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Show I fUCj LOOKING BACKWARD I 1 SvCQ??-" I'ems interest taken from the J . PiP. j, Fils of the Milford News of J I """ KLSt Fifteen years ago this week ' Baby girls had been born January Jan-uary 9 to Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Larson Lar-son and to Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Duffin Roy C. Cottrell, Earl Clinton and Fred Jefferson had given a banquet at the I. 0. 0. F. hall, with a large attendance of lodge members including some from out of town. Beaver county had been well .represented at the annual meeting of the Arrowhead Trail Improvement Improve-ment association held at Cedar City. Minersville business men had launched an organization to make for a "bigger, richer and more beautiful Minersville" with the following officers: President, George Marshall jr.; vice-president, J. S. Murdock; secretary, Cecil Baker (now athletic coach at Granite high school); treasurer, E. G. Griffiths; publicity manager, Will T. Morris. Supporting the officers was a board of directors consisting of progressive citizens and business men. Preparations for a grand opening to be held in the new school building were being made, the Mothers club to arrange for the banquet. The trainmen's board showed eight crews working west out of Milford and five working east. Mr. Cates, of the Delta Land and Water company, had been seen in Milford frequently. Character ball was being planned by the high school student body. A new feature, and one which was expected to be appreciated by everyone who had climbed the hill, had been provided by the committee commit-tee in charge. Free automobile service was to be given from the center of town for all who wished to take advantage of it. Also, taxi service ' from any point in town might be had for 50c a couple. The litle daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith had caught her arm in an electric wringer and fractured the forearm. It was remarked that certain automobiles standing across from the Gem pool hall looked as if they were tied up for the winter. I. Cline had sold the entire stock of the Golden Rule store to J. J. Sugarman, who was to remove it to Los Angeles to put on sale. Miss Lee Smithson had left for Seattle to visit with her sister. J. Dyer had come in to Milford from Black Rock and had asked for the best of everything. It was I remarked that nothing was too good for the people from Black Rock. The following had signed up for power as a requisite to extneding the power line to the pumping district dis-trict south of town: C. T. Martin, 10 h. p.; Charles Baxter, 5; W. H. Hendrickson, 30; J. L. Griffiths, 10; J. McKeon, 10; R. E. Parsons, 10; C. C. Sloan, 10. The estimated cost of the line was $1000 a mile. There had been born, January 16, to Mr. and Mrs. Wilson A. Moore, a baby daughter. |