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Show CHATTER ! With Our Readers j Another Milford resilient has won the prize for the best 50-word article on "Why You Should Use Intermoun-tain-made Goods," which is being offered of-fered by the Intermountain Products Association through the columns of the Milfoid News and fil'ty o&er newspapers in the intermountain region. re-gion. Miss Mabel Coleman of this city received the $5.00 prize last week for a clever short story on the subject. This is the fourth prize awarded to Heaver county readers in the past two months. Less .than two weeks remain in which cars may run with 1931 license plates, yet up to the first of the week l,es Clay, in charge of the local license li-cense bureau, reports that but 30 applications ap-plications had been filed by Milford residents. It will be well to bear in mind that this year a state patrolman patrol-man is employed to patrol the highways high-ways of Beaver county and if you are found driving your car minus new plates ,it's going to be just too bad. Owners should remember that a tax receipt or certificate of assessment is necessary before a license can be issued, is-sued, and last year's registration certificate cer-tificate must also be presented. Game commissioners in the state of Washington have found a new use for tear gas. They spray the fumes around farms troubled by invasions in-vasions of deer, and the visits of the raiding animals immediately cease, much to the satisfaction of the farmers farm-ers and the relief of the game commissioners. com-missioners. Reports from the sections sec-tions where the novel method of crop preservation is being used say that the deer, once they get a whiff of the gas, never return to the scene, of the unpleasant experience. The Beaver County Game Association might try this experiment on the deer which invade in-vade the North Creek ranches each year causing depredations to the farmers' hay stacks and alfalfa fields. Beaver, our count seat, is putting on metropolitan airs by dolling up their city marshal and night-watchman in regulation uniform of the city policemen. Probably if Milford would adopt the plan they would save our local marshal, Ted Kronholm, from any future embarrasment, such as Ted tells on himself. Let it be known that Teddy is also water-master as well as town marshal, and in pursuant to his duties in that capacity, capac-ity, such as digging and repairing pipe-lines and operating motors and pumps in maintainance of our water system, greasy overalls and old clothes cloth-es are a part of his wearing apparel at times. While so attired recently, he noticed three hoboes hanging around town, and like the efficient officer he is, started to investigate. Addressing the gents of the road, he asked them which way they were going. go-ing. "Oh, we are going south," one of them replied, "which way are you going?" |