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Show .... ... .ii,. 1 EKiU P-TR ISING MEN(?) There is a set of men in Ephraim, as-in rthcr places, ct whoso btner .--shoid titottcri "t X E," r.dt as -.nterpt,tiig tien whr go to build Up ..a '.own, but as tiiiorprisiag grum-.bleri grum-.bleri and fault finders. Sucji men pour, cold water on every enter-j.Tii enter-j.Tii tha.f is started. Mcuwi,6 will f, ottronize a new5p.lr, forin-ifkudde forin-ifkudde aiyi when the. tinie comes to iy, dehv-parjef tKe bill, and have ii cut dtvn just' to, suit thier ideas, jnd then afterwards quietly remark, "Dont you think the paper will U?" The above was called f jrth by a f trfcrpstance which happened two dayi ago in which a party claimed that the Utter part of his patronage , ,fthelf three rr.mitli :) was given by because we 'begged"for it. He iwasjiven to understand -that, such ,wts uoUhe case., that we. do not , "beg." for our patronsge.. We give this to tl e public in oider to per haps to counteract any statement that he may make, with this xj;Ian-ation xj;Ian-ation that if we did beg for thepat- looage he 10 gnerousli (')bestowe I, ,iiat he refused to pay lor; and, that rather than have any trouble with uch, the billvas cut to sixmenths, so that part of the business that was 'begged for was, never paid for, and his very 'geterotiS patronage was all -on hit side. We repeat apain, w do not "beg" ' for patronage, we nothing we do , not expect to give an equivalent f.ir, and if any of the business men of-Ephraim do n-.t thin it a benefit ,to them to patronize and enconrag' ,the local paper, wr drv not e'esire them to do so, , We ask of the business wet and all other enterprising citizens'bf this town.and county, for their co-operation and support ii building up an " enterprise that is a conveniencc and . ,'oenefit to them we do not beg it j if they do not 'hink this is the case, , we do not want their patronage; and if wc must die, as some of the "I X I." grumblers, predict, it will not be for the want of honest work, but iiccause there are more grumblers han enterprising citizens in the cMm unity. There art two other kinks of men ' in Ephainv, that we shall speak of ' at another time, some of "whom are truly deserving the tiile''F.nterprise" and who in reality though not in boastful display adopt the m;x'm f 'Excelsior." -""' , To close i h, we do not expect to tail, expect to I e onward and Upward. In fact i consider the business of our enterprise, in spite of all the oppo ieion both from the ."inside and outside" in as good 4nd prosperous a condition as any paper jr thi-i Territory of the same Age. . Io our friends, ami we ;hosi 'H dciire our success, ; isy ihe Rksim-fk is O. K. |