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Show ADDITIONAL LOCALS Representative D. A. Baxter will leave Sunday for Salt Lake to attend at-tend a special session of the legislature. legisla-ture. Mrs. Baxter will accompany him. W W. R. Hendry and family of McGill. Nevada, were in Milford a short time Wednesday en route home from a visit In Salt Lake. Mrs. Charles Edwards of Lehi is here visiting her husband, Engineer Edwards, also the latter's mother, Mrs. Francis Edwards and family. Leo Kinder and Clarence Gilbert, brother and step-brother of Rev. C. C. Kinder who came to Milford from Huntington, West Virginia recently, have accepted positions with the Jefferson Mercantile company. Mr. and Mrs. Orson Sanders of Murray, arrived Thursday in their car for a visit at the homes of their son,, J. I. Sanders and their daughter Mrs. E. B. Jorgensen. Ernest Bowen left Friday morning for Wapito, Washington, where his sisters, Mrs. Earl Watson and Miss Mary Bowen live, and where he has a position. The ranchers around Reed are threshing their alfalfa and are quite pleasecNwith the results. They are getting from 7 1-2 to 9 bushels c seed to the ton. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Gleason left last week for Washington D. C. where the former has been sent on official 1 railroad business. Mr. and Mrs. Gleason will spend a month visiting relatives in the east before returning return-ing to Milford. There was a meeting of the Home and School club at the H. S. building Monday night at which Messrs Hanks. Han-ks. Bates, Rogers and Cottrell were present. The first number of the school lyceum course will be given Tuesday, September 30th. . Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Kinder and fam ily have rented the Pfile apartment formerly occupied by the Red Cross rooms. Mr. Kinder who came here from West Virginia two weeks ago. has purchased land near that of his sons, C. C. Kinder and Archie Kinder, Kin-der, southwest of town and will commence com-mence right away putting down a well. He is also contemplating build ing a residence In Milford. Pratt Root returned Monday from a trip on railroad business to Salt Lake. He went back to meet his brother. J. C. Root who was In Salt Lake on his way home from two years service In the navy. Mr. Root enlisted from Lund in May. 1917 and has had very interesting experiences, i He served a while on a submarine : chaser and since has visited nearly all the allied countries. Mr. and Mrs -Root and daughter expect to accom- j pany their brother home to Lund fori a short visit. j Second Lieut. L. R. Fournter of j the 41st division stopped off in Milford Mil-ford Friday evening and accompanied accompan-ied Snpt. Harry Diehl of the Tellurite Tellu-rite up to the Power plant for a short visit. Lieut. Fornler was on his way to the Presidio after serving three months in hrdlntaolnfwyptanl seventeen months In France and 3 months In Germanny. He was one of the Tellurlde employees and a member o the Telluride Associa tion before he enlisted two years ago and went to France with the 1st army. Master Irby Arrington celebrated his second birthday last Thursday afternoon. September 18, at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Arrington. The following little lit-tle folk helped him in the celebration: celebra-tion: Edward Arrington, Rene Smith, Sheridan and Joe Rogers. Le-ona Le-ona Sherwood, Zelda and Virginia Arrington. The highest world price for silver J sin e I i-7 6 was -each-d early this week when the white metal sold In j London market at Gl 11 rence perj ounce. British Standard 925-1000th fine. At this price, silver exceeds in value the old ratio of 16-to-l between be-tween silver and gold. The 16-to-l vaiue 01 silver would make 59.00 3-4 pence the par value of an ounce of British silver of coinage purposes, and a slightly higher value as bullion market price. The U. S. Railroad administration has issued over 5000 annual passes, good on all railroads in the United States, under the government control. con-trol. This in addition to all annuals good on specified railroads and all trip passes issued for special rides. Senator Kellogg of Minnesota says: "I doubt if there ever was a time when so many people have been traveling trav-eling on railroad tijiqqpq nrl ot a time when nnobody should have passes." pass-es." Nothing like making the railroads rail-roads safe for democracy. Contrary to common supposition, skaters are no swifter than runners, the world's record for both being precisely the same 9 2-5 seconds for a hundred yards. Runners on skis have however, made, as much as seventy-two feet a second, and in leaping on skis more than 100 feet a second is attained. Well, if we must have strikes we are inclined to favor the kind they have in Omaha. Striking cooks and waiters there have opened a restaurant restau-rant and are selling roast beef, pota- toes, bread and butter for 25 cents. i |