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Show j LOOKING BACKWARD I '' Ttr" Items of interest taken from the J$&P?? '-S Files of the Milford .News of j "i-' " S13- Fifteen years ago, this wek The J. W. Weston family had moved to Lynndyl, where llr. Weston was foreman in the shops. 11. H. Pool had been staying at the Atkin hotel temporarily while his family had been under quarantine quaran-tine for scarlet fever. Three feet of snow had been packed on the ground at the upper Telluride Power station. The snow was very solid, with a heavy water content of the last storm. Word had been received in Mil-ford Mil-ford of the birth of an eight and one-half pound son, born January 20 to Mr. and Mrs. Dave Glenn of Caliente. The Milford town board had made the following appointments for the year 1!)30: Town clerk, Bessie, Killam; watermaster, Theodore Theo-dore Kronholm; marshal, Roy Coleman; town attorney, Sam Cline; town treasurer, George Jefferson; Jef-ferson; public health and sanitation, sanita-tion, Roy Coleman; health officer, Dr. C. R. Parrish. Ray Casterline had surprised his many friends in Milford by returning return-ing from a jaunt to Nevada, bringing bring-ing with him a bride, who was formerly Miss Lila Gentry. Mr. Casterline was freight aglent in Milford. The following reprint from the Paris (Idaho) Post, appeared as an editorial in the issue of January Janu-ary 24, 1930: LIVE AND DEAD TOWNS What is the differenre between a live town and a dead town? How does one community earn the reputation of being alert and enterprising while another is. called call-ed stagnant? Both may look the same. Both may have the same natural advantages. advant-ages. Obviously the difference lies in the attitude toward the community shown by its citizens. A live town is one in which there are plenty of men and women ready to take hold and put over any worthy community enterprise. A dead burg is one in which every man is too selfishly engrossed in his own affairs to spend any time on community matters. |