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Show A New Year For The Record With the Holiday number, issued two weeks ago, The Record closed nineteen years of service in the newspaper field, nineteen years of service for tho people of Cedar City and iron county. The Holiday number was a great contrast to tho first number issued nineteen years ago. It first appeared as a four page five column paper all homo print. It had few subscribers to start and but little advertising, other than legal notices, of which there were many during a period of several years following, duo to the many mining claims located in those days, when the iron boom was at its height. But it was jp charge of a man who had an abundance of . ambition and faith a-plcnty. a-plcnty. This man was W. C. Higgins, who is at present, and has been for several years, tho editor und one of tho owners of tho Mining Review, published pub-lished at Salt Lake City, and one of the best mining min-ing jpapors in the country. Back in those early days, when the ways and customs of the people were primitive, the merchants merch-ants and the public looked upon the paper as nothing noth-ing but .a news medium, a meals of keeping in touch wfth the happenings of the community, and nothing more. They had no kettfed its real value. Today theiMtfer is the buyer and tfesalesman for the merchaat an! ihe individual. Ifc'itfords the easiest, quickest and dpeepeet way to disuse of what one has,, to sell or to fjnd what otto nd or wants to teajtory which ft &wW$)0&niftT o could not; receive more ifa&Mr'lwJfffco from- it 'each year than ,the cost of subscriptiip; ha very-, little to'dQriprthe busmsand acthfltiee of the community. com-munity. ' , , JMf. , , Throughout the coming year itsluiU be the aim, of the paper to give the news,, nqta part of it, but all of it, to bo a presistent opponent of wrong and a constant defender of right, to advocate those things which it believes will be of tho greatest benefit ben-efit to the greatest number of people and oppose those which it believes will ho injurious to tho people, peo-ple, to tell at every opportunity of tho resourses of this great country so full of rich .opportunities and so needful of the assistance of otners to develop it. |