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Show LOOKING BACKWARD " "' JfiSf ll'-nis inUTi Kt taken from the vyAMV$ Files of the Milfoid Nt-WH of j --X. Fil'iern years ago this week tleorge Jefferson, in an open letter to The News urged that the people make an effort to keep their War Savings stumps pledges, the Thanksgiving Thanks-giving season being especially appropriate ap-propriate for this worthy objective. "Can you, or anyone, tell me of a better way to show the boys we mean business and appreciate what they have done?" he asked. W. C. fates was again at the farm house on the project, having returned return-ed f rom Delta. The marriage of Miss Ruth Johnson John-son of Milford and John J. Standford of Richfield hail taken place at the parsonage of the Phillips Congregational Congrega-tional church in Salt Lake with the j Reverend P. A. Simpkin off icuting. Euuone PiUhl'orth, who was one of the first Milford buys to join the navy, having enlisted May .r, 1917, had arrived home on a short furlough. He had made ten trips across the Atlantic and had two and a half years more to serve. Since January 12 he had traveled over 80,000 miles and had failed to see a submarine. He was to leave the next Sunday to return re-turn to service. There appeared to he a lull in the flu epidemic, only tjiree quarantine cards being up at that time. School would be re-open! if conditions conditions con-ditions continued to improve. Thomas Johnson of Malone was being proclaimed an enterprising rancher. With three sons in the service ser-vice the work of the ranch had devolved de-volved on himself and a younger son still in school. On a small patch of ground he had raised 40 tons of sugar beets at $12 a ton. His potatoes, po-tatoes, a burbank russet, had yielded heavily and were of such a fancy variety that eastern markets had specialized in a holiday display of them. Miss Ann Griffiths was assisting in the Milford State bank during the illness of Cashier Arrington. |