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Show NEWS DID NOT OFFER PRIZE tj? For the benefit of the riiiblh ti jisml the school children whoTT' Lh;ive been misled, the publish-& croft he Gunnison Valley Newsl 1 wishes to most emphatically J deny any connection with the I p3 alleged "prize" that has been 9 i offered for a mailing list of I I those who receive their mail at Cthei Gunnison postollice. It was c. I not until approached by Super-inteiulent Super-inteiulent J. 10. Met en If of the public schools, that (lie pub- f Usher of (ho News Knew any prizes had been or were bchiR offered. Notwithstanding the & fact that it wa.s announced in one of the rooms of (he school pS that the News was offering a t prize, the origin of the report I could not be ascertained. It is J also learned that it was an- S? nounced at a faculty meeting of the public schools. Rut I Principal Melcalf could oe.ly explain that he "believed some? f of tho children" reported it to ? !)him. . It. is learned now that tlirR children were asked to. compile j a mailing list for (he Casino I theater, and that for tire best A !? and neatest prize (he sum Y f $2.50 would be given. 1 The News is desirous of slat- j ' ing that it will not resort totf any method of carrying on its j I business under such principles I land particularly asking the A school children to do it fr? them. The report that (he pa- S per was offe'i ing a prize was J done without the knowledge ore authority of (he publisher. j |