JOSEPH BETTRIDGE ERVIL SANDERS KENNETH PUGH
JOE BETTRIDGE
Slick forward of the Branch Aggie
hoopsters, has helped win the way to
the tournament for two successive seas-ons.
He is a dependable guard and
forward, usually making the hoop...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
Parents who can do so are especially invited to come and live with their children at the school and partake of the same privilege of free rent offered to students. Children not of high school age may be provided for in the Beaver county school and...
strand twine about the size of a mason's chalk line. (The McGuay lasso rope, somewhat popular in the 90's, was made of oose.) The little spinning machine was very simple, being made of two sticks. The handle was about five eighths of an inch in...
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...
INDUSTRIES IN PIONEER DAYS AGRICULTURE AND STOCK RAISING
Agriculture and stock raising were the two most important industries in Beaver County in pioneer days.
The Mormon founders of Utah built their culture and institutions on an agricultural...
of the institution until about 1890, it was possible to se-cure all the wool necessary to operate the plant by exchanging the mill products for the wool. About this time, wool demanded cash or mostly cash and the mills found it difficult to sell...
pared with the wax or tallow candles, they were far superior. Most women prided themselves on keeping the lamp filled, trimmed, and the chimney shining.
Gas lights were suspended from the ceilings in a few homes out of the Beaver city limits. These...
property and in 1890 she and her husband, W. H. Bakes, added a two-story brick building on the north of the present building and started in the hotel business. For fifty years she cooked for boarders in that house. For many years it was the home...
adjoining the main structure is 32x29 feet. This addition was built for the purpose of vaults, and adjoining this is the county jail, built of pink sandstone. The original cost of the old Territorial Court House was approximately $10,960. This...
was apportioned into two school districts. Beaver constituted District No. 1, Minersville and Lower Beaver, District No. 2. Later, Beaver was apportioned into eight school districts. An act regulating the manufacture, sale or other disposal of...
On the corner'where Dr. Busch's office is, was a large storage cellar which belonged to A. G. Campbell. Behind the cellar, where the McCulley house stands, was a saloon, and a blacksmith shop. Earlier, Mat Cullen had a store on the corner. Angus...
BINGHAM ran the rooming house later operated by Mrs. Hardy. FORGIE Jimmy, a rancher and cattleman, and Johnny, who built the Forgie apartment house. BRADFIELD Thomas, roundhouse foreman. GUILES Peter, ran a livery stable and feed yard on the...
was the town hall and social center, so to speak. Something scheduled for every evening of the week. The best entertainment that one could seek, events and happenings filled every day of the year. A bit of romance a smile a tear preachings and...
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and the histological work is conducted along the most approved lines and the best of apparatus is in use.
The Physics department has all the apparatus necessary for giving a thorough course in Elementary...
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DOMESTIC SCIENCE AND ARTS.
Miss BOWMAN.
Hand Models. This work consists of making all varieties of stitches used in plain sewing and embroidery. The student makes a set of models,3comprising the various stitches,...
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LABORATORIES AND APPARATUS.
The Laboratories are located in the Science Building.
The biological laboratory is provided with compound microscopes, dissecting microscopes, accessory...
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Much field work is-done during the fall months and the student led to observe and investigate for himself.
Special attention is paid in class to discussion of the laws of Biology; and original papers required-the...