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Show Ruminatin f Roundabout In which Ruminator proposes to dream a lot, think as little as necessary, scatter a few bouquets bou-quets while their objectives are still above the sod to enjoy them, and fire a hot-shot now and then before said Ruminator gets too old and his sight gets too poor to see the sparks fly. Dja miss the "Looking Backward" notes last week? If you did you were just one of many, for we know that those notes are read almost religious's religious-'s ly by scores of News readers (including (includ-ing those who bSrrow their neighbors' papers.) The reason: Karl Carlton, then the editor, for December 17, 1919, got out a very fine Christmas edition. At least we take it that it was very fine, judging by the comments com-ments from others appearing in later issues. We have no way of judging for ourself, however, as patrons must have depleted his supply of extra copies or else Karl was so ding-busted proud of that edition that he swiped and put away with his most-prized possessions the one and only file copy. Be that as it may, there was no vestige of that particular copy in the file supposed to be kept. Proud as Karl no doubt was and had every right to be of his 1919 Christmas edition, he was generous enough to comment that the paper then published by the present editor of The News was one of the two best Christmas editions coming to his exchange desk. And that's somethin'! Dja ever stop to think that Milford has an estblishment that many towns much larger cannot boast of having ? We refer to our floral shop and that goes for the shop and for dainty Mrs. Hughes, too! The Hughes Floral Shoppe's window displays added no little bit of pre-Christmas color to Milford's main street while those same flowers and plants, entering dozens of homes as real and living tokens of remembrance, will be engendering en-gendering happiness for weeks and months to come. Too, a floral shop in a community means fewer disappointments disap-pointments and less expense, time after af-ter time; but these are only the most noticeable advantages. The shop also means one fewer empty building on main street, not to mention a bit of additional revenue to the town in the form of license fees. 35t yr But it is far from being a creditable cred-itable commentary that the large community Christmas tree must be dismantled so soon because the colored light globes have been disappearing too fast to justify jus-tify letting the tree remain up until New Year' day. The tree was a laborious project undertaken under-taken by the Volunteer Firemen and the lighting was done gra-tuiously gra-tuiously by the Telluride Power company, making the thoughtless acts of one or more persons even more reprehensible. Spending the holidays with hom folks is Robert Sherwood jr., who is employed in a blue-printing establishment estab-lishment in Huntington Park, California, Califor-nia, and making good! Bob was an outstanding student and athlete in the local high school, graduating last spring, but it was as a Boy Scout and a chap who was unusually alert to what Scouting means to youth, that he endeared himself to us and several others. The wide world holds nothing too good for a young fellow of Bob .Sherwood's caliber! And what a lot of fun these college kids are having during " . their Christmas vacation! More . power to them and their fun! They're at that stage and age just once in their lifetimes and it's worth every sacrifice that is made by parents to make available avail-able to them college careers and the wholesome fun that goes with them. If the Stanford-Alabama game is played in the Pasadena Rose Bowl on New Years day as scheduled . . . and if the game is broadcasted . . . and if you have a radio . . . and if you are listening (and not just pretending whilo more than half asleep as yours truly usually does on New-Year's New-Year's day ((just ask the wife)) then listen and see if you can't hear Attorney Harold Cline above all the rest if and providing and whereas Alabama is winning. You see he's down there and supposed to be occupying occu-pying a $4.40 seat. If no just had television we shouldn't be needing to hear a word of the broadcast. All that would be necessary would be to have a fairly good focus on Harold's Har-old's face to know exactly how the game was going. He has a hundred smackers on Alabam! Just one of those things: Edgar Rico Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, cave-man character who sure had his (Continued on last page) o Ruminatin (Continued from first page) way with women, winning a divorce from his wife in the Las Vegas courts with cruelty on her part alleged alleg-ed as the basis for going their ways separately. Now, any day, we might expect Walter Winchell getting a divorce di-vorce on account of his wife talking too much or of Odd Mclntyre suing for separation because his wife converses con-verses in a rambling manner! It has been a" unusually merry and happy Christmas in many homes, not the least of which was that of F. E. Casterline. "Tubby" is a man among men and, with him home for the holidays holi-days after a desperate siege at a Salt Lake hospital, now well on the way to recovery, that family was happiest of the happy or we miss our guess. We'll bet that, by now, Judge E. W. Clay of Burbank and his good wife are realizing in part what it means to double up on invitations to spend the holidays with them at their hospitable ranch home. Last winter they had their grandson John with fine in every way. This year they them and that, without a doubt, was undertook a real chore and extended an invitation to ye editor's young hopeful to join John in another visit. And may a good providence have pity on that happy household if and when the ice-skating fails to materialize and those youngsters run out of marks to shoot at, relics to look for and caves to hunt and explore. It isn't so much either one of these boys 35r 3ST 3PJT It's the combination! Noticed an enterprising young college chap the other day doing a bit . of fence and gate repairing in front of his home. The young man, in all modesty, no doubt figured he was repairing merely ordinary wear and tear but Ruminator has seen too many good-looking young fellows leaning on that particular fence to credit all the damage to wear and tear! A young miss wiio resides within with-in lias been the attraction and a very real one. There lives in all of Utah no sweeter young woman and when we say this we shall be leaving many Milford people not one moment in doubt as to the objective of this aforesaid leaning on a main street l'encc. Not at all bad to be working next door to a bakeshop such as we now have in Milford. Despite thick walls we very often catch a whiff of delicious pastry and have only 1o go to the door to sense more acutely the nearness of good things to eat. Guess we're hungry; and it's too late to ask Mac or his good wife for a handout, so we're ringing off Right now! |