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Show I jrfkjfe LOOKING BACKWARD" j Items of interest taken from the J -AWHl! -toff gijgLjl- Fiks of thc Milford News of J "rilsJ Fifteen years ago this week J Members of the B. R. C. A., their j wives and a few others had very pleasantly surprised their foreman, W. F. Cottrell, and Mrs. Cottrell. One feature of the luncheon was a 22 pound watermelon raised by Walter Muir in his yard on north McKeon street. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Muir, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schow, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tribole, Misses Bertha Cook, Amy Couch, Messrs. Charles Clements, Frenchy Garzan, Harry Allen and Roy Cottrell. Mrs. Dan Ferguson had been very pleasantly surprised with a bundle shower by a crowd of friends, the oc-cassion oc-cassion being her 57th birthday. Pit and "500" and music had furnished amusement for the evening. The invited in-vited guests were Mrs. Eb. Tanner, Mrs. Dave Tanner, Mrs. William Miller, Mil-ler, Mrs. Ted Bird, Mrs. Carl Levi, Mrs. Scott Tanner, Mrs. Ross Smith, Mrs. Charlie Smith, Mrs. John White, Mrs. Joseph Hickman, Mrs. John Kirk, Mrs. V. M. Palmer, Mrs. J. R. Duncan, Mrs. Boyd White, Mrs. Lang, Mrs. J. C. Mclntire, Mrs. H. Pitchforth, Mrs. J. B. Smithson, Mrs. Tom Martin and Mrs. Steve Stoker. Mr. Holm of St Paul, president of the Independent Silver Mining company, com-pany, after making a personal inspection in-spection of the property in the Beaver Bea-ver Lake mining district for the second sec-ond time, had decided to begin active development of the Wasatch fissure. J. A. McMullen, managing director of the Beaver Copper company, com-pany, in the same district, also reported re-ported himself very much encouraged over the completion of shaft work. Three carloads of shoats, bought in and around Beaver by 0. A. Anderson Ander-son of Delta, had been shipped to a serum company at Sioux City, Iowa, The shipment was said to be the finest bunch the federal inspector had ever seen. The News was printing a set of pointed questions each week under the heading "Did You Know." In each of the series there was some special reference to the local Japs. The current question was: "Did you know that the Japs on the railroad get free ice?" Others appearing from time to time included: "That the Japs on the railroad get free rent?" "That the Japs on the rail-iroad rail-iroad get free fuel?" "That the Japs were getting their freight from Salt Lake for $1.08 per ton?" "That the Japs at the round house got hot water baths free?" While playing on the school grounds at Minersville the ten year old son of George Baker had got caught in the rope attached to the saddle of a horse ridden by Kent Kelsey, and before the horse had been stopped the lad had been dragged through a fence and irrigation irriga-tion ditch with the result that the bone in one leg had been broken and forced through the flesh in five places, together with other cuts and bruises, Dr. Swanson having declared de-clared it to be the worst broken up case he had ever had. 'There had been born to Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Haskell a fine baby boy. Mr. Haskell was described as the government well man who lived in the Myron Lewis house west of the high school. Mrs. L. G. Clay, a member of the grade school faculty, had been given charge of the music work in the grades and she and Miss Alice South-worth South-worth were in charge of the 5th and fith grade girls' volley ball teams. Representative D. A. Baxter was leaving for Salt Lake to attend a special session of the state legislature. legisla-ture. Mrs. Baxter was accompanying accompany-ing him to the city. Pratt Root had returned from s trip to Salt Lake on railroad business busi-ness and to meet his brother, J. C Root, who was in Salt Lake on hif way home from two years in tht navy, having enlisted at Lund ir 1917. He had served on a submarint chaser, and had visited nearly all of the allied countries. The highest price for silver since 1876 had been reached that week when the white metal sold on the London market for 61 pence per ounce (approximately $1.22Vi.) Second Lieutenant L. R. Fournier of the 41st division had stopped off in Milford and accompanied Superintendent Super-intendent Harry Diehl of the Tellu-ride Tellu-ride company up to the power plant for a short visit. Lieutenant Fournier Four-nier was on his way to the Presidio at San Francisco after serving 17 months in France and three months in Germany. He had been a Tellu-ride Tellu-ride employe before entering the service. |