Guard Called to Active Duty As war clouds hung over Europe, our own government deemed it advisable to call all National Guard units into active service. In March, 1941, Beaver's unit was inducted into the regular U. S. Army, and began preparations...
Women Join In World War II Service From Bever- From Greenville- Fox, Evelyn; Davis, Idonna; Joseph, Helen; Morris, Lois ; Mackerell, Mary Bernice; Paice, Lucille; Williams, Alene; Adamsville Veterans of World War I Dave Heslington, Morgan...
The Legion has done justice far and beyond the call of duty to our most sacred of all patriotic holidays.
In the fall of 1926, the Beaver Post of the American Legion, with city and county officials promoted and sponsored the Beaver County Fair and...
Operation of the Hall was at first under the group of Legionaires known as "Note Holders," but as the notes were paid off their equity was transferred to Post No. 32 of the American Legion. Finally in 1941, all property and management was...
Legion throughout the United States and in Beaver particularly, foresaw events alike to those greeting the re-turned "Dough-boy," of 1917; and immediately began promoting legislation in our government to help adjust future Legionnaires to civilian...
a low ebb and could not reach the town. The settlers had fully decided to abandon the place, when President Young came there on a speaking tour and promised the people that if they would remain where they were, the time would come when there would...
district there are several large ledges of pyrite and copyrite ore. Some work was done upon them, and a small amount of a very high grade silver ore was mined several years ago. The principal claims are the COMET, CACTUS and COPPER CHIEF. CACTUS...
After a little while McKeon and the girls appeared. They asked Mr. Smithson if he had had any passengers that night. He replied, "Yes, two young women and the squirmiest baby I ever carried." Thereupon they began to chuckle, and when Mr. Smithson...
Mr. Myers tells of one time when a heavy snow storm overtook them on their route and they stopped and dried off places with fires so they could camp for the night. There was one place on their route, he says, that was so steep that after a storm...
As a young man, Mr. Walter James drove a butcher wagon, delivering meat to the townspeople and to the Horn Silver and Carbonate Mines boarding houses. The two mines employed about 1,000 men. Each mine had its own smelter for refining ores....
cook and waitress, with Ed Walker and brother of Salt Lake, dishwashers. We were persuaded to hire a Jap cook, who was immaculately clean, and a good cook, but one morning we were awakened early to find him gone. We, with our young daughter Erma,...
Newhouse has gone and the wind still blows over the desert waste. Yet in the hearts of the people who once lived there a warm spot remains for the "Old Town that once was." THE STORY OF THE CAVE MINE John Bradshaw was born in England and came to...
extension was constructed from Juab to Frisco between that time and the summer of 1880. The railroad entered Beaver County, therefore, early in 1880. When the extension was completed, the Utah Central, Utah Southern and Utah Southern Extension...
reason for the growth of the valley, but it hardly would be correct to say that the railroad with its people have had less than a major part in bringing the town up from the size of a spot on the map to the present city that it now represents with...
that of being the first car foreman, rip track foreman, and engine carpenter. His interest in civic affairs was keen and he was voted a member of the town board, member of the school board, and later, mayor. His wife and other women were...
land farming was, in this section where it had been tried, a failure. Most of this land later was sold for taxes and bought by sheep and cattle interests. In 1913, the Delta Land and Water Company constructed the Rocky Ford Dam, which is at the...
ing, perhaps, the water level dropped and alfalfa seed could not be grown. The farmers then, of necessity, began farming on a more practical scale. There were crops of all kinds of grain, corn, alfalfa and potatoes. These are the principal crops at...
Vegetation on these arid ranges is composed chiefly of low shrubs and grasses belonging to what is known as the salt-desert shrub plant association. Most of these ranges are used by sheep and cattle during the winter when other ranges are covered...
Crews of men were sent to Beaver to work on the job and were kept there until the task was completed. The Relief Society enlisted their members and they, too, were sent over and kept on the job until it was done. They set up a kitchen and dining...
A man was hired to paint the scenery for the stage. Seats for the Recreation Hall were purchased at a more recent date. OBTAINING MATERIAL FROM MURDOCK ACADEMY Wrecking and salvaging the materials of the old Murdock Academy began August 1, 1932....