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Show cf3 LOOKING BACKWARD iTrrC Items of interest taken from the JV pCifj 3 of the Milford News of " -J!Ziw Fifteen years ago. this week - 1 1 ! Minersville had been a deserted town, said The News of March 25, 1927, everyone having gone to Salt Lake to see the Minersville high jchn.-:l basketall team win the I sta'.t championship. Births, fun-J erals, gravel days and weddings1 had to be postponed. Calves were turned in with the cows and hens, had to eat their own erjs or go hungry. Dr. Parrish even report- j ed that the last two boy babies born in .Minersville could not' be pacified until they were given a basketball to play with. Tus Gil-lins, Gil-lins, father of one of the champion players, was reported to have !oasul two acres of ground near the Hanging Hock pavilion and was going to plant' it to basketballs. basket-balls. Minersville, with a population at that time of 600, with only 45 students stu-dents in the high school and only 14 boys above the ninth grade in the school, had surprised the entire en-tire state with their showing, and .here was a ready response in the campaign to raise the remainder of the $1500 necessary to take the team to Chicago, to enter national competition. Stanley McKnight1 was coach of the team and S. M. Wittwer, now county superintendent superintend-ent cf schools, was principal and one of the big forces back of the team and its devotion to training. The members of the team and their weights (at that time) were: Captain Clarence Gillins, all-state forward, 134; Arshell Hollings- heact, guard, 144; .Newell Marsnan, center, 151; Othello Smith, forward for-ward and winner of the sportsmanship sports-manship medal, 171; Hartley Eyre, 129; Dewayne Carter, forward; Wallace Osborne, guard; and Mar-cine Mar-cine Davis, center. The Milford Lions club had had as their guest's at their noon day luncheon at the Union Pacific dining room, the Utah state championship cham-pionship basketball team from Minersville, its coach, Stanley McKnight, Mc-Knight, .Superintendent Poulson and Principal Wittwer of Minersville Miners-ville and Principal Heal'on of Mil-i'ord. Mil-i'ord. The B. P. W. club had presented a very colorful and interesting fashion show, with the help of the J. C. Penney, Cline and Braun's stores and Mrs. Kelley's millinery shop. A feature of the show was a vaudeville stunt entitled, "Straight from Japan," presented under, t'he direction of Miss Louise Levi. Wanda James had entertained with a birthday party at the At-kin At-kin cafe in honor of Miss Ida Crawford and Fred McKay. Dancing Danc-ing was enjoyed the early part of the evening and at midnight' refreshments re-freshments were served to the following fol-lowing guests: Mahalie Sherwood, Mary Williams, Mrs. Turner, Mrs. I Shirlie Atkin, Mrs. Marv White, Mr. and Mrs. Henry, Clarence Sweet, Norman Kurtz, Harold Crawford, Glenn James, George Hinkle, Wayne Richards, August Nichols, the guests of honor and the hostess. Mrs. Ross Smith had entertained entertain-ed at her home with a "500" party in honor of the birthdays of Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Clay and Ardath Johnson. Those present were Mes-dames Mes-dames Ross Smith, Joe Smith, L. G. Clay, Maurice Johnson, Ralph Quayle, W. O. Carlson and Miss Ardath Johnson. Mrs. Harry Braun had given a very enjoyable banquet after the picture show in honor of the beautiful girls who acted as their models in the fashion show. Those present' were Mrs. Outzen, Mrs. George Atkin, Mrs. C. C. Sloan, and the models who assisted, I Mrs. J. H. Handley, Mrs. Earl j Stonehocker, Miss Thelma Rogers, I Miss Eva Bowman, Miss Lola Mor- ris. Miss Arvilla Muir, Miss Cart-! Cart-! wright and Mrs. Goatz. |