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Show Turning Back The Standard Panes 40 Years! Salutation (Taken From the First Issue of the Roosevelt Standard, Vol 1, No. 1, August 29, 1914) Roosevelt people have at last a newspaper. The Standard is born again, unfurled this time to remain re-main and grow with the town and surrounding country. Roosevelt and the tributary country is entitled en-titled to a good paper, and the advertising patronage in this, the first issue of the paper proves the fact. I have no hesitency in saying that The Standard, while working for Roosevelt, will not overlook the duty it owes to the entire Basin. Bas-in. Politically the paper will be independent, in-dependent, believing that politics in this new country is secondary compared with the advancement or immediate obligations in the plowing of more land and the building of new homes. I ask for the support of all who desire a good country paper. This section needs publicity as much as it needs any other one thing. We need capital and yet we must advertise ad-vertise ourselves to get this re sult. There is, therefore, a two-fold purpose or duty before The Standard, Stan-dard, viz: First, the paper will serve as the avenue through which we may come closer together in our local development and thus EDITOR'S COMMENT .... mV, C6nt iSSUe 0f this newspaper announcement was Sth.ft Publishers had received almost a complete volume of the first Roosevelt Standard, which is now entering its forty-leal forty-leal S'uCe 11 had itS beginning on August 29, 1914. To Ar-, Ar-, ! 1'S StU1 one of tne active citizens of Roosevelt, and was listed as the first editor, goes the credit for the valuable editions edi-tions of the Standard. Having a desire to share some of the interesting news reports re-ports contained in the first year's issue, we conceived the idea ot reproducing complete stories, editorials and perhaps some of Standard" StmaS Edition and in subsequent issues of the t r,Pil!)lisher 0f the Roosevelt Standard when it was started was J. P- May, and Mr. Reef the editor. In 1920 William Wallis and George Harrison bought the paper from Mr. May. Mr. Wallis later sold his interests to Mr. Harrison, who, with his wife, Violet Wallis Harrison, remained publishers until Sept. 1, 1945 when Mr and Mrs. Clifford Fretwell purchased the newspaper from the Harrisons. Mrs. Fretwell sold the paper in Sept., 1950, to the present publishers. It is our hope that the subscribers and readers of the Standard Stan-dard will find as much enjoyment in reading the enthusiastic stories stor-ies and editorials as those on the present staff have A portion of the forty-year-old articles are found in this issue ot the Standard, with more coming next week. be enabled to accomplish more real work, our business men being given the opportunity of expressing express-ing themselves, and the town and other communities showing forth their wealth and ambitions; and, second, this paper will tell the investor, in-vestor, the home-seeker, and all those outside this inland country, what we have here why we have a right to respectful attention. atten-tion. No cult, creed, religion, or party is barred from fair expression expres-sion in these columns, but on the contrary The Standard wishes to fairly represent all the people in every phase of their development. You should not only take the paper yourself, but you should subscribe for a friend. Judging by the loyal support already evidenced eviden-ced this paper will be a credit to you, and this being the case it will be a good investment for you to send it to those who become impressed by our enterprise, our wealth and our righteous ambition. I thank the many good people who have contributed to the advertising ad-vertising in this issue and to those who have already subscribed. Yours for Success i Arnold Reef I 1 Explanatory (Taken From the First Issue of the Roosevelt Standard, Vol. 1, No. 1, August 29, 1914) Many who see my name in this paper as the publisher, many conclude con-clude that a trust, a scheme, some deal, a deep plot, or some other equally hidden proposition, lies at the base of the move to establish, or re-establish, The Standard. In order to allay all suspicion or mistrust, mis-trust, I wish to say frankly that I am publishing this paper as a purely business proposition. There is no other motive actuating me. I am in the business to make money mon-ey by selling, each week, a home made product, which, I trust, will be well worth the price paid. I believe there is room for a good paper at Roosevelt and that the people want such a necessity, (Continued On Page 13) 40 Years Ago . . . (Continued from Page 1) and, further, that if I did not establish es-tablish it some other fellow would do so. We shall give you each week as nearly what you want as we know how. I ask you to help the editor fill the bill make it what you want it to be, that is your paper. The Standard will be nothing more nor less, than this while I publish it. J. P. May |