Connecticut western news., 1898-07-07
Greeting.

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 Greeting.
 "Volume XVIII '-was the head ing of brief editorial in the NEWS oi June 3Oth. And then the article went on to recapitulate bit of brief history But what world of memories is stirred up when one sits down and looks back upon the events that have transpired in that time! Where are the men and women of that day, the neighbors and friends who were part and parcel of Canaan in 1871. Less than thirty years have passed. but the men and women who were actively identified with all our village life have passed. in great part beyond the vista, and the places that knew them will know them no more forever. The school boy and the school girl of that day, the youths and the maidens, the middle aged and the older people-ah, yes. the NEWS, which for all these years has brought into the village households regularly the notes and news and the iottings and transac- tions of the world at large, for it's army of readers, the NEWS, still with the regu- larity of pendulum. .unceasingly swings along in it's course, unchanging and un- changeable. But when we lay our gray old head down upon the desk. and give memory free swing, then we realize that life is fitting and the changes of time are ringing. ringing, ringing, unceasing- ly, and that amid changing world all things change. and must change. The school boy of I'll is the business man, or the yeoman of '95. The school girl of IT is the matron of '98, per chance the mother of half dozen of to-day. or even the grandmother of some of the little faxen haired pupils of the primary department of '9S.
 The middle aged men of Fl, have glided silently along life's stream. tot tering into old age. gracefully or un- gracefully, as the case may be, while those of that day of riper years and '.garnered wisdom" have vanished from the busy. bustling world, and sleep '.among the forefathers" in the quiet city of the dead, unmindfnl of times ceaseless changes or the rapid flight of all things that are of the earth, earthly.
 We look out upon the banner of the nation, floating in the gentle breezes of . midsummer day as it did in 1871, the same old banner that the fathers loved and bled for, the same ensign with it's bright stars and it's broad stripes that the veterans of the civil war, still in I'll young men, active in all their man. hoods vigor and virility, swung to the breeze.
 Times changes can record the fact of mans mutability, for it has left it's inn press deep upon the brow of the old flags defenders. or laid them to rest in their eternal camping grounds upon the green hillsides or in the still valleys, WucIo suc uooHo oA tuo Ai1bIo BHocu touto never swing outward.
 The NEWS is unchangeable. In its public service as public servant of the people of Canaan, it's ideals and it's aims are unchanging. ESQ far shalt thou go, and no farther" does this apply, how ever. For all things save the aims and ideals of the NEWS are new. Old pro- prietors. old subscribers, old editors, old employees, have in the years that have flown given place to others, they left in many instances the record of good deeds we'll done, and of work accom- plished that left a lasting impression for good upon the records of this commun- ity.
 So like all things else that is material, the NEWS, which in it's spirit has not changed, in the world of matter has, it will be noted had it's changes. The subscription list of even score of years since. if compared with that of to-day will be found to have almost entirely changed. It's list of advertisers-ho many of the men of score of years since have dled, migrated, or retired from the field of active business life? How many of the fathers and mothers, end of the children, too, who score of years ago. weekly read the NEWS, have journeyed to the world that lies beyond? How many new ones have come within our circle, or passed from it, is beyond cur computation. for the number in all these years, IS legion, but all and every one that has come or gone has empha- sized the fact that this is changing world, and that man is creature of change.
 !. But amid all the swirls and changes that have come in the paste may come in the future, that which in the NEWS IS unchangeable, it's spirit of progress. it's aims to do it's humble part for humanity in it's efforts to upbuild, and to assist in all laudable work, has not languished nor will it languish for the NEWS, in the future, ~ in the past, will be found ST.