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Show .News and Mews of Milford's Karly Days With this issue The Milford News, as successor to The Milford Times and Beaver News, begins its fiftieth year. The Milford Times was established in 1901. In the period from 19 JO to 1920, the publisher's of Milford's weekly chronicles of events were not too particular about filing- away each issue of The News, and our files are incomplete. However, we have managed to dig up an April 1, 1904, issue of The Milford Times and Beaver Beav-er News, evidently a county newspaper serving both Beaver and Milford, and published in Milford. Interesting items from the editorial pen of C. T. Harte, publisher, follow: The school trustees of Beaver County did the right thing in placing an emphatic veto upon the suggestion to consolidate all of the districts of the county. coun-ty. It was neither feasible nor desirable. The plan to re-district re-district the county, in order that taxable property may be taken from tfie wealthier and added to the poorfer districts, ; may be all right if the commissioners commis-sioners do not go to extremes. Some districts now find it difficult dif-ficult to maintain any school at all, while others have more revenue rev-enue than they can property spend. Such inequities exist in all counties and they should be adjusted whenever it is possible to do so without making an unreasonable un-reasonable and unjust gerrymander gerry-mander of the county. It will be necessary for the commissioners commis-sioners to proceed with care and be guided by a spirit of fairness. The impoverished condition con-dition of districts on the east end created the demand for an equalization of revenues and - over the coiujty. The. forestry division of the interior department has decided against establishing a forest reserve re-serve on the mountains east of Beaver. These lands were temporarily tem-porarily withdrawn over a year ago, but they will now be restored re-stored to the public domain. To the Editor, Milford Times: In the last issue of your paper pa-per there was an item stating that at a dance given at Frisco there was a drunken brawl, with gunplay and some blood spilled. I wish to state that you have been misinformed'. If there was any trouble at all it was at the saloons, and not around the hall, and it wasn't any of the boys from the dance. Frisco can boast of having quiet dances and without .drunken boys. Yours truly, J. M. GOODWIN. Next week we will publish more "old stuff" from yellow-aged yellow-aged papers in our files. If any Milford News readers have old copies of Milford newspapers, preceding 1920, or interesting old letters or clippings they would like to share with other Milford News readers, we will be glad to publish them. I the plan would meet with more general favor if those districts had manifested greater solicitude solici-tude for the welfare of their schools in the past. It is not forgotten that last year the North Creek district refused to vote a special tax of 24 mills to provide free textbooks under the provisions of the new state law, and that Beaver defeated a 3 mill tax for the same purpose. pur-pose. By refusing to levy a small special tax each district shortened its school term, and under the conditions it is not thought that they are entitled to much sympathy. We understand under-stand that Beaver does not ask for special aid or sympathy, but it will probably be a beneficiary bene-ficiary under the proposed re-( adjustment, as well as the other east side districts. In other -words, more taxable property will be given to districts that have refused to exercise their lull taxing power on the property prop-erty they now have. Perhaps the situation demands it, but it behooves the commissioners to proceed with extreme caution and with a due regard for the rights of all districts. One of those six delegates to the Republican national convention con-vention ought to be from Beaver Beav-er County. What's the matter with J. R. Murdock, or Will Hurst, or W. F. Knox, or Geo. B. Greenwood, or Dr. Cook, or any one of a dozen others that might be named? And the Democratic state convention might find some good men down this way who w?uld fitly represent the state at a national convention. It looks as tho all the idle men of Beaver CouYvty will be able to find employment at the new town of Newhouse a couple of months hence. The building of the mill, hotel, schoolhouse, boarding houses and cottages involves the expenditure of large sums for labor and is certain cer-tain to make better times all j |