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Show ! dMs LOOKING BACKWARD Item of interest taken from the JAl y 'pl Fite? of Milford"NewB rf J"!' " Fifteen years ago. this week I ' I 1 Decoration day in Milford had been observed with services at the cemetery. Leonard Bowen, commander com-mander of the American Legion, had opened the ceremonies by prayer, while Mrs. A. J. Atkin and Mrs. P. J. Adams of Riverside,' California, members of the Service Star Legion, had given the ceremonies cere-monies at the graves of the war mothers and soldiers, assisted by Mrs. Fern Galnouer and little daughter. Utah, California, Nevada and Arizona were about to see the greatest boom than any section of the world ever experienced. It was the beginning of the world's greatest great-est water-works construction, the Boulder dam and the mighty aqueduct aque-duct which was to bring the waters of the Colorado river under control con-trol and distribute them over 26,-000 26,-000 square miles. The local Lions club was to join with the MilfoTd American Legion in remodeling the swimming swim-ming pool in the Legion park. The old tank was to be made waterproof water-proof with cement and bath houses were to be erected and made into a first-class pool for summer. Delegates and alternates from the Milford Lions club had been selected to attend the International Internation-al convention to he held in Denver. The delegates were M. H. Pool and L. A. Wynaught and alternates I were Sam Cline and George Jeffer- son. Preparations were under way for the opening of a new restaurant in the McGarry Investment Co. building, across the street from the Jefferson store. Mrs. Mattie Ferguson was to be the proprietor. She had operated a restaurant in Milford before and had the reputation repu-tation of being an excellent cook. Mrs. John Killam and daughter, Miss Bessie, had gone to Logan to attend the graduation exercises of the class of which Miss Mildred Killam was a member. Nearly all ranchers of South Milford had been busy cutting the first crop of alfalfa hay. Mrs. Joseph R. Murdock had gone to California to attend the graduation of her daughter Betty, from Ramona convent at Alham-bra, Alham-bra, California. |