Seniors' Farewell
"WHEN we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we
discover that our life is embosomed in beauty."
Experiences left behind us assume an even more
pleasing form than we had anticipated, and as the timle apĀproaches
when the...
The City Government
OUR school has bee.n noted for its efficient student
body organizations, chief of which is the school
city. The students of the B. A. C. have been
granted a city charter, and they have enacted city
ordinances. Thus they are...
Scomt Saparovan
THE Tribe of Sirius is a troop of
older scouts fostered by the
Branch Agricultural College, and is
an outgrowth of the old B. A. C.
Troop founded by Arthur J. Morris
and Irvin T. Nelson. In October,
1927, the present organization...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
tickets, laundry bags, yea even Eras, the 17's elected as official head of the family, W. H. Bakes, as president, to guide us through the trials and tribulations of our freshman year. From the very start we developed our famous hoggish spirit in...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Next morning we were up bright and early to greet the sun of Founders' Day. We marched to the bridge to met the townspeople, listened to a delightful program, then we dragged even the grand stand upon the field for contest. It now came November,...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Soon after our return in the Sophomore year, we elected Heber Edwards president of the class. In our encounters with the infant 18's, we put a damper on their efforts by again winning the basketball championship and a pennant. Then, too, we made...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Sophomores -- 19's. During the first month of the school year (1916-17) the Sophomores organized themselves as the Second Year Class of the Murdock Academy. Grant Smith was elected President, Nettie Messenger, Vice President, and Golda Baldwin,...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
GRADUATION. Graduation requires sixteen units of successfully completed work. Credits will be given for work done in other standard high schools, but at least four units of work must have been completed at the Murdock Academy. No credit will be...
Adamsville boasted a store owned and operated by John F. Jones. It was fairly well stocked. He accepted butter and eggs in trade for merchandise. Since Adamsville was close to Beaver, many families made weekly trips to the stores there for a more...
ground to procure a livelihood. Aside from this, the flow of the creek, after the spring fresher of highwater, soon dried up and the low lands in the first section alone pro-vided crops.
In the course of time, school section 16 came into market and...
Dr. John Ward Christian's early education was under the direction of the Catholic Fathers. Later he attended Pennsylvania State College, now Jefferson College, where he was graduated as an M. D.
HIGHLIGHTS OF HIS LIFE
During the Mexican War, he was...
Dr. Christian served in the following capacities
Appointed Clerk of the Second Judicial District Court of the Territory of Utah, December 24, 1869, by Cyrus M. Hawley, Judge.
June 10, 1873, admitted to the bar by Judge Jacob S. Boreman.
November,...
west. A stairway leading to the upper room went up through the Institute. There were two flights of steps, one on the north and one on the south side of the room. These met and formed a landing about half-way up, then a broader set of steps...
and Charles E. Murdock. Up to this time it had been known as the Academy building. Now it needed a new name. The school children were asked to submit names. Mr. Maeser suggested to a pupil that it be named in honor of Dr. John R. Park, so long the...
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT APPOINTED
The Territorial Legislature of 1855 had passed law placing the schools under the direct control of the county court. This court was to appoint "three competent men to determine the qualifications of teacher, an all...
bers of the said choir together with all those who have so ably assisted them in catering to the comforts of their aged guests, and that said Beaver Choir become a standing committee to continue in the future the good work they have begun by...
ministration the city ordinances were.amended,. revised and compiled by S. A. Kenner, and. published in book.form.
A room in the County Court House was procured for a council chamber. Installing.a towu., clock and bell in the Court House tower was...
HISTORY OF BEAVER POST NO. 32,
OF THE AMERICAN LEGION
On December 2, 1924, the first meeting was called of all ex-service men for the purpose of organizing a Beav-er Post of the American Legion. Twenty men subscribed for membership at the meeting,...
The boys who went to the state meet in 1926-27 were Clarence Gillins (captain in 1926), Truman Bradfield, Arshel Hollingshead, Clarence Gillins (captain in 1927), Newell Marshall, Othello Smith, Clyde Hollingshead, Elmer Roberts, Hartley Eyre,...
Matilda Olsen, assistants; LaPriel Dunn, secretary; Jennie O'Dell, Alice Joseph and Evelyn Slaughter, assistants. In 1915, J. W. Johnson was chosen as superintendent of the L. D. S. Sunday School by William Ashworth, presiding elder. There is no...