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Show THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO December 3, 1936 Joseph C. Smith, president of the board of education for the Beaver county shool district, was overwhelmingly reelected to membership on the board for a term of five years. The marriage of William Edward Ed-ward Hutchins and Miss Margaret Mar-garet A. Peterson, both of Milford, Mil-ford, took place Tuesday evening, even-ing, Novemyer 24, at the home of Mr. Hutchins' sister, Mrs. Clyde Jantze, in El Monte, California. Cal-ifornia. A number of Boy Scouts me' last Tuesday evening and organized or-ganized a patrol which they named the Stag patrol. The following fol-lowing officers were elected:' Patrol leader, Stanley Hughes; assistant patrol leader, Donald Bird; secretary, Wallace Hughes; scribes, Douglas Kirk and Abe Griffiths. Let's Go Back By Phyllis WAiittaker The following are excerpta from the files of the Beaver County News and its predecessors. pre-decessors. FIFTY-FIVE YEARS AGO December 1, 1916 While motoring up to the Moscow Mine, Wednesday evening, even-ing, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tribole and the News man were startled start-led to see a medium sized black bear standing in the roadside in one of the canyons. The animal, apparently frightened frigh-tened by the headlight, lumbered lum-bered off into the brush toward to-ward tho west. The party had nothing along stronger than gasoline and all three will "bear" out the fact that it was a really, truly, hon-est-to-goodness bear. Afraid that there might be trouble brewin' the party ddn't trouble Brun, but put on the high speed. Ask Joe. FORTY-FIVE YEARS AGO December 3, 1926 One of the outstanding features fea-tures of the social season was the annual banquet given by the members of the Clerical employees' association of the Union Pacific Railway Co. The menu, printed for the occassion, unique in its wording, word-ing, was as follows: Material required menu; Pacific Fruit Express, fruit rocktail; Manifest freight, celery cele-ry hearts; Lump Coal, ripe olives; Boilers with Anti Scale Compound, Filet of sole; Repor of Stock killed, roast stuffed turkey, cranberry sauce; Nut Lugs, tiny peas, Packed Cellars with Dope, stuffed tomate; Slid Flat Wheels, dinner rolls; Gold Coast Limited, pineapple Sun-i. dae; Fuel Oil, Coffee; Special Equipment, asortel cakes. Running Run-ning time: 7:30 P. M. to 9:00 P. M. |