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Show Jllnter-Mountain j Editorial Hilites Selected for Western Newspaper Union Service by R. A. C. and C. B. W. j Some folks are continually eating brain food, but you would never suspect sus-pect it unless they told you. Coalville (Utah) Times. A blind pig at Salt Lake gave birth ' to nine real pigs and a white mule. Boy, page Mr. Bnrbank. Price , (Utah) News-Advocate. It has got so now that an old man can't laugh out loud nowadays, with- ! uut being accused of having had goat glands sewed in him. Carson Cit (NevJ News. They say Mr. Edison's plan to de-visa de-visa a machine that will put him in touch with spirits is giving prohibiten prohibi-ten officers no end of worry. Cedar City (Utah) Record. It is predicted that the white race will be practically extinct in three hundred years. We positively refuse to worry about something three nun. dred years hence. Logan (Utah) Journal. A reader insists that it is possible even in these sordid days to get something for nothing. But at that, we fear the something would amount to nothing after we got it. Bancroft (Idaho) Standard. The tramp nuisance has increased j to alarming proportions in Las Vegas within the past few weeks. It is estimated esti-mated that there are more than one hundred breakbeam tourists in Vegas every day on the average. Las Vegas (Nev.) Age. A member of a legislature 49 years of age boasts th t he has never been kissed by anyone but his mother. He shouldn't be in the legislature, for he's either a blasted li r or else lacks much in practical experience. Em-mett Em-mett (Idaho; Examiner. Football season is here. It puts us i In mind of the newspaper business ' every other year when elections are with us. The mud slinging seems to be free for all. Football kicks up another an-other kind of mud, though. Kim-berly Kim-berly (Idaho) Tribune. Tou can't always tell. A little boy stuck a cow'3 tail through n knothole in a fence, and a philosopher who passed along on the otbw side sat up all night pondering on how in blazes that cow got through that knothole. Brigham City (Utah) journal. Th best crop any man can raise on a farm is just plain children. What would be the rase of working hard to develop a fine farm unless there were some good, dependable boys to leave it to Ian the end? But boys and girls are more difficult to raise than record-breaking cows or fine norses. Murray '('Utah) Eagle. In eastern cities hardly a day passes without bringing reports of women and girls being captured, mistreated and murdered. Eastern civilization is evidently breaking down and the I men restorting to ancient cave methods. meth-ods. The "wild and wooly west" i? dropping far behind the cultured easl in modern barbarities. Ely (Nev.) Record. In running through, our exchanges we note that they are still full of front page editorial and "canned dope" on the election and "how it happened." For the love of Mike, come out of 11 I The people have been "fed up" on this political stuff and want a rest. Let's strike a new note and each, t ng about the advantages advan-tages of his own individual communityHelper commu-nityHelper (Utah) Times. There are only a few towns in this country that cannot support a local newspaper, not only as a matter of iocal pride, but as a medium of advertising ad-vertising to the Iocal merchants and the dissemination of local news which the dailies of our larger .cities do not carry in their columns. That this community is in need of a Joeal paper cannot be doubted, and yet there are those who believe that a country newspaper can exist on good wishes and free tickets and we want to assure as-sure them that such is not the fact. The home town paper stands always ready to like up any light for justice jus-tice n.-d right for their community, and In publishing of the facts printer's ink and paper are sorely needed, and wishes and free tickets are not taken In lieu of cash for these commodities. It behooves everyone for their own interest to get behind their local paper and push it, help Increase the circulation, circula-tion, in fact, help it to help you Mid-vale Mid-vale (Utah) Messenger. Why not plan to make your district school grounds a beauty spot next summer instead of the eyesore that most country schools are during vacations? vaca-tions? It would mark your community commu-nity rs bei.-g progressive Lehi (Utah) State Farmer. A Mi.-souri woman advertises thai she wishes to marry a man "who Ioon't drink, swear, smoke. gamhV. r l.,se his temper." She doesn't mention men-tion the color of wings she prefers. Win.'iemucea (Nev.) Silver State. |