Show 7 7 by platte 0 lyman guest editor this column is being written this week by invitation of the new editor publisher and I 1 must confess that the temptation to cry on your shoulder is strong I 1 feel as though some vital part is missing it leaves a hollow feeling inside because during the past two years I 1 have developed a genuine affection and attachment for this paper and the business one necked with it it was not the monetary attraction either because many of the issues during that period lacked considerable of meeting expenses from the standpoint of the paper and the good of the subscribers the move is is probably a good thing the new publisher has had vastly more experience has much more modern equipment and should come much more nearly doing what we always want wanted ad to do but never quite seemed able to achieve in the change we feel no twinge of jealousy or acrimony we do have a sincere hope for the success of the little by little the new church in monticello is coming right along the tile setters are busy this week lining baptismal font wash rooms and window sills in the entire building carpenters erB are busy with the trim the painters will be on the job soon come summer there is apt to be a dedication of the new building for use of the ward there is no solution of the recent robberies inMon in mon ficello cello li according to sheriff harvey it is possible of course that law lav v enforcement officers are not saying all they know in the interests of accomplishing their own ends it seems that these things come in a rash when we have one we usually have more even after the culprits are apprehended they receive little more than a mild reprimand which is not a serious deterrent for others who might be tempted in the list of approved roads projects recently ap appearing pearin g in in the state papers we w e noted that that peters hill was not among them just a little over a year ago david chairman of the road commission made a solemn promise to a group of representative citizens that this project would definitely be completed in the current year it is sincerely hoped that the absence of the project was an oversight and that the project is still on the docket we do note mote with gratification that the survey has been completed and speaking of peters peter hill sunday it was the scene of an unusual accident in which reno beno hansens Han sons pickup was slightly dam aged by a car that approached him from the rear and took to the bank when the brakes failed to hold the car rolled back into the hansen pickup damaging the right door this is the third time reno has had such tough luck with his hi pickup and each time lime he was not at fault perhaps the tough luck of af his has run its course thirty to a newsman is what finis is to the french and this time it is thirty tor for this writer |