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Show LOCALS and PERSONALS Mrs. 0. F. Hubbell has been eon-fined eon-fined to her bed with a broken limb for several weefs, was able to have the cast removed last week and is getting along nicely. Joseph W. Ashworth of Los Angeles, An-geles, arrived here Monday noon to spend the summer at Roosevelt Hot Springs, with his mother, Mrs. May Ashworth. Mr. Ashworth is a student stu-dent at the Southern California University. Mrs. Ethel Murdock and Mrs. Hulda Lessing of Beaver, spent Saturday here. Claude Evans went to Salt Lake Saturday to have dental work. done. Mrs. Jack Summerhay3 haa been here from Salt Lake City, visiting her mother, Mrs. Bert Carter. Mrs. Lou Moore and children left Saturday night after spending a few weeks here with relatives for her home at Provo. Harry and Mitchell Coon returned to their home at Compton, Cal., leaving leav-ing their brother, Kimmel, who has been very il with pneumonia, much improved. Harold Cline, of San Bernardino, Cal., is here spending the summer with his brothers, Sam and Al Cline. Harold is a law student of the Southern South-ern California law school and is working with his brother Sam, while here. They attended court in Iron county all of last week. Mrs. C. L. Ford motored Monday to Salt Lake City to visit friends for a few days. Ralph Quayle returned Monday from a few days' visit with his family fami-ly at Salt Lake City. Mrs. George Harris of Provo, visited friends here several days last week and was the guest of her sister, Mrs. F. W. Galnour. Mrs. Leslie Clay and children went to Fillmore Monday to visit Mrs. Clay's mother, Mrs.'John Carling. Mr. and Mrs Charles Newhart have sold their home: to Mrs. Mattie Ferguson. Mr. Newhart's health is very poor and they will go to Cal., to see if the change won't be beneficial benefi-cial for him. Mr. Newhart left last week and Mrs. Newhart will join him in a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Moses Edwards want to Beaver Tuesday afternoon to attend at-tend the funeral services of Mrs. Edward's aunt, Mrs. Vagus Thompson, Thomp-son, who has been in poor health for some time, and died Saturday night of heart trouble. Mrs. Thompson was the first baby born at Las Vegas about G8 years ago, and was named Vagus. She has been an old resident of Beaver for many years. Among 'other relatives here, is Mrs. George Booth, who was with her aunt at the time of her death. H. B. Waters, general superintendent superinten-dent of the Telluride Power company, spent several days here last week. G. Henry Bergstrom of Cedar City, spent Thursday of last week in the interests of his store. Miss Zelphia Urie went to Ogden Saturday to spend the week-end with I her brother, G. Wood Urie. I Mrs. Will Ashworth and son Jim-mey Jim-mey has gone to Pocatello to visit their mother and grandmother. Mrs. Eliza Me-ssintr of Beaver, is assistant cook at the Milford dining din-ing room. Mrs. Neil Jensen of Beaver, was in town Saturday. George Skinner of Beaver, county treasurer, was in town Saturday on i business. i Barney O'Keefe, of Salt Lake City i is here visiting his aunt and uncle, j Mr. and Mra. Roy VanWormer. ; Isadore Lessing and Tom Burke of Beaver, were Milford visitors Tues-I Tues-I day afternoon. o phones as Great Britian. j Fifteen of the original eighty, telephones subscribers in the city of Seattle are still living. The Wall Street Journal declares that more than 80,000 people in Illinois Ill-inois own telephone securities. On the night of the Municipal election in Chicago, the Chicago-Tribune Chicago-Tribune received 40,000 telephone calls inquiring as to the result of the election. Fifteen years ago there were 46,-602 46,-602 telephones in the state of Louisiana. Louis-iana. Now there are 68,000 in the city of New Orleans alone and 135,-000 135,-000 in the entire state. At the end of the first quarter of 1927, there was invested in telephone tele-phone plant in the United States, $3,370,000,000 and the gross operating operat-ing reached $966,000,000. |