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Show . LOOKING BACKWARD fV"-2r Items of interest taken from the ' 'bl&L- Fiies of tie Milford Newg of -CSLJ' Fifteen years ago, thig week Eilly Smith, small son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Smith, was feeling very lucky bc-cause of a near serious seri-ous coasting accident. He was coasting down the steep hill just west of Main street when a car from a side street struck the sled. The chief injury was an ungl gash over his eye. A. A. Hillary, Milford manager for the express company, had gone to Los Angeles to enter a hospital for the purpose of having an operation performed on his knee. He had injured his kneecap a few months before when he stumbled iind fell. A disastrous fire had occurred in Minersville between two and three o'clock in the morning of January 11 when the Carter general gen-eral merchandise store had burned to the ground. Because of a hitter cold niyht and frozen water supply, sup-ply, nothing was saved. The muddled affairs of the Orpheum theatre had become somewhat unmuddled, when Karl S. Carlton had bid in the "talkie" equipment and other fixtures at sheriff's sale. Mr. Carlton was acting for himself and Clark Kes-ler Kes-ler of the Victory theatre. The material was taken to Beaver, where they were in partnership in the theatre business. The membership of the American Ameri-can Legion had voted, at their regular meeting, to contract with the Utah nurseries for $450 worth of lawn seed, trees and shrubs, to be purchased during the next two years to be used in building the public park. They were also trying try-ing to get the old swimming pool at the top of the hill re-conditioned for the coming summer. A dust storm had hit Milford Sunday, January 5, 1930, and at times vision was completely obliterated ob-literated by the clouds of dirt, while both the benches west and the mountains east were enveloped in whirlwinds of dust. The Sunshine girls had met at the home of Gladys and Beth Coleman. Cole-man. A delightful evening had been spent in games and refreshments. refresh-ments. The young folks present were Helen Carlson, Arthene How- ard, Mary Banks, Bernice Outzen, Vernice Smith, Ruth Stott, Norma White, Margaret Williams, Margaret Mar-garet Cochrane, Everil Weise and Mrs. Homer E. Hoot and Mrs. C. E. Moore, their advisers. The South Milford Community club had met on January 4 and elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Leroy Luken, president; Mrs. Chester Haskell, vice president; Mrs. Hannah Smith, secretary, and Jake Weber was elected a new five-year trustee. Reuben Jones was made a member of the club. 17 |