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Show PAST THE JOKE STAGE What is usually termed 'bunkhouse gossip,' is the type of chatter which periodically eminates from some dubious source and spreads itself out among credulous folks anent the moving of the Union Pacific divisional point, shops, and the whole shebang to distant points. Sometimes, such talk is started mainly as a matter of conversation or idle speculation, but it doesn't do the town of Milford any good, no matter what the motive. Such talk is hard to down once it gets started, and its effect is to gradually lead to a local condition of unrest, unimprove-ment unimprove-ment of homes, and a general reluctance to spend money here with an uncertain future to face. It is not possible for the News to obtain a story from a high official in the Union Pacific organization which would come from high enough authority to refute without " a shadow of a doubt the falsity of the current gossip. If it were possible, the News would gladly publish such a story to set at rest the minds of Milford citizens and of people from other towns. The rumor has been bobbing up for the past ten years and steps should be taken to squelch such talk. When the railway wants to move ths divisional point, they may decide to do so within a weeks' time, as was done in the case of Evanston, Wyoming. But until that time, why not sit 'pat' and laugh down the talk? Surely the newly built station, the dumping pits, the shops, the roundhouse and the miles of switching tracks here should point to something other than unsettledness. And another thing, when a fireman or an engineer, or any railroad employee who makes his home in Milford, tries to tell you that Milford will be discontinued as a divisional point, he is talking through his hat, and knows no more of it than a corporal in the army would know of the intentions of the general staff. Admittedly, the loss of the division point would mean a ioss just now that would be irreparable to Milford. But the time is not far distant, when with a developed and prosperous pros-perous agricultural field built up around the town, Milford will not have to cling to the railroad alone in order to maintain main-tain its existence. |