--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1839 to 1840. authors: - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints editors: - Ebenezer Robinson - Don Carlos Smith - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Taylor, John collections: - periodicals tags: - newspaper - times-and-seasons - nauvoo - nineteenth-century periodical: Times and Seasons volume: 1 number: 7 published: 1840-05 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“A Weekly Newspaper to Be Entitled,” *Times and Seasons* 1, no. 7 (May 1840): 112." printed_title: A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER TO BE ENTITLED source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-05_1_7 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v1n07.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair) identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-05_1_7 start_page: 112 end_page: 112 curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1840 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1840-05_1_7 publication_year: 1840 --- # A Weekly Newspaper to Be Entitled THE NEWS. The subscribers having been frequently solicited by their friends in this vicinity, and elsewhere, to commence the publication of a weekly Newspaper in this place, have concluded to do so, as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers can be obtained to warrant them in their arduous undertaking. The Publishers will spare no pains on their part, to make the News an interesting and useful sheet to all classes of community, as they will endeavor to lay before their readers news upon all important subjects, as early as possible. The colums [columns] of the News will be devoted to Literature, Arts. and Sciences, and no small share will be appropriated for the interest of the farmer and mechanic, as copious extracts will frequently be made from the best agricultural periodicals of the day. The "News" will take perfectly neutral ground, in regard to politics, as it is the fixed determination of the publishers to studiously avoid all party strife, and political ranglings which are so prevalent the present time. TERMS The "News" will be issued weekly, on a fine Super Royal sheet. At the reduced price of Two Dollars per annum in advance, or upon the delivery of the first number.-Any person procuring ten subscriber, and forwarding us the money, shall be entitled to the eleventh copy gratis. All current Bank Notes, of any denomination received on subscription. Advertising done at usual rates. All Letters Addressed to the Publishers must be POST PAID. ROBINSON & SMITH. Nauvoo, Ill. April, 1840.