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Show NEW ROAD WILL BE AN IDEAL ONE LIONS HEAR OTHER REPORTS ON MOVE AFFECTING COUNTY Roast turkey with cranberry sauce greeted the Lions club members at their weekly luncheon of Wednesday, held at the Atkin Cafe. This, together to-gether with the fact that the gathering gather-ing was an unusually live one in point of discussion and remarks, made the meeting a good one. Roads Thru Farm Belt Road conditions were reported upon. up-on. It was stated that J. L. Grif- fiths, of South Milford, wanted the club to use its influence in getting the stretches on the two roads to the Flats put in shape by gravel- The sections referred to are along the tracks at the outskirts of town. Mr. Murdock said the roads were not in bad" shape but he would see Commissioner Com-missioner Fred Levi about it. Dr. Parrish said that, at a mass meeting in South Milford, he had unofficially promised town aid on these short stretches, over which school children are hauled. At this mass meeting, the county commissioners met with the South Milford people, and the latter agreed to pay half the costs of both roads and the county is building a new road from Joe Hickman's to Minersville. Part of this work has been done and the new road will be an ideal one, running on top of a gravel ridge with but two turns, of forty-five degrees, between Hickman's and Minersville. Parrish, with Griffiths and W. C. Cates, represent the project citizenship citizen-ship as a committee in the work for good roads. ' . President L. G. Clay said he was sorry that on account of storms and sickness, no members of the club were able to meet with the Millard county commissioners at a road meeting this week. The meeting was to discuss the road from Cove Fort to the upj per region of Milford valley. Murdock Academy Geo. Jefferson reported on the efforts ef-forts to secure a state school for feeble-minded and to be located at the- old Murdock Academy grounds. Mr. Jefferson met with the Beaver Lions and spoke on the subject and says that they are much interested in the idea. The Murdock Academy property is held in control by the church, with O. A. Murdock, of Beaver, Beav-er, its agent. Mr. Murdock was too ill to be interviewed, but hopes are entertained that the property can be bought and then sold to the state for institutional purposes. The place includes in-cludes a fine building, 220 acres of good alfalfa and garden land and an orchard. If the state secures it, it can be made self-supporting by the inmates. The petition started here by the Lions club in favor of such a state training school, and that it be placed at Beaver, now has 177 signers. sign-ers. A joint meeting here with the Beaver club will be held in the near future to further plans for the attaining at-taining of the objective. Dhnce Proposed It was agreed by members present at the luncheon that the local club; seemed to be resting on its oars, pos- j sibly because it was the close of the year with all projects attempted car- j ried through to completion. To bring about quicker committee ; action, it was suggested that failure to bring favorable reports next week will be penalized by the committeemen committee-men beng required to give the club members and their ladies a free dance-This dance-This action was directly aimed at the committee whose duties were to erect a large welcome sign at the edge of town and another one which was j supposed to bring about the appear-j ance of waste-paper boxes on Main street. Municipal Christmas Tree L. Bain, U. P. agent was introduced and spake. He stated that the club could expect his application for membership mem-bership at the first of the year. He asked the club what its plans were for a municipal Christmas tree. It J was decided to make the Christmas j event a special order of business at 1 the next meeting. At this time, representatives rep-resentatives of railroad groups sponsoring spon-soring the Christmas tree will be invited in-vited to meet with the Lions and plans for t';e municipal tree will be evolved at the meeting. |