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Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Don't be a scrub! Be Somebody! Do Something! -- The world may owe you a living; but you will have to go around and collect the bill yourself. -- Time and tide wait for no man -- neither does any real man wait for time and tide. -- The kind of...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
The First National Bank of Beaver, is number one in Beaver on the Roll of Honor. A place where the Roll of Honor is like a man's character - it is something money cannot buy, but is won by merit and worth alone. The First National Bank has...
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...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
SENIORS: "Success with Honor," this is the motto of the seniors, the graduating class of '22. These two words are expressive of the qualities and ideals held by our class, which will now pass on knowing that this motto together with the...
According to John A. Skinner's story, Beaver Adz came running down the public road to town to get "whites" to go up and stop the fight. Skinner said Beaver Adz was an old coward and did not want any fighting. This was before he lost his eyesight....
CHAPTER Two
EXPLORERS AND IMMIGRANTS
FREMONT AND OLD SPANISH TRAIL
According to John C. Fremont, a scientifically-trained government explorer, the old Santa Fe Trail on which the large Spanish caravans or pack trains traveled from San Pedro to...
The first man to catch up with me was George Tracy, an old soldier of the Southern Army of the Rebellion. Next came William Allred, a noted Indian fighter. We were by now about 200 yards from the house. Tracy rode to the back door and called to the...
rose and bringing prosperity and contentment to the homes.
Present homes are modernized. Electric light plumbing fixtures, and telephone service have been stalled.
PINE CREEK
In the late '60s and early '70s, George William Isaac Riddle, David Levi,...
tion had to be keen in order to get the idea of what was represented. The Spirit was always on the look-out to destroy the Indians, and in one scene, comes down over some waterfalls. This is where your imagination is required. If it looked like...
ing dailies, tri-weeklies and weeklies vied simultaneously with one another for patronage, while other Utah towns of much greater population permitted a lone newspaper
to starve.
THE BEAVER ENTERPRISE was the name of the
first newspaper, the first...
Space will not permit the naming of all those who have been instructors of the youth of Beaver, however, among those who taught until about 1890, we mention the names of Charles J. Thomas, Solomon Wixom, J. F. Tolton, Andrew S. Anderson, Robert...
had as his assistant, Charles T. Stoney, who had been attending the Brigham Young Academy. This school immediately became very popular, so that night session were held for the benefit of adults who could not go in the daytime. A class in teacher...
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...
of eight was also appointed, whose duties were to inquire out objects of charity in their respective districts and to go out and solicit means for relief of the suffering. The good sisters of the branch who were lovers of benevolence were invited...
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...
"Very respectfully, "Daniel H. Wells, "Lieutenant-General, "Commanding Nauvoo Legion." (Copied from the book, "Daniel H. Wells and Events of His life," by Bryant S. Hinckley. Page 122-123) Under date of May 2, 1866, Erastus Snow of Washington...
a little hard-tack candy, for immediate call to arms. When called they served ten days or two weeks, and were then relieved by a group from another settlement. Fort Sanford was approximately 40 miles from Beaver. There was no means of...
HISTORY OF MINERSVILLE RELIEF SOCIETY
The Relief Society of the Minersville Ward was organized April 15, 1869, with Malinda Lewis as president and Harriet Bradshaw as secretary. The society was
called Female Relief Society of Minersville.
Tarlton...
WOMEN WHO HAVE PLAYED IMPORTANT PARTS AS DOCTORS IN MINERSVILLE Mary Blackburn was the first white woman to come to Minersville. She delivered the first white child, a girl, Rosena Roberts Rollins, to Mrs. George Roberts. She also delivered...