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Show J. S. MURDOCHS " ; WILL OBSERVE ! 50th ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. John Simeon Murdock will be honored at an open house Sunday. Jan. 18, at the home of their son in law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Mac D. Armstrong. 230 Ncith 900 West. Cedar City, in observance of their Golden Wedding anniversary. Friends are invited to call at the Armstrong residence between 2 and 5 p. m. They request no gifts. Mr. Murdock, a son of pioneers pio-neers Mr. and Mrs. Gideon A. Murdock, spent most of his life in Minersville as a farmer and stockman. He served two terms as a Beaver County Commissioner, a term as county coun-ty assessor; was president of the Minersville Irrigation Co. and a member of the Rocky Ford Irrigation Co. and the Beaver County Irrigation Co. From 1913 to 1915, when the Minersville Reservoir was under un-der construction, he contracted to build many miles of ditches in the South Milford farming area. He attended Murdock Academy Acad-emy at Beaver and the BYC at Logan. In 1920 , Mr. Murdock and Eloise Pryor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred R. Pryor, were married. Mrs. Murdock spent many years singing for church and other activities. For 13 years she served on the Beaver County Public Welfare Board. She has been a Relief Society teacher, vice captain of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, member of the building fund committee for the new Minersville Miners-ville LDS Church. She attended Murdock Academy Acad-emy at Beaver and the BYC at Logan. , , They have tnree children, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton (Donna) Boyter, Winston, Ore.; Mr. and Mrs. Ray S. Murdock, Oakland. Ore.; and Mr. and Mrs. Mac D. (Edith) Armstrong, Cedar City; also 10 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Mr. Murdock has two daughters by a previous marriage, Mrs. Vilda Smith, Provo, and Mrs. O. A. (Jenny) Moburg, Amsterdam, Am-sterdam, Mo.; three grandsons and seven great-grandchildren. After retiring in 1960 they moved to Cedar . City, where they reside at 83 North 100 West Street. . - |