A NATION-WIDE
INSTITUTION-The
^Results of a Service Rendered
The continuous growth of this Nation-wide Institution of Department Stores and especially
the large expansion that is being made this Spring is creating truly remarkable opportunities
for...
CHAPTER FIVE
SOCIAL LIFE IN PIONEER DAYS
HOME DRAMATICS IN BEAVER
One of the first dramatic companies in Beaver was managed and sponsored by Robert Stoney and Henry Blackner. Jenny Harris and Sarah Ann Stoney, both talented and lovely young women,...
little whim could not be satisfied, they manifested a joy in living and when they prayed they felt God's watchful care.
From the earliest days of Pioneer life, the people provided amusement for themselves. The dance played the most conspicuous...
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE DAUGHTERS OF UTAH PIONEERS PURPOSE A very note-worthy organization in the state is called "Daughters of Utah Pioneers." It is composed of women whose ancestors came to the West before the advent of the railway in 1869. The...
Emery County (Utah) Archives; Geary, Elmo; Huntington (Utah); Huntington; College of Eastern Utah
Elmo Geary was a teacher at Huntington High School (Utah). He graduated from BYU and had participated in many plays. He was asked to teach Drama at College of Eastern Utah, and was responsible for creating the drama department there. The Geary...
Emery County (Utah) Archives, Drama, College of Eastern Utah, Huntington (Utah); Geary, Elmo; Geary Theater; Price (Utah)
Elmo Geary was a teacher at Huntington High School (Utah). He graduated from BYU and had participated in many plays. He was asked to teach Drama at College of Eastern Utah, and was responsible for creating the drama department there. The Geary...
Emery County (Utah) Archives;Huntington (Utah); Geary, Elmo; College of Eastern Utah; Geary Theater; Price (Utah)
Elmo Geary was a teacher at Huntington High School (Utah). He graduated from BYU and had participated in many plays. He was asked to teach Drama at College of Eastern Utah, and was responsible for creating the drama department there. The Geary...
Emery County (Utah); Civilian Conservation Corps; Company 959; Mortensen, Orlon; CCC
Orlon Mortensen took this photograph of Camp F-11 Company 959 in Ferron as part of his photography class with the CCCs. This company worked with the Forest Service. The CCCs were organized as a civilian branch of the army when the nation was in a...
CEDAR CITY ORDINANCES (Excerpts) From: Original Ordinance Book No. 1 in t h e City files. The book i s also registered by t h e Utah State Historical Society-Archivist, W . R . Palmer. An Ordinance dividing Cedar City into Wards. [Old Fort o r Plat...
Sec. 5. . . T h e polls t o be open from seven to ten o'clock, morning, a n d from three to s i x , afternoon. April 7 . 1855.. .An Ordinance relative to building o r repairing the City Wall: Be i t ordained by t h e City Council of Cedar City t h...
vending of spirituous liquors in Cedar City: 2 . . .All ordinances p a s s e d , a n d licenses Sec. heretofore g r a n t e d , for distilling and selling spirituous liquors in Cedar City a r e hereby repealed. Dec. 18, 1858.. .An Ordinance...
April 23, 1885.. . T h e Mayor called the attention of the Council to brick being b u r n e d near dwelling houses in t h i s City, a s injurious to health and endangering p r o p e r t y . Matter r e f e r r e d to Judiciary Committee. The Mayor...
Nov. 3 , 1917 ... A committee of band members headed by Mr. Roylance met with the Council and presented a request for an appropriation of about $365 to purchase instruments to make a complete band, and agreed that the band would serve the City free...
1 , 1920 for t h e following: 1. $9000 to install a modern a n d complete s t r e e t lighting system, owned a n d controlled b y t h e 2. $14,000 for establishing a n d improving t h e City City. Park. 3. $50,000 for increasing, improving,...
The Mayor recommended the drafting of an ordinance creating a Town Planning Commission ( a s suggested by Clean Town campaign committee]. Referred to the City Attorney and Judiciary Committee. The matter of disposition of garbage was referred to...
June 1, 1967.. . D r . Beal, Dr. Prestwich, Roe Palmer, and Harry B. Leigh met with the Council to express concern regarding Glen Canyon power and the possibility of the City losing its rights to an allocation. Farmers around Cedar City are being...
developed and built it up. When a post office was established some years later, the name was changed from Johnson's Springs to Enoch. Johnson's Springs was settled about 1852 or 1853. At an early period, many industries were started . throughout...
TER XXIII
YEARS 0 C. n u-r r n L IT n N 1 A P TT A T u1" 1880 - 1885
hen the great colonizer-financier, Brigham Young died in 1877, many predicted the L.D.S. Church would fall apart. But his successor, John Taylor took over the reins with hardly a...
Thomas Jones worked with the Deseret Iron Company through this time and lost about all of his wages through the failure of the undertaking." At the industry's peak, the population of Cedar City grew to 928 inhabitants and with its abandonment, the...
Three Score and Ten in Retrospect histories of any of the Tribes extant on this continent and were among the earliest occupants of the cliff dwellings in the Western United States. Being peace loving by nature they and their lands were imposed upon...