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Show CONTRIBUTED Milford, April 12, 1924 Editor Beaver County News, Milford, Utah. I would like to say a word in behalf be-half of the pleasure loving public of Milfcrd, who take rides of thirty or forty miles for pleasures that can be afforded here at home. It is true they can be. The fact of the matter is, however, they are not. How "many times during the past eigh'een months has our orchestra practiced.. Do not count the regular dance nights twice a week, but just the times they have really gotten together to-gether and really prac'iced. I am sure they can be counted on the fingers fin-gers of your right hand. How many times have we gone to the opera house on cold winter evenings, eve-nings, and had to stand, around a stove to keep from freezing, on account ac-count of the fire in said stove having been started when the first patron of the dance, arrived at the hall. How many times have we gone to a dance and thirty or forty minutes after the first number, the orchestra not being satisfied with the crowd present, quit cold. Where do we hear the latest pop ular dance numbers and the newest songs. Not from our orchestra, but from phonograph records and traveling trav-eling orchestras. Going back to our opera house. We all admit it has held crowds, and will still hold the crowds; but who has ever seen a metropolitan dance hall with no coat room, and chairs with a year's accummulation of dust on them, to be used by the pleasure loving public. Our Kit-Kat is a credit to this, andi any other town. It Is the one amusement center of Milford, where one can go, be comfortable, and enjoy en-joy an evening of dancing, providing provid-ing the orchestra Is in the propel humor. The citizens of this town are good spenders, but they as anyone else, desire de-sire value received for their money, something we do not get from ou present orchestra. Do you see scores of people going to Beaver for any other amusement except a dance? Of course you ddnt. Then the trouble must be with our dances right here at home. Let's not correct a fault by beginning at the top; but start at the bottom of it and then work up. Do you see scores, or even two or three people going to Beaver for a wrestling match. No. Of course not. Why? Simply because we have the wrestler right here at home. Does not the above hold1 true with our orchestra? or-chestra? Take the above into' consideration. Does our orchestra deserve any appreciation? ap-preciation? Why not let them appreciate appre-ciate their dance patrons, and then in turn ask for appreciation from th public. ' In closing this epistle, or conglomeration conglom-eration of mis-placed words such as you may see fit to title It. I would like to state that I am not s knocker, knock-er, hut a Booster for Milford; merely suggesting that we stay at home, if we have the amusement worth staying stay-ing for One of the Pleasure Loving Lov-ing Public. - ' |