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Show jlks LOOKING BACKWARD j 'S-sSa'tSS Items of interest taken from the j i Ug31 sBf Files of the Milford News of "iiW- .Fifteen years ago this week J , . . .. .... ..-..........,..,...- I 4 Mr. and Mrs. H. Gourley, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Baxter, Parson Simpkins of Salt Lake and C. A. Arrington had been to Minersville on Victory loan business. Mrs. Boyd White had invited a few friends in to meet Mrs. A. Merritt, who was visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Al McKeon. The guests were Mrs. Dan Ferguson, Mrs. Sadie Tanner, Tan-ner, Mrs. James Boyter, Mrs. Joseph Hickman, Mrs. N. C. Schow, Mrs. H. H. Pitchforth, Mrs. J. B. Smithson and Mrs. Tom Martin. Des Hickman was in the bank learning the ropes so that he could take the place of his brother, Assistant Assis-tant Cashier James Hickman, when the latter left for his new home in Richfield. Mrs. George Atkin, who, for so many years had been proprietor and manager of the Atkin hotel, was having plans made for the new hotel just south of the building then in use, I to provide for 40 rooms on the sec-I sec-I ond floor, and the remodeling of the I older building to conform to the style 'of the new one. The same capitalists j who were to finance the deal also were contemplating the consti-uction of a new garage to be built on the lot to the south of the new hotel building. j I Jack Thiessen had come over from' Greenville to assist in the meat de-l partment of the Jefferson Mercan-I tile company during the illness of i Fred Jefferson. I ! Mr., and Mrs. R. H. Pitchforth and I Mr. and Mrs. George Jefferson had motored to Salt Lake in Mr. Pitch- forth 's new Nash, intending to stop at Nephi on the way. Marion Tanner had arrived home' after being discharged at Fort Russell Rus-sell and had been accompanied from Salt Lake by a cousin, Miss Angie Harmon. His sister, Mrs. Joe Kinney, Kin-ney, and little daughter had come from Caliente to spend a week visit- j ing with him and their parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Tanner. i Kent Smith, who had recently re-! re-! turned from France, had been guest of honor at a party given at the home of his uncle, W. J. Kirk. In order that dancing might be enjoyed, the crowd and the player piano had been moved across the street to the opera house, where all had enjoyed themselves them-selves until 2:30 in the morning. A feature of the evening had been the squirrel dance by John Kirk. Those present had been Joseph Hickman, Jennie Smith, C. A. Arrington, Des Hickman, Roy Rogers, Joe Smith and D. E. Kirk and their families; James Hickman, Mr. and Mrs. Faye Hickman, Laura Hickman of Torrey, J. Kirk and daughter of Pleasant Grove, Lish Kirk and Ross Smith. Notice of intention to make final proof on homestead claims were being published for Thomas J. Neil of Nada and Leo D. Rowley of Garrison. Gar-rison. Mesdames H. Hunter, J. Stoyell, H. Jefferson, J. Glenn Carter, D. R. Roper, D. A. Baxter, W. Cottrell, 't George Atkin, J. Smithson, Dan Ferguson, Fer-guson, M. A. McKeon, Jack Williams, Wil-liams, Charles Baxter, J. Berkhimer, William Sterling, Brooks and Russell Rus-sell of Salt Lake and Miss Catherine Smithson, had been entertained at the home of Mrs. Al McSeon, at a party in honor of her mother, Mrs. A. J. Merritt of Townsend, Montana. The War Mothers had presented a handsome locket to Boyd White jr., the only war baby in Milford. Sergeant Dave P. Carlton, son of Editor and Mrs. Karl S. Carlton, had arrived in Milford for a visit with his family after service in France with the engineers just two days less than a year. He had proceeded to Riverside, California, from here, to visit relatives and friends before accepting ac-cepting a position as geologist with an oil company. i : , |