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Show t i , i !r John N. Yergei has returned to his home in Provo. ' Mrs. George Fcrnley entertained a 1 number of women friends at her : home Saturday afternoon. Mrs. C. B. Davis of Salt Lake City spent Saturday visiting with Mrs. A. ' J. Raines and other friends. Mrs. Sue Powell and son of Tooele are here, visiting at the home of the former's aunts, the Misses Lee and Kathryn Smithson. Mrs. Henry Howes has returned to her home in Salt Lake following an extended visit at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Othello Schow. Mrs. James Lang is carrying her right arm in a sling, due to a fractured frac-tured wrist which she sustained last Saturday while proceeding with her household duties. The "M" men of the Milford L. V. S. ward handed the Beaver team a decisive lacing Monday night when they beat them by a score of 39-15, local Vanguard boys also defeating Beaver at handball. Mr., and Mrs. Frank Williams and three childen of Minersville spent Saturday and Sunday visiting among! relatives and friends here. Mrs. WW-! Hams was fomrerly Miss Lucy Po-cock. Po-cock. Tooele Transcript-Bulletin. The Rebekah lodge gave a Silver tea January 2: for their members. The evening was spent in cards and! other table games. A "Surprise"! gave an added interest to the enjoy-' able evening. The committee mem-! bers were Mesdames Litchfield, Wil-! son and Stonehocker. j That some other parts of the country coun-try served by the L'nion Pacific system sys-tem have had real winter weather was amply proved this past week with the arrival from Dubois, Idaho, of a train of 24 cars of ice from that point for local storage purposes, to be used later in icing P.F.E. cars and for other local railroad uses. The Pierian club met Monday evening eve-ning at the home of Mrs. Vena Wilson Wil-son with the following present: Mrs.: Lottie Hard.-ley, Mrs. Roy White sr., Mrs. L. G Clay, Mrs. 0. C. Koch, Mrs. J. P Murdock sr., and Mrs.: Frank White. The lesson in government govern-ment was followed bv an aticle read by Mrs. Pardsley. I The Milford W. C. T. U. met at the home of Mrs. Willard Nichols January 1 s An interesting discus-! sion led by Mrs. Baxter was much enjoyed. The next regular meeting will Iw. held February 15 at the home of Mrs. Susan Baxter. The lesson will be "Frances Willard" nnd will be in charge of Mrs. Meta White. The pr.blic is invited. i A number of Milford Roy Scouts.' off for a hike under the direction of Scout mn-ter J. B. Weh.-ter, were afforded af-forded the opportunity of making a more distant trip Saturday afternoon when Troop Committeeman prof-' lered the use of his car and trailer the plans being altered immediately1 to include a visit to the vicinity ofj the old school house nt Reed. 1 The local L. P. S. Relief Society! l ad a stork shower in their cosyi room at the new church Tuesday afternoon with CO women present.; Many useful anil beautiful things! were brought, enough for four complete com-plete layctts. The afternoon was enjoyed en-joyed by all with games and a program pro-gram after which lunch was served. Mrs. Uiui-e Campbell, assisted by Mrs. Kdna Hickman, presented her first grade students in songs and! short playlets. I s out.' whenever magazines are Dpened, fueling ship or like hazar-lous hazar-lous work. Upon completion of the vork, the word is again passed :hroug'h the ship, "The smoking lamp is lighted." The anchor watch which is muster-?d muster-?d in the early evening and required to be ready during the night for a sudden call, gets its name from the custom,, both in the merchant ships und naval vessels, of days gone by when particular attention had to be 1 paid to the ground tackle and riding lights. The cables then were made of hemp and the riding lights, in which only oil was burned, required -areful attention. It was the custom then, after all hands turned in, for the anchor watch to watch well the cables lest the ship drag her anchor or the cables part. No alcoholic beverages wot even beer are permitted to be used on board ship of the navy except under the direction of the navy medical officers. of-ficers. In other words, the navy is still dry. Sunken wrecks in United States harbors are marked by buoys having red and black horizontal stripes. In foreign countries, gTeen buoys are frequently used to mark sunken wrecks. o |