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Show f HOT OFF THE WIRE About People and Events of Local Interest Stray Bits of Information Gathered ut Random and Arranged for Rapid Readers District Attorney O. A. Murdock was in Milford this week on .business. .busi-ness. Paul L. Hall of Los Angeles registered regis-tered at the Milford last Wednesday. J. P. Jobausen was down from Kewhouse Wednesday. Mrs. Harry Bohn is the guest of Mrs. S. J. Tanner of Beaver. ' W. A. Vance and Mrs. J. M. Vance wero visitors from Ely, Nevada, this week. Lloyd and Guy Nickel with their mother have taken rooms at the For-gie For-gie apartments. The publication of the names and new- numbers of the draft list has caused a lot of interest this week. Abe Fotheringham and family of Milford are visiting with his parents. par-ents. Sheriff and Mrs. A. L. Fotheringham. Fother-ingham. Press. Milford's food supply was quite materially augmented this week by a carload of fresh vegetables received re-ceived by The Jefferson Mercantile Company. Now is the time to order your .fresh raspberries. A marriage license was issued on Saturday, July 14, 1917, to Harry Roth and Catherine Bradshaw, both of Frisco. J. T. Mickelson, "W. E. Thornton, Thos. Davenport and Nurl Skowe composed a party registered from Parowan yesterday. Hay is being offered just now at $10.00 per ton. It will be $20 per ton this winter. That is the judgment judg-ment of those "who should know. "The kaiser he walked up the hill ,'To make a fight on France; The kaiser then walked down again With bullets in his pants." The business houses of Delta closed for a day or two to permit everybody to assist in thinning and weeding sugar beets. Murdock Academy is undergoing a thorough renovation and repairing preparatory for the opening of school this Fall. ' Mr. A. A. Hansen of Riverside, California, spent Tuesday with Claude E. Hunt looking over his homestead, which adjoins Mr. Hunt's. Attorney Sam Cline is at Beaver this week recuperating from a bad sick spell. Mr. and Mrs. 1. Cline are also spending the week at Beaver visiting many old-time friends. Mrs. E. H. Street, who has been visiting relatives at the State capital, cap-ital, is expected home tomorrow and Ed is "tickled" as a kid with a new top. County Clerk White stated to the News today that he had received word that the draft was being drawn today in Washington and that it would require about ten hours to make the drawing. The News will be furnished with a duplicate copy of the forty names drawn for Beaver county as soon as the list arrives. Al. McKeon. Milford's ice merchant, mer-chant, is laying off today with a sprained knee. His fractious ice horse ran the ice wagon over his foot, and wrenched the knee so badly that At. is a cripple. Paul Comin-j Comin-j skey. the ice export for the P. F. E.. is substituting for Al. and wants an I engineer for the ice pony. Any one who has the cash to spare could make a good margin of profit by investing in some of the excellent and abundant alfalfa hay crop now offered on the project and at Miners-ville. Miners-ville. The City of Beaver has sent two members o the town board to at-' tend the good roads meeting at Salt Lake City tomorrow. They are Councilmen Sam Hooten and Guif Fernley. Who did the Milford Council Coun-cil send? The excursion of the farmers starts from . Beaver on July 30th. Every farmer who can possibly do so owes it to himseli to so arrange his work and affairs that he may take this trip of inspection of the other farming sections of Utah. And now there is a demand for every old shoe fiat America can spare to aid in clothing the feet of the thousands of penniless refugees in France. Save every old shoe and bring it to the News office for shipment. ship-ment. See the letter elsewhere in this issue regarding the need of old shoes. The assessed valuation of the City of Beaver is $62 5,510. The total tax rate has been fixed at 1 Vi cents, by which the city will raise $7,S18.S8 with which to run the business of the city. That will include contingent contin-gent fund, water, streets, lights and public library. Good enough. Next Tuesday, the 24th inst., is Pioneer Day in L"ah. There will be celebrations of tie anniversary in many communities. Minersville has a good program arranged with a basket picnic as a side attraction. Milford's only recognition "of the event so far as we know is from the fact that her baseball experts are scheduled to play two games of ball at Gunnison as at attraction at that city. Many will io to Salt Lake City I to spend the day. |