Show IN retrospect 1 i soon another year will have passed into history and the news takes this opportunity to wish its readers a happy and prosperous new year we also feel that some expression is due our readers and advertising patrons of the appreciation we feel for their loyal support during the year now closing mighty few industries succeed without the assistance assistance ot friends mighty fe few people do the same and we are milling Nil ling to ascribe as cribe all honor and thanks to our many friends for what little success we might have attained in the publishing of a country weekly that the paper is appreciated is evidenced by the great circulation which it has aud and the number of new friends it is steadily making each week for never a week passes but that from two to a dozen names are added to the circulation list once in awhile a subscriber thinks enough of us to 11 just how bow he be likes the news which always warms the hearts of the fellows who grind it out every week but the majority are silent excepting through the medium of sending in their lemit remittances with instructions to let the paper keep on coming we are willing to admit of many mistakes during the past year may have even wounded some feelings for it is impossible to always say that which will please everybody but these cases we believe have been few and unintentional for the policy of the news ha has always be n and will always be just to all 1 no now iri in the coming year it shall be our purpose to give all the news all the time and work nork consistently for the up building of the county and its cities we also expect to do the right as we are able to understand it and our policy has been where we did not know or understand the right properly to go to some good person or two and |