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Show I 'Jdbu3 LOOKING BACKWARD I VV-5i?)v5S Items of interest taken from the I AV3gjPtQ fen jyj Files of tne -Milford New9 of I - raS " Fifteen years' ago this week 1 The food administration had madev a new ruling in regard to sugar. An I allowance of two pounds a month forj each person was the new limit placed ; on sales of this product. ! j Joe Kinney, proprietor of the Gem j pool hall, had become a brakeman on j the Salt Lake route, Charles Hender-1 son taking charge of the pool hall and I continuing with the barber business. i Mr. and Mrs. Al McKeon were the proud parents of a new baby boy, born July 31. The house built by Clark Kesler in the southeast part of town had been completed and made a very attractive place. Raymond Baker, 14 year-old son of Mrs. Ray Baker, had been dangerously dangerous-ly injured by being caught in a hay-rake hay-rake when the team attached to it had run away, dragging him for some distance. He was apparently dead when picked up and was unconscious for days. j Two boys, formerly of his district, 1 Ray Gale, at one time a resident of Milford, and Marvin Gray of Miners-ville, Miners-ville, had gone through town on their way east, preparatory to going overseas. over-seas. The ladies of Milford had met at Red Cross headquarters for the purpose pur-pose of organizing a War Mothers : club. Mrs. George Atkin and Mrs. E. 1 L. Buterbaugh had acted as chairman and secretary pro tern and the following fol-lowing permanent officers had been j elected: Mrs. P. J. Adams, president; ' Mrs. George Atkin, vice-president; Mrs. H. H. Pitchforth, secreta;y ! Mrs. W. B. Coon, treasurer; Mrs. E. L. Buterbaugh historian; Mrs. William Wil-liam E. White, Mrs. Sarah L. Harrington, Har-rington, Mrs. Edwards and Mrs. Dan Smithson, assi.-Jtants on committee. ! The Ladies Aid had met at the home of Mrs. W. F. Cottrell and the following officers had been elected: j Mrs. F. E. Robinson, president; Mrs. D. B. Isaacs, vice-president; Mrs. D. I R. Roper, treasurer. I I Mr. and Mrs. William Dobson, Mr. and Mrs. H. Korns, A. A. Hillary and Fred Dunster had been on a fishing fish-ing trip to the creek below the dam but what they had caught hadn't been much. Mrs. Walter James of Black Rock had returned from an extended western west-ern trip, accompanied -by hei4 two daughters, who had been attending college but were home on vacation. Up to June that year (1918) the following states had ratified the now notorious 18th amendment to the federal fed-eral constitution: Mississippi, Virginia, Vir-ginia, Kentucky, South Carolina, North Dakota, Maryland, Montana, Texas, Delaware, South Dakota, Massachusetts and Alabama. The town dads had fixed levies a; follows as the tax rate for the year on a property valuation of $633,120: General fund 4 mills, interest 2.2 mills, sinking fund 1.8 mills. Wilford Thiessen was the new yard clerk. He was to take care of the night shift and wrestle with the mail. There was horn that week, to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Peterson, a fine baby daughter. George Fernley had moved his family into the Clark Kesler houo. There was born, to Mr. and Mrs. Willard H. Evans, a baby daughter. |