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Show jlSfe LOOKING BACKWARD I WAAsOTS"- Items of interest taken from the -AwbQ fog jX(L. Fils of the Mi,frd News of j aJMJS' Fifteen years ago this week An intensive search of the east pastures for 12-year old Norma Burns, daughter of Bishop Burns, had lasted from early evening until near midnight, when the little girl had been found asleep under the davenport at home, where she had returned, re-turned, unknown to her family, following fol-lowing a fruitless search for the cows. Charley Baxter, local marsal, had raised fifty tons of alfalfa hay and $1500 worth of alfalfa seed, besides be-sides some very good sugar beets all in addition to maintaining the law and order of the town. The Misses Ann and Estelle Griffiths Grif-fiths had gone to Salt Lake, where the latter was to enter the L. D. S. business college while Miss Ann proceeded pro-ceeded on to Pocatello for a visit. Miss Thelma Tanner was also entering enter-ing the same business college. George Litchfield and Mr.s. Sadie Fisher had been married at Beaver. Mr. Litchfield, a local barber, had just returned from army service, for which he had been among the first to enlist. Miss Elinor Griffiths, Miss Jua-nita Jua-nita Miller, George Atkin and Earl Lynch had been to Beaver for the ball game. There had been a big fire at the Poulton place on Beaver bottoms, 14 miles north of town, resulting in complete loss of the barn, a stallion valued at $1000, a work horse, seven sets of harness, seven calves and a hay stack, with no insurance. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cates and son and daughter had left for Pomona, California, where the young people were to attend school. Mr. Cates was receiver for the Delta Land and Water company and the family had been making their home for the summer sum-mer at the Demonstration farm. Mrs. E. Smith and son Powell had come over from Frisco and Powell had left for Long Beach, where he was to make his home with his uncle, David Powell, while attending high school. While here they had visited Mrs. Smith's sister, Mrs. Mattie Armstrong. The Misses Gertrude Smith and c Barbara and Margaret Fotheringham had given a "hard time" party at the .home of Miss Smith's sister, Mrs. Charles Thomas. Besides the hostesses host-esses the guests were: Misses Ella Johnson, May Johnson, May Johnston, Johns-ton, Ella Hales, Idonna White, An-netta An-netta Schow, Mercy Orwin, Leva Smithson, Thelma Tanner, Vera Munford, Charlott Lynch; and Messrs. Huntington, Owen Tanner, Faye Bradfield, Ralph Bowman, Daulton Hicks, Lee White, Maurice Johnson, Miles White, Jim Smithson, Kimmel Coon and Ross Lang. Harold Cline had left for Salt Lake to attend high school, where he was to be a senior. , ' Dr. Bybee, who owned a large body of land south of town, was here, trying to get someone to put down several wells for him but labor and machinery were at a premium. Mrs. Mary Hardy, Miss Hortense Hardy and Arthur Hardy and family had returned from an auto trip through Wyoming and Idaho and a visit with relatives in Thermopolis, Wyoming. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Bird, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Pitchforth, Mr. and Mrs. Eb Tanner, Mrs. Pratt Root, Mrs. Dave Tanner, Mrs., Steve Stoker, Mrs. Nels Schow, Miss Vera Munford, Mun-ford, Miss Juanita Miller, Miss Winnie Win-nie Fernley and Lee Pitchforth had been to Beaver to attend the monthly month-ly meeting of M. I. A. officers. Mrs. J. C. Jeffers and Mrs. G. C. visit in Los Angeles. Beaver was to vote soon on the Cuddy had returned from a months the question of bonding the city for the construction of a new electric light and power plant. |