The Agricultural Club
THE Agricultural Club was organized during the
forepart of the school year, 1913-1914, having its
birth with the first year that the school became an
agricultural institution. It has grown with the school
during the past two...
Senior Dignity
BT I...IAST, after four years of climbing, we have
reached the goal. There have been many pitfalls
by the"- way to hinder, for a time, our onward
progress. but through perseverance \ve have succeeded.
r-';'our seemingly short years...
Our City Government
ODR CIT'Y GOVERNMEN1' is just like that of
any incorporated city. The officers are practically
the sarne and they have similar duties to
- perform. T'his organization in our school is one
of great interest to all students; and...
Spirit of the Pioneers
'T^HE policy of the Branch Agri-cultural
College to serve here in
Southern Utah in an educational,
cultural and instructive way has
been carried out this year. The stu-dents
and faculty members have
gone into Cedar City and...
B Teams
BY winning the championship this
year for the third time in four
years of competition, the high school
stock judging teams of the Branch
Agricultural College brings to the
school the cup awarded by the Og-den
Live Stock Show as a...
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...
VERTIS WOOD BILL SANDERS LEON ADAMS KEITH SMITH
School Basket Ball Team
EDAR High Quintet made a tour north during
Christmas holidays playing games with Mil-ford
High, Delta High, Peppard Seed (a pro-fessional
team) and with Minersville,...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Graduate's Farewell. The time is rapidly approaching when we must bid farewell to our Alma Mater, and it is with a mingling of both pleasure and pain. We are happy, extremely happy in the thought that our four years of high school work are coming...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Our Music Department. Among the important work done during the year 1916-17 will long be remembered the Music Department, under the able direction of Professor Gerrit de Jong, Jr. He successfully imparted some of his enthusiasm to the student of...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Athletics. No greater satisfaction can come to the student at graduation than to feel, when receiving his diploma, that he has served honestly and well the institution that now honors him. And these feelings are permanent. They will be found...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
History: In the fall of Twenty-one, twenty stalwart sagebusers from all over the southern part of our fair State came to spend their winter on the dear old Murdock campus. The spirit they had once received as high school students had called them...
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...
Beaver tribe. Some of the tribe were in good standing with Beaver Adz and his father who had some influence. (Adz means bow and arrow.)
Beaver Adz was a good-looking Indian, when young, and often worked for the "Whites," before he was injured at...
Indian situation. It was decided to call all the Beaver Indians together and feed them at the Tithing Office yard and there hold sort of a "Pow-Pow," and appoint a recognized Chief from among them. Beaver Adz was chosen Chief and all the Indians,...
CHAPTER FOUR -
FOUNDING OF TOWNS, RANCHES AND FORTS
FORT CAMERON
September, 1873, witnessed the construction of a Military Barracks at Beaver. A post had been established in May when 250 United States Troops arrived in the Territory. Though...
made butter for many years, were Sarah Nowers, Mary Low, Mrs. W. P. Smith, Amelia Smith, Mrs. Ann Levi, Sophia Dean, and others. Mrs. William Dean churned and supplied the officers at Fort Cameron with butter while they were stationed there.
In...
monuments, of different shapes and sizes, ranging from flat markers to shafts 10 to 12 feet high. He also received orders and shipped many stones to the surrounding towns.
Mr. Boyter operated the marble works until 1912. His son, Henry K. Boyter,...
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...
Chapter Ten
Communication in Pioneer Days
Beaver's Early Mail Service
Beaver's first mail service was the freight wagon train. The drivers would deliver mail to the Bishop, who in turn would distribute it in Church. Then an office was maintained in...
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...