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Show ? Sv3iS Items of interest taken from the f "5 iC'V? fcft )) Files of the Milford News of 1 f - r-iJQfc Fifteen years ago this week f Ore shipments from Milford for the month of February amounted to 9,986,000 pounds. The body of Dick Williams was found dead in the Guio corral early Wednesday morning. Dick was a miner and a hard drinker, and had worked at the Horn Silver the past winter. A fund was raised among his old acquaintances to bury him. The initial shipment of ore from the Paloma mine last week netted the company $1,375 for the forty-two ton lot. J. F. Tolton, speaker of the house, is home from his legislative duties in Salt Lake City. ' The county school will close May 18, and the high schools one week later. Mr. ancl Mrs. Wm. Cochrane, who have been living in Milford during the winter ,have moved back to their ranch on the Project. Vern Bird was married to Miss Ruth Ferguson at Beaver last Wednesday. Wed-nesday. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Fei-guson, and the groom a brother of Ted Bird, of the firm of Burns & Bird, of this city. C. J. Mclntyre has secured the contract con-tract for the first unit of the new brick block on the coi-ner for the Jefferson Jef-ferson Mercantile Co. In the last quarter of the past year there were 46 births and 2 deaths in Beaver county. B. W. Sherwood and family left this week for Idaho where Mr. Sherwood Sher-wood will engage in farming. Several sections of large iron pipe riveted into one piece 22 feet long and measuring five feet in diameter passed through Milford on wheels yesterday enroute . to the Fothering-ham Fothering-ham ranch where it will be used as casing for a big well being put down for irrigation purposes. o |