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Show fe LOOKING BACKWARD emB f interest taken from the J JlW AM ffi FiIs "f lhc Milford News of !j - Fifteen years ago this week "Tex" Young, rear brakeman on a freight train, was being acclaimed acclaim-ed a good deal of a hero as a result re-sult of extricating a girl from a car which had overturned in a ditch near the sugar factory, north of Delta. "Tex" had left his train . and waded into the waist-deep water to effect the girl's rescue. Mrs. Rachel Jefferson had let a contract to L. G. Schuller for the erection off the Jefferson apartment apart-ment house on north Main street. There were to be two four-room apartments, all modern, and the buJlding was expected to (represent (repre-sent an investment of about $7000. A large number of "islands" were appearing in Kents lake, presumably pre-sumably sodded masses from the floor of the reservoir which had loosened and floated to the surface a condition similar to that which has been causing trouble in the Yankee reservoir above Parowan. Mrs. W. G. White of Salt Lake City was visiting her husband in Milford. Charles F. Decker had just returned re-turned from a months trip to Texas Tex-as and eastern cities. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Jeffers had : : : ! returned from Des Moines, Iowa. I wht re they had been called by the illness of Mr. Jeffer's father. '1 he establishment of a tourist camp ground for Milford was be-I be-I ing agitated by Karl S. Carlton, theii editor of The News. Timothy F. Brownhill was the new editor of the Beaver Press and ' was doing a good job of it. Beaver countys commissioners were being widely commended for the excellent condition of the main line highway through Beaver, (now U. S. highway 91) especially by j comparison with those parts of the same highway located in Iron and Millard counties. Fred Jefferson and Arvid Johnson, John-son, who were leasing at the Red Warrior mine, had shipped their first carload of ore. Dan Ferguson had gone to Richfield, Rich-field, where he had accepted a position po-sition with the Telluride Power company. Mark Jones was recovering rapidly rap-idly from a bullet wound in the calf of his leg which he had received re-ceived when a gun which his bro-brother bro-brother Howard was handling had been discharged. |