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Show HOT OFF THE WIRE About People and Events of Local Interest Stray Bits of Information Gathered nt Random and Arranged for Rapid Readers Born, on .Thursday, December 27, 1917, to Jlr. and Jlrs. Stanley Foih-eringham, Foih-eringham, a son. 4 George Atkin waa granted a four-day four-day furlough, but could not get it extended long enough to visit Mil-ford. Mil-ford. On her recent return from the East where she made a several months' tour of important theatrical centers, Maud May liabcoek, professor profess-or of oral expression in the University Universi-ty of Utah, has resumed, among other oth-er things, the work of coaching the cast for the animal Varsity play, "We Are Seven." The dramatic club will tour the State this season with this comedy success. Mrs. George Harris and Mrs. Wm. Dawson have gone to Taconia, Wash., to be near their husbands during their stay at Camp Lewis. The Utah Theatre will show the great picture written by Willard Mack, well known to Salt Lake theatre the-atre patrons, ""Who's Your Neighbor," Neigh-bor," tonight and tomorrow night. Don't fail to see it. "The Spoilers," one of the mosr famous pictures ever produced, the scenes being taken in the mining camps of Alaska, will be given at the Utah Theatre Friday and Saturday, January 4 and 5. The demand for French this year breaks ail records at the State University. Uni-versity. Many men who expect to see service in France are availing themselves of the opportunity to acquire ac-quire a speaking knowledge of that language in the class room. John Ellis received a letter last Wednesday from Marshall Kirk-land" who is at Camp Merritt in New Jersey. Jer-sey. He is in an artillery regiment and says he is feeling fine, that there: is a lot of snow back East, and that he ate a fine Thanksgiving dinner in ; New York City given free to the sol- (dier boys. ! ! The Coon brothers who were expected ex-pected home for Christmas were placed in quarantine the day before, they were to start on the homeward . journey, and the telegram announce-' ing the fact was certainly a bit of ; most disappointing news to -"the: home folks and friends in Milford. Prof. Enoch Jorgensen of . Salt Lake City is in Milford visiting his son.E. B. Jorgensen and family. Prof. Jorgensen is a member of the ; Historical Society of Utah" and is collecting data of the early days of, this part o the country. He is quite an authority upon the Indian and'r Spanish lore and legends of the early j stirring times of the Western fron- tier.. He is one of the well known educators of Utah and a member of the faculty of the Jordon high school , of Salt Lake City. I The officers of Beaver county have-collected have-collected nearly ?1,000 in fines since August first from violators' of the prohibitory law. It is claimed they have had about as many prosecutions prosecu-tions under the new law as any county in Utah. "If we had the proper co-operation of the citizens of the county we would be able to enforce en-force the law," said County Attorney Parsons. "We are simply trying to do our sworn duty. The law was demanded de-manded by the people, framed and passed by their representatives and signed by their Governor. It ought to be enforced and we are doing our best to that end." By whipping Fred Knox, a 225 pound boxer at Camp Lewis, George Harris has been declared heavy weight champion of the camp. He, however, is receiving numerous challengers chal-lengers to defend his title and he is taking them on and relegating them to the scrap heap one by one. George has had twelve matches since he went to the camp and has been successful suc-cessful twelve times. His fight with Knox lasted only two rounds. The referee was Willie Ritchie, exchani-pion exchani-pion in the light weight class. The proceeds of these fights or boxing matches, which are held in the Y. M. C. A. building, go toward purchasing additional equipment for the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. George weighs 190 pounds. Two males, giving the names Eari Buchanan and Daniel " Tarnstky, were arrested by Sheriff Fothering-ham Fothering-ham at Newhouse and brought to Milford before Judge Ingols yesterday. yester-day. They had come to Milford the day before in a large touring car which they placed in a garage for repairs, re-pairs, and taking a jitney which they hired they "beat it" for Baker, Nev., where they procured a quantity of booze and started back for Milford. They got into some kind of a rumpus at the mining town and the officers were notified by 'phone. They plead guilty to a charge of drunkenness and were fined $150 each, which the women of the party paid in cash. The men claimed to be traveling men, which no doubt they are. But they have had no regular employment employ-ment that could be classified as real labor so far as could be learned. |