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THE BUTE COUNTY DIRECTORY.
This Directory now-a-days contains the information dis-
tinctive of both the Directory and the Almanac of past
years, and the date of its issue is gradually becoming mid-
way between the original dates of issue of these two
publications We begin our researches early enough, but
the airy Summer publications must hustle out while the
sun shines. The Directory, although very useful to the
fluctuating visiting population, is not necessarily a fine-
weather publication, but a hardy permanent resident.
Our aim, in this publication, is not to record the passing names
and achievements of visitors and those who come to cater
for them, but something of far greater importance— the
registering of the names, standing and businesses of the
resident population, for the information of all having an
interest in Buteshire, its burghs and rural districts.
The Directory is, of course, not only for the remaining por-
tion of the year in which it is issued, but continues the
only printed reference book for the county of Bute until
its successor appears.
One edition of the Directory is no sooner off than we begin to
note alterations (and prepare for fjrobable additions) for
the next— so that it may be thoroughly be up to date.
Will Secretaries of societies, etc., connected with Buteshire,
who do not already do so, please remember to forward
to us particulars of their institutions, annual reports,
and lists of office-bearers, as information for the next
issue of the Directory 1
We are not yet enabled to publish all the information that we
desire, but that does not prevent us compiling (in antici-
pation of greater reciprocity) more than we print.
This Directory is not only found all over Buteshire, but in the
libraries and other places of public resort in "the adjacent
islands of Great Britain and Ireland."
HIGGIE & CO.
22 Bridge Street, Rothesay,
August, 1909.
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