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Show About This and That By Pearl Thompson A great deal of interest was shown in the adult education classes that were offered in the meeting at the BHS on Wednesday Wednes-day of last week. Those in charge were Bryce Draper, Grant Es-plin Es-plin and Wells Farrer. About 30 people attended and a lively discussion dis-cussion was carried on. Classes creating the most interest were Art, Minerology (prospectors' course), shop, type, business, speedwriting, languages, PE, including in-cluding three phases of dancing, etc. It seems there is no limit to the courses, as long as there are 10 people who want to take them, may contact either of the above men for more information. Mr. Rummler presented his mixed chorus in a very nice entertainment en-tertainment at the Auditorium on Wednesday following the adult education meeting. A much larger i audience was there than had ! been seen recently at such functions. func-tions. The chorus is a very talented group and of high quality. The numbers that were rendered left no question in the minds of anyone any-one of the good training they had had. Everyone enjoyed the entertainment en-tertainment and we are hoping for more in the future. At the sacrament meeting in the Beaver First Ward on Sunday Sun-day Lary Call gave a vocal solo and talked on Genealogy. At the Second and Third Ward meeting Roland Baker, newly returned re-turned missionary from Miners-ville, Miners-ville, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Baker, told of his missionary experiences. ex-periences. Raymond Baker, brother of the missionary, accompanied himself and Roland on the autoharp while they sang two numbers, most of which was in the Maori language. I REMEMBER WHEN . . . There were no buildings north of Merrills store: and during the first world war there were victory vic-tory gardens planted back in the lot there, before the Billiard Parlor, Sam's Furniture, Dr. Mc-Quarrey's Mc-Quarrey's office, Anne Bells' and Milo's Barber Shop were built. That part of our business section has come a long way from then. I can remember the corn stalks standing late in the winter and the old fences that were around the gardens were partly down and ugly. The gardens were planted by the schools, to help in the food for victory drives that were conducted con-ducted when I was down in the grade school. We all had our turns going down and keeping the weeds pulled, and how the cattle used to get loose, and would wander along brousing, straight for the victory gardens, and how they never could be held out of the garden, they would trample down the fences to get in. Then how late in the winter the corn stalks, fence posts and draping wire fences were all we could see above the snow. In those days we had snow. Then when the January thaws would come; the water, ice, and snow would flood down the canals and the one north of the present high-school would flood all down in town and run into the stores; and the merchants would have to put sacks of flour at their doors to keep the water1 out, until the water had subsided, because every available man had worked to turn the water back into the canals. (Those were the good old days) the children would say now. Then I can remember about the year 1923 the Late Mr. George Murdock purchased the large brick building on the corner where the Utah Oil service station stat-ion is naw. It was then owned by the late George Woodhouse. In back of the building was their home and in front he had a harness har-ness and shoe repair shop. He in turn took the home the Mur-' dock family had built east of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Joseph home, (Now Being purchased by Mr. Allen Al-len Hutchings) and the Murdock family moved into the -quarters where the Woodhouse family moved out of. The building originally ori-ginally was called the Thompson building, which had a wealth of history. The story goes that in the top was a place the John D. Lee trial was held and later became a dance hall. On the ground floor was a saloon and in the bottom bot-tom was a jail. The Murdock family fam-ily renovated and remodeled the building and had rooms to "let" up stairs and out in the yard they built the first string of cab-uns cab-uns far tourists that Beaver ever had. |
