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Show HOT OFF THE WIRE About People and Events of Local Interest Stray Bits of Information Gathered at Random and Arranged for Rapid Readers F. W. Gillins has taken a job at the Montreal Mine. He went to work yesterday on the night shift. Mrs. P. J. Adams will entertain the PriBcilla club at her home, No. 15 Company Row this afternoon. The annual meeting of the Utah Press Association will be held at Room 537, Atlas Block, Salt Lake City, Monday and Tuesday, January 14 and 15, 1918. Fred Thayer says he expects to give up his lease very soon and to join the forces of Uncle Sam. As he is In the Class A list of the drafted men he will probably receive orders some time this month. A. L. Dotson of Minersvllle shipped ship-ped out of Beaver county during the months of November and December $ 12,000 worth of alfalfa hay and potatoes. po-tatoes. This money was distributed among the Minersvllle and Beaver farmers. The Golden Rule Store has lease-and lease-and will occupy the entire ground floor of the new brick block which J. S. Hanks is about to erect on his Main street frontage, which has been occupied by the old Oxford saloon building. W. C. Hubel. an experienced advertising ad-vertising man and salesman, has taken a position with the Golden Rule Store. Mr. Hubel was with the same store for a short time last year and then returned to Salt Lake City. In fact. Mr. Hubel was a resident resi-dent of Milford for some time several sev-eral years ago when he was in the employ of the Salt Lake Route. He believes in the future of Milford as a trading center and business point lor Southwest Utah. Miss Winnie Esterak, a student at Westminster College at Salt Lake City, who has been visiting the family fam-ily of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Cottrell, returned to the city on the first train Monday night. The third number of the High School Lyceum course will be the Fletcher lecture at the auditorium next Monday night, the 14th inst. The lecture is spoken of by the eastern east-ern press as being wonderfully interesting in-teresting and well delivered. Mr. and Mrs. Crone entertained informally at bridge last Wednesday evening at their home on north Main street. The guests of the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Pearson, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Jefferson and Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Sloan. Refreshments were served at 11:30 p. m. Chesley Barton returned last Tuesday morning from Telluride, Colo., where he was called about ten days since by a telegram from his sister telling of the severe illness of her husband, Mr. McKay, a former well known business man of Milford. Mr. Barton fortunately found his brother-in-law's condition showing improvement and remained with the family until the patient was out of danger. Mrs. Blunt and Mrs. Berkhimer entertained the Eastern Star Club at the home of Mrs. Blunt Wednesday afternoon. The members present were Mesdames Elmer, Nichols, In-gols, In-gols, Sloan and Williams and Misses' Nina and Ruth Theissen. The invited in-vited guests were Mrs. Isaacs, Mrs. Glenn and Mrs. Adams. Prizes were won by Mrs. Elmer and Mrs. Nichols. A nice hot dinner was served at 5:30 o'clock. Dr. Lace, who accompanied the body of the late Dr. Ownby to Win-throp, Win-throp, Iowa, has returned and states that the entire family-r-widow, six grown son and two daughters were assembled there when he arrived, to pay their respects to the deceased husband and father. The Doctor states that the late pastor and his family seemed, to be held in high esteem. es-teem. The family was especially desirous de-sirous that their sincere gratitude ! for the kindly care and ministrations given by Milford friends be conveyed I here. S Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Brooks and Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Pearson enter- tained the evening Bridge Club at j Mr. and Mrs. Brooks' new residence on Milford Heights last Thursday evening. The following members were present: Mr. and Mrs. J. A. In-gols. In-gols. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Jefferson. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer. Mr. and Mrs. ' Wm. Dobson, Mr. and Mrs. Woodbury, Wood-bury, Mr. and Mrs. Sloan. Mr. and Mrs. Adams. Mrs. McPherson and Mr. and Mrs. Crone. The invitv! guests were Mr. and Mrs. Bert Nichols. Nich-ols. The prizes were won hy Mr-Crone Mr-Crone and Mr. Nichols. A delicious i two-course luncheon was served. The Masonic Lodge has ordered a service flag, which will wave from the lodge building in honor of the several members who are serving their country in various departments of Uncle Sam's army. The Railroad unit of the Red Cross met with Mrs. Cottrell last Wednesday and finished up a large relay of hospital garments on which they have been engaged. This unit meets regularly and a full attendance attend-ance of the members is urged for there is a lot of work for them to do. - Principal Armbruster of the Frisco Fris-co school has been notified that he has passed a civil' service examination examina-tion which he took some time since and has therefore resigned and will leave immediately for an eastern city to take some, special work for the Government. Mrs. George Atkin left for Camp Kearney, California, last Friday night to visit her son George before his regiment is ordered from that point. She will also visit Los Angeles Ange-les and returning via San Francisco will visit the Presidio and possibly other army headquarters where Utah boys are sojourning. The Utah Theatre is offering to Milford patrons of the movies some excellent programs. "The Birth of a Nation," "The Spoilers," and now comes "The Honor System" and "Hell Morgan's Girl." The attractions attrac-tions for next week will be found in the weekly program printed in the adv. on the editorial page of this paper. Thomas Hall, the nine year old son of Edgar Hall of Frisco, foreman at the Horn Silver mine, was taken ill last week from diphtheria and lived only two days. The disease was so far advanced that antitoxin failed to relieve the lad after a physician arrived. A short service was held at the grave, conducted by Mr. Johnson, John-son, and interment was made in the Frisco cemetery the day of death. Leonard Bowen was offered the appointment to the vacancy on the town board caused by the error in the name on the ballot. But he declined de-clined to qualify, choosing to enlist in the navy, which he has done. He went to Salt Lake City Tuesday and enlisted in the aero naval corps and went through Milford Wednesday en route to San Diego, where he will learn to, fly for Uncle Sam. Leonard Leon-ard says: "I don't want on the town board, the simple life for me." H. A. Sims of Salt Lake City, proprietor pro-prietor of the Utah Theatre, has notified no-tified Dr. H. C. Hunter, president of the Milford Red Cross chapter, that bn Sunday evening, February 3, he will give all of the proceeds of the performance at the popular local playhouse to the Red Cross fund of this city. Mr. Sims says that he will secure for that evening one of the very best picture programs available. avail-able. Remember the date. George Ballinger, a former schoolmate school-mate of Roy Cottrell's at Price Academy, Acad-emy, stopped off here for a day's visit when returning to San Diego from a ten-day furlough to see the home folks at Price. He is a member of an Infantry regiment and has gained two inches in height and twenty pounds in weight since enlisting. en-listing. He is six feet four inches in length, and wouldn't he and "Babe" Waddiugham make some whale of a heavy weight team? |