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Show CHATTER J With Our Readers t Reports come from Nada that two distinct earthquake shocks at 8:18 p. m., on February 12, were felt by the residents of that community. Houses Hous-es shook and rumbled, and stovepipes stove-pipes were jarred loose. Two federal officers and Sheriff Allen raided two large stills at Marysvale Saturday night. The operators op-erators saw the officers coming- and mude their getaway by swimming the Sevier river. Bur-r-r! Some cold bath. Ten barrels of mash were destroyed des-troyed by the officers. Ever ready to do a patriotic or good turn for the community, the Veterans of Foreign Wars presented each of the grade classes of the Mil-ford Mil-ford schools on Washing-ton's birthday birth-day with a beautiful American flag for their classroom. The emblem of American freedom ever before the young scholars will instill a loyalty to their country throughout life. A flood that appeared in proportion propor-tion to that of Noah's day, swept down on the inhabitants at Thermo siding and Latimer siding last week. Approximately 1000 acres were inundated in-undated at Latimer and people at Thermo experienced real difficulty in leaving the Section house. Fences and crossings on the railroad were washed away. The death of Minnie Maddern Fiske, one of the world's greatest actresses, last week in Long Island, recalls the tragedy of the Union Pacific Pa-cific train wreck at Latimer siding, west of Milford twelve years ago, in which the father of Lindsay Wad-dingham Wad-dingham was killed. The senior Wad-ding'ham Wad-ding'ham was engineer on the ill-fated train. Madam Fiske was a passenger pas-senger on the wrecked train and assisted as-sisted in caring for the injured. Several cases have been reported lately in this and adjoining states whei'e deer and elk have attacked automobiles which they have met in the road, however, when a domesticated domesti-cated bull attacks an auto well, that's different. One day last week O. C. Koch, local manager of the Telluride company, met a large bull in the road as he was entering en-tering the town of Minersville. The bull not only refused to give the road but turned and charged the machine, with the results that Mr. Koch's new Willys-Six car is minus a head-light and has a badly damaged front fender. fend-er. Cy Davis, for many years game warden of Beaver county, but who for the past year has been engaged in propagating fish for the commercial commer-cial market, suffered a heavy loss at his plant on the Beaver river last Sunday, when neighbor's geese got into his ponds and clogged up the screens with moss. Twenty-five thousand fish of markable size died before he discovered the clogged screens. Mr. Davis has an investment invest-ment of several thousand dollars in his hatchery equipment. He had planned cm beginning shipment of these fish to Las Vegas this week, which would have netted him 10 cents each on the Las Vegas market. To prove the profits reaped by spending money at home, the Lions club of American Fork, put a marked mark-ed dollar bill into circulation last! week and each business concern receiving re-ceiving the bill is keeping a record of the date received and the profits made on the goods purchased with the bill. The test is for two weeks, but within a few days the bill had been received by some concerns three and four times and the profits have mounted up to considerably more than the value of the bill. Here is concrete moral to keep your money at home if you want prosperity. A description of the young man killed in the Milford railroad yards recently, was broadcast over KDYL last Friday night, in hopes that his identity might be learned. Several communications have been received by Deputy Sheriff Kronholm, but to date no definite clues have been obtained. ob-tained. One party who called at the mortuary was positive that the dead man had worked with him on a construction con-struction job, but a message sent to the home of the party in question in Salt Lake, revealed that the supposed victim was at work in that city. Several Sev-eral inquiries have come from Idaho and California, but the remains lie unclaimed at the Southern Utah Mortuary. n |