The Agricultural Club
V DRING the school year of 1913-14 the Agricultural
club was organized, and since that
time it has continued to grow. Today it
is the largest boys' club in the B. A~ C.
I ts purpose is to promote scientific agriculture in...
DOUGLAS MANNING
SIGNAL honor was conferred upon the B. A. C. and Cedar
City when Douglas Manning was accepted as a member of the
National High School orchestra at Dallas, Texas. He upheld
that honor and added an even greater honor to himself...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
To think of this class will always bring pleasure and satisfaction. It is with them as nowhere else that I have found inspiration for the year's work. Perhaps it has been their high quality scholarship that has lent most to such pleasant...
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...
CHAPTER THREE
INDIANS OF BEAVER COUNTY
THE INDIAN RAID ON LEE'S RANCH
As Told by Gideon A. Murdock, 1917
On October 27, 1866, the majority of Beaver men had assembled to construct a roof on the Stake meeting house. The first rafter had just been...
fence in the center of block 29, just east of where the telephone office now stands. The bullet cut the emigrant's leather belt, yet he stopped long enough to pick up his pistol. A few minutes later, William Anderson saw Sissix elevate his gun and...
MATTHEW CARRUTHERS Presiding Elder 1852 Matthew C a r r u t h e r s was born J a n u a r y 15, 1811, in Scotland. He married Isabella McDonald in 1841. After his arrival in Cedar City late in 1851, t h e position of presiding Elder was assigned to...
One of the letters was written to inform him that his wife, Sarah Ann, had died of consumption.' The latest Washington paper was dated April 13. Henry received a letter from Martha Bristol in England, dated February 22, 1851. She wrote: My Dearest...
dozen large carrots and one dozen large onions." They alsc raised squash and pumpkins and an abundance of com and grain. That day, after traveling to Parowan, Henry spent the evening in counsel with George A. Smith and President J. C. L. Smith....
Works and explained things to them as well as I could. Walker seemed very much pleased and interested with the Works Henry wrote a letter to George A. Smith on February 1I, 1853, telling of the conditions in Cedar City and describing the events...
purpose of purchasing supplies for to fit out the companies of saints at Florence on the Missouri River near to the old Winter Quarters (The railway went only about fifty miles to Muscatine]. We stayed at Muscatine until eleven p.m., when we went...
scratched the bamyard faithfuily for the support of the brood. They tumed the house into an i m and, though it was but sparsely funiished, it was spotlessly clean as 1 know, for 1 sat part of the afternoon in the kitchen The wife who was busiest...
and they were cooked in every way the women could contrive. Thus the day was saved. This event was no less miraculous than the 'mama' of ancient Israel. Broughton wrote that the year of 1892 was a most desperate one, flour was not to be bought. The...
from the Mexicans and felt that this was an advantage. The natives were afraid of the mountains because they had been a stronghold for the notorious Apache Chief, Geronimo, and his followers until the United States, through a special treaty with...
Thomas went with Alonzo Farnsworth and his hired hands to Colonia Dublaq a round-trip consisting of 200 miles, to help with his freight teams. One of the reasons Thomas was asked to go was because he could speak fluent Spanish and could help in...
who had &tten it, had aiso put the word 'Father' below. It had been only an hour since the folks had lee'the graveyard. Had they known we were so near they could have sent for us. Edgerton, knowing how far we had to travel, said it would be so far...
conductor told us he would not guarantee our safe delivev to El Paso. But we were al1 loaded on, some in box cars and crowded in like cattle. Thomas wrote extensively about this journey down the mountain and getting loaded on the train, some of...
out at Lund, Utah, by Harry Hunter, Mother's brother-in-law. He took us to his home. It was a happy reunion for Grandmother Lunt and her daughter, Rose. We stayed there about a week. Mother's folks and fnends h e d up an apartment on First West,...
Lunts. She said, "1 have some money that 1 want you to take to Sister Lunt. 1 don? owe her yet but, while 1 have this money on hand, 1 would like you to take it to her." When Sarah opened the door and L i e held out the handkerchief to her, Sarah...
Eventually five of the eight brothers, as well as Edgerton's wife, Ama May, purchased farms near Duncan with the intention of living there permanently. Owen's wife, Velma, was expecting a baby and was very excited about it, especially since she had...