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...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
Class History of the 18's. On September 21, 1914, a husky bunch of nearly ninety, possessing much of the greeness of our April meadows, but full of ambition and determination, trooped up the broad steps of Murdock and formed the foundations of the...
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)
GRADUATION. Graduation requires sixteen units of successfully completed work. Credits will be given for work done in other standard high schools, but at least four units of work must have been completed at the Murdock Academy. No credit will be...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
Our Music Department. We are all very much pleased with our Music Department, and to the untiring efforts of our beloved instructor, Professor C. N. Lyngby, are we indebted for its splendid success. He successfully imparted some of his enthusiasm...
ground to procure a livelihood. Aside from this, the flow of the creek, after the spring fresher of highwater, soon dried up and the low lands in the first section alone pro-vided crops.
In the course of time, school section 16 came into market and...
operated by water power. It continued to run successfully until the erection of the Woolen Mills a few years later. Mr. Curfew was the grandfather of Clyde L. Messinger of Beaver.
Tannery
In 1869, Samuel N. Slaughter, having emigrated from Cape...
the Lumber and Brick schools. Mrs. Lizzie Neilsen recalls her school days with "Aunt Lu" in these words: "She was the mother of a large family, which always incuded a baby. All the children came to school with their mother, and each morning we were...
THE SOUTHERN BRANCH
OF
THE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH.
GENERAL INFORMATION.
HISTORY.
By an act of the Legislature of the State of Utah, approved March 11, 1897, it was provided that a branch of the State Normal School...
Tithing Office o r school house on reasonable terms. Councilor Nielson reported purchasing 900 feet of lumber for $27 in homemade goods o r wool at 306 per pound. Sustained. The Auditor was i n s t r u c t e d to issue a warrant in favor of J e n s...
LEHl WILLARD JONES Biography 1854 - 1947 Lehi W . Jones was born November 15, 1854. t h r e e y e a r s a f t e r Cedar City was founded a s a base for development of t h e iron o r e deposits n e a r b y . He was born in t h e 'Old Fort' to Thomas...
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...
SHERRELL VAN "JACK" SAWYERS Biography Jack Sawyers, t h e name h e usually goes b y , was born August 28, 1933. I n J o s e p h , Utah, to Bill Mac a n d Irene Miller Sawyers. He attended the f i r s t a n d second g r a d e in Joseph and completed...
labors, and reverently called upon Him to bless u s in the i u t u r e and to enable u s to maintain ourselves in this desert land, also to protect u s from the wiley Indian and help u s to accomplish the mission we were sent to perform, namely,...
in increasing the capacity of our Iron Works. W began to e feel proud of our achievements; b u t , low and behold, the bursting of a rain cloud in the mountains brought a flood down the Creek, and in a few hours the labors of months of incessant...
joumeyed to Salt Lake Valiey ready to die with the Saints rather than submit to further persecution, is one of the h e s t exarnples of the unity and faith of the Mormon people. The attitude was maintained throughout by the Mormon leaders that,...
The problem of wlonization was particularly difficult during the Utah War because of the large number of people called back to Utah. In addition, two to four thousand immigrants were brought into the tenitory each year by the pioneer companies....
The family members helped i cooking and sewing the food. Al1 the n girls and wives were involved in this Dart of the service to the hotel guests. There was a great deal of laundry and cleaning that was necessary to keep the rooms ready, so there...
J d e d i a h Tones married. Kunren and ~ e h takins care of cattle. i Exploring party ]pave3 for San Juan. Komen's account of Hole-in-theRock trek, etr.
Jedediah, Lehi's younger brother, married Ellen Eva Wilson Lunt, Henrietta's younger sister,...
July 17, 1897; Elton Lunt Jones, born Jan. 22, 1901 ; and Preston Lunt Jones, born Mar. 6, 1904. Kumen's Journal includes this statement about Thomas Jed: ".4s a child he started out with a happy disposition, and with a rather mechanical turn, and...