My Mary Hicks
Osroe's knocking at thy door,
Mary Hicks.
Just as he's knocked so oft before,
Mary Hicks.
Doesn't he become a bore?
For he keeps coming 'more and more,
And he's calling as of yore,
"Mary Hicks, my Mary Hicks."
Listen to his sweet...
Beaver tribe. Some of the tribe were in good standing with Beaver Adz and his father who had some influence. (Adz means bow and arrow.)
Beaver Adz was a good-looking Indian, when young, and often worked for the "Whites," before he was injured at...
shoo Coyote's two big hounds before they could get into his camp to bury him there with his guns, etc.
Sissix, "the renegade Ute," was banished from the Ute Tribe for murder. He then went to live with the Pavants of Corn Creek, in Millard County....
Chapter Ten
Communication in Pioneer Days
Beaver's Early Mail Service
Beaver's first mail service was the freight wagon train. The drivers would deliver mail to the Bishop, who in turn would distribute it in Church. Then an office was maintained in...
Wilson G. Nowers, county clerk; Orson Tyler, sheriff; Lamoni L. Babitt, constable; James W. Huntsman, selectman. In the absence of Simeon F. Howd and Joel W. White, John M. Davis and Ephraim Tompkinson were duly sworn to fill the offices of...
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....
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...
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periments in which to determine the amount of moisture, humus, etc. in various types of soils in our locality. Three hours credit. First term.
Cereal Crops. This course deals with the history, cultivation, development, and marketing of...
Wed. Feb. 2, 1898: Wea. thin clouds I came home stopped and attended Mutual as I came through Springdale Thursday 3: Wea. warm and cloudy I husked corn most of the day. Brother Squire Hepworth and Gottfred Ruesch visited us as teachers in the...
Fri. Feb. 4, 1898: I printed six pictures for D.F. Stout to send to R.M. Rogers to be finished and sent back to me. husked a little corn. There was a dance in town in the evening Dan, Jake, and I went down but did not dance. Saturday 5: Ther. 1...
Tues. Feb. 8, 1898: Wea. rained some in the night cleared off mostly. I went and took some mail to the office then husked and shelled some corn in the afternoon. Wednesday 9: Ther. 64 in the sun at 11-20 am Wea. clear and bright I husked some...
Thurs. Feb. 10, 1898: Wea. Pleasant thin clouds. I worked on the rock wall at the head of the orchard below the point. A. Russell and dan and father were helping also. Father got two of his fingers mashed between two rocks Friday 11: Ther. 37...