Show This year Ive I've been invited to judge a Montana newspaper contest and you know what Im I'm gonna do After the entries are all in Ill ru write to each publisher publisher publisher pub pub- lisher and offer to sell first place to the highest bidder Second and third will go next best This will win surely get even with the publishers in other states who refused to o shell out to us six or eight first places in our recent Utah State Press better newspaper r contests Obviously we believe the prizes went to the best bidders and not for excellence That s a joke son We won a first place three seconds and a third plus several honorable mentions which bleb is probably more than we deserve The first place was for news story all about the Coalville Bank placing What hurts burts d deep p inhere is the fact that this won three places but not a one was for a blue ribbon The Park Record got second in that category and The Bee got a second and The News a third in their category This hardly seems fair lair We all try so hard bard Everybody on the stall comes qi up With a good idea for a quite of ten and My Lady Fair Louise orders me to throw out one now and then and come up with ith something better All that and not a single first This hardly seems fair Cair There was one surprise this year The Park Record won second place for Excellence in Typography which means it looks pretty For that well we'll try even harder hereafter The lads came up with the usual rarities in typographical errors and we liked this one best from Gardening Dos Do's and Don't's If your foot Coot prints sink a inch half or an inch when preparing preparing preparing pre pre- paring a seedbed then firm the soil soU with light rolling or lay down ll a few broads at a time and step on them to flatten and firm the earth You just see some weare weare we weare are luck lucky enough to catch in time here Mac |