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read one of the many excellent books printed on3rlnC€ Edward Island. Or leaf through a maritime publication where the Islnd receives a fair share of publicity, and to find that a beautiful scene in ull Prince Edward Island color has been chosen for the front cover.

Wilmot Valley has always been favore( with good delivery of newspapers. In the early 1900’s Mr. Harry Waug, a local resident, made a trip to Summerside twice weekly on the days tha the Summerside Journal and the Island Farmer were printed and brought hem “hot off the press” to the local Post Office. From here they were pitied up by the subscribers or taken along by the children on their way home rom school. One of these local papers presented the views of the Liberal pirty, while the other was equally firm in its support of the Conservative pzty. The editorial content of these publications, as well as those printed n Charlottetown, would make modern day newspapermen shudder at thtpossibility of libel suits. During the political battles of days gone by the ditorials were sometimes devoted to sarcasm and ridicule and all too often nvolved personalities. In the era when political writing was at its stronget, anything appearing in print was accepted as the truth.

Today The Guardian and the Evening Parritt are delivered by mail to Wilmot Valley, while the Journal Pioneer is deliveed, almost before the ink is dry, by Mrs. Ruth Carr, New Annan.