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Show I!llilllll!l!llll!l!!linn!liin;:!!!!!;'i!l 9 jbuuta, Rid 9 Jte&ui. . . By SECOND-GUESSER We received the following note from the Chamber of Commerce home decoration committee: Don't forget the Chamber of Commerce Christmas Decoration Contest. Prizes for the best decorated dec-orated homes are $15 for first prize, with $10 and $5 for the runners-up. Contest dates are from December 15th to 25 th, inclusive. in-clusive. j. There seems to be a little crit icism of the Chamber's efforts to make this a bigger and better Christmas season for Milford, with a few individuals and organizations or-ganizations having the idea we're "stepping on their toes" and trying try-ing to nudge them out of the spots they've always held at Christmas time. What we are endeavoring en-deavoring to do is to stimulate greater interest, coordinate the activities, and definitely not take over any activities that someone else has been handling. We just want to add a little extra. And congratulations to the Fire Laddies, for the beautiful, mammoth Christmas Tree they have planted in Main Street at the bank corner, and to the Tell-uride Tell-uride boys for getting the streamers up so early and so efficiently. ef-ficiently. When the other organizations organi-zations carry thru with their traditional decorating jobs, the city should really present a warm welcome to the stranger who enters our gates, and be a thrilling source of satisfaction to the home folks. Mayor E. L. Smith announces that the lights will be turned on Friday night, but he says he "ain't gonna give any speech we'll just turn 'em on and let ' everyone enjoy them." The high schoolers who last year pleased the onlookers with a group of appropriate choral selections, will again be on hand to give out with a medley of Christmas v Carols, with members of the Lincoln County High School basketball team, from Panaca, Nev., in the audience. Milford Legion Commander Zeke Hickman stuck his neck out the other day when he told District Commander Pickett A of St. George that he'd have 40 paid-up members by the time the commander journeys to Salt Lake for a special gathering of district officers, on December 11th. That's just a week away, and the local post now has only 25 members who have paid their 1949 dues. So, Legionaires, Commander Zeke wants us to get in there and pitch, and there's no sense in letting him down. Last year the local post won the state trophy for having the greatest ' percentage of over-quota membership. mem-bership. Let's go after a few honors hon-ors this year. Memories of our "kid days," when the grandest outing imag-, imag-, inable was to pay a visit to Uncle Claude's farm, were brought back last week when we loaded the family in the car and drove to the Old Page Ranch, near Cedar City, to have Thanksgiving Thanks-giving Dinner with Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald Armstrong. We arrived late (of course), and the delectable odors of sage dressing, steaming, baking turkey, tur-key, "yeast rolls" and plum pudding pud-ding vied with the savory aroma of roasting goose and chicken and dumplings. The nose-tickling aromas whetted our appetites to too fine a pitch, for we stuffed and stuffed, and spent the balance bal-ance of the afternoon stretched out on a comfortable sofa in peaceful, contented slumber. Others we met at the ranch, most of whom had larger capacity capac-ity for stowing away food than we had, included Mr. and Mrs. J .S. Murdock, parents of Mrs. Armstrong; Mrs. I. N. Nolder, Ray Murdok and his girl friend, (from Beaver-, and Mrs. Helen Harned and daughter, all of Min-ersville; Min-ersville; Freddie Dalton of Beaver, Beav-er, and Mr. Armstrong's parents, of Cedar City. |