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Show RAYS OF SUNSHINE Many of the daily papers carry a column citing industrial improvements im-provements from,1 all parts of the county. But what about our own section of the country our own county? While the improvement im-provement is not great, the trend of better times is most apparent. appar-ent. There is less unemployment in Beaver county that a few months ago. Road work is providing considerable short time jobs to many. Something like forty men have been employed the past few weeks on the Puffer Lake road. Graveling on the ten mile section north of Manderfield will begin possibly Saturday and not later than Monday. This will be handled by local trucks and local labor, giving more employment, and releasing more money in the county. These emergency measures are not the. only improvement shown. The rise in livestock means much to the residents of this section, the bountiful crops will relieve the desperate feed shortage short-age suffered last year and with the encouraging livestock prices the outlook for some revenue for the stockman and farmer is much brighter. The slight raise in butter fat from the fifteen cent low to eighteen cents is another encouraging point in this section. Eggs and other farm products continue to climb on the eastern markets mark-ets which will erect gradual improvement in this section. It is a fact that we will come out of the depression before we know it. The change for the better customarily takes place much quicker than the original change for the worse. Abnormally low prices are our bugbear now, for both industrial indus-trial and agricultural products. The more we pay for what we have, within limits, the better off we are. If prices go up and stay up the depression will shortly be referred to in the past tense. |