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A HAPPY NEW YEAR.

With TINS issue of The Exposftor we
wish our many readers A Happy New
Year. And why do we all say happy
new year? Because when the old year
passes away it seems as if we turned a
leaf in our lives and that leaf was
white and unsoiled, THAT makes us
happy.
We seem to look trustfullytforth to
the new year to accomplish great
things. However things may have
gone in the old year, we believe that
the new year will do better by us.
That makes us feel happy. We fully
intend to start anew in all eour ways,
we make good resolutions, we forget
all our cares or lay them aside, and we
| feel that we shall always be good
feel that we are going to make this the
best year of our lives and SO we are
happy and wish others SO.
This custom of greeting each other
is many years old Romans and Sax
ons observed the day over 1000 years
ago with feasting and sending gifts to
each other and exchanging greetings.
The universal custom of sending pres
ents has been nearly abolished and an
other custom, that of making New
Year calls on Jan. lst, was so abused
that il has dropped into disuse. We of
nowadays, feast lif we have anything
to feast ON and make merry and wish
each other Happy New Year. We
make new and good resolutions, we
forget and forgive old offenses. We
say to ourselves if we have felt injured
towards anyone we will let bygones be
bygones and we will not harbor any
little resentments. We will try to be
of more use to our family, society, and
to the world.
1t is an easy and pleasant thing to
say-"A Happy New Year" Do we
feel the real significance that the
phrase should have, or do we say it
carelessly and inditferently Does it
mean as much for us as it meant for
the people of old, when times were
troublous and insecure, and when now
all is peace and unity? We hope that
it means fully as much now, and it is
| in this spirit that we wish our readers
A Happy New Year.
We feel thankful for the patronage
that has been given this Office the past
year. We expect and intend to merit
the same during the year of 1898. In
supporting your home paper you sup
port your own interest. We make a
business of printing (no side line), con-
sequently our facilities are complete,
and strict attention is given to all work.
We pay taxes each year to help support
the town. schools, etc, and consider
that we are here not as leach on the
community, but as a law-abiding citi-
zen, willing to help along and aid all
plans and schemes for the good of the
town, and for these reasons we ask and
expect you to help support us. BE lib
eral in your patronage and we pledge
ourselves to defend your rights and
interests. We pledge ourselves to do
i all in our power to further advance the
interests of this town, which is our
home, and which we have always en-
deavored to push ahead. What was
this town fifteen years ago, when we
first started print shop here on the
lsmallest possible scale? The town has
Igrown wonderfully and we boast that
weiha as large and as fully an equip
PED printing office as would he found
an a town twice the size. OF course
we do not boast that we have made the
town. Far from it. We have only by
eonstant and untiring effort for fifteen
years, put in our columns, good words
for the town and added our mite when
ever possible.
Let us all work together this year for
the advancement of the place. IT is
this unity of action which tells We
should all pull one way, the right way,
and pull,strong, and many possibilities
would be made promising facts.
Again, we wish you all happy.
prosperous year.