Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Photos of Albin Gillies, Graduate '17, School Athletic Manager '17, Aggie Club President '17, Class Debating Manager '17. "None but himself can be his parallel." ; Irene Hutchings, Graduate '17, H. E. C. President '17, H. E. C. Vice-President...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Photos of Hobart White, Graduate '17, Aggie Club President '16, Chief Justice '17, Class Athletic Manager '16. " A mind not be be changed by place or time." ; Ruby Hales, "Graduate '17. "Merit was ever modest." ; David Heslington, Graduate '17,...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Photos of Lohree Nowers, Graduate '17, Member Amusement Committee '17. "Gentle in manner, firm in reality." ; David Stevens, Graduate '17, Basketball Sub. '16. "Virtue is like a rich stone -- bestplain set." ; Maude Horton, Graduate '17. "With...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Photos of Theresa White, Graduate '17, Class Secretary and Treasurer '17, Class Historian. "Tranquility thou better name, Than all the family of fame." ; Ernest Joseph, Graduate '17. "I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Captain Rogers. Basketball Banquet. On Friday, March 16, the basketball boys (and their friends) were the guests of the Domestic Science department. Speeches, toasts, and above all "good eats" characterized the occasion. All hail to the...
FIRST IRRIGATION IN BEAVER VALLEY
Early in May, 1856, the water for irrigating the Old Field and town plat was taken from the river at a dam east of where the Allred home had been built. It was then conducted in a good sized ditch to the N E...
teer men and teams who responded to the call for aid. Among those who came to Beaver were Edward Tolton, William J. Allred, Hyrum and Roan Fowler, Elijah Hoopes, John and Henry Bryant, Fred Clark, Mr. Donald and others.
LAND GRANTS AND GOVERNMENT...
fence in the center of block 29, just east of where the telephone office now stands. The bullet cut the emigrant's leather belt, yet he stopped long enough to pick up his pistol. A few minutes later, William Anderson saw Sissix elevate his gun and...
"He was a strange Indian and wore a Navajo blan-ket. Brother Allred took his horse with the Indian sad-dle and bridle rope and came home, arriving here on Sun-day, evening at 9:00 p.m. The Indian had marked his trail all along and is very likely...
ground to procure a livelihood. Aside from this, the flow of the creek, after the spring fresher of highwater, soon dried up and the low lands in the first section alone pro-vided crops.
In the course of time, school section 16 came into market and...
man." (A copy of the Enterprise of August 12, 1875, is still in existence and is the property of Mary Goodwin of Beaver).
THE BEAVER COUNTY SENTINEL was the next
paper, and was managed by G. W. McLaughlin.
THE SQUARE DEALER, with Joseph Field again...
Joseph S. Horne took the principalship for one year then was followed by Willard Gardner for two yeas Reinhard Maeser headed the school from 1918 to 1920. 1916 Miss Mary J. Ollerton, who had been with the instution from the beginning, accepted a...
ing dailies, tri-weeklies and weeklies vied simultaneously with one another for patronage, while other Utah towns of much greater population permitted a lone newspaper
to starve.
THE BEAVER ENTERPRISE was the name of the
first newspaper, the first...
S. Taylor Farnsworth was set apart as president of the stake, August 13, 1933, with Clark G. Murdock as first and William E. White as second counselor. J. Albert Muir was selected as clerk.
Until the re-organization of the stake, February 16, 1947,...
David Miller, July 26, 1880-1886. William Edwards, June 23, 1886-1887. Post office discontinued. Re-established April 24, 1888, with William Edwards again acting. Jess Barton, October 19, 1920. Following Mr. Barton were: Mrs. Hazle Barton,...
great-grandson of C. D. White, Sr. At this time the enrollment of children was 100 per cent. HONOR ROLL Honor for the most outstanding records in the history of Beaver Stake Primary goes to Mary F. Goodwin and Catherine Muir, of the Beaver West...
pointed to fill the position when Hardy resigned), T. V. Rollins, Jack Kelsey and Clarence Gillins.
The first electric lights were installed in 1913-1914. Moroni Myers was president of the Town Board at that
time.
When Josiah Osborne was president,...
HISTORY OF MINERSVILLE RELIEF SOCIETY
The Relief Society of the Minersville Ward was organized April 15, 1869, with Malinda Lewis as president and Harriet Bradshaw as secretary. The society was
called Female Relief Society of Minersville.
Tarlton...
Copper Gulch, including the New Years, Belmont and Purity claims, adjoining the Cactus. CHARCOAL BURNING Thirty-six beehive charcoal kilns supplied the furnaces of the San Francisco District with fuel. They were in eight groups, under separate...
music, so far away, gradually became louder until they reached the landing. Some of these men would get on at the 1,000 foot level and stop at each stope until all the men were on the cage. One wouldn't think that such beautiful music could come...