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Show LOOKING BACKWARD Items of interest taken from the Files of the Milford News of Fifteen years ago this week The shop of Matheson the tailor was nearly destroyed by fire which was caused by a gasoline explosion. The building on Main street was owned own-ed by Mr. McAuley, of Long Beach. The school on the Project has been closed on account of insufficient number num-ber of children. Mrs. Black, who has been teaching at Moscow, has been transferred to the Milford school. A. C. Ferguson and family departed depart-ed by auto for National City California Califor-nia yesterday. Henry Lake and family fam-ily who left last week for California by auto have been "hung up," in Nevada Ne-vada for several days on account of bad roads. The Moscow mine shipped 100 tons of ore this week that netted $2,500.-00 $2,500.-00 after paying transportation charges of $8 per ton to Oklahoma. Tuesday evening- at the Hotel Atkin a small party of deer hunters, including Messrs. Litchfield, Williams, Wil-liams, Harold Harrington, O. Fotheringham, Foth-eringham, Fred Jefferson and Messrs. Stanton, senior and junior enjoyed a venison dinner of their "own catch." T. W. Sloan has purchased practically practic-ally all the wheat and other grain threshed on the Project. The yield is light but of good quality. While hunting deer with L. D. Brooks, local druggist, George Moffat, Mof-fat, Eb Tanner and Art Lewis, A. T. Banyard became lost from the party and after a day and night's search for the missing man, word was sent to Milford. A party left immediately immediate-ly for the hills to nssist in the search. Among the searchers were Mrs. A. L. Brooks. E. B. Jorgensen, M. P. Lewis, L. B. Waddingham, Guy Nichols, Oscar Os-car Horton, E. H. Bird, Harry Ward, Horace Palmer, Gene Kirk and E. H. ; Street. The lost man was found in a j forest cabin, with a badly sprained leg, but otherwise in good shape. |