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Service Station,. Ford E,xtras and Accessories.
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The Junior College Tournament
r~p*HE Rocky Mountain Junior Col-kge
Basketball Tournament is a
Southern Utah idea. The first meet
was held at Snow College in 1924
with only four teams participating.
The following year, with other
schools added, the...
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...
first of December 'till late in February an assistant was furnished Mr. Horne. The balance of the time he taught alone.
"The textbooks used were McGuffy's Readers, Ray's
Third Part Arithmetic, and Blue-Backed Spelling Book. Almost all reading was...
few blue-backed spelling books and McGuffey's Readers. Often there was only one book to a room, so it would be passed around from one pupil to another. Slates and slate pencils were scarce, notebooks and lead pencils were unknown. One woman who...
fit for habitation." The desert he traversed was named after him, Escalante." Another wise man said, "The old desert takes its toll of everything you get out of it." But another man, whose life was more closely linked with the desert, said, "I...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Swasey Family; Swaseys' Cabin
Joe Swasey and sons and the Nordell brothers (tied into the Swasey family by marriage) built this cabin on the San Rafael Swell in 1921 in the Sinbad area. This photograph was taken when they were beginning the cabin. The cabin is now on the...
individuals who could claim the waters of said springs through their being cut off from the main flow, and could in no sense be considered feeders; furthermore, the land in Coal Creek Canyon is still public domain and subject to e n t r y and...
Aug. 6 , 1894.. . I t was resolved that Water Tax for 1894 be 500 per lot for irrigation and $1.00 per family for culinary purposes. Oct. 1, 1894.. .The Mayor stated that George Wood and the Cedar Sheep Association had generously offered money and...
THOMAS J . JONES Biography 1858 - 1931 Thomas Jedediah Jones, the fourth son of Thomas and Sage Treharne Jones, was born June 5 , 1858, in Cedar City, Utah. Quite early in life he took to the carpentry t r a d e , which he followed quite...
Dec. 19. 1 9 1 2 . . .Mayor Urie stated that we have had a very successful y e a r , free from epidemics of Typhoid and other 1. To contagions. He made recommendations a s follows: extend pipeline to other mountain springs in the Five Lakes...
Treasurer. City Manager Perry reported that a toilet could be installed in the City Jail for about $100. Motion by Fred L. Biederman that the City Manager be authorized to have this done. Carried. May 3, 1930.. .The matter of assuring Dixie Power...
apostles saw i t , was not so much the smelting of iron, vital though this was to the pioneer economy, b u t , more importantly, the building of a harmonious and unified community here on the borders of civilization. This was to be done in spite of...
tickets cost $3.00 and could be paid in produce. W have e been unable to unearth documentation of activities of the Dramatic Association beyond 1880, but it is safe to say that a community tradition had been set which no doubt led to support and...
century is often not realized. Late in 1868 a cooperative mercantile institution was established which had grown by the t u r n of the century to include a gristmill, a sawmill, and a t a n n e r y , all community-owned, and doing a business of...
another grand occasion, and victory for the L.D. Saints, and it fills every faithful member of the church with joy and gladness and makes us feel to shout, 'Glory Hallelujah' to God & the Lamb. Aunt Ellen writes me that Hairietta has got another...
The rra in which Lchi JVillard Jones lived was one of the most intcrI i u ~~ U I I I I S U ~periods in ihc history of the west. T h e unique enI d ~ vi~o~~n~cnti~l irtnlosphrre o l the iltnh 'l'erriiory was cha1lrn::ini: and .. C ~ I I I Ii I ~...
ticks and buckskin were made to serve as clothing materials, nntil sheep became more plentiful. Anything the people had to spare was traded to the Indians for huckskin which could he used for clothing and moccasins. The people made everything they...
In July of 1888, Henry Lunt, who was living in Arizona at that time, wrote a letter to Lehi as fnllo\va: ".\rizona, July 2ndJ88 My Dear Bro. Lehi, Yours of the 7th left, mnic safely to hand some time ago and am always pleased to hear from you and...
Sarah Ann, Lehi'n sister, dies. Death of IVilliain Treharne Jones, Lehi's brother. Death of Lchi's mother, Sage Treharne Jones. Stories of Sage T . Jones. Picturf o f Jones Brothers. Pirtuae of grandchildren. Pictures of Sage T. Jones, Sarah Ann J....