It must be confessed that under this ghostly administration the paper improved.

Every man did his best, and the circulation statements as published monthly indicated a widening constituency.

Even the Sunday edition, long a forbidding and depressing hodge-podge of ill-chosen and ill-digested rubbish, began to show order and intelligence.
In October following his visit to Professor Kelton, Harwood was sent to Fraserville, the seat of Fraser County, to write a sketch of the Honorable Morton Bassett, in a series then adorning the Sunday supplement under the title, "Home Life of Hoosier Statesmen." The object of the series was frankly to aid the circulation manager's efforts to build up subscription lists in the rural districts, and personal sketches of local celebrities had proved potent in this endeavor.

Most of the subjects that had fallen to Harwood's lot had been of a familiar type--country lawyers who sat in the legislature, or county chairmen, or judges of county courts.

As the "Sunday Courier" eschewed politics, the series was not restricted to Democrats but included men of all faiths.