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Show HOT OFF THE WIRE About People and Events of Local Interest Stray Bits of Information Gathered at Random and Arranged for Rapid Readers Mrs. H. C. Hunter is spending a few days in Salt Lake City. G. S. Wilkin registered at the Mil-ford Mil-ford yesterday morning from Frisco. G. L. Johnstone was a visitor yesterday yes-terday to this oasis from Sahara. A. F. McCulley was in Salt Lake the flrBt of the week on business. Myron LewiB hopes soon to be transferred to the engineering corps. Have your water service and plumbing repaired by Joe Mathews. 24-4t-pd Dr. J. J. Buswell, the eye specialist, special-ist, was here this week and went to Beaver Wednesday. Mrs. Culmsee and Mrs. Jackson of Nada were in Milford Tuesday on business. - Mrs. B. C. Woodbury has classes IP harmony every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon. The masons began the laying of brick for the walls or the new Mt. States Telephone building here yesterday. yes-terday. The ambulance battalion in which Lyall Webster has been in training at the Presidio for seven months was this week sent to Mobile, Alabama. Mrs. H. T. Hanks went to Salt Lake City Tuesday to spend a few-days few-days in the interest of the local Red Cross work. J. R. Hodson'of Provo postofflce is expected here Saturday to examine applicants for the office of postmaster postmas-ter at Newhouse. E. B. Tinker, mining engineer for the Copper Mountain Mining Company, Com-pany, arrived here from Pioche. Nevada, Ne-vada, yesterday to view the property which has uncovered an excellent body of ore. -The company expects to commence shipping very soon. Marshal Charley Baxter .has traded his jitney for a team. Robert Bonner Bon-ner is now taming the jitney for use on the ranch and Mr. Baxter has the necessary equipment for ranch or city work. A committee has been appointed to make out a program and arrange for a Christmas tree for the children at the M. E. church on Christmas Eve. Miss Velma Stoddard, who has been stenographer for the Salt Lake Route store house, Milford, left yesterday yes-terday for Provo, where she has accepted ac-cepted a position as bookkeeper for the Utah Railway Company. Art. Turner has been transferred so rapidly from one point to another since he left Milford for Camp Lewis that his friends cannot keep track of him. He was last heard of in a New York camp. D. A. Tanner went to the Holv Cross hospital in Salt Lake the first of the week, where he was operated on for appendicitis and gall stones. He went through the operation all right and is getting along as well as can be expected. James E. Robinson, county road agent, deserves much credit for his efforts in trying to keep the roads in as good condition as the weather, lack of men and teams will permit. Where the proper material has been used the highway has been greatly improved. Millard Webster writes from Oregon Ore-gon Agricultural College that the entire en-tire football team, now state champions cham-pions of which he is a member, is about to enlist in the aero-naval branch of the Government service. They will go into training at Berkeley, Berke-ley, California. "The opening of Spring will witness wit-ness considerable building activities here," said a Milford man yesterday. "There is such a demand for houses in Milford that more residences must be erected and only the unfavorable weather condition is holding the work back at this time." lpttpr from Tiitrpiif. Pitr-hfrirth states that he has been transferred to the Great Northern and that because be-cause ot his increased activities he is much more contented in his new situation. sit-uation. It is idleness that makes the army and navy life a drudgery and there is not to be a great deal of idleness for any of the boys from now until the close of the war from all indications. Mrs. C. T. Woodbury went to Salt Lake this morning to meet her brother A. B. Cusworth. He has been at the Presidio, San Francisco, and obtained a furlough to visit his" folks at Salt Lake for two or three weeks, but received a telegram yesterday yes-terday ordering him to join his company com-pany in New Jersey. Therefore Mrs. Woodbury went up immediately in order to see him before he left for the east. i Trade at home and know what' vou are getting. -- ! II. C. Lewison lias gone to Tooele county to build a new house for E. II. Street. James Clay has commenced sinking sink-ing a well on the MeGarry & Hodges ranch five miles south of Milford. Jesse Robinson of Reed was attending at-tending to business in Milford Monday. Mon-day. Don't forget the Milford Pharmacy Pharm-acy when you think of Xmas pres-. pres-. ents. We have what you want in almost al-most any line and at every price. Ed. T. Arrington, a brother of J Cashier Cameron Arrington, is here i for a few days' visiting his brother and family. Mr. Arrington is an employe em-ploye of the street railway service in Salt Lake City. He has been assisting assist-ing in the State Bank this week. J Between August 1 and December 1 the railroads transported 1,500,000 men to training camps and embarkation embarka-tion points. To insure the safety of the men intransit the railroads have adopted an average speed of twenty-five twenty-five mile; an hour except when freight cars needed for the trans-i trans-i portation of equipment are included J in the trains. The speed then is reduced re-duced to twenty miles. j A German Jew representing him-j him-j self to be a window washer looking j for work was given his breakfast at ! several back doors in west Milford Tuesday morning. Later in the clay , he was looking for Mayor Pitchforth to buy him a ticket to Caliente. The fellow slept in the local jail the previous pre-vious night and he is a suspicious 'character. He refused to try any . -1obs other than window washing. J. Benton Leggat, prominent mining min-ing engineer, arrived from Salt Lake yesterday. Mr. Leggat will hereafter here-after be general manager in charge of the operation of the Copper Ranch Consolidated Mining Company. The new machinery has been installed and the company will ship the first ore by New Year's Day. Mr. Leggat is getting out a report for the stockholders stock-holders of the Monitor and the Copper Cop-per Ranch companies. An organization of farmer at Fillmore, Utah, has been perfected to drain 44,000 acres of land, at a cost of $1,250,000, according to R. A. Hart of Salt Lake, senior drainage drain-age engineer with the United States department of agriculture, who has just returned from that section. Several Sev-eral million dollars will be added to the value of the land by the project, of which George W. Cropper of Des-eret Des-eret is the head. Ex. Mrs. C. T. Woodbury and Mrs. W. W. Crone entertained the Thursday nierht bridee club at the home of the former last night. The home was decorated in the Christmas colors. A dainty luncheon was served during dur-ing the evening and after the games. The following were present: Mr. and Mrs. George Jefierson, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Ingols, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Dob-son, Dob-son, Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Crone, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Elmer, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Pearson, Mrs. A. M. McPher-son, McPher-son, Miss Mima Stringer, L. D. Brooks and Mr. and Mrs. Woodbury. Harry Larson, manager of the Utah Transportation Company, is now a farmer and stock man. Of course the ranch job is only a sideline side-line at present, but his location and facilities may soon make the sideline side-line a very profitable one. Mr. Larson Lar-son has purchased the 'Billy" Harden Har-den stock ranch in Pine valley. The ranch deal includes a few head of stock which will be added to from time to time, an excellent water supply sup-ply and unlimited good grazing range near at hand. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Larson have taken up their residence on the ranch for the present pres-ent to care for the place this winter. The ranch is sixty miles from Milford Mil-ford on the Qarrison road. On November 26 the President ing 10.4S3.60 acres of land from the Ashley National Forest in Utah. Of the total amount eliminated 8,390.40 acres were National Forest land and 2,093.20 acres had passed to private ownership. By far the greater portion por-tion of the land eliminated is located in the south half of T. 2 S., R. 22 E. The eliminations wero made upon the recommendations of the Forest Service tor the reason that the areas were not believed to possess sufficient 'forest values to warrant their retention reten-tion as part of the National Forest. It is not believed that the areas eliminated elim-inated contain any extensive agricultural agricul-tural lands as it is generally too i steep to be cultivates. 1 |