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Show . $1 Ruminatin Roundabout In which Ruminator proposes to dream a lot, think as little as necessary, scatter a few bouquets bou-quets while their objectives are still above the sod to enjoy them, ami fire a hot-shot now arid then while said Ruminator Ruminat-or can enjoy seeing the sparks fly. Some people argue that younjt people arc getting better, but they don't say better at what. Snobbery is the jride of those who are not sure of their position. Abraham Lincoln. Miief word to The News from Clair Acord at Ogden asks us to send The News to him at 2708 Jefferson avenue, that city, and it is presumed that he and his good wile are cozily located in that interesting metropolis. Clair came to Milf: rd about two years ago to take the place of La Veil Parsons as ag teacher in the Mil ford high school. Mr. Parsons at that time received nice recognition f r bis fine work with an offer to enter the California school system at Areata, where he has made a real reputation for himself and his department. de-partment. It was similarly deserved recognition recog-nition for Mr. Acord's work which came to him recently when he was offered a position in Weber county coun-ty with the federal farm security setu) at a reported increase of SbOO in salary over what he was receiving in the local high school. Reluctant though he was to leave Milford and the many friends he had made in the county among young and old alike, the offer was toe good to pass up and he has the best wishes of all those, many friends. Mr. Acord, in the two years he had been in Milford, proved himself him-self a glutton for intelligent work, net alone with the boys but also with the parents, and had just re-centy re-centy completed an out-of-school-hours series of meetings with the farmers of South Milford which proved not only instructive but interest-compelling. Also, he had done much to forward the interest of local boys in Future Farmer activities, with the result that Hughes Williams, one of "his boys" has received state and ia-tionnl ia-tionnl recognition in addition to a good start towMJrd eminent .success .suc-cess as a successful farmer. |