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Show THE KNOCKER'S UILWER -WE HAVE SOME When oii want u 1 1 1 1 1 f boosting for youroolf, your friend or for the town, come to jour local paper - Hl'I.L flKT IT -Hut when you have a llltlr printing to bo done, don't give It to your local paper give It to Iho oilier fellow, and If you should happen to glvo It to the local paper make them compoto and Ilgtire within a cunt with all other print shopi within a thousand thou-sand miles, Tlnit'H the way to build up your local imperii and encourage thorn to ROOST, ROOST, ROOST for the city you uro making money out of Every city has tlteue kind of enterprising enter-prising citizens, but PleauaiU Grove Ameiicun Fork, Lchi nnd' Alpine have Hie biggest bunch of nil. They recall lo our mind tho "Knocker's J'rayer," which goes something like this: "Ixjrd, plcnpo don't let our local paper or HiIb country grow. I've lived hero for many years. During that lime I've fought everything nnd everybody every-body especially the home paper. No firm or Individual has established themselves here without my doing nil 1 could do to discourage them; I've UHnl every underhand method known to the knocking fraternity to discourage discour-age them., I've often lied to them about tilings. I've done all I could to keep the country from growing; never hale 1 spoken a good word for It, but iiiBlcad l'vo knocked hard and often. It pains me, O, Lord, to ace thai in Hpitu of my knocking this country in lightning to grow, the Iminii paper ib biiiiii'liilig ottl, and some day I fear will ItiiMi much iiiltueucu in this community. com-munity. This, Lord,. would bo more than I could bear, for il might remember re-member how slightingly 1 linvo Bpok-i'ii Bpok-i'ii of It, how 1 huvo knocked It, how I have taken printing from it tlm" It m.ib absolutely entitled to, so as to ,aio a few poiiulen. Then, too, If tho paper continues to hoost, moid people might come, which v, nuM cniiBo mo lo Ioho hoiiio of my pull. I ask, therefore, lo keep thin country at a Blaitdiitlll, that I may continue to bu thu chief knocker, Anion, amen. |