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Show j LOOKING BACKWARD !F7'V. y'vT" Itema of interest taken from the 1 ' accgar- Fifteen years ago. thi week One of the hottest fires to occur oc-cur in Milford for some time razed an old frame buildir.g near the freight depot. The building had been occupied by the Carl Roberts family and burned so rapidly that there was no chance of saving anything. The Masonic and Eastern Star lodges of Milford, Cedar City and Richfield had held a picnic at the Murdock academy grounds in Beaver. Bea-ver. Albert Pike Lodge No. 14, of Milford, LaMar Outzen, worshipful worship-ful master, and Ruth Chapter, 0. E. S., of Milford, Mrs. Lulu M. Clay, worthy matron, were the hosts. Word had been given out that all portions of highway 91 from Salt Lake City to the Arizona line were to be paved or oiled during , the following months to be finish-, finish-, ed by January 1. Sam and Harold Cline were sporting a new Studebaker President Presi-dent Eight car. Another sign of Milford's growth and of the interest its citizens feel in their town was the organization organ-ization of a Home and Garden club by some of the women. The first meeting had been held at the home of Mrs. J. M. Williams. The officers elected were Mrs. Williams as president, Mrs. D. A. Baxter, vice president; Mrs. J. R. Murdock, secretary, Mrs. C. R. Parrish, librarian li-brarian and Mrs. George FerrJey and Mrs. Myron Lewis, executive committee. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sherwood of Minersville had become the proud parents of a daughter, born to them Friday, September 5, 1930. Bill and Margaret Cochrane had returned from Zion National park, where . they had been employed. em-ployed. Mrs. Mattie Ferguson and family had gone to Ely, Nevada to make their home. Miss Dorothy Levi had gone to California, where she was to enter school at Pasadena. There had been a near-accident at the railroad crossing south of the station when a switch engine struck a car occupied by Guy Walker and Fred Walker, brothers, and accompanied by H. Agie. The engine practically demolished the car, which was carried some 60 feet along the track, the occpuants escaping, however, with a few slight scratches. The Walker boys were employed by the Compton Construction company, which was putting in the oiled road south of Beaver, they having been hauling oil for the company from Milford to Beaver. M |