LELAND BETENSON
Betty has taken on the air of a marĀried
man, but his hasty steps sure
startled us.
DORRIS SORENSON
Going to take out her M. D. (Mother's
Duties) degree this year.
LAFELL IVERSON
Pessimists would laugh with "Fuzzy."
ANNA THORLEY
If...
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...
cook and waitress, with Ed Walker and brother of Salt Lake, dishwashers. We were persuaded to hire a Jap cook, who was immaculately clean, and a good cook, but one morning we were awakened early to find him gone. We, with our young daughter Erma,...
reason for the growth of the valley, but it hardly would be correct to say that the railroad with its people have had less than a major part in bringing the town up from the size of a spot on the map to the present city that it now represents with...
smoke. A table and benches had been erected, and by nightfall a hot dinner was prepared, a dormitory, for the boys had been arranged in the second story of the old Administration Building. (This building was formerly the offices of the officers of...
Emery County (Utah); Hite (Utah); Glen Canyon; Lake Powell; Swasey Family
The Swasey Family donated this photograph originally from Pearl Baker. This is the town of Hite in Glen Canyon in the 1920s. A wagon can be seen on the right of the picture and cabins with smoke coming from the chimney. Joshua Sweet's cabin is...
Emery County (Utah); Historic Structures; Historic Buildings; Fires; Huntington; Schools
Addie Richards attended Huntington School when it caught fire and burned in 1923. According to Addie, the teachers could not get the school board to build a fire escape for the second floor, so the Principal Leon Leonard and sixth grade teacher...
April 11, 18.54...An Ordinance regulating the sale of soirituous liouors i n Cedar Citv: ~ e c . l . . . B e i t ordained by t h e City Council of Cedar City t h a t no persons o r persons shall sell o r b a r t e r , in exchange, any spirituous...
KOPP'S GARAGE
( City Fire Station)
40 South Main About 1923 "The First Fire Truck" Left to Right: H . 0. Rice, Heber Holyoak, Melville Arns, Joe Kopp ( d r i v e r ) , George Millett, and Joe Doty. June 3 , 1915. .Mayor recommended a fire shed be...
for Monday, but some of the property owners decided to p u t the sewer in before the oiling was done. The road oiling was postponed until later this summer. The Council discussed the disposal of the sewage water. Something has to be done soon. The...
connections a r e available outside City limits. Walt Lowe met with the council to inform them that this was 'D-Day' for the Hotel. After discussion, Councilman Schmutz motioned that the City take immediate s t e p s to close down the Hotel,...
Pugmire told Henry that he believed that Brother Bosnell was guilty of the things his daughter accused him of, and he had found evidence to prove it. They agreed to make further inquiry Jesse Lewis and Betsy Pugmire were manied by Henry Lunt on...
Works and explained things to them as well as I could. Walker seemed very much pleased and interested with the Works Henry wrote a letter to George A. Smith on February 1I, 1853, telling of the conditions in Cedar City and describing the events...
retaliation. They never forgot an injury or an injustice. In other words, they subscribed to the worn out code of an "eye for an eye and a life for a life." With them the punishment of crime was a personal, rather than a public, matter. There was...
whom Dalton had escaped before, traveled from Beaver to Parowan to arrest him. The two Marshals hid and, when they saw Dalton, he began to run and they called for him to stop. Without waiting, Thompson shot Dalton in the back, killing him. Apostle...
Owen. Thomas, who did not get manied until 1905, became involved in working elsewhere;consequently, he could only spend a little time working on the f a m When Oscar and George got married, Thomas wrote that the responsibility fe11 on him to...
caught and arrested the man. Later, when his trial was to be held in Beaver, Mr. Phillips sent for Lehi to be a witness. Here he met the famous cattle rustler, Jim hlarshall, who had helonged to the Ku Klux Klan during the Civil War and was the...