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Show HOT OFF THE WIRE About People and Events of Local Interest Stray Bits of Information Gathered at Random and Arranged for Rapid Readers , Mrs. Robert Squires has gone to California for a visit. Hy. Roller of Baker spent Thursday Thurs-day and Friday in Milford. Pay your bill at Burns & Bird Co.'s store and get a useful household article. It Mrs. Delia Grimshaw of Beaver was visiting friends in Milford this week. Sheriff Dorrity of Fillmore, Millard Mil-lard county, was in Milford this week. B. F. Benson, of the Hoyle Oil Company, was in Milford Sunday and Monday. Guy Lavel of Baker stopped here on his way to Salt Lake City this week. C. W. Coons, who has been working work-ing at Baker, is visiting here with his family. Mrs. L. B. Roberts of Salt Lake City is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Christy Lee. J. C. Cahoon of Baker, Nevada, stopped, here on his way to. Salt Lake City. A. B. Holmes of Spokane, Wash., but formerly of Milford, is visiting his parents for the holidays. Supt. Maeser was here last week Wednesday visiting the schools and inspecting class work. .Mr. and Mrs. Harry M. Korns will spend a few days in Sa.lt Lake City the first of the week. A half dozen-or so tents 10x12 composed a shipment ' this week to the C. W. & M. Co. of Beaver. A physical examination of all students stu-dents of the high school will be conducted con-ducted very soon. G. L. Benson of Beaver, who Is now in the employ' of Walter James of Black Rock, was in Milford last Wednesday. With every ?5.00 purchase for cash you can get a handy inside clothes line at Burns & Bird Co.'s store. It J. W. Harden stopped at the Utah Transportation garage Thursday to have his car overhauled before starting start-ing for California, where he "will spend the holidays. Mrs. Leo D. Brooks and little son Randall W. Brooks returned Tuesday Tues-day morning from their extended visit in California, looking fine, and glad to return to their Milford home. Joe Davis, a familiar figure around Beaver, Milford and vicinity, was bidding his friends goodbye as he left on No. 2 Tuesday evening to enlist en-list as a miner to go to France. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Stanton of California sent cards to a number ot persons in Milford this week .announcing .an-nouncing the birth of Imogene Marie Stanton, Dec. 7, 1917. . - Three new typewriters have been ordered for the commercial department depart-ment of the high school. All the typewriters of the school are being worked during every period each day and a few more will be greatly appreciated. ap-preciated. Mrs. Ward McAlister left for Salt Lake City last week on account of illness, and will probably not return until after the holidays. During her absence Mrs. G. I. Himstreet of San Diego, Cal., has had charge of the departments conducted by Mrs. McAlister Mc-Alister in the high school. A. J. Weber, senior member of the Salt Lake City law firm of Weber, We-ber, Olson & Lewis, was in Milford yesterday. Mr. Weber was interviewing inter-viewing witnesses and examining the ground of the accident in which Messrs. Robinson and Widman, two Salt Lake Route brakemen, were so terribly burned by electricity. His firm has been retained by the friends of the injured men to look after their interests in a damage suit or fair settlement of the matter with the corporation responsible for the conditions which caused the accident. j .Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Larsen have returned re-turned from the Larsen brothers ranch in Pine Valley for the holidays. holi-days. A shipment of knocked-down wooden shipping boxes arrived this week for the Beaver Valley Creamery Cream-ery Company of Beaver. Miss Elsie Miller, teacher of domestic do-mestic science in the schools of Santa Paula, California, has arrived to spend the holiday vacation with her sister, Mrs. D. A. Webster. Miss Frances Yeomans, teacher of domestic art in the Minersville schools, will go to Salt Lake City to visit friends during the holiday vacation. va-cation. - Mrs. Abbie Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Johnson and daughters have been invited to a Christmas dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Payne near Modena. Garratt Wilkin was in Milford. this week en route to Long Beach, California, Cali-fornia, where he will spend a month with Mrs. Wilkin and children, who are located there for the winter. Ward McAlister expects to go to Salt Lake City Saturday to visit relatives and incidentally Mr. McAlister will attend to some business busi-ness matters in the City and at Provo for the new firm of McAlister & Jor-genBen. Jor-genBen. Three immense Maloney electric transformers were unloaded here Wednesday for the new power plant for the Beaver River Power & Light Company being built in Beaver canyon. can-yon. - J. Hoffbauer came up from his lumber business at Bishop, Cal., this week and went through to Salt Lake Cityf He expects to spend a few days in Milford before the first of the year on business in connection with the Milford Lumber Company. H. V. Doolittle, one of the Pomona College boys who came up from California Cal-ifornia a few years since and took up homesteads in this county, has taken a position with the Milford Pharmacy. Phar-macy. Mr. .Doolittle is an experienced experi-enced salesman and Mr. Brooks is fortunate in procuring his services. E. C. McGarry came down from Salt Lake City Thursday morning and here met his brother James McGarry Mc-Garry from Beaver. They returned to Beaver together where the Christmas Christ-mas season will be enjoyed in a family reunion with turkey equipment. equip-ment. ' - "It seems good to see Uncle Henry Bowen on the streets again," said a Milford business man yesterday. He'd look more natural in a saddle behind a bunch of cattle, though, instead in-stead of on those sticks'." Mr. Bowen was on the streets looking better than usual and greeting old time friends. Mrs. Addle Wheeler of Baker, Nevada, Ne-vada, has purchased from the Milford Mil-ford Lumber Company the lumber for a new modern five-room bungalow. bunga-low. Hiram Roller, formerly of Milford, Mil-ford, now in the contracting business in the thriving city of Baker, has the contract for the construction of Mrs. Wheeler's new home. The Railroad section of the Milford Mil-ford chapter of the Red Cross has completed its assignment of thirty-one thirty-one pairs of bed socks and will take a holiday until December 26th, when work will be resumed. The material for hospital supplies is here and will be worked up rapidly after Christmas. Christ-mas. The Masonic order has been closely close-ly identified with the principal patriotic patri-otic demonstrations and protective measures of this nation from the "Boston Tea Party" to the recent Liberty Bond and Red Cross campaigns. cam-paigns. The local lodge of the order is receiving numerous applications for membership. Monto Levi, one of our boys who enlisted in the Aviation Corps, writes from Jersey City, N. J., where he is studying at the Davis Bournonville Welding Institute, that he is "mighty happy." He has been transferred from Texas to New Jersey very recently re-cently and enjoyed his trip across country through the southern states. He is now reveling In the luxury of a good hotel with a "mattress and sheets and real meals with butter and sugar." |