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Show S4w LOOKING BACKWARD fX--iV Items of interest taken, from the JWWPSL Files of the Milford "TewS of 5 Fifteen years ago. thia week Work had started on the sink- I itg of another well to augment the! domestic water supply of the town of Milford. The contract had been let to Bill Martin, who was to sink a 12-inch hole to a depth of 100 feet, on the land near well No. 2. Robert Killam had met with an j accident while out riding on his motorcycle. He had struck a sedan car driven by Mrs. Delia Gray and was thrown from his machine, receiving re-ceiving a few cuts, bruises and sprains. Troy Turner, 15-year-oid son of Mrs. Bertha Turner Robinson, of Baker, Nevada, had passed away in Milford at the home of his brother, S. E. Turner. The cause of his death was pneumonia. He was a student of the Milford public school. Others surviving him were three brothers, Eugene and Roldo I of Milford, and William of Baker, also two sisters, Mrs. Pearl Mor-rell Mor-rell of Milford, and Grace of Los Angeles, California. i As a spot to exhibit antiques of i other days, the Union Pacific had erected an ornamental structure. ' of rough logs on the grass plot ' just north of the station. It was planned to have a replica of a ' stage-coach mounted on a platform ( in the structure. Commencement night for the graduating class of the Milford high school was to be held May 15, 1930. Graduates numbered 14, 10 boys and four girls. They were Ralph Tanner, John Williams, Bernice Kesler, Clyde Tanner, Elma Bird, Vera Stott, Howard Jones, Horace Palmer, Harold Tomsik, Keith Rollins, Harold Parsons, Vance Fisher, Margaret Cochrane and Eldon Goodwin. The class valedictorian was Keith Rollins. Rol-lins. ' Eph Smith, who was for many years a resident of Milford and Beaver county, had passed away at his home in Milford, his death having 'been caused from heart ' trouble. He was survived by his wife and son Powell, and a sister, Mrs. Mattie Armstrong. With the issue of the Milford News of May 2, 1930, the paper .passed from Lee Brown into the hands of A. C. Saunders, who, three years before, had purchased the Beaver Press at Beaver. The two plants were to be operated entirely separately. The Misses Bernece and Mae Kohler, with Julian Tate and Howard How-ard Tanner, had made up a party that had driven to Dixie and visited visit-ed Zion park. A son had arrived at the Spencer Schow home, weighing 10 pounds. R. C. "Chase", Murdock of Beaver, Bea-ver, had purchased the Morris feed business in Milford. Neil Boyter was to be in charge of the Milford store. .V Subscribe for The News Don't Borrow! |