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Show rj& LOOKING BACKWARD kw A" Xffil 5S Ileum of inloicst taken from the lwi Cx 1 il,H "' ""' Mil1""' N,-WH "f ' - Fifteen yearn ago Hum week The Fourth id' July hud passed ipiiolly in Milford, with a large number num-ber id' people going to linker, Nevada, and to the mountains to spend the day. A patriotic program, given in the high school auditorium, bail been in charge id' K. 11. Ilird. "The Star-Spangled Star-Spangled llanner" was Hung by Mrs. Hoyd Whitu and Charles T. Woodbury Wood-bury had made the address of the day. A big service flag, which had floated float-ed above main street on the previous Tuesday, had been made by Mrs. J. 1'. Adanls and contained 7b' stars the number of Milford boys who had joined the colors. It was reported to be a splendid piece of work. For the period of the war the druggists drug-gists of the state had agreed with the commercial economy board of the state to the u-e of only three standard stan-dard ice creams, viz., chocolate, vanilla va-nilla and strawberry. Miss Cathrine Smithson was expected ex-pected to arrive from l'ortland any day to reside here pernuinetitly and a warm welcome was assured her. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Cottrell had returned from a trip to Washington, Oregon and Idaho. While in Washington Wash-ington they had had the privilege of a visit with Dr. H. A. Filmcr, formerly for-merly of Milford, whoso work at Camp l ewis included the examining of the eyes of the boys at that camp. On the preceding Monday, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and , Mrs. Charles Selww, had occurred thei marriage of their daughter Kthel to I. uke I.ichty, with Judgo Herbert Nichols performing the ceremony anil th.e newlyweds were making their home in the James Lewis residence. A small display ad in The News, decorated dec-orated w ith heavy mourning border, i read as follows: "Departed f rom single blessedness, Mr. I. uke I.ichty,: July 1, l'.US. ! The 1 l.'.th Field Artillery land, for more than a year past the pride of Camp Kearny, lo strong and un-j tier the happy leader-hip of Clar- j ence J. Hawkins, had given a parade and concert in Milford. (leorge At-i kills, a former Milford boy, a a member of the band and gave two fine cornet solos during the concert. All proceeds from tho concert went, to the regimental fund and a nice I sum was realized in Milford, a total i of J.'jL'T being collected. 1 (leorge Davis and Mi.-s Arbiteen Fothcringham of Minersville had! been married at Heaver June 2! and were to make their home in Minersville. Miners-ville. Thomas Beard, a machinist at the railroad shops, had met with a painful pain-ful accident when a wrench had ! ropped on his foot, causing a fracture frac-ture of one of the bones of the foot. Machinist Pearl Bonner, one of the lady mechanics employed in the local yards under the stress of war time, had relinquished her job in favor of one as waitress in the beanery. Mrs. W. 0. Forgie had left for a three months visit at Portland. Roadmaster P. J. Adams had been the first to have the honor of employing em-ploying women on the section, having hav-ing given a woman a job as section hand at Goss station. Mrs. Fred Jefferson and children chil-dren had returned from a two weeks visit in Salt Lake. F. W. Gospill and family had entertained enter-tained a number of their neighbors and friends at their ranch home south of town. W. W. Cook, who had a homestead about nine miles south of Milford, on which he was proving up that month, had put down a well and installed a small pumping plant. Mrs. N. C. Scliow had received a letter from her nephew, Don Ncilson, a Heaver boy in the army in France, who had previously been reported as having suffered serious injury to his eye, that he wan well and his eyes wero all right. C. M. Husbands had resigned from service with one of the oil companies as distributor and Des Hickman had uccepted the position. Mr. and .Mrs. Joe Tribute and Mr. and Mrs. J. (!. Siewert had spent the Fourth of July in Beaver canyon. |