| Show WE VE HOPE HOPI YOU WILL VILL SHOP AT HOME IE This week the Uintah Basin Record again brings you a special Christmas Shoppers Edition with many extra pages of local news vs and features and holiday stories We believe home business is of vital concern to ever every member of a community regardless of the source of his or her chief revenue Every dollar that thatis is spent in the community immediately goes to work vork for the entire community moving from one person to another creating better business larger stocks more taxes and better opportunities for social life It is our hope hone that this edition of the Record with its large number of advertisements of local business business business busi busi- ness houses will vill help to stimulate spending at hone home If it accomplishes this it will vill have accomplished a good far in excess o of the cost of its publication a good which will vill be felt after the g u LJ long paper itself is ues or jui gotten The fine support given this edition in the form of advertisements is highly appreciated by us I It t makes possible the publication of the vast amount of extra reading you will vill find in it and we v hope hone our readers in turn will vill appreciate this extra value and respond to it by T carefully reading the advertisements and accepting their invitations to SHOP A AT HOME XMAS LIGHTS HERALD HOLIDAY SEASON It is hard to believe with the temperature holding hold hold- holding ing well veIl above freezing in in the daytime bright ht sunshine sunshine sunshine sun sun- shine and bare that ground Christmas is just a a. a couple of weeks away a Duchesne merchants are wishing wish wish- ing Mother Nature would take stock of the time and spread her customary y white blanket over the landscape landscape landscape land land- to remind us more vividly of the approaching holiday season In the mean n time Christmas lights holiday window win win- dow v displays and decorations are doing their best to portray the spirit of the season and attract attention atten atten- attention tion to the fine stocks of f merchandise being offered In spite of some adverse conditions Duchesne citizens in common with others of the Uintah Basin really have much to rejoice over and with a general feeling of good will vill in the air air and an early start in in activities it looks like an enjoyable holiday season sea son is in in store for us TWO VO GIRLS FIRST SUBS FOR Two vo business girls the Misses Faun Oman and Gwenith Pierson take the honors for being the first to respond to the appeal for Subs-for-Santa Subs in in Du Du- chesne This appeal was vas made in our columns last week sponsored jointly by Kohls store and the Record Record Rec Rec- ord in the hopes of providing Christmas cheer t to those kiddies in Duchesne who Duchesne-who e ti vho ho might otherwise vise be forgotten We We know there must b be e plenty of persons who vho can assume a similar responsibility with these two VO girls to be Subs-for-Santa Subs for some family or group of children but we ve hope everyone does not put it off until the last minute Lists of children who vho should be helped are available in both of the places above mentioned mentioned men men- and we ve will viII be g glad lad to help you select a group for which to provide a Merry Christmas It is is up to you Do yo your r share shale BETTER TAXES MEAN l BETTER BUSINESS Contrary to estimates released a week ago Duchesne Duchesne Du Du- chesne county tax collections this year exceeded not only the e collections of last test year but of f an any year since 1929 figured on a basis of percentage of assessed taxes collected This indicates a healthy financial condition j. j throughout the county very heartening to the citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens generally as well veIl as td to the county officials Graphic evidence of this is shown sho in the delinquent list 1st carried in this edition of the Record Instead of the he 8 to 10 pages which have Joeen Jeen necessary to carry this his list in previous years the list occupies only five pages ages this year It is a peculiar circumstance in nature nature na- na ture ure that very often one mans man's fortune is another's misfortune A reduced delinquent list means curtailed curtail curtail- ed revenue for the newspaper ne yet et w we ve e cannot do other than han rejoice in knowing that conditions in in the county are better bettel- than last year instead of poorer as was vas at first supposed Newspaper Ne revenue is usually effected pretty directly b by business Y conditions in in general so ti we ve e ajain again a- a again gain jain call on the balancing rule of nature cheerfully believing that a shorter delinquent list meant curtailed curtailed cur cur- tailed revenue now v but better business later for us usall all I |
