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Show eiU SlATJigiSSOClATIDN HOT OFF THE WIRE About People ajid Events of Local Interest Htruy Bits of Information Gathered at Random and Arranged for Rapid Renders ir ,1 W S A big vegetable bowl special at 23c for Monday at McCulley's. It Mrs. C. E. Peake of Modena is here visiting a few days with her relatives. You can get any shoe you want at McCulley's. It Mrs. Art Turner of Modena visited visit-ed a few days in Milford this week. A. F. McCulley went to Salt Lake on No. 20 last Sunday morning on a business trip. . Mackinaws, hats, caps and winter shoes may be picked out for winter wear now at McCulley's. It The evening services at the M. E. church begin at 7:30 o'clock instead of 8, commencing next Sunday, October Oc-tober 7. Mrs. Ralph Lemon returned from her visit to Denver and other Colorado Colo-rado points Wednesday night. Ralph's smile that never comes off is even broader now. M. Morrell, for three years car inspector at Milford, is now with the aviation division of the signal corps, stationed at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. He is in line for a commission, and writes his former foreman, W. F. Cottrell,- for references. WANTED Man to work in mines. Inquire at News office. c5 Rev. Magor is spending most of this week in Salt Lake. A fine lot of baby's and small children's sweater suits and coats at McCulley's. It Henry Dotson of Minersville arrived ar-rived here Tuesday to spend a short time visiting. Washington County News. Wm. Cline and wife have returned from a few days spent in Salt Lake. While there Mr. Cline attended to business for the Golden Rule. Last Saturday was a Gala day in Milford for the house wives. A car of ifugar arrived and they were all made happy. Two or three furnished apartment apart-ment houses in Milford are badly needed. It would be a good earning earn-ing power for someone to build and furnish them. J. C. Lawrence, local superintendent superintend-ent for the Houghton Construction company, contemplates moving his. family, to Islen in about ten days. The local offices will be abandoned in Milford. The Copper Ranch , Consolidated Mines Company, Milford, is installing an air compressor, 50-h. p. gasoline engine and air drills. The company is also contemplating the building of a spur track to shorten the haul of ores for shipment. A. F. McCulley is superintending the work. Mrs. Cottrell and Mrs. Isaacs entertained en-tertained for the Methodist Ladies' Aid on Thursday at the homeof Mrs. Cottrell. A business meeting was held, after which a dainty lunch was served. Mrs. H. Jefferson and Mrs. Armstrong will entertain at the next meeting, at Mrs. Jefferson's, on October Oc-tober 18th. All ladies are invited. - "The Writer Magazine" of Boston, a magazine for literary workers, established es-tablished in 1887, has written Mrs. Julia A. Smithson asking for a verification of her poem recently first published in the Beaver County News, and also for the address of the secretary of the California Verse Writers' Club, and offering favorable comment upon the poem, whereby the authoress is winning recognition as a poet of rare talent. A postal received from H. J. Coleman Cole-man states that he is in Los Angeles in the Internal Revenue service of the Government. He expects to be located later at Bakersfie'ld. Mr. Coleman is a quiet, unassuming, capable cap-able young man who made many friends in Milford while chief clerk at t&e machine shops of the Salt Lake Route. The shop boys made him a present of a ring and stickpin before he left. Dr. B. A. Filmer, who was a physician phy-sician in Milford during 1907-1908, is now a volunteer in the officers' reserve corps at American Lake, Wash., and holds the office of lieutenant. lieu-tenant. His duty is to examine the eyes of drafted men. If he remains there this winter his family will move there from their home at Colorado Col-orado Springs, Colo. Dr. Filmer is a brother-in-law of Rev. D. E. Carter, Car-ter, pioneer Methodist minister of Milford. The Ladies' War Relief of Milford held their regular meeting at the Utah Theatre Tuesday afternoon, October 2. All the finished work of knitted goods for the members of the Battleship L'tah were turned in to be forwarded to Salt Lake. This will probably be the last session as between now and the loth the Red Cross will be permanently organized organ-ized and all War Relief ladies will be members of the new organization. Julia A. Smithson, Press Chr. War Relief. Tem. Sec. Mil. Red Cross Chap. SAME HERE No, there's not much use to talk good roads at present, so long as all our road monev is tied up in the vaults at the capital, and the State Road Commission fails to meet our commissioners half way. Delia Chronicle. 1 I A convention of the several committees com-mittees of the National Defense League for Beaver county was called to meet in Beaver last Monday at 8 p. m., at the auditorium of the Carnegie Library. Several members were called from- Milford but those who responded were: Mrs. Mollie Hanks, Mrs. Julia A. Smithson and D. A. Baxter; also Mr. Bond and Mr. Patterson from Beaver Bottoms. The main duty of these committees is to sell the Liberty Bonds now on the market and to help raise subscriptions, for the Patriotic Pat-riotic fund. Other places throughout the cOunty were well represented and it was a large gathering. The members of the town board of the city of Meadow, Utah, came to Milford yesterday and met O. D. Payne, the well driller of Yale, near Modena. The party was on the way to Mr. Payne's ranch to inspect his well, pumping plant and storage equipment with the intention of duplicating- the outfit for a water supply for the city of Meadow. The party consisted o L. Stott, Edward Stott, Chas. Gull, James Stewart and Mr. Payne. Mr. Payne has been very successful in drilling, deep wells in Millard and Iron counties. He drills eight-inch holes with his rig and has ,obtained some excellent irrigation irriga-tion supplies as well as domestic plants. Mr. Payne declares that the underground water is going to redeem re-deem a great acreage of very rich land in southwest Utah in the next few months. " |