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Show It won. n appear that the interest in skating is on the wane in these parts. A few years ago the first U 'JJI..H .uilu ill 1UU mi IMC UOIUJ KlKe and the neighboring ponds and sloughs would fairly set the young people of the town wild with delight. de-light. Now they seem perfect! v indifferent to the fact. Js that I progress or retrogression in thought and feeling? An kxchaxgk says Uncle Sam, no doubt, would be very glad to marry Miss Canada under certain contingencies. Of course, he will never woo this northern maiden of the snow fluked hair against her wishes. If the marriage ever takes place there will be a willing bride as w el 1 as a willing 1. rid cgroo m . And it looks very much as if these conditions would speedily be fulfilled. ful-filled. The Brigham Bucu.r.n calls editorial (double-leaded) attention to the poor school facilities of Brigham Brig-ham City. Of course; send your ' 'children of school age" to Salt Lake City for their education. Tribune. We even now send scores to Salt Lake, Logan and Provo, but we won't do so long. Vie believe our schools will maKe wonderful pro- gross m the next two years. Ihen only the farthest, advanced will have to seek educational light elsewhere. The Blglkr is patriotic to our town; it is-also appreciative of the support of its pntrro-rrf Tlun foic, we ask our readers to th'nk, before making purchases, whether the firm toward which your steps tend contributes toward building up your city by supporting your home paper, The Bi'gler, or not. In other words, do they solicit your trade through the paper? Govern yourself accordingly. The way is plain. Why, what is a town without a paper? And what is a paper without the advertisements of local business men? Both are worthless things; devoid of life, push or prosperity. Do you sot see the point? It's as big as a mountain. A western chinook sprang up Thursday morning and before nightfall it had melted most of the snow from the ground. The thaw seemed to be general. No truer words were over spoken than the following from the Inland Printer: The country newspaper is the most useful and least compensated of all the agencies which stamp the impress of progress upon villages vil-lages and inland cities. Without the aid of local newspapers towns arc as a rule shiftless and dead, i It is common for small great men j to speak with contempt of the j local newspaper, but the village I newspaper makes more great men I of less material, more bricks with-i with-i out straw, than any other factor in ! polities, and it is the one ladder on j which men climb to local distinc- tion as the beginningof wider fame The advent of the local newspaper : n always dated the increase and '. tin i ft of the community. The local j newspaper is the life of the local-' local-' ily, and the measure of its support ( measures the advancement of the people. |