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Show FEW REASONS WHY PEOPLE OF GUNNISON GUN-NISON VALLEY SH01LD BE BOOSTERS. or in your office and steo to the phone knowing that it ia me ml fur you only I Is not all this worth something? And i last and not the least the central j school and high school now under j consideration. There is no agency j which is more potent in cementing ties of friendship, in quelling feuds, aud emnities aud jealousies, than a sound well managed education of learning, of which all can be proud and which our sons and daugh'ers can call their Alma. To make Gunuisou an educational edu-cational center equal to any, i-a worthy of our highest endeavors. There will soon be a ci invention ca 1-ed 1-ed to Jay all these mailer-; before the j public. There could not possibly be one dessenting vote, as all these measures are so urgent at present. It is the making of a new epock in the hi3tory of the community. When now all this has been successfully accom plished and the people can point proudly to their home lo.vn as a model they will begin to wonder why they they did not begin to boost long, long ago. By Dr. ALBERT BJORN'SON. Newton points out that a ebb'e, flipped into the. sea, will cause a rippl and impuls) which cou'd be felt throughout this globe, providing we possessed instruments stneinvj enough to d tjet it. Whi ther (r i ot capable of de.nns'.raiiou it il ustrates tb i. uisui thai this earth of our-i and iv.i t .iug which is ou it has mutual re.atioiiship, so intimately associated Hud iutervvoveu as to be iuseperable. Probably one of ibe most difficult lessons to master to the human lace has been just this, that Paul's interests and Peter's interests are identical, and that in proportion to the benefits which these two derive from- it, the community in which they live, the btute, the nation and the entire human pull altogetheris the only thing which can do it. But is it really not worth the while io get pure and wholesome water fed by mountain springs, come irickiingdown past our doors ond on our, lawns and iuto our houses? Is it really worth the while, to be safe from the rayriuds of typhoid bacilli which thrive and multiply in stagnant wells? Is not that contented smile, which plays on the lips of the good hou3e wife as she sups the sparkling water which can be bad so handy, and which saves untold "drudgery, really worth a kingdom. And then there is the new telophoue system to soon be installed , a system which saves all the annoyance of heariug everybody's ring; when you cin sit in your bom ) ' ' 7 - """family will feel the impulse from the highest to the lowest, aud share in the benefit proportionally . A ripple of disinterested love aud self sacrafice, a ripple of hate and discord ; a ripple of buut-hine and sympathy, all come reverberating through the ages, and not one ripple of -echo is lost. It comes for weal or woe first to ourselves aud then to unborn generations. But what has this thought in common with the subject? Simply this, that the people of Gunnison Valley, have reilly one interest the same mutual responsibilities and the same proportional propor-tional profits, all in commou, and that iu proportion as this is lost sight ot aud ignored, there wil) be a correspondingly corres-pondingly loss to one and all, and to Hpply this still further, the prosperity aud ihe thrift of this valley will not ouly bo of primary benefit to its people, peo-ple, but will reach the people throughout through-out the state, the nation aud the world in geueral. Probably Lever before has there been so much activity in municipal improvements throughout the state of Utib. The fhctors which have been' instrumental in producing this wave of prosperity are many and varied ud cannot tie meutiouetl here, but they all spring from the same source aud have the same orgiu, namely, "that it payp," bo a tremeudous cooperation co-operation of the best citizens is iu progress pro-gress everywhere. Apathy lias given way to push aud eneigy and all this b icause "it pays " It matters not if 8 :did commercialism, civilization or improved ideals are responsible for this hopeful attitude, it is nevertheless a Mtep towards even more perfect aud more ideal conditions in our midst which brings with it more we.; It i, better bet-ter health aud more comforts in life. We are also beginning to learn tint n order to secure thesj b?nefits the shoulder of the able bodied man must be put to the wheels tog.H it out of t ia root aud then a strong pull and a j .... . . |