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Show t if a HOT OFF THE WIRE About People and Events of Local Interest Stray Bits of Information Gathered at Random and Arranged for Rapid Readers L. E. Carle was a visitor from 'Caliente this week. D. G. Degler of Needles, Cal., was at the Atkin Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Butler returned to their ranch at Nada Monday evening. even-ing. Sheriff A. L. Fotherlngham has been a busy man In Milford this week. Wm. Dohson Sr. went to Caliente and Las Vegas this week on business. busi-ness. Frank Lyman came in from Para-wan Para-wan on his weekly stage trip last Sunday. S. D. Atkin and Roy Cowan were transacting business in . Milford on Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Garratt Wilkin were in Milford on Saturday and Sunday Sun-day last. Born, on Friday January 19, 1917. to the wife of Roy M. Rogers, a daughter. Ben Davis, not the man who made the apple famous, but an enterprising enterpris-ing meat dealer of the county seat, I was In Milford Sunday. C. L. Pettit and wife from the Leonora mine were at the Hotel At-'kln At-'kln Monday, as also was A. C. Ne-beker, Ne-beker, the superintendent. II. A. Christiansen of Eureka, R.P. Crist of Denver and A. C. Johanson of Newhouse weru among those registered reg-istered at the Milford last Monday. William Eyre was in Milford Monday Mon-day showing soire very attractive high grade iiilver and gold ore samples sam-ples from his Yellow Pine claim near Milford. Jed F. Wooley, who will have charge of the farming operations of the Delta Land & Water Company the coming season, arrive'ei from Delta Del-ta Monday. Mr. Wooley has been employed by the same company since last February at Delta. George I. Sheldon, deputy great commander of the Maccabees, was In Milford thlB W3ek and expects to spend considerable time in Beaver county in the interests of the organization. organi-zation. His heodquarters are at Oakland, California. A machine Btarted to the Mascow mine last Sunday and got within a mile of the camp and had to return on account of the deep snow. When near Milford on the return trip a connecting rod was broken and the driver, Mr. Griffith, had to send in a call for a car to tow him into town. Mr. and Mrs. James F. Muldoon, of Modena, spent several days in Milford Mil-ford this week, visiting their many relatives and friends. They were entertained en-tertained by Mrs. J. B. Smithson and Mrs. M. A. McKeon. They left Monday Mon-day morning for Florida where they will remain to enioy themselves until un-til the winter is over. Albert McLease, superintendent of the East Antelope Mining Company, took the opporturity offered by the ; snow storm .ind consequent obstruc-1 obstruc-1 tlon of local operations to some ex-: ex-: tent to go to Los Angeles to see Mrs. MrLeaso who has been spending I the winter there. Mrs. McLease will ! return to Milford with her husband some time thlB week. The Montana raid-winter excur-! excur-! slon over the" Oregon Short Line route passed through Milford laBt evening in three sections, bound for Lob Angeles. Last year two sections i accommodated the tourists, showing that the call of ths land of sunshine and languidlty is greater this winter. win-ter. Miss Gertrude Holmes met several sev-eral old-time friends at the local dspot among the excursionists. Mrs. C. Larson arrived from Heaver Hea-ver Sunday. Bryan Petty of Deseret was in j Milford last Fridav. i W. F. Knox, attorney of Beaver, ! came over Sunday night on legal business. j The Golden Rule has just receiv- I ed a line of Camisoles in the latest i novelties. It. j Wilford Pratt, Francis Stout and ! Victor Reed were visitors from : Hinckley last Sunday. We have just received some new dresses in the latest styles. Come in and see them. Golden Rule Store. It. Mrs. Burton has accepted a position po-sition as bookkeeper for the Milford Leather Goods Company temporarily tempora-rily and her daughter will enter upon up-on the work later. Come in and see the latest creations cre-ations in ladies' waists, skirts, dresses dress-es and camisoles. The Golden Rule Store. It. County Attorney, Russell E. Parsons Par-sons returned to Beaver Saturday and 'hen went to Salt Lake City the first of the week to appear as a witness in a land contest case. The following Grammar school teachers of Milford spent Friday In Beaver visiting schools: Mrs. Johnstone, John-stone, Mrs. Black, Mrs. Webster, Miss Evans and Mr. Joseph Smith. Mr. Fred. Reber was off duty at the high school Thursday afternoon on account of the illness of his little lit-tle daughter. Mr.Joe Smith, of the "grammar school substituted for Mr. Reber. County Superintendent E. H. White of Beaver was in town Thursday Thurs-day morning for a few moments. fMr. W. J. Burns accompanied Mr. ! White to Beaver in order to attend a school board meeting. Sam Hickman, of the high school basket ball team, has been suffering this week from an attack of pneumonia. pneu-monia. Sam received a hard jolt over the lungs in a recent game and those organs were thus more susceptible suscep-tible to trouble of the pneumonia nature. Lucien Merritt, of Duluth, Minn., has spent a week in this vicinity, looking into the interests of the Red Warrior mine. The result of his visit has been the opening of the mine and putting on a force of men. Mr. Merritt returned to Duluth on Monday morning. James Douglass, formerly located at Monmouth, informs the News that I he has decided to remove his clothes repair and cleaning business from 'that city to Milford and is negotiating negotiat-ing for a suitable location. He will also take orders for made-to-measure garments. He expects Mrs. Douglass Doug-lass to join him here this week. Ed Appel the obliging manager ot the Golden Rule Store of Milford, started east this week. Ed goes to Milwaukee, the city that was made famous by Schlitz. He is a trifle reticent as to his mission there. Possibly it is to buy dry goods, although al-though Milwaukee rather specializes in wet goods. But there are, for all that, we are told, some dainty and attractive pieces of dry goods to be found in Milwaukee. "TEN DOLLARS OR TEN DAY'S" It took five minutes this morning in Justice Nichols' court to dispose of the caBe of George L. Davis, charged by Marshal Baxter with intoxication. in-toxication. Mr. Davis pleaded "guilty," "guil-ty," but sprung the old gag of insinuation in-sinuation that the officers had separated separ-ated him from a roll of bills during his brief incarceration in the city bastile. Davis said he had $80 in bills and a railroad ticket in his pockets at the time his memory became be-came a blank and that he did not now have them. Marshal Baxter informed the Court that he had about five dollars in money and a ticket taken from the prisoner. "Ten dollars or ten days, "quoth the Court. Quoth the prisoner, "Never more." |
