Show A TALK WITH OUR READERS when the present editor as sullied control of tile progress office tile the paper wab vasa it four col until palli pamphlet size io ns as no everyone will remember upon assuming control of tile the plant lis as it ib was nt at that time great ideas deas and ambitions began t to take form forin in in the editors inini igind anini indeed so great were they that thai tile the realization of till fill of thell would ld cost a small fortune loi tuno the ira first one ne ns at tile edurge lit ent of the paper front its size sue as it was as then to it a real newspaper size sic as published in the average country town many of you ou will without t doubt fail to realize what the cst cost of tins this move love to to the editor so wo ive will try to tell you yon so that ou will understand that the progress plant lit in rill fill inore is not the least of tile industries dus tries ot ol millard county in ill tile first place we eliud to liao power po ei as the foot power idea lias fills been re relegate legatA d to tit alie scrap heap these many years we bought a 1 I horse power poor gas oliue engine iRine ci pulleys and abaft ing hag which liveli costs in tile neighborhood of we then purchased a cylinder press winch which will print a of pip pap er ei in inches clies anil and this cost over hut but this was not all we also pur purchased chasel a complete new outfit of type faces for the printing of tin this s paper and our job work ork we also bought ft a wire ire sti which liichi Il makes aloes ib possible for us to do PaIn burk ork ns as good as a any na metropolitan printing office altogether the outlay up to the present totals soni something ething like 1000 bilic neol added to to clio purchase price paid by the editor ed I 1 tor to the doriner owner rings brings tile invoice value of tho plant up to 2000 ali and tile end is not yet as there are arc tit at least two tile otlie machines we intend to install if tile the country justi lies it in ill tilt future we I 1 have realized reali yd wi ambitions up to the alio present tinie time and we tive knois that it is is owing to your patronage that we ire liao have been beell able to do so wo we thank you one and all for tile tho licup yol on lialo given us and wish you iou all a very happy now new year oar and all tile prosperity that can cunio cumo to you in ill 1015 1115 |