward. May his body reast in peace, and a thorn bush be planted o'er his grave as a fitting monument to one who subscribes and never pays for his paper. ==========================================================================