~ Three Years at High School
HOW the time flies! And yet as we look back upon those
three years of happy school life, filled to the brim with
so many pleasant experiences, and see the work we
have accomplished, the many dear friends we have made,...
Physical Education
IN considering the purpose of physical education we
must center our attention not on satisfying the
individual desire, but on an inquiry as to whether
and in what manner the general effectiveness a.nd
usefulness of the student...
The Utah Agricultural College
offers to the graduates of the Normal
School and the High School excepÂtional
opportunities for advanced train- .
ing in Agriculture, Home Economics,
Agricultural Engi!!~_~Jing,.'.Com-
," metee,---lVleclian~--Arts...
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 sucÂceeded.
r-';'our seemingly short years...
Cedar Bakery and
Cafe
Headquarters for All Kinds of
Pastry, Bread and Pies
Palmer Brothers
Carry
Harnesses and Saddlery goods made -for
service. No branded leather or sloppy work.
We also sell L,ap Robes, Navajo Saddle
Blankets, Whips, Harness Oil,...
education should fit us into life, will-ing
workers in its sometimes hard
processes, patient in our search for
its truths, avoiding vanity and the
other hypocricies which, if they
fasten themselves upon us, leave
us hardly worth burying. Down...
PEP CLUB
Pep Girls were organized in
February, 1930, with Elliot Eat-ough
as their President and Arr
Nita Urie as Secretary.
The aim of the Pep Girls has been
to instill into the school "pep,"
"spirit," and "life," and to support
all Student Body...
Animal College Trip to Zion Canyon
\ four o'clock Friday, October
*^ 11, a crowd of college students
boarded cars for Zion Canyon. At
8 o'clock the truck drove up to a
huge bon fire just below and south
of Angel's landing. Of course it re-ceived
a...
Geology Trip to Toroweap Valley
and Grand Canyon
YDA, Gilbert, Wendell, Thresa,
Gaorgia, George, Kate, Wes,
Red, Fat, Dave, Thora, Mable,
Frank, and two Arthurs left the
B. A. C. Thursday, March 13, at four
o'clock in an automobile, two Fords
and...
BERT SMITH
President
VIRGINIA CORRY
Vice-President
REX HARRIS
Secretary
THEO CORRY
Class Representative
Fourth Year- Class
HE Fourth Year class of '27, with a group
including many active and efficient students of
the school, have readily responded...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Debating. A short review of our Debating activities will in no way be out of place here. In the past much interest has been taken along this line and we have put up splendid fights with our sister schools. In some of the encounters we came out...
so far completed as to be suitable for the occasion. The earth floor, spread with a blanket, sufficed for a table and the seats were of oriental style.
The year of 1855 had been a year of calamity, famine and distress. The crops in this part of 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...
The first man to catch up with me was George Tracy, an old soldier of the Southern Army of the Rebellion. Next came William Allred, a noted Indian fighter. We were by now about 200 yards from the house. Tracy rode to the back door and called to the...
After an opening was made large enough he succeeded in putting the fire out with water, milk and vinegar, the only available liquids. The Indians were eventually driven away.
It was found that the Indians had driven all the cattle
out of the...
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...
Plenty of room is found here for camping, all free. Fishing is good, either from the shore or from the lake. Boats can be rented for a reasonable price.
It is only a short drive on Highway No. 21 up to and across the Big Flat to what is called the...
man." (A copy of the Enterprise of August 12, 1875, is still in existence and is the property of Mary Goodwin of Beaver).
THE BEAVER COUNTY SENTINEL was the next
paper, and was managed by G. W. McLaughlin.
THE SQUARE DEALER, with Joseph Field again...
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...