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Show Let's Go Back By Phyllis WWttaker The following are excerpts from the files of the Beaver County News and its predecessors. FIFTY-FOUR YEARS AGO June 28, 1918 Milford is preparing to celebrate cele-brate the Fourth of July. There will be a program in the morning morn-ing and games in the afternoon. It will not be exactly the old fashioned celebration with lots of noise and smoke anywhere, for beginning with the fourth this year, the day hereafter will have a new meaning. We can see now, as never before, what the men of 1776 did for us, and what the heritage is that thAv handed down to us their representatives their official of-ficial girl team to Ogden to participate in the 14th West Coast Union meeting of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. The Milford official girls' team included Christie Lyman, musician; Faye Thompson, captain; cap-tain; Phyllis Erickson, Margaret Marga-ret Lund, Jerry Memmott, Le-nora Le-nora Swindlehurst, Afton Nelson, Nel-son, Alma Sly, Lorelei, Dawson, Daw-son, Jean Hickman, Roma Carlton, Carl-ton, Vera Waite, Maurice Miller, Mil-ler, Merlin Merryweather, Audrey, Aud-rey, Skillicorn, Almeda Hol-brook, Hol-brook, Vera Fiteh and Ruth Lish. not only freedom and the love for it, but also the willingsness to fight for freedom, not alone for ourselves but for the whole world. THIRTY-SIX YEARS AGO June 25, 1936 Miss Margaret Jones, daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Jones of Milford, and LaMar Grim-shaw, Grim-shaw, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Grimshaw of Beaver, were married mar-ried Thursday, June 18, at 8:00 p.m., by Mayor George C. Mur-dock Mur-dock of Beaver City. Hard work and great responsibility respon-sibility are the best kind of insurance in-surance against sickness. When the mind is fully employed, there does not seem to be much chance for disease to get in its work, for a busy, full occupied oc-cupied mind is the best kind of safeguard against illness. Marden TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO June 22, 1950 The Ladies Society of the Utah Lodge No. 358 sent as TEN YEARS AGO June 21, 19G2 Terry Long, son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Long, suffered a fractured ankle when he slid into home plate in a Little League game Monday afternoon. Golfers Wanted! All Milford and South Milford Mil-ford residents who are interested interest-ed in golf, and wish to organize organ-ize a Milford Golf Club and build a local golf course, are urged to mail a post card with name, address and phone number num-ber to P. O. Box 232, Milford. |