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Show ll HOT OFF THE WIRE j About People and Events of i Local Interest Stray Hits of Information Gathered at Random and A minted for Rapid Readers Wiilt.nr I. Moody, Jr. arrived from ! Salt Lake City yesterday morning on No. 1. Mr. I. C'line, of the G?dden Rule Store has heen in Salt Lake for several seve-ral days. Frank Robinson Is working In .Milford with Mr. Lewison doing carpenter car-penter work. C. A. Beehe, foreman for the For-tier For-tier outfit was doing business in Mil-ford Mil-ford Monday. Sam Cline, one of our attorneys, was called to Frisco Tuesday oil legal le-gal business. Our enterprising merchant, Mr. McCulley was a passenger for Salt Lake Saturday. Mrs. P. J. Adams returned last Friday from her visit to her daughter daugh-ter at Smithfield, Utah. A large quantity of iron rails for the Beaver Combination Mining Co. is at the Milford depot. Steel drill points are among the mining shipments this week at Milford Mil-ford for the Leonora Mining Co. Misses Myra Mills and Gertrude Evans, teachers in our schools, spent Sunday with friends at Black Rock. The Moscow mine has received a large shipment of two inch iron pipe this week at the Milford freight depot. de-pot. Dr. McGregor, of Beaver will speak at the Missionary Benefit at the Opera House next Monday night. Everybody welcome. Hans Lewison and family will soon move back onto their own place after spending the winter on the Whittenbrock Ranch. ik-Mrs. ik-Mrs. Henry Bowen has recently purchased the Tom Banning house on north Main Street, and expects to soon occupy the same. Mr. Matheson, returned Sunday from Salt Lake City, where he had been visiting for a few days, and also attending to business. One troop of Utah cavalry went through Milford Saturday en route for Los Angeles where they will entrain en-train for the Mexican border. H. P. Keys, of Delta stopped off in Milford Tuesday on his return trip from Southern California where he had been spending the winter. Miss Aletha- Jackson and Mr. Brickert. of Beaver were over Sun day evening to attend the Easter program at the Methodist church in Milford. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Nelson, who have been in charge of the Sword-(igger Sword-(igger place during the past winter have leased the Wm. Allen place just three miles from town. P. B. McKeon has leased the Ferguson Fer-guson ranch and will take possession at once. The Ferguson ranch is ' o"ne of the best improved on the pro ject, the house and buildings being especially modern and convenient. There is also considerable acreage with a good stand of alfalfa. Some of the settlers on the project pro-ject south of town thought last Sunday Sun-day would be a good time for those on the tract to get together. So everyone was invited to come to the Prairie school house and bring a basket bas-ket dinner. Nearly forty answered the invitation and together they had a splendid dinner after which there1 was a social time and singing added to the music on the Victrola. All thought it would be good to get together to-gether for such occasions frequently in the future. i John T. Beaumont and several other Beaver citizens were hauling cement over the highway from the railroad to the county seat this week. Jr Mr. Miner and Mr. McAllister were passengers to Salt Lake, Spanish Fork and other northern points the week end, returning Monday morning. morn-ing. Bishop W. J. Burns went to Beaver Bea-ver yesterday morning to attend the meeting of the county school board. Mr. Burns is an exceedingly busy man. Mr. Walter Hall and family have moved into the cement house on the Experimental Farm. Mr. Hall will have charge of the ranch work at the farm. Miss Fotheringham, Miss Schow, Mrs. George Mumford and Wesley Carlisle composed an auto party that made the trip to Beaver last Tuesday. Benjamin Hampton, a Utah pioneer pion-eer well known by many old time Beaver County citizens died last Thursday morning at his home in Salt Lake City. . Miss Mills and Mrs. Johnstone of the Milford schools are both members mem-bers of the Red Cross first aid corps and are daily expecting calls to report re-port for duty. Mrs. Johnstone was a member of the prize winning corps at the Panama Exposition, at San Francisco and the corps came from Carbon county, Utah. Four Milford boys who expect to enlist in the army or navy within the next few weeks are Gene Pitch-forth, Pitch-forth, Vivian Duffin, Leo White and Van Hickman. Harry and Mitchell Coon and Art Turner expect to go tomorrow. The Milford Lumber Company received re-ceived a car of Riverside-Portland cement Tuesday, the quality of which was so good that it was all sold out and gone by Wednesday. Hon. J. F. Tolton, was out of town a few days this week, making a trip to Salt Lake where he attended attend-ed conference and returned to his home in Beaver City Monday. Miss Agnes Hurst spent the week end in Milford visiting her cousin Alice Miller. On Saturday she went with the Escalante Camp Fire Girls on a hike to the Utafornia Ranch. The music at the L. D. S. Church Sunday night directed by Mrs. Beth Woodbury was excellent in every detail. de-tail. There was a large attendance and the exercises were greatly enjoyed. en-joyed. Alex. Eberhardt, bass soloist in the First Methodist church of Salt Lake City, was. in Milford over Wednesday Wed-nesday night and sang at the service in the local M. E. church in the evening. George Atkin left for Salt Lake City yesterday morning where he intends in-tends to study music and specialize on the piano. He wanted to join the army but decided to wait for awhile. The Easter Services at the Methodist Metho-dist church were well attended, the building being crowded with a very appreciative audience. The children child-ren took their parts very well and the choir rendered several selections which were greatly enjoyed. Prof. Draper, who was principal of the Milford schools last year and who has been principal the present school year at Spanish Fork, has accepted ac-cepted the position of chief deputy in the State Treasurer's office in the State Capitol Building, at Salt Lake City. a -x- H. A. Christiansen, county agent, will hold a grain treatment demonstration demon-stration at the experiment farm, 4 miles south of Milford next Monday, April 16 at 2 o'clock. All farmers interested in this are invited to attend. at-tend. B. H. Mattison, who has a homestead home-stead near Nada expects to enlist in the army. Mr. Mattison has had several years' experience in the National Na-tional Guard of California as a member mem-ber of Company K of San Bernardino. Homesteaders it is stated, will have their rights reserved to them if they enlist in the country's military service. ser-vice. The members of the Milford Fire Department gave their enlisting member George Litchfield a private dinner and "send-off" at Hotel Milford Mil-ford last Wednesday evening that he will remember as long as he lives. There were toasts given in his honor hon-or and words of encouragement and appreciation by many. Mr. Litchfield Litch-field has been in the barber business here for some time and has many local lo-cal friendB. There will be a missionary bene- ! ; fit ball at the Opera House Monday j i night, April 16th. Refreshments will be served at 15c. The benefit j is for Heber Taylor who will leave ' soon for the southern states. Best music in Milford furnished for the I occasion. It. Ij. Farr and wife, of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, spent Friday and Saturday in Milford, leaving on No. 2 for Fillmore. Fill-more. Mr. Farr represents the Scientific American in the great southwest and in company with his wife has been touring western Utah in the interests of that publication. The suggestion of J. A. Ingols at the Patriotic Meeting last night that we all get in and do our little towards to-wards assisting at this time was well received and Mr. Ingols was made chairman of a committee to perfect plans for the formation of a Red Cross Chapter in this locality. Walter Weber, Frank Walen and Earl Gleason, whose places join that of Joe Flemming near the Laho siding sid-ing south of Milford, have returned to their claims after spending the winter at San Bernardino, California. Califor-nia. Each is putting in 40 acres to potatoes, corn and grain. Mr. Weber We-ber has erected a windmill. George Litchfield, the member of the M. V. F. D. wishes the News to express to all his friends and particularly par-ticularly the members of the fire department who joined together to give him the rousing reception that marked his departure for the army on Wednesday evening his sincere thanks. Three cheers and a tiger for Litchfield. The two patriotic demonstrations by the citizens of Beaver were certainly cer-tainly a credit to that city and to the ,county. On Tuesday eighteen auto loads of citizens escorted the, recruits to Milford ' and the band playing and the decorated machines were enough to stir the blood of the most apathetic. And it did. The enthusiasm of Beaver had much to do with arousing interest in this county for the necessity for action. And on Wednesday, the Beaverites outdid themselves by forming a parade par-ade of 36 machines with band and banners and again making the 64 mile trip to escort the second squad of recruits to Milford where they took the evening train for Salt Lake City. Ira F. Hassad, of Los Angeles is here making preparation to install the Byron Jackson pump which arrived ar-rived earlier in the week. Mr. Hassad Has-sad and Mr. Huffbauer, of the Milford Mil-ford Lumber Co. are interested in a 4 00 acre ranch 13 miles north of this city and they are preparing to plant 40 acres of sugar beets this spring. They are installing a No. 6 Byron Jackson centrifugal pump which has a capacity of 540 cubic feet per minute, which will supply water enough to irrigate 100 acres and is the first large irrigation pump to be installed in this part of the country, and its success means a great deal to Beaver bottoms. William Warner, assistant general gene-ral freight and passenger agent of the Salt Lake Route and M. O. Cul-ton, Cul-ton, general agent for the Erie Railroad Rail-road company were visitors in Milford Mil-ford the first of the week. They went from here to Caliente on No. 1 and returned to Delta in the evening. even-ing. They were lining up freight and passenger business for their respective re-spective lines. A rousing patriotic meeting was held in Milford at the high school auditorium last evening. The meeting meet-ing was called to order by Prof. Miner, who introduced the chairman of the evening, Mr. E. H. Street. The first number on the program was a song "America" by the audience. There was a reading by Miss Ger-aldine Ger-aldine Smith followed by the song "Columbia, tns Gem of the Ocean" County Attorney Parsons was introduced intro-duced as the orator of the evening and it must be said that Mr. Parsons speech was the best patriotic effort delivered in Milford this year. ' He was given close attention and was frequently interrupted by applause. He was followed by a reading by Miss Mills. The program was then brought to a close with the audience singing "The Star Spangled Banner" after which the assemblage was invited in-vited to a light luncheon served by the domestic science class in their class room. This consisted of cakes, fady fingers and chocolate and was much appreciated by all present. |