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Dining Room and Cafe
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lunt
Proprietors
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"We Resolve to Serve the .
Best Things to Eat"
We Specialise in Resoling
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Footwear
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Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
Athletics: In previous years our track and basket ball squad captured so many pennants that the mere mention of Murdock's track team caused other much larger school to tremble. But of late years our pennants are fewer in number. It would be in...
This additional spread of water over greater acreage caused more bottom land to sub-irrigate and added much to our rich meadow acreage. And, in turn, most of the water springs up in our lower fields and communities and is reclaimed through natural...
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...
operated by water power. It continued to run successfully until the erection of the Woolen Mills a few years later. Mr. Curfew was the grandfather of Clyde L. Messinger of Beaver.
Tannery
In 1869, Samuel N. Slaughter, having emigrated from Cape...
of the institution until about 1890, it was possible to se-cure all the wool necessary to operate the plant by exchanging the mill products for the wool. About this time, wool demanded cash or mostly cash and the mills found it difficult to sell...
Judge Jacob S. Boreman, and a jury composed of twelve men, eight of whom were members of the Mormon Church. He was indicted for murder by a grand jury, September 24, 1874, nineteen years after the massacre. William Stokes deputized Thomas Winn,...
January 5, 1908, Mary J. Blackner was chosen president, with Mary E. Morris and Winnifred Miller as counselors; Julia Griffith, secretary; Mary A. Reese, treasurer. Caring for the sick and needy, the gathering and storing of wheat, went steadily...
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
MINERSVILLE-ITS FOUNDING AND HISTORY
Imagine, if you 'can, coming -down* the canyon and viewing this valley prior to its settlement. The river fol-lowed much the same course as it does today, with a few scattered cottonwood trees to...
present highway bridge. Bullion made in the crude smelter was made into bullets, in rough molds, for the rifles of the settlers of this entire area.
The ore was soft in nature, with gold assays running as high as one-half ounce to the ton, silver...
morning. All the guests had escaped from the burning building and Mr. Forgie, clad only in his night robe, had reached the front porch when the cry of "Save David", his nine-year-old son, reached his ears. Little David had already escaped and was...
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...
Bred for food aid to trade with other Indians for meat and fish. The toelies or cat tails were also sometimes called toy-ebe and these abounded in the swamp lands of Milford Valley. `Next were the Qui-ump-uts, who occupied the Beaver River Valley...
grass. These changes came so slowly they were almost unnoticed. Even the invasion of Russian thistle and cheatgrass on large areas of winter range caused little apprehension. Range surveys in 1933-36 in Western Beaver County indicated that forage...
vegetables. A gift of fine vegetables came from the president of the Minersville Ward Relief Society. Beaver merchants were generous. At the end of 30 days, the total amount paid for food purchased was less than $60. There were no losses in food...
Branch Agricultural College (Cedar City, Utah); Southern Utah University -- History
Military drills became a part of student life during World War II. The war also caused an enrollment crisis for the college, which was partially alleviated by older residents taking more courses.
Mon. July 24, 1988: Ther. 74’., 6 am. Wea. nice shower about noon. Pioneer Day. We hauled four loads of hay this fore noon but the storm caused us to leave about 4 loads on the piece by the old Dam. Tuesday 25: Ther. very warm. Wea. partly...
Wed. Sept. 2, 1903: + Ther. Warm., Wea. Mostly cldy. Thunder & Rain. Moved over to the Birch Valley spring. Myron left for town about noon. Loran Covington was with me part of the day. The rain today was pretty hard for about an hour, and caused...