Show f Z 97 9 I 1 in E L H ak U G N I 1 0 by barlat pratt illinois these paragraphs are from the forethought note books of the ar cade index library for twenty years vears I 1 have been a be leevel in local new s or that kind of lo 10 cal news items which mentions some per son i lace oi 01 thing in a anay w ay to inter est and benefit the readers of the local publication local news deals deal 9 with the present and f ture while lo 10 cal history deals with tt ti e past local history is next to local news in val ie but some editors do not like local his tory ed tonal dislike for local is tory is generally due to the vy it has been presented by boiling the I 1 historical orical articles down and mixing with good news copy both are im proved and accepted by the editor better local news letters might be secure 1 by editors and with mith less ef of fort could local writers understand the personal and neighborhood value in readable paragraphs in the local newspaper personally it is net next to going away to school or on a vacation trip to interview observe and write urite something so worth reading and every man floman momen and child sees hears rea reals Is and a of something every week worth cecur ng for a news let ter there was a time wt wl en ell it would I 1 ave assisted as me in my local news work to I 1 lave ave had lad sample paragraphs ill lie e the follo following N ing because frequently we do not see or because we do not I 1 now noa how and a sample teaches moie than lules or directions A little gold band ring on the third finger of teny ten year earold old victor mador may mays s right hand became caught on a nail in a fence and the finger was al most severed A s argeon amp stated the finger down at appleton the other day they had a debate in one of the schools the fhe question was mas re solved that a boy is less expensive than a girl and more useful to his parents the affirmative won hows that for corruption eption of morals 9 love of children is nothing the ques tion to day is how much are they worth 1 J H sears NN who ho lives in lincoln ali has a hive of bees in his bed icorn im since the bees began to make their home in his room he has taken more than forty fin ae e po ands of honey from the hive the swarm was captured a year ear ago and mr sears had ro yard so he decided to keep the bees in the house he lie leaves a window slightly sligh tl open ao 0 o as to allow the bees to go inland inand out and a modern hive is pro dued for tl if cm em the bees seem to know knon that mr air sears is their friend and do not attack I 1 im fin A tramp sto e a bar of soap atom richard carrs residence lesi dence and tried to male mal e off with it but was overtaken and collared by the owner of the soap and bro gl t before mayor shiek As the culprit pleaded that he absolute ly 1 needed the soap the mayor gave him an ho ir to get out of town and mr carr gave him tl e soap he ile stop ped neat the stone quarry to tale tal e a bath claude who has been worl ing at the kellogg farm became in recently and about 6 0 clod in the evening went to the L S and M S py depot and in the gents closet took off all his clothes except his underclothing hanging his doffed garments on a hook he went rent to the ticket office and askeli agent john where bis his room was as as he wanted to go to bed mr saw sam his condition and telephoned to the marshal heard him call for the marshal and struck out in his scant clothing and bare footed marshal craig arrived and looked in every direction but was unable to locate him later it was learned that he had gone home and to bed his clothes were still hang ing in the depot this noon and what there N was as left of a bottle of whisky in one of the pockets he probably w was surprised when he woke up this mon morl L ing if vou iou are a correspondent of an adf new nen shaper I 1 would suggest that yo i start and I 1 beep go sg ng a scrap book 0 i good sample local news items |