City Council, back row, from left: Ed Parry, Henry Leigh, Sam Leigh, William Leigh. Front row: William Corry, R. W. Heyborne, John Parry, Tom Thorley, Lehi Jones.
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
George Christensen, Clifton Williams, Otto Baker, Melbourne Heslington, Oral Stoney, Lois Stoney, Reuben Joseph, Allan Blackner, Gertrude Yardley, Walter Joseph, Annabell Hales, George Boyter, William Heslington, Dell Kessler, Alfred Horton,...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Debating. A short review of our Debating activities will in no way be out of place here. In the past much interest has been taken along this line and we have put up splendid fights with our sister schools. In some of the encounters we came out...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
The First National Bank of Beaver, is number one in Beaver on the Roll of Honor. A place where the Roll of Honor is like a man's character - it is something money cannot buy, but is won by merit and worth alone. The First National Bank has...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
From Left to Right, Top Row: Ivor Adair, Anna Thompson, Lucile Reese, Anna Adair, Althea Lund, Clark Robinson; 2nd Row: Verda Turner, Nellie Rogers, Royal Kimball, LeRoy Morris, Virginia Pearce, Jessie Allen; 3rd Row: Howard Burt, Mildred Morton,...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
From Left to Right, Top Row: Ivor Adair, Anna Thompson, Lucile Reese, Anna Adair, Althea Lund, Clark Robinson; 2nd Row: Verda Turner, Nellie Rogers, Royal Kimball, LeRoy Morris, Virginia Pearce, Jessie Allen; 3rd Row: Howard Burt, Mildred Morton,...
PIONEER HONOR ROLL McEwen, Joseph Rolf, Samuel Myers, William Reid, Richard Nowers, Wilson G. Reid, George Nickerson, Charles Reid, Thomas Nickerson, Eleazer Riddle, Isaac Nelson, Edward Ramsey, John K. Nelson, Dan Stoney, Robert Oakden, Charles...
According to John A. Skinner's story, Beaver Adz came running down the public road to town to get "whites" to go up and stop the fight. Skinner said Beaver Adz was an old coward and did not want any fighting. This was before he lost his eyesight....
Thompson, an engineer, who came originally from New York, told the people at this meeting that he could re-survey the town into blocks 24 rods square with streets 6 rods wide, including the sidewalks, and all could have a corner lot. His plan was...
tunes was "General Hancock's Grand March," which had been arranged by Lorenzo Schofield, one of the band members.
The instruments, with the exception of about three which were privately owned, had been bought by, public subscriptions, costing over...
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...
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Song by the Beaver Choir.
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Music by the Beaver Martial Band. Speech by Col. Douglas of Fort Cameron.
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Music by the Fort Cameron Martial Band.
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Song by Robert Stoney.
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Music by the Beaver Brass Band.
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Song...
Gun Committee, Joseph Bettensen, Robert Thimbleby and William Moyes Jr.
Finance Committee, Josiah Rogerson, William Ashworth, David McDonough, James Fennemore and Charles F. Shipp.
Floor Managers, William Ashworth, Albert Minnerly and Josiah...
Keeseo arrived in Beaver, fine young men who might have done much good, but the natural aversion of the average young women to being assisted at childbirth by a man physician was as widespread and deep-seated among the early Mormons as if the...
devoted their lives to this profession. Necessarily, those women were patient, kind, tender and skilled to be able to answer the many calls and to have endeared themselves in the hearts of the pioneer women. Every hamlet had these "mother"...
had as his assistant, Charles T. Stoney, who had been attending the Brigham Young Academy. This school immediately became very popular, so that night session were held for the benefit of adults who could not go in the daytime. A class in teacher...
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT APPOINTED
The Territorial Legislature of 1855 had passed law placing the schools under the direct control of the county court. This court was to appoint "three competent men to determine the qualifications of teacher, an all...