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Show Let's Go Back By Phylllfc WWttaker The following are excerpts from the files of the Beaver County News and Its pre decessors. FIFTY-FOUR YEARS AGO October 18, 1918 The contest of the four minute min-ute speakers for the Fourth Liberty loan was held in the high school auditorium Tuesday Tues-day morning at 10:30. In the Junior contest first place was awarded Clair Nichols. Nich-ols. For second place the jud- ers, gamblers, gunmen and dance hall girls who thrived on mining camp money. A sheriff named Pearson was elected to clean up the town. He had nerves of steel, was fast on the draw and was known to have killed as many as six men in one night. DON'T PLAN ON CUTTING YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE Deck the halls with boughs of holly but don't plan on getting a Christmas tree from the Bureau of Land Management Manage-ment this year. For the past several years the bureau in Utah has designated desig-nated areas where families could cut their own Christmas trees. But because of program emphasis, manpower cannot be used to supervise cutting of individual in-dividual Christmas trees this year, according to Robert D. Nielson, BLM state director for Utah. Bids were received last Friday Fri-day for commercial cutting of Christmas trees in two areas southwest of Milford. These are the only two areas of BLM land which will be cut in Utah this year, Mr. Nelson said. "Our program in past years to allow families to find and cut their own Christmas trees has been very popular," tha BLM official added, "but nation-wide priorities prevent our use this year of personnel to provide the necessary supervision. super-vision. We are sorry that it has been necessary to discontinue the service this year." geg stood two for Lou Estelle Hicks and two for Nell Ferguson. Fergu-son. It was decided, by drawing cuts. Second position was awarded awar-ded to Nell Ferguson, Lela Willis received honorable mention. men-tion. In the Senior contest, first place was given Alberta Walker Walk-er and second place Alta Edwards. Ed-wards. THIRTY-SIX YEARS AGO October, 1936 A fine baby was born to Mr. and Mrs. Monte Griffiths thi9 week. Mr. and Mrs. Morris Johnson John-son of Caliente are visiting at the Antone Johnson home this week. While they are here a family reunion of the Johnson family is being held. TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO October 20, 1950 A wedding reception honoring Mr. and Mrs. Albert B. Smith, given by Mr. and Mrs. Owen R. Smith in St. Bridget's Recreation. Rec-reation. Hall October 13th, was enjoyed by all who were present. pre-sent. Last Thursday Phyllis Keetch entertained her bridge club at the home of Verle Horton. Members present included Mrs. Horton, Toni Uffens, Mabel Westergard, Alverta Goodwin, Dorothy Kizer, Mildred Hay-nie, Hay-nie, and Maudell Crane. The invited guests were Wilma Westont Ina Norton, Mildred Coon, Nelda Memmott, Fern Tanner and Faye Berger. TEN YEARS AGO Otober 18, 1962 O ctober, that traditional mont h of ghosts, witches goblins gob-lins and Hallween, is an ideal time of the year to visit Utah's fabulous, errie ghost towns. One of the most colrful ghost towns a reminder of Utah's . early silver minning boom is Frisco, located just west of Milford on State Highway 21. Frisco was the home of the famous fa-mous Horn Silver mine, at one time the richest in Utah. The town boomed in the 1880's. For a while it was the home of the "boomers" min- |