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Show NEWS BRIEFS About People and Events of Local Interest Stray Bits of Information fathered at Random and Arranged for Rapid Readers John Ryan, of Newhouse, Sunday-ed Sunday-ed in Milford. Robert Leroy, of Lund, npent Sunday Sun-day in Milford. W. O. Bevtt, of Beaver, was a Sunday visitor in- Milford. Cash paid for second hand collars. M. L. O. Co. Adv. 10-16-tf. V. C. Bentley, of Lund, came up Monday on a brief business trip. W. I. Moody, Jr., of Chicago, was in Milford the first of the week. J. H. Jensen, of Richfield, transacted trans-acted business in Milford Tuesday. Tonsllltis and grippe appear to be pravallent in Milford and vicinity. K. A. Porter was a visitor from Delta Monday, registering at the Milford. Mil-ford. K. A. Parks, of Delta, transacted business here the first part of the week. Everything for the horse. Milford Leather GoodB Company. Adv. 10--tf. Ezra Barton has purchased a lot in the Lewis addition, and contemplates contem-plates the erection of a dwelling be-for be-for a great while. Miss Rose Randall, of Hinckley, Utah, was a guest at the Hotel Atkin At-kin Monday. Monday's temperature was reported report-ed all the way from zero to 7 degrees de-grees below. R. E. Petty and Mrs. Petty of Beaver Bea-ver took their Sunday dinner at the Hotel Milford. "Ted" Bird was confined to his home a few days this week by an attack of erysipelus. The grade schools are crowded to the limit with pupils, 275 being enrolled en-rolled at this time. Wm, Moody, president of the Delta Land and Water Company, was in Milford Sunday. Wm. Dobson, Jr., is in Salt Lakr this week purchasing goods for his up-to-date furnishing store. For itching, burning skin troubles try ZENSAL. Sold by Quirk Drug Co. D. A. McLease attended to business busi-ness in Salt Lake this week, going down on Tuesday evening. A trial of Zenzal will convince. For Eczema. Sold by Quirk Drug Co. A little daughter of Contractor McDonald was threatened with appendicitis ap-pendicitis this week, but is improving. improv-ing. Superintendent Alex McPherson of the Delta Land and Water Company Com-pany is in California on a business trip. A. J. T. Sorensen, a former Milford Mil-ford resident, now of gait Lake, spent Monlay and Tuesday in Milford. Mil-ford. C. Nelson, of the Project has removed re-moved to the Swerdfeger ranch and will occupy the dwelling, now va-sant. va-sant. Mr. G. H. Golden, late foreman of the News office, left for Southern California Saturday night to rejoin his family. D. A. McLease returned the first of the week from Salt Lake where he had been called to attend to mining min-ing business. Now is the time for horse blankets. blank-ets. We have them from $3 up. Milford Leather Goods Company. Adv. 10-S-tf. Neilspn, the "Auto? Man" came down from Beaver Tuesday to unload un-load and take home a car of Fords which arrived for him. Wednesday was "visitor's day" at the grade and high schools, the parents par-ents visiting the schools on the invitation in-vitation of the faculties. The News is to receive regular news items from the high school a feature we have been trying to bring about for some time. Now is the time to fix storm curtains. cur-tains. All kinds of auto tops repairing. re-pairing. Milford Leather Goods Company. Adv. 10-6-tf. W. T. Humeml, of the Project, who reaently removed his family to California, is back for a few days to arrange for the shipment of his household goods and stock. Now is the time to place your order or-der for Thanksgiving turkeys. We have secured the best the market affords. Adv. 11-3-3X Bill & Bill. The young man, Hunsick, who was brought to Milford a couple of weeks ago suffering from a badly cut foot has so far recovered as to be able to return to his home near Modena. Tonight the 10th annual ball of Encampment No. 9, I. O. O. F. will be given in Odd Fellows Hall. The affair will be an enjoyable one, if past similar events under the same auspices furnish any criterion. Miss Delia Cottrell left this morning morn-ing for Las Vegas, where she will attend at-tend a play to be staged by the high school of that town. She will return re-turn to Milford Sunday morning. The Sunday school hitherto conducted con-ducted in the Allen school house, on the Project, has been discontinued, because of the removal of so many of the families to California and elsewhere. The woman's class in home economics and physical culture, which meets on Wednesday evenings under the instruction of Mrs. Vick-ers Vick-ers of the high school, is prospering nicely, and the members are having profitable and enjoyable evenings. The sale of several head of cows belonging to Harry Cook of the Project, Pro-ject, advertised for Monday at the local stockyards, took place as scheduled. We understand the Delta Del-ta L. and W. Co. holders of a chattel mortgage bought most of the stock. The high school basketball team defeated a town team, made up of Sam and Wm. Cline, Joe Smith, Mark Woolsey and Wm. Lund at the "gym" Monday night, by a Hughes-Wilson Hughes-Wilson score, the contest being very close and snappy. Milford is beginning to feel the grip of winter. Saturday evening's unexpected snow was followed by a severe cold which tied up some water wa-ter pipes and expedited the lugging out of the old stove. From all indications in-dications there is to be an early and cold winter. The G. I. A., the ladies branch of the Brotherhood of Railway Engineers En-gineers are making great preparations prepara-tions for their "character ball" to be given on Thanksgiving night in the Opera House. The event will be somewhat unique and should awaken unusual interest. The members of the election board on duty at the local polling place worked continuously for 2S hours, with no sleep and only a very brief time to partake of lunches. Herbert Her-bert Nichols, A. R. Lewis, J. O. Mcintosh Mc-intosh and E. P. Jorgensen were the ones who thus served their country, j Word received from Miss Nita Lemon, who left the first of the week to take a course of nursing at St. Mark's hospital, Salt Lake, states that she has taken up her new work and likes it immensely. Miss Lemon's Lem-on's parents reside on the Project, east of Milford. The county commissioners having passed a dog-muzzling ordinance, the life of every unmuzzled canine is now forfeit. The rabies excitement it not a mere "scare" and cannot be treated too seriously. Five counties in the state are now taking strenuous measures to stamp out the disease and prevent its spread. The News is sorry to lose from its editorial staff, Mrs. Irene Vick-ers, Vick-ers, of the domestic science depart-mene depart-mene of the high school, who has been forced to give up her conduct of the "Home Economics" column because of the pressure of, other duties. News readers will regret to learn of Mrs. Vickers relinquishment relinquish-ment of this department. A young man named Johnson, came to town a few months ago and picked up a few odd jobs of painting, paint-ing, later securing the contract to paint the scenery for the high school auditorium. He has about completed complet-ed the work, which is exceptionally fine. Five complete sets, of scenery and one interior piece give the auditorium audi-torium one of the best equipped stage settings to be found in any of the high schools of the state. As will be noticed by a glance at the special "Educational" column, the News has arranged for regular correspondence from the schools of the county. We trust the county board of education, school faculties and pupils all over the county will feel free to use the column, and if one column is not sufficient, "there are others." All copy Intended for this purpose should be in the hands of the News by not' later than Wednesday Wed-nesday noon of each week. ' The News editor is in receipt of a letter from Mr. H. F. Kehnaby, formerly in charge of the mechanical mechani-cal department of this paper, now employed in Toronto, Canada, in which he states what while in Chicago, Chi-cago, a few weeks ago, he had the misfortune to have his pocket picked, pick-ed, losing a considerable sum of money. Mr. Kennaby says that because of the war, there are plenty plen-ty of jobs in Canada, and he had no trouble in finding work. |