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Show "LOOKING BACKWARD liems of Interest from the Filen of The News of Fifteen Years Ago This Week. The Milford baseball team has accepted an invitation to play in a three-game series for a $150 purse at Beaver, at the 75th Anniversary An-niversary and Homecomnig on July 22, 23 and 24. The committee in charge of the celebration has offered a $100 prize to the winning team, and $50 to the team winning second place in the three-day series. d Ten cars of racing horses came through Milford Tuesday at 3 o'clock on their way to Agua Cal-iente Cal-iente for the racing season. The horse cars, with a coach tor the jockeys and caretakers, made up a special train from Cleveland, Ohio. "The Fleet's In," is a cry that Milford, land-locked and several hundred miles from the coast, does not expect to use often, but nevertheless never-theless the fleet was in Tuesday and a considerable crowd of Milford Mil-ford people flocked out to the airport air-port to view it. Nine navy reserve planes landed at the local airport to refuel at 9 o'clock in the morning, and twice that number of good-natured gobs grinned and passed the time of day with all comers. The planes are part of the navy reserve squadron of 12 Curtis and Consolidated planes stationed at Seattle. A maximum temperature of 94 set Saturday apart as the hottest day since last Thursday, with Sunday Sun-day following up with 98. A number of children and their parents enjoyed a picnic following a swimming party last Friday evening. eve-ning. Mr. and Mrs. William Monday, Barbara and Bill; Mr. and Mrs. Val Yepsen, Eddie and Jane; Mrs. Erma Gillies, Marie and Dan; Anna May James and Mrs. Itha Kinney were among those who made the trip. Three new babies were welcomed into the west end of Beaver County last week. At Minersville, a daughter daugh-ter was born to Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Rollins and a son to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Holmes. A boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crawford Jr., in Milford. Elva and Henry Hall attended a shower at Beaver Friday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Angus White. |