Column 1 often carried additional "non-news" items, such as paragraph-long jokes or short anecdotes. The editor used these items primarily to fill space when the paper lacked advertisements.

Columns 2-6 usually carried advertisements (though the news could extend into column 3), mostly for goods available at the stores of local merchants, such as the ad for Myers and Brand hardware store, which proudly announced they stocked nails, oils, augurs, circular saws, steel, paint, guns, handsaws, locks, turpentine, platois, along with a list of over fifty other items.