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Show MRS. MILTON II. I'OOL DECORATES INTERESTING "PION .Al" WINDOW One of the most interesting-;, features of last week's Centennial Centen-nial celebration was the "antique" "an-tique" window in the M. H. Pool store on Main Street. Arranged by Mrs. Pool, it contained a very interesting collection of family heirlooms and relicsof pioneer days. The following were included in-cluded in the display: An old iron smelter ladle and mortar owned by Mr. Jack Williams' Wil-liams' father. An account book of Joseph R. Murdock's grandfather, who owned a shingle mill, and brought the first threshing machine ma-chine to Beaver County in 1860. Mr. Murdock, it is related "loaned" seed grain to the farmers, farm-ers, receiving the usual bushel of grain in the fall for each peck loaned in the spring. A table and picture belonging to Mr. Pool's grandparents. The picture was of the Pool farm, painted about 1874. The land grant for the farm was signed . in 1862 by President Chester A. Arthur. An early historical record owned by W. H. Chipman, father fath-er of Mrs. Pool, written by Andrew An-drew Jensen, Utah Customan. A pair of salt and pepper shakers belonging to Mrs. Dan K. Barton of Greenville. A portrait of Candice DeWitt mother of Mrs. Mary Workman. Beaded jacket and chiffon neckpiece, belonging to Mrs. Workman's mother. A vial of wheat, found in Indian In-dian Cave. A rolling pin made by Mr. Ashworth, grandfather, of Mrs. Lettie Fotheringham, and a muffin muf-fin tin, made by Mr. Ashworth. A brass mortar, belonging tc Mrs. Ethel Nielsen's mother, and a basque and bonnet worn by Mrs. Nielsen's grandmother. Two pictures in black and white, painted by her grand father, later sent to Denmark to by lithographed. The pioneer camp picture, also painted by him, and the two religious pictures, pic-tures, which were in the June issue of "Pathfinder." ' Vase and bowl once owned by Barney Fotheringham's great-grandmother, great-grandmother, Sarah McEwen. A Bible belonging to Margaret Mar-garet Evans Murdock's family, and two old pictures of her great-great-grandmother, one a miniature copied from the original orig-inal daguerreotype. A letter from her father to his sister, asking her to take part in an early Fourth of July celebration celebra-tion at Ophis A letter from Boston, dated 1847, to Jos. R. Murdock's grandfather. A gold badge commemorating the 50th anniversary of statehood, state-hood, owned by Mrs. Whitesides. A quantity of old tools owned and used in early days by Ted Kronholm. |