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Show Let's Go Back By Phyllis Whittaker The following are excerpts from the files of the Beaver County News and its predecessors. pre-decessors. iprwww ft April 27, 1917 Why "Cuss"? "Cussing" is always a habit. Excepting, of course, when a fellow hits his thumb with a hammer or some sudden occasj sion like that; then it's an accident acci-dent purely. Some men "cuss" for emphasis and do it so continuously con-tinuously that it's as though every word is underscored and loses its effect. Most men refuse re-fuse to "cuss" in the presence of ladies unless the "ladies" cuss first. And some do. But cussing seldom gets you anything any-thing worth the effort necessary to produce the flow of foul lan-, " guagc. Two Good Reasons . There are two good reasons why people do not mind their own business; one is because they haven't any business, the other is because they haven't any mind. April 26, 1929 An advertisement "Get a new body and have your top repaired." Don't you wish you might? The following 'squibs' are taken ta-ken from the Salt Lake Tribune. Tri-bune. In observing its 58th Anniversary, An-niversary, the Tribune published pub-lished items from its files of years ago. Here are a couple: First train enters Milford Frisco, May 17, 1880 The first passenger train over the Utah Southern extension ran into Milford Sunday night, May 15th. Milford Gets Its Name Shauntie, Sept. 25, 1876 Milford is the name of the new town being built on the Beaver river, six miles from the Star district. It has one quart? mill running and an extension smelter smel-ter under construction. April 24, 1947 Elementary News by Leslie Cobb The fifth grade people have written a number of poems in language class this year. Here is one by Roger Aagard which I think is very good: My Baby Sister I have a little sister, Her eyes are big and blue. I love her Oh so very much, She's just so cute and new. She laughs and plays and coos all day And pulls my hair, oh My! And then you'd think that it I hurt her. The way she starts to cry, |