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manufacture of iron. Drama, for which Cedar has now become nationally known, was a favorite interest and avocation of the townspeople from the earliest days. Amusements, recreations of various kinds, and celebrations of important events livened up the routine drudgery of pioneer life. The f i r s t school in the area was taught by George A . Smith himself, in a lean-to of sagebrush branches built a t the side of his wagons that first winter of 1850-51 at Center Creek. "My wicky-up is a very important establishement," he wrote early in March, "composed of b r u s h , a few slabs, and three wagons, a fire in the center and a lot of milking stools, benches and logs placed around, two of which are cushioned with buffalo robes." Folks at home would be surprised, he wrote, "to see my school some of the cold nights in February, scholars standing round my huge camp fire, the wind broken off by the b r u s h and the whole canopy of heaven for a covering. Thermometer standing at 7 degrees, one side roasting while the other freezing, requiring a continual turning to keep a s near as possible an equilibrium of temperature. I would stand with my grammar book, the only one in school, would give out a sentence at a time, and pass i t round. Notwithstanding these circumstances, I never saw a grammar class learn faster for the time." One of the early tasks accomplished during the first summer at Cedar, in 1852, was the building of a schoolhouse. In December. President George A . Smith reoorted that Matthew c a r r u t h e r s , an alumnus of Edinburgh &iversity in Scotland, had a large school, which was well attended. A shortage of schoolbooks was reported that winter--a chronic oroblem in erammar schools at the time. Eaeer to s u m o r t ihe infant settlement, church leaders responded wi'tk a shipment of 238 schoolbooks, including l s t , 2nd. and 3rd readers, grammars, arithmetics, dictionaries, spellers, and. for older pupils, texts on hygiene, chemistry, and philosophy. A s we noted, plans were made in the first Cedar City s u r v e y to provide two large plots, each 330 feet square, for schoolhouse use. One of the first tasks undertaken at the site was the building of a schoolhouse. Lucy White (who later married William Flake and helped to found Snowflake, Arizona) attended this school in 1854, at the age of 1 2 , and left u s a charming description of such "All the schoolhouses 1 ever went to were of log, schools. one large room with a door and no windows; a large fireplace in one side or end. This furnished the only light if the days were so inclement the door could not be left open. The seats were split logs with the flat side u p . Pegs were put in the rounding side for legs. There were no desks. The teacher had a home-made rawhide bottom chair, and a table with a drawer. Flat pieces of slate stone with a sharpened piece of I well the same served a s writing and figuring material. remember the first paper and lead pencils we had. The
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| Title | Mayors of Cedar City |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K.; Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Subject | Mayors -- Utah -- Cedar City -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- Politics and government; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Includes biographies of the mayors of Cedar City and examples from the city minutes showing the events that took place under each administration. The three histories printed in the second section were written by three men at three different times in the history of Cedar City. |
| Source | Mayors |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher | Southern Utah State College |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/mayors.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 535.cpd |
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