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Clubs and Organizations
HE clubs which have been organized at the Branch
Agricultural College have become a very live part
of its daily activity in socials and scholary func-tions.
Among the most prominent are the two women's clubs—
the...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah); School yearbooks
tickets, laundry bags, yea even Eras, the 17's elected as official head of the family, W. H. Bakes, as president, to guide us through the trials and tribulations of our freshman year. From the very start we developed our famous hoggish spirit in...
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
Mansfield-Murdock & Company wish to announce to the traveling public that the splendid rooms recently fitted up on the upper floor of their main building as a rooming house have been leased to Mrs. Mamie McShane, who will conduct an ideal home for...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
MUSIC Is responsible for at least 50 per cent of the good things of life. It has been our good fortune to place these good things in thousands of homes, through our ability to sell instruments of quality on very easy terms. KNABE¢VERS &...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
ment as drawn up by Mr. Emil Hansen, gardener at the U.A.C., the work will be carried on to a much greater extent next year. The plan calls for the following improvements: the moving of the athletic field, the laying off of walks, the leveling and...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
SENIORS: "Success with Honor," this is the motto of the seniors, the graduating class of '22. These two words are expressive of the qualities and ideals held by our class, which will now pass on knowing that this motto together with the...
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...
Beaver Murdock Academy--Beaver (Beaver County, Utah)
Photo of Paragoona Dramatic Society. Too much cannot be said about our Paragoona Dramatic Society. The program they gave in devotional would have done honor to professionals. Our Paragoona students as a whole added very materially to the life of...
MINERAL RESOURCES
The early discovery of precious and valuable mineral and the development of the prospects, placed the count; as one of the most important mining centers of the west It has been said that the whole county was a vast laboratory,...
"He was a strange Indian and wore a Navajo blan-ket. Brother Allred took his horse with the Indian sad-dle and bridle rope and came home, arriving here on Sun-day, evening at 9:00 p.m. The Indian had marked his trail all along and is very likely...
animals. Their, dress was rabbit skins with the fur on the outside.
There is no record of any tribal gatherings, but it is believed that the first Indians of Beaver County at certain times traveled to other parts of the State to engage in what was...
strand twine about the size of a mason's chalk line. (The McGuay lasso rope, somewhat popular in the 90's, was made of oose.) The little spinning machine was very simple, being made of two sticks. The handle was about five eighths of an inch in...
shoo Coyote's two big hounds before they could get into his camp to bury him there with his guns, etc.
Sissix, "the renegade Ute," was banished from the Ute Tribe for murder. He then went to live with the Pavants of Corn Creek, in Millard County....
Beaver Adz was popular among the Indians and was considered the best shot with bow and arrow, in the tribe. Pahshaunts was also an expert shot. "Mike" Powers, owner of the Star Saloon, in Beaver, asked Pahshaunts to come with his bow and arrow and...
The Navajos were cunning and crafty thieves, having different ways to deceive the settlers. Part of the band would profess great friendship and would camp in town at the Tithing Office and have beef and other supplies given them. They would trade...
expired, they married and established themselves in our midst as private citizens.
In April, 1883, due to the long distance of hauling provisions and supplies, the camp was disbanded and the troops moved to Fort Douglas at Salt Lake.
In October,...
the farm land for a reservoir site. Many families sold out and moved away to other counties. Adamsville lost many of its citizens. Since then its population has scattered far and wide. The school was closed and the students were transported by...
July 4th, 1900, by a party consisting of Orrin Puffer, William A. Twitchell, James Valentine, and William Man-hard. There still are deer, a few mountain lions, coyotes and bob cats. Fox are very scarce. Beaver, having been imported and protected,...
CHAPTER FIVE
SOCIAL LIFE IN PIONEER DAYS
HOME DRAMATICS IN BEAVER
One of the first dramatic companies in Beaver was managed and sponsored by Robert Stoney and Henry Blackner. Jenny Harris and Sarah Ann Stoney, both talented and lovely young women,...