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Three Score and Ten in Retrospect
very active part in the affairs of state, but we cannot underestimate our responsibility to individual citizens in their own private affairs, both civil and criminal. A nation with satisfied citizens is a...
30 Days November 1910: S 13 Raining Dan & Family came in about noon. M 14 Raining Went out to the South field. T 15 Rain on mountains hauled up another load of corn. W 16-Th 17 made a few post card pictures F 18 Rain. I went up canal got...
31 Days August 1910: S 14 Clear M 15 Thin Clds. T 16 Thin Clouds W 17 Clear Th 18 Clouded up F 19 Ptly cloudy Hot. Sat 20 Light Clouds Water in river black and thick today. October wind. Summer winds again. I am walking the canal all the...
31 Days August 1910: S 21 Hot, Sultry, Clouds. Came home a little early tonight. M 22 P.M. Wind to beat the devil, Some rain. Extremely hot before noon. T 23 Hot Few clouds. Lots of water and thick too. They finished the cement dam today. W...
31 Days May 1910: M 2 Took a post card picture of Alma Wrights three (3) children late this afternoon, after I got home from the canal. T 3 Windy cool. W 4 Cold- High wind
31 Days October 1910: S 16 Not on the ditch. Mary is not at all well. M 17 Sent Ray Bradshaw up to turn the water in didn’t get it. T 18 Cold North wind I sent two men up today they got the water in the head of canal W 19 Cold N. Wind Clouds...
a change of labor would be a rest and profitable to my bodily health, so 1 wrote to President Taylor on the subject and it met his approval and, owing to my poor sight, thought it would be a good plan to take my wife, Ellen, with me and that we...
Emery County (Utah); Emery (Utah); Jensen, Venice; Schools; Windstorms;
A severe windstorm destroyed the school in Emery Town. Native Americans in the area called Castle Valley "Blow Valley." The wind blows often, but rarely hard enough to blow down a building.
and invited a number of saints to a sumptuous supper. September 22: Brother Walker and I left Philadelphia on board a steamboat for New York. We decided to sail on the fine sailing vessel, Constitution, to Liverpool and paid our passage by...
beef was hidden in thick timber some distance from ramp, while they had been wishing for meat for supper and breakfast, all but one prospector made a hasty getaway before our boys returned from the day's ride." " As I was riding out that morning...
Beuna Vista leavirlg Liverpool Fch. 25, 1849, under the direction of Elder Dan Jones, with 249 \Vclch S a i n t on hoard.' Their destination wnc New Orlea~is, Louisiana, in the United Stntrs of .\merica. Thomas Jeremy, m e of the company, dcseribed...
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he coastline of England becarne a speck in the distance as Henry Lunt stood on the old plank deck of the ship, Argo, straining to get the last view of his homeland.' It was a bleak n day i January 1850. A cold brisk breeze filled the...
creeks out of the canyons, widens to encompass an area of good farmland, then tapers off and disappears in the desert gorges and mesas that stretch westward. With the advent of spring, the snow banks melt and disappear, and the mountainsides become...
dangerous. No less dangerous was the task of removing the yokes fiom the impatient creatures and of the unloosing the chains. The romance of being out in the wilds was terribly chilled by an inclement sky. A few days of drizzling rain tried the...
Dec. 16. 1920.. .Marshal Nelson asked permission to purchase bedding, stove pipe, and bucket for the City Jail. Jan. 7 . 1921.. .Resolutions passed by various civic and Council members to inforce the ordinance in regard to sanitation, the dog...
dirt . . . which every man is said to eat in his lifetime. It filled our eyes too, and our ears, and our nostrils. It was in the food; it sprinkled the pancakes; it was in the syrup that we poured over them. Half suffocated were we by it, during...
evening meeting where the congregation was addressed by Carruthers and Lunt, after which there was a testimony meeting. Several children spoke and one little boy said he was willing to do as his parents told h q and he also would do whatever...