Show the carbon county news issod every thursday by W xa benfer entered in tho at price utah as second class matter subscription rates per year in advance PRICE J UTAH W fmc THURSDAY OCT 2 1913 f f jern lie the editor editors column on things that please llam f or displease a c did you notice that a green river man had matured peanuts on exhibition at the recent county fair what cant eastern utah produce since its the fashion to blame the democrats for everything that goes stong are archey they also to blamo for the splendid building boom that has struck arico the tiger has hits evidently gone on a deer hunt for ho he is absent from his ills accustomed haunts and if he is wise wilse he lie will remain quiet until after election least ho lie become an issue governor ammons of colorado announces bounces that his state will begin work on its share of tho the lincoln highway this 3 ear and that con convicts will bo be used in the building thereof the people are now being asked to contribute to that the auto manufacturers promised to contribute toward paving an ocean to ocean highway always it is the common people who are asked to pay t when a fair sized stowing hen ben or rooster brings from to 1 in the local market it is a sign that a chicken ranch would not be a poorly pa ing investment the recent fair demonstrated that fine fire birds can be raised tere here as well as anywhere else the city election is only a month away and about the only talk of tho the lineup the aws hears is that councilman thos fouts will head the progressive ticket as candidate for mayor the matter boys afraid the waters cold A moralist at salt lake complained to the city commissioners that some of the actresses at the pantages had their skirts slit too far up and others of the frisky fair sex wore no skirts at all some people are darned arned d hard to satisfy huh too many men abo think they are boosters tear down their communities by sending away for goods they could a as well buy at home ale ate you ou one of them remember therome the home merchant pays taxes tuxes to keep up tho the local schools and road roads whilo while the money you send to chicago or minneapolis goes to build up those communities muni ties there thera arc are about twenty prisoners in tho the county jail or out under bond who have been bound over to tho the district court on criminal charges it will be interesting to note how many of these prisoners are dismissed without a trial as soon as court convenes on the ground of lack of evidence while the news would hate very much to do electrician jewkes an injustice it cannot refrain rear in from vouchsafing the opinion that if mr jewkes were docked a days pay a little better than 25 for every day ho he failed to give the city light and power there would be fewer shut downs of the light plant the city is paying plenty to have the work done right and customers are getting tired of closing down their plants for lack of power we once heard a successful merchant say whether 1 havo anything bin ft to advertise adv ortise or not I 1 as a representative business man should not like t to pick up a copy of my dionio paper and fail fecil to find my name and business represented in its columns and that is the kind of a merchant that succeeds keeping ones name always before the public is the way to make the public hunt a certain business bouso when they have money to spend if the weather had been as nice and pleasant during the fair as it has been since the bank account would have looked different but there were two factors that worked against the financial success of the fair the weather and the refusal of the mining companies to close down the last fart fact was due tho the news is in formed to the fact that the operators fear the colorado strike may spread to utah and the consequent desire to mine as much coal as possible bedfor tale shutdown shut down in case there is one one thing is certain I 1 the promoters of the fair did all in their power to ma make A e the affair a big success and it was a success in every way but from the financial side |