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Show LOCAL BRIEFS M. J. Westerfield returned to Riverside, Riv-erside, California, Sunday morning, leaving Milford at 2.45 on belated No. 7. Mr. Westerfield expects to return to Milford in about six weeks. The Pantages group of entertainers entertain-ers who were stranded here by the snow blockade, held an impromptu entertainment and dance at the opera house Wednesday night which was well attended and served to pass away the idle time. Messrs. McGarry and Hodges, formerly for-merly of this county, now of Salt Lake City, were in Milford a few days this week on business. They will do some farming on their own land under the irrigation project this summer. Neat printing for particular people. peo-ple. You have to pay for what you get wherever you get it. Get it right. Cheap stock and cheap work may mean low price but expensive for all that. Give the News a chance at your order. E. H. Street, the cashier of the Milford State Bank went to Pioche Sunday where he attended a meeting meet-ing of the stockholders of the Pioche Bank in which the local bank holds some stock. Mr. Street returned on a belated train on Monday afternoon. after-noon. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Jackson left last week for California in A. M. Gilbert's Buick via the Ely, Nevada, route. They are taking the machine through for Mr. and . Mrs. Gilbert who went by rail. Mr. Gilbert in an engineer on the N. & E. A. Allen proect in Fresno county, Colifornia. Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Robinson were called to Twin Falls Idaho, last Saturday Sat-urday night by a telegram telling of the illness of Mrs. Robinson's daughter, Mrs. K. Franke. Mr." Robinson, who is hydrographic engineer en-gineer for the Beaver County Irrigation Irri-gation Company, expected to return soon, but Mrs. Robinson may remain re-main with her daughter for a while. District Attorney O. A. Murdock of Beaver, was in Milford Monday and Tuesday. Mr. Murdock was returning re-turning from Fillmore, where he had business before Judge Greenwood's court now in session there. Mr. Murdock says that the Millard county coun-ty calendar was almost as crowded with cases as was the recent session in Beaver county. E. F. Bingham, one of the well known pioneers of Mlnersville met with a fatal accident on last Friday. He was thrown from a horse and his head struck the ground violently causing concussion of the brain. Mrs. Frank Roberts and Mrs. BuchanaJ came down from Frisco to be at the bedside of their father. Mr. Bingham passed away Saturday. Elva Bernice, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Millard Peterson, passed away from an attack of pneumonia. The funeral was held from the Latter Day Saints Church last Sunday afternoon and interment inter-ment made in the local cemetery. Paloma Mining Company made its initial shipment of ore to the smelter this week. Supt. Graff expects ex-pects to make regular shipments hereafter if the weather and car facilities fa-cilities will permit. It is difficult for the local companies to secure sufficient cars to near handle the present output of ore. Unless this condition is relieved soon there will be a much greater shortage when the spring season opens as other companies com-panies will add greatly to the list of winter shippers. A trainload of 47 cars of Buick automobiles passed through Milford Sunday en route to Los Angeles. The machines being shipped on loaded load-ed flat cars attracted considerable attention. Special Officer H. M. Cleveland accompanied the shipment ship-ment from Milford to Caliente, at which place he was relieved by another an-other officer who took charge to the end of the next division. The report was circulated that the train was loaded with jitneys equipped with machine guns and that they belonged belong-ed to Uncle Sam's border and coast defense equipment. But they were only Buicks for the southern metropolis metrop-olis whose only death dealing records re-cords will be made in running down dogs and chickens and occasionally a pedestrian on the over-crowded streets of the City of the Angels. |