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Show WELCOME TO FILLMORE! - - UTAH'S FIRST CAPITOL Welcome! residents of Beaver County and former residents now living away from your old home town. We'd like you to meet the citizens of East Millard county in an informal manner. We present to you this week, the news and the happenings that occur in Millard County in your own paper. Many of the people you probably have met & as you can see by reading through the correspondents' columns in Kanosh, Meadow, Flowell, Holden and Scipio, just a few families seem to comprise whole communities. Without the George, Staples, Watts and Paxton families, famil-ies, and a few others there wouldn't be a Kanosh. In Meadow Mea-dow we find the Labrum, Stewart, Bushnell, Beckstrand and Bennett families. In Holden, we find the Bennett, Johnson, Ashby, Nixon, Stevens families, who make up Holden and whose grandparents settled the place. In Scipio, we find the Wasden, Robins, Monroe and Mathew families and more of the same as in the other towns. In Flowell, many of the people moved there originally from Fillmore but the names have a familiar ring like Jackson, Johnson, Brinkerhoff, Rasmussen and Robinson. And in Fillmore you find all these and more, with Warner, Kelly, Robison, Mace, Ashman, Brunson, and dozens more that settled this town and their kin folk still live here. And what better time to get acquainted than right now with an election coming up. After all we share the same State Senator and should be knit quite closely together. Besides, small towns and counties should be more closely associated and work together so that they can promote industry in these outlying areas of the state. There isn't any of us in either Beaver or Millard County who couldn't use a nice factory about now. And another angle we could work on, is closer promoting promot-ing together of the tourist industry that is a big boom to us in the summer. We have attractions that tourists would enjoy and in' your Beaver mountains you have unexcelled mountain scenery. By co-operation, tourists going South would be sold on Beaver and you could do the same for Fillmore. We've been promoting our State House and volcanoes this summer and surprising enough, we're getting quite a few to stay over. In Milford, a grand project some day would be to promote the old town of Frisco. Many a time we've spent there digging into the past. Why it possesses unlimited possibilities. Name a ghost town to a traveling or vacationing family and they'll climb Pikes Peak barefoot bare-foot to see it. How about all the other fascinating old mining camps around your area that made a past glittering glit-tering with gold and silver out of Milford. Just ideas of course, but is it not the dreamer who suddenly sud-denly stops dreaming and goes to work that gets the job done? To show my good intentions I would like someday to bring the news that makes Milford and Beaver click to our readers here in Fillmore. J When they used to ride a horse between Milford and Fillmore it was quite a distance, but in the days of Detroit's Det-roit's 300 plus horses under the hood, nice roads and air-conditioning air-conditioning in the old clunker during the summer, we hardly have time to listen to one commercial from Clint, texas and we're into Beaver. And after hearing about the joys of a "Taylor Topper", we find ourselves in Milford. It's been nice chatting with you this week and we hope you'll stop next time you're in Fillmore and we'll stop and see you next time we're in Beaver County. Bill Wilson, managing editor, Millard Progress |
