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Show Series Small Fires Keep Boys Busy The Milford Volunteer Fire department de-partment during the past week gave some rather remarkable demonstrations of speed and ef- j f iciency and in each case fully justified the support gladly given; the organization by a majority of the local people and business interests. in-terests. Thursday evening of last week the department was summoned when a motorcycle at the Miller Service garage was discovered to be afire. Barely 55 seconds from the time the siren sounded the truck was on its way with 13 out of 20 members aboard and the fire was quickly extinguished by means of chemicals. Saturday at about 3:30 p.m. the garage and outbuildings at the rear of the Harold Baxter home on the northwest bench was reported re-ported on fire with the family away, and valuable mining tools were destroyed, the department managing to keep the flames from other nearby buildings, however. Investigation of this fire, together with at least two other incipient blazes in the neighborhood, may lead to incrimination of a certain hobo cripple who is reported to have acted vindictively when his begging pleas were refused. Dick Johnson, local confectioner and one of the most active and faithful members of -the fire department, suffered small but painful burns on his arms Saturday Satur-day as the undertook to remove the blistering hot rubber coat he was wearing. These the only injuries in-juries he has ever suffered at a fire, came, ironically enough, the very day after he went on the honorary member list of the department. de-partment. Tuesday of this week, on arrival ar-rival in town of D. G. Tanner with the mail from Beaver, one of the fourth class bags, said to have contained motion picture films, was found to be afire and it, togther with half of the contents con-tents of another bag was destroyed, destroy-ed, also the suitcase of a woman who was coming to Milford as a stage passenger. |