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Show HMmZ3i.tzS y--J- or the mi swj jAsseciATisfl HOT OFF THE WIRE About People and Events of Local Interest 8truy Hits of Information Gathered lit Hjtndom and Arranged for Rapid Readers Grant Snyder, a prominent mining min-ing man, is again in Milford. Mr. John Murdock of Beaver was a Milford visitor this week. Robt. J. Shields has returned from Salt Lake and is busy as ever with his mining interests. Mrs. Pearl V. French will leave shortly for the East to remain some time. Miss McKinze, Mr. R. D. McKinze, Mrs. Vance and Mr. Mart. Gardner, prominent people of Ely, Nevada, were in Milford Tuesday. VV. H. McCardle of New York City was in Milford Tuesday on mining business. Mrs. Sal. Camp, of the Quad-metals Quad-metals mines, visited in Milford several sev-eral days the past week. Mrs. Ralph Pitchforth and daughter daugh-ter Betty returned to Milford this week after an extended visit at Beaver Bea-ver with relatives of that city. At a meeting of the Beaver County Coun-ty Irrigation Company held Wednesday Wednes-day the second assessment of fifty cents per share for 1917 was levied upon the stock to raise necessary fuuds for expenses and upkeep. All the new work and expense over the dollar assessment for the year is being be-ing borne by the Delta Land & Water Company. The News Office can supply ' all sizes and grades of blank or ruled paper for school pupils. The larger the order the lower the rate. R. P. Holmes, C. E. Phillips and W. A. Griffin of Los Angeles have taken up land at Sahara and were in Milford Monday and Tuesday. Miss Frances Yeomans of Long Beach, California, was the guest at the Webster home south of Milford a few days before going. to her work as teacher in the Minersville schools. About ten congenial couples spent the evening most delightfully in dancing at the opera house Saturday evening. The Hawaiian orchestra furnished excellent music for the merry party. Mr. and Mrs. .Heber Hanks returned re-turned from their extended trip to Salt Lake City and Colorado points Wednesday afternoon. They had a delightful trip and made the return in their new Cole Eight, which they acquired while on the journey. Dr. Martin, a brother of Mrs. Harry Martin of the Continental Oil Co., was among the Colorado recruits re-cruits that passed through Milford last Monday. Mrs. Martin was in Lund and did not get the word of her brother's coming in time to see him here. - The well bit and other equipment for the work to be done at the big irrigation reservoir is arriving and the work of perforating and cementing cement-ing the dam will soon be started. The work at the new intake canal and stilling pool is progressing rapidly. rap-idly. Mrs. Chas. Goff of Nada w.as in Milford for dental work last week, returning to her home Monday morning. morn-ing. Mr. Goff, who has been employed at the Utafornia Ranch during the summer, will return to his homestead home-stead west of Nada tomorrow -to get ready for winter. A very pretty .wedding occurred at Beaver Sunday afternoon that will interest a large numoer of Milford people. It was the marriage of Miss Zora Howd to Mr. John Cotter of Salt Lake City, a very promising young attorney. Mrs. Cotter is too well known for any more to be said, than that Mr. Cotter has captured one of the fairest and Best of Beaver county's daughters. Bob Stoddard is in charge of a crew of about a dozen men operating the power concrete mixer and cementing ce-menting the big stilling pool at the new intake of the Beaver County Ir-i ligation ) Company's canal system west of the Solomon Walker place. Sim Murdock is building the canal and the work is being rushed so as to complete it before the weather becomes be-comes too cold to "set" the concrete. N The Imperial Mines Operating Co. is the name of a Milford corporation organized recently for the purpose of operating an old mining property near this city. The company will build a spur track to facilitate shipment ship-ment of a quantity of copper and lead ore already available. Herbert Nichols is promoting the company and E. H. Street is a director and secretary for the corporation. Many local people are investing in the enterprise. en-terprise. Vivian Duffin is home this week on a furlough of five days. He enlisted en-listed in the' hospital corps of the Navy and wears the sailor uniform with the little red cross on his arm. Vivian certainly verifies the statement state-ment that Vncle Sam is feeding his soldiers and sailors well. He has gained considerably in weight and is a fine specimen of husky young manhood. man-hood. He expects to be sent with the next movement of troops to Asiatic Asi-atic waters. He has been in training train-ing quarters on Goat Island in San Francisco Bay. Rev. Magor went to Salt Lake City the first of the week to confer with the members of his family regarding their place of residence for the winter. win-ter. His sons are entering the University Uni-versity soon to open. FOR SALE Thoroughbred pedigreed pedi-greed registered Belgian hares; 3 bucks, 4 does, for quick sale; 5 mos. Address Edgar Norris, Nada, Utah. " Sepl4-4t Among other battles that are just now exciting great interest is the battle royal between the leading teams of the Coast Baseball League. It is almost a neck and neck race between. be-tween. Salt Lake and San Francisco for the 1917 pennant, with Los Angeles An-geles a good third in the list. Bishop Burns and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Woodbury are in Dixie attending at-tending the annual fruit festival at St. George and some of the Stake conferences of the Mormon church. Tie highest officials of the church will attend the conferences both .at St. George and in the new tabernacle at Parowan. The Milford party drove down in the Bishop's new Studebaker. Work is progressing rapidly on the monster smokestack being erected erect-ed at the Murray plant of the American Ameri-can Smelting & Refining company. The stack is to be 450 feet in height and will be one of the largest in the intermountain region. It has a concrete con-crete base of 85 feet, a 28-foot center cen-ter and is 16 feet in diameter at the top. The new stack will increase the capacity of the Murray plant nearly 25 per cent. f A newly born babe in the Brumley family died last Monday. The family is said to be in need and the County Attorney and Sheriff were here Tuesday Tues-day trying to relieve the immediate demands of the family for the common com-mon necessities. A warrant was issued is-sued for the arrest 'of the husband for non-support. A warrant was also issued for a Mr. Nooner on a criminal charge, and the latter is now in the county jail. Milford ladies have supplied some clothing and food for the family. George Atkin is some sprinter. It will be remembered that George used to hold the high school record for the hundred-yard dash when in a Salt Lake high school. There was a series of elimination contests' at Fort Douglas a few days since when 1500 men participated in the century event. George stayed into the finals and won that event in 11 seconds flat, which, considering the course and conditions, was fair time. There were sixteen men in the final race. Governor Bamberger says that "no girl or woman who displays a proper modesty need fear offense or insult from the soldiers." The comment was made upon complaint of immoral immor-al acts of soldiers stationed at Fort Douglas, Salt Lake City. He says further: "I may have some old fashioned fash-ioned ideas, but I believe that girls should not run around unchaperoned at night, and that they should dress modestly. They should spend more of their leisure hours at home learning learn-ing housekeeping and other things that will be of use to them in the future fu-ture of their lives." And most people peo-ple will agree with the Governor. The soldier boys are beginning to move. Last Monday there was - a train load of Colorado recruits that passed through Milford bound for the Linda Vista training camp near San Diego, Cal. This detachment was composed largely of members of the engineering corps. There were also some members of medical corps. They will be divided up among the various army divisions in training at Linda Vista. Two companies formed on the depot platform and were marched about town to give the members some much needed exercise. exer-cise. They were a well set up bunch of fellows and a fair sample of Uncle Sam's picked army. Tuesday night another train load of soldiers passed through Milford for Linda Vista. About two hundred citizens assembled assem-bled at the depot to see the soldiers. From now on this will be a frequent fre-quent occurrence the passing of troop trains. FOR SALE Team and harness for $150 cash, or will trade for hay. piss or cows. Enquire, at the News office. The copper market was stronger yesterday than at any time for ten days. T. C. Gronning of Milford was a Delta visitor this week. Millard Co. Chronicle. .Mrs. Heber Woolley has returned to Milford after a very enjoyable visit in Salt Lake City. . Russell Lemmon recently returned from an extended trip through northern Utah and Idaho. He says that he saw no alfalfa to equal the Milford valley article while on his trip, Morris Hickman returned" from Richfield yesterday, where he has been superintending construction work for the Beaver River Power Company. The indications are that the number num-ber of votes to be counted at the close of the Milford Pharmacy contest con-test for the cyclomobile will outnumber out-number President Wilson's popular vote. Some lad will be the envy of the "fellers" tomorrow. ' ' ' Nearly all of the old oil well rigs and machinery which years ago was taken into the Dixie country in southwest Utah for prospecting has been purchased by large corporations and is being hauled one hundred miles or more by teams to the railroad rail-road at Lund for shipment to the new oil fields of Wyoming. It is said that while It is expensive to get this equipment out it is the best the oil men can do as it is next to impossible impossi-ble to procure new equipment within reasonable time. |
