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Show THE M1LF0RD NEWS A. C. SAUNDERS. Publisher C. II. COOK, MANAGER WILMA COOK, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY SUBSCRIPTION - $2.00 Per Year Entered in the postofTice at Mil-ford, Mil-ford, as second class mail matter, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. JUVENILE ANTICS The fire department is justly annoyed an-noyed at the behavior of a number of the townspeople when a fire is reported. report-ed. The sound of the fire siren is a signal sig-nal to the firemen that serious and perhaps dangerous work is ahead; to the townspeople it is a signal to abandon any maturity they might possess and to perpetrate juvinal tricks characterist of adolescents on a country picnic. They start their cars and begin to rush around town in a purposeless effort to determine where the fire is located. With the appearance of the fire truck, they fall in behind and follow the truck so closely that the firemen wonder how they are going to stop the truck when tho fire is reached without danger of the pigtail behind them crashing into the truck or running over the firemen when they get off the truck. The youthful enthusiasm of the townsmen j on such occasions expresses itself in j various other manifestations of fool-. illness. They pass each other in fol- ' lowing the truck, crowding the more cautious individuals off the streets. They plunge in from side streets either eith-er directly ino the parade pursuing the engine or in front of the engine en-gine itself. Such behavior not only endangers the lives of the firemen and the more sensible citizens, but causes delay and annoyance to the young men who are making a serious effort to get to the fire in time to prevent loss and damage. DESERVING PRAISE The high school students have published pub-lished the first printed issue of their school paper and are elated at the response re-sponse it has received from the town at large. Everyone who has seen the Tattler has given it the puff it deserves deserv-es and we are pleased to contribute ours here and now. We had the privilege priv-ilege of watching the staff produce the paper and remembering our own inefficiency and general uselessness at that age we have only praise for the business and journalistic ability of the boys and girls who worked hard and earnestly to publish a credible school paper. THE USUAL HOWL Milford basket ball team loses for the first time this season and a concreted con-creted howl goes up from the weaker sisters of the sporting crowd. Free advice floats around every barber shop in town and if Coach Mel Hes-lington Hes-lington followed a third of it, basketball basket-ball in Milford would be in a sad state. There wiseacres do not take into consideration that the division is not yet lost to Malford and that one defeat may be good medicine for the boys. .With all this sunshine scattering itself it-self over the town some of the habitual habi-tual grouches of the citizenry might take a hint from nature and brighten up. Personally, we have found that most of our neighbors are quite willing will-ing to produce responsive smiles when we bestow our favorite grin on them. But there are exceptions. Perhaps the very worst way to help general conditions is by spending carelessly public funds and thus increasing in-creasing the tax burden. Dogs not licensed for 1931 will be disposed of after February 1. Roy Coleman, city marshal. Adv. |