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Show HOT OFF THE WIRE About People and Events of Local Interest Stray It Its o( Information Gathered at Random and Arranged for Rapid Readers Mrs. Lucie Greenwood has accepted accept-ed a position at Fred Thayer's Cafe. J. C. Cahoon of Murray was a Mil-ford Mil-ford visitor last week. ' Mrs. D. A. McLease has returned from Salt Lake City. T. J. Norris of near Thermo purchased some state land last Monday. . John Ryan accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ryan was in Milford , Tuesday. Mrs. Leo D. Brooks will spend the holidays with her parents at Long Beach. Cal. Frank Cartwright. and Wm. Skinner Skin-ner of Reed spent several days in Milford this week. Mrs. Marshall Levi of Beaver was a guest with her many Milford friends thi9 week. I R. M. Bonne and E. N. Brown of Salt Lake were doing business in Milford Tuesday. Will Cline of the Golden Rule Store was off duty for three days this week on account of illness. The Golden Rule Store has had an artistic sign painted on the south side of the building. Come in and look over our holiday line. The best and largest in town. Milford Pharmacy. T. T. Hatlett, H. H. Hathorn and H. L. Vought of Salt Lake composed an automobile party that spent last Tuesday in Milford. Miss Sarah Keener, teacher at Newhouse. came Saturday to visit Mrs. Henry Jefferson. She attended teachers' institute at Beaver the first of this week, returning Wednesday evening, and will remain with Mrs. Jefferson until Saturday. D. A. Webster left last Saturday morning on a business trip to Ventura Ven-tura county, California. He also visited vis-ited Long Beach and Los Angeles." The Ladies' Aid Society of the M. E. church will meet with Mrs. C. C. Sloan next Thursday afternoon, December De-cember 6th. H. A. Walker and family of Min-ersville Min-ersville are spending the Thanksgiving Thanks-giving holidays at the home of W. J. Burns. Reports indicate that the new winter wheat crop, just planted, is nearly one-fourth larger in area than that planted a year ago. We understand that C E. Cline of the real estate firm of Cline & Boyer attended the state land sale at Beaver Bea-ver last Monday and purchased a large acreage. Joseph Lawrence, who is working with the Houghton Construction Co. near Caliente, came home the first of the week to spend the holidays with his family. James H. Clay, who has been working at a mine at Newhouse, is ill at the Milford Hotel. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Clay, who are now living five miles south of town. Mrs. E. H. Street left Milford for Salt Lake City on Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with relatives. Mr. Street will leave today for the north. H. C. Lewison will go north with E. H. Street to the ranch in Tooele County, where Mr. Lewison will build a house on the newly purchased pur-chased ranch. The visible supply of rye in the United States on October 20, 1917, was 3,454,000 bushels, an increase of more than 90 per cent over last year. About 100,000 manufacturers, wholesalers and other distributors of staple foods are now under the licensing provisions of the Food Control Con-trol Act. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hall moved to Minersville the past week from the Experiment Farm, which Mr. Hall farmed the past season. They will make Minersville their home for the present. Dr. C. H. Hobbs and son Allen T. Hobbs of Nada were in Milford Tuesday Tues-day on business. Allen T. Hobbs has filed on a half section of land in section 31, range 13. Furloughs for Yuletide week will be granted all men at army cantonments canton-ments whose absence can be permitted permit-ted in the opinions of the division commanders, to enable them to spend Christmas at their homes. Ttie sugar u.-,al i.ir iuuking camiy in i h; I'mtid States, according to the Food Administration, is sufficient to meet all the sugar requirements ' of England under the rationing sys- . tern adopted there. j William Martin of Milford. the , Beaver county dealer in Studebaker cars, is in Cedar City today trying to interest local people in the latest models of that car. Iron Co. Record. Rec-ord. Mrs. A. H..Dahle left for Long Beach, California, last Sunday evening even-ing to be absent about a month. Mrs. Dahle felt that a rest was needful. Mr. McCarthy is helping out at the Kit-Kat until she returns. ' Among the "railroad families" now quartered at the Forgie .Apartments .Apart-ments are Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton, Mr. and Mrs. Odine, Mr. and Mrs. Cappell and Mr. and Mrs. Cooper. "It's quite a railroad rail-road center," say some of them. Housewives are once more warned against persons who, it is reported, have attempted to buy, tax or carry away home-canned products, claiming claim-ing that they are representatives of I the Food Administration. These persons are imposters. Len Evans, representing the International Inter-national Harvester Company, was registered at the Hotel Fox Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. Evans has ( moved his family to Milford for the i winter. Parowan Corr. in Iron Co. : Record. A. J. T. Sorensen came down from his home in Salt Lake City Sunday to attend to some of his property in- terests here and also to attend the , sale of state land which occurred at Deaver on lvionuay, uiie oui. mi. Sorensen bought a 680 tract near Thermo. The high school building has been kept open this week to the public. Roller skating is one of the principal forfs of amusement being indulged in by the young folks. It is the wish of the school authorities to make the school building as much of a community com-munity center as possible. Dr. J. J. Buswell, ophthalmic specialist of Salt Lake, will be at the Hotel Milford Wednesday, Dec. 5th. No charge for testing eyes. Refer-"ences: Refer-"ences: Mrs. J. C. White, Mrs. Earl Jackson, Mrs. H. Bowen, Mrs. C. W. Robinson, Mr. W. G. Munford, Mr. Earl Jackson, Mr. H. M. Gourley and others. It A card which H. J. Coleman writes from Los Angeles, California to a friend here states: "I am at present engaged in the work of checking up or auditing the inventories submitted submit-ted by liquor dealers in connection with the war tax. After that is completed we start on the war income in-come tax about January 1st, so you see I am rendering service, but not yet drafted. Best regards to friends." Persons, firms, corporations and associations who are dealing In foodstuffs food-stuffs and food products, will have to obtain licenses at once from the Federal Government, or stand the consequences. It is understood that many persons throughout Utah and other states have failed to comply with the proclamation of President Wflson in . regard to procuring licenses to do business. The Roosevelt Hot Springs .situated .situ-ated about twelve miles northeast of Milford, are now open for business. It is expected that this will prove quite an attraction for this vicinity when it is well advertised. Mr. Ma-loney Ma-loney of Newport News, Va., has leased the place and will make it as attractive as possible. A great deal of work has been done there these past few months. The annual athletic meeting of the Southern division was held in Cedar City Saturday, Nov. 17. The following follow-ing schools were represented: Milford Mil-ford High, Murdock Academy, Par owan High, Branch Agricultural College,' Millard Stake Academy at Hinckley. Fillmore High and the Minersville High. The following officers of-ficers were elected for the current year: Roy F. Homer, state representative; represent-ative; Henry Oberhansley, president; presi-dent; L. John Nuttall, vice-president; Coach Jonas of Dixie, secretary-treasurer. The division appropriated appro-priated $16 to buy a pennant for the winning team. Last Wednesday evening the opening open-ing of a new regime under the wideawake wide-awake and enterprising management of H. L. Woolley, was celebraated at the Cozy Corner Cabarette. This J was the first introduction to the form of evening entertainment so popular in the north and in the larger cities throughout the .country, of combin-i combin-i ing dancing and other forms of en- tertainment with an evening lunch and social intercourse. Mr. Woolley j is an enterprising and progressive : manager and bids fair to make the Cozy extremely popular. Iron Co. 1 Record. |