The Girls' Dormitory
/T"^HE Dormitory started off with
a bang. We had several dis-putes
over which sheets went into
which room. We were even guilty
of yelling "Say you," at the teach-ers.
Finally we settled down for a
little while. Then, during the...
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
us went through "Test Week," into Upper Classdom, then wended our way homeward, to dream of '17's memorable history. III. The first business on hand at the beginning of our Junior year was unanimously to elect Karl Woolsey again president of our...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
The Greatest Clearing Sale MILFORD HAS EVER KNOWN We are offering our entire line of U.S. Army and Commercial goods at ridiculously low prices. We were the first to bring prices down in Milford and we still lead in cutting and slashing prices....
tion had to be keen in order to get the idea of what was represented. The Spirit was always on the look-out to destroy the Indians, and in one scene, comes down over some waterfalls. This is where your imagination is required. If it looked like...
little whim could not be satisfied, they manifested a joy in living and when they prayed they felt God's watchful care.
From the earliest days of Pioneer life, the people provided amusement for themselves. The dance played the most conspicuous...
THE FIRST DANCE ORCHESTRA IN BEAVER
Horace A. Skinner told of the first dance orchestra in Beaver, with William McGarry as first violinist, Alma Crosby, second violin, and Mrs. William McGarry, acccordion. They were hired by the year and paid by...
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...
floors. The furniture consisted of rock or adobe fire-places, roughly constructed tables and benches. Bed-steads were considered luxuries and were home-made. The door and window casings were chopped from cottonwood which grew along the creek....
the trip from Milford to Frisco in 35 minutes, in 1916, surprisingly quick time with the first automobiles. Dr. Hunter and Dr. Burton of Milford made many trips to Frisco, Dr. Burton making the trips in a buggy to attend patients. Thomas James...
S. N. Slaughter went to Salt Lake to make his home, selling to John P. James and H. B. Sackett. After their retirement, James L. Griffiths purchased this store. After several years, this store was razed by fire.
About 1917 the Caldo mill was built...
smoke. A table and benches had been erected, and by nightfall a hot dinner was prepared, a dormitory, for the boys had been arranged in the second story of the old Administration Building. (This building was formerly the offices of the officers of...
Emery County (Utah) Archives; Ferron (Utah); Ferron High School; South Emery High School; Drama; Geary, Elmo; Presbyterian School; Ferron L.D.S. Meeting House; Churches; Peterson, Darrel
Geary, Elmo. Plate XXXXV, School Dramatics at Ferron. Dramatics in Castle Valley 1875 to 1925. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah, 1953. Fig. 1 Ferron High School and auditorium; Fig.2 Presbyterian School; Fig.3 Ferron Ward Amusement Hall;...
Geary, Elmo. Plate LIV, Amusement in the Mining Communities. Dramatics in Castle Valley 1875 to 1925. Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah, 1953. Fig.1 The Mohrland Orchestra: Ralph Green, Calvin Jensen, Melvin Henrie, Arlie Marshall, Frank...
Emery County (Utah); Historic Buildings; Mohrland; Stores; Coal Mining Towns
Mohrland was a coal mining town. This is the company store. The coal mining town of Mohrland began in 1907 and by 1920 there were 200 houses, a large amusement hall, a small hospital, and a four room school with a population of about 1,000. The...
Aug. 6 , 1894.. . I t was resolved that Water Tax for 1894 be 500 per lot for irrigation and $1.00 per family for culinary purposes. Oct. 1, 1894.. .The Mayor stated that George Wood and the Cedar Sheep Association had generously offered money and...
intersecting Main Street a t the corner near Mr. Henry Elliker's residence on Main Street and commonly known a s Normal Street. Granted. Dec. 1, 1904 ... The Mayor reported t h a t a case of Small Pox had developed recently in the City a n d , in...
driving, minors driving autos, e t c . , and give some publicity in the newspaper. This was after a petition was read from Junior High School students. April 4 , 1918.. .The matter of arranging with the Pool Hall proprietors to close up during the...