Thurs. April 7 Commenced breaking the road through the sagebrush: reached Cane Springs-ten miles. Friday, April 8 Traveled about five miles, camped without water. Sat., April 9, 1859 Reached the cottonwoods on the Beaver late after traveling about...
so light all the chickens left their roosts. This appearance lasted nearly all night. Sat., Nov. 5, 1859 Rode to Beaver. Bishop Farnsworth requested me to become one of his counselors and take charge of Minersville. I advised him to defer making...
was brought into town in tanks by the railroad and delivered to the families at 5c per bucket, and placed in barrels in the home, by Henry Osborne, water man. When a storm was brewing one could hear the clang of tubs and buckets being put under the...
much-needed hospital. With the assistance of volunteer nurses and members they carried on until the disease was controlled. Since that time the chapter has conducted home nursing and first aid classes at regular intervals. The Junior Red Cross has...
royal party were two trumpeteers, Joyce McQuarrie and Delores Merkley in pink and blue costumes. Crown bearers were Marilyn Ashworth, Arlene Morgan and Fay Hamilton, great-great granddaughters of John Ashworth, early mayor of Beaver. Almost 1000...
BERYL IRVING DEAN To Beryl Irving Dean, historian of the Silver Desert Camp, Daughters of Utah Pioneers, goes the gratitude and appreciation of the Beaver County Company. She has served for nearly 10 years in this capacity, gathering and writing...
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO BEAVER COUNTY IN THE CENTENNIAL PROGRAM With the advent of Utah's Centennial year, Beaver County Commission appointed a Centennial committee to direct the activities during the historic year. The members of the committee were:...
Branch Normal School--Cedar City (Utah)--Baseball; Hafen, Val; Rider, Roland; Urie, Earl; Ferguson, Jack; Griffin, Varney; Barton, J. W.; Stucki, Edwin; Ross, George; Bryant, Henry
Members of the 1912 men's baseball team. One member has an "N" on the front of his shirt, The coach is in the middle, in a suit. He is holding a BNS pennant. All the other members are wearing shirts with B. N. S. Utah on the front. A bat is in the...
Wed. Mar. 30, 1898: Ther. cool Wea. clear Johnie & I went over the Indian Bench via Little Meadows while Dan went around the road with the team. W tipped in the deep ditch by Thaxtons place on account on the deep snow drift in the road We got 473...
Sun. April 17, 1898: Ther. warm Wea. cloudy I went and planted some garden seeds on Rob’s place, such as Peas, chartier radish, White German turnips, Pride of Italy Onion & Chufas or earth Almond. Father & I fixed fence & made some ditch this...
Mon. April 25, 1898: Ther. 60 – 7 pm. Wea. clear I spent the day fixing my Crayon pictures ready to send back to Gripp, the German Artist of Tyrone, Pa. Tuesday 26: Ther. very warm Wea. clouds I started for ranch at 8-40 am meet Sammy Larson...
Fri. June 10, 1898: Ther. 7-40 am/ 70º, 6 pm., 78º, Wea. nearly clear. cloudy We hauled hay from the millet piece into the lower end of the barn. Saturday 11: Ther. 7-50 am 68º. Wea. Cloudy Raked and piled the hay on the upper lucern patch...
Sat. Aug. 27, 1898: Ther. warm, am. cool, pm. Wea. cloudy raining in south & east, we started out about 6 am nooned awhile at short Creek lake and the Cane Bed tank. camped about half way to Pine Spring. Sunday 28: Ther. warm. We started at...
Tues. Oct. 4, 1898: Ther. pleasant., Wea. clouds going east. We continued digging potatoes. dug about the same as yesterday Wednesday 5: Ther warm., Wea. clear. we dug nearly 60 bu. of potatoes today. Father got back from Ephriam this morning he...
Mon. Nov. 7, 1898: Ther. cooler Wea. clear clouds in the afternoon. I worked around the place till night then went to Rockville to Lydia J. Lemmon’s wedding dance. didn’t get home till nearly morning. Tuesday 8: Ther. cold Wea. clear ...
Sat. Dec. 17, 1898: Ther. 5 pm. 50’., Wea. few light clouds. I went to work on a retouching frame but didn’t get it finished. Wm L. Crawford, Oakcreek, Washington Co., Utah. Sunday 18: Ther. 3-30 pm. 48’., Wea. nearly clear. Johny & I went...
Mon. Feb. 27, 1899: Ther. 7-25 am. 44º., Wea. light thin clouds, south wind. Johny, Jim, Dan & I cleaned ditch from the floom acrost the river to Flanigan’s dam on the Demill ditch Tuesday 28: Ther. 9 am. 44º., Wea. cloudy. Johny, Dan and I...
Sat. Mar. 11, 1899: Ther. cold Wea. wind changable, clear. we left camp 6-55 stopped nearly 1 ½ hours at Short Creek for breakfast. filled our barrells at the tank nooned at the house. camped 7-20 upper fence. Sunday 12: Ther. cold Wea. breeze...
Mon. Mar. 20, 1899: Ther. 8 am. cool. Wea. cloudy 9-45 am. commenced to snow and kept it up 3 hours melting nearly as fast as it fell. We plowed near the bars this after noon. Tuesday 21: Ther. cool. Wea. light clouds, breeze. We plowed part of...