Show U R THIRD HIRD T BIRTHDAY with tills this issue of the news we sass th the third mile post of our adeer as an editor ana publisher n panguitch and garfield county bur ur ne next issue will be vol ano for Forthe the past t three years the editor has lived in this beautiful Aust hustling ling city and it has been three of bf the happiest years in his life the pe people ople of this section have been good to him and his family they have encouraged him in his work they have lent aid in his undertakings they have extended the glad hand of fellowship and have strewn many flowers along the pathway he has trod he was a stranger and they took 7 him in looking backward through a vista of three years there are many pleasures and pains much happiness lap and sorrow a mixture of the bitter with the sweet but with b big ig odds in favor of the sweet portion of life we have endeavored to g give ive our readers the very best behave we have and truly hope we hoveln have met et with their I 1 approval I 1 I 1 the publishing of a weekly newspaper is just like conducting any other bus business ines in many respects and in others very many of them it I 1 is s like ia no other bustness business under tile the sun it has baa all the duties the trials and the responsibilities that other business institutions encounter and has others that most of them J never face it also has many pleasures that never come to those who conduct mercantile or banking institutions or similar lines of business it has sorrows often and gladness and joy to counterbalance in fatt fact the business of publishing a news paper causes one to encounter about all the experiences that ialy fall to business men and then same some that no other business man ii is apt to meet kneet r the newspaperman perman sympathizes with those in distress in ills his community and rejoices with those who are happy he is called upon to write of those who have departed thi this 1 life and to rejoice with the newly married and upon the arrival of a son or a daughter he hears of 0 the accidents and the ills the sickness and the recovery of members of th the e family and he tries trien io faithful faithfully portray the daily life of the community in which he lives sometime he succeeds and sometime he fails but usually a part of the people think he issac is succeeding t and a part of the people thing he be is faili failing if the newspaper could always agree wi with th everyone aver y one in the community could always publish only the good things about everyone if there were never more than one candidate for each office and lf if everyone vo everyone else and the newspapers agreed with everyone in the community on everything then the newspaper man would have everyone in the community ns as ills his friend and no oiin one would be displeased with him but alas this never happens we have done our very best and believe we have made many friends the following from the pen of a great big man in heart as well as ability mr hitchings of the western newspaper union writ engfor ing for the publishers auxiliary last week says the following three years ago one william J peters better known as just plain bill peters oozed his not unpretentious self into panguitch garfield county utah and published dished the first issue of the G garfield ar county news we dont care a whoop who bill peters is he is bill peters but what he has done the story the starting of a newspaper in in panguitch three years ago was no mean undertaking and required courage brain and brawn in fact all of the qualities and qualifications of which men are made today the news is published regularly as a twelve page paper Is ita it a newspaper well rather bill says on this anniversary be is happy he is thankful to the public in general and cannot see a man who is not his friend and has enjoyed the greatest prosperity then there is the newspaper it is full 04 news local news state news interstate inter state news worldwide news fiction his townspeople know all that is going on at homeland home and abroad there is a story for the children a story for the farmer a story for the cottage gardener a few columns of fiction for everybody and a department to which the lovelorn can refer and have their r difficulties solved and these are always well arranged band and well prin printed aed and all for two dollars per year it was not long ago that that noted writer emerson hough wrote an article forthe for the saturday evenich post in which he be said much of southern utah much of bill peters and much more of bill peters deeds that is absolutely sol IT DEEDS when egypt was in the be heyday of her glory the beauties of southern utah were waiting to dazzle the eye of humanity but were not known knon today through the deeds of such emp empire ire builders as bill peters the world i is s beginning to I 1 know who has seen zon zoa canyon who bassein has seen little zion who has seen braces and cedar brakes the valor alor of the thanked and n not 0 t men who have gone before and showed the way the time will pass ages lapse bill peters and all 0 of f us will in our turf turn join the mighty caravan of the dead I 1 and I 1 generations yet unborn sl shall lIl view somei some of the splendor southern utah gasp gag p bew others and ad itano stan pass on anav and view transfixed with no word his name our names wa will 11 not even be a memory but these generations will there raise a bethel of praise for our deeds his deeds during the three years which bill peters has bils published the pan news he has been the means of spreading the fame of braces canyon from coast to coast and has done a great work in the future development oi southern utah butali the land of the great tomorrow more power to him we thank mr Hit hitchins ebins for ills his kind words and truly hope that some of our friends in southern utah like us as well as he does and believes we are trying to do something for the country we love and cherish A country we have picked to live and die in and until our weary bones are laid to rest and we take that trip down the newly gravelled travelled gravel led road never to return you will find us boosting boasting for you and yours no J matter how many little ills pop up in life we are for you through thick and thin |