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Show 1 " THI QUESTION OF BEBVICF i In point of buildings and equipment the stores of Cedar City will compare com-pare with any to be found in towns of like size in the western COUntgJ I in fact, we believe that we can safely any that some of our local institutions are leaders in this respect. We have ' Mime stores of which the town can welj feel proud We have been accused ac-cused of going ahead of the times and building better stores than the business warranted, but we do not believe this is the case. It is proper, and right that we should constantly keep an sy ahead along the track and make provision for the future a short distance, at least, ahead. This in effect is what Cedar mercantile companies com-panies have done, and we believe tli.tt it is no mistake, if tin- Investment thus made is used to the lust possible advantage. A little more enterprise, m mole planning and a little more one! - g.v in sunn cases would help matci lally. Much valuable show window ipaCe il allowed to go to waste, eitlni A y clerks aie neglecting their busines.- f (L or t ! many art' employed, i.i some cases. This energy and this invert' P incut should be made to bring busi- P ness new business to Cedar City. i an mentioned in these columns Oodar City is a natural trading center, cen-ter, ami if tie business people of this pit i arc fully alive to their possibilities, possibil-ities, they can attract trade here from all the surrounding district. The Record, too, has gone to a good deal of expense and trouble to provide pro-vide service. We are printing the biggest big-gest all-home-print paper south of Salt Lake City. We are setting more type, and have more space available for the use of merchants than any paper in the southern part of the itate. Yet wo are buying plate matter mat-ter to till much ,f this space which hoilld be used by merchants, and would be if they were thoroughly alive to their possibilities and advantages, Try spending some of the money that si now paid to clerks who are busy only a very few hours each day, if at all, for newspaper space and the tii'ed for clerical assistance will be increased. |