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Show Let's Go Back By Phyllis Whlttaker The following are excerpts from the files of the Beaver County News and its predecessors. pre-decessors. FD7TY-FOUR YEARS AGO May 25, 1917 There was quite a sensation in local mining circles this week. This time it was not because be-cause of a strike of rich ore, but because of a strike of the miners at the Moscow Mine for a raise of their wages. The men have been paid $3.00 and $3.50 per day and charged $1.00 per day for board. They ask for a raise to $.50 and $4.00 per day, and their de" mand is not deemed unreasonable unreason-able by mining men and merchants mer-chants who have discussed the matter. FORTY-TWO YEARS AGO May 24, 1929 In an extension, short time sale campaign for Frigidaires, put on by the Milford office of the Telluride Power Co., seven new Frigidaires were placed in Milford homes. The following are new owners of this widely known and popular style refrigeration: refrig-eration: Miford Bakery, Nels Johnson, Harry Livergood, Mrs-Homer Mrs-Homer E. Root, G. R. Wilcox, Clarence Lewis and R. W. Jones. TWENTY-FOUR YEARS AGO May 22, 1947 Wednesday, May 28th, at 8 p.m., the thirtieth annual commencement com-mencement exercises of the Milford High School will be. held. The list of graduates is as follows: Don Ashworth, Alfred |
