Show Ephraim Buildings Building's Bui His His' History r Reveals Reveals Varied This rock was c erected on the corner of I Main and First North Streets in Ephraim in a about 1870 as the Ephraim Ephraim Ephraim Eph Eph- r raim op Co-op Store and f for many years was the c community's 1 leading e a din g r mercantile institution itis It i is now the north part of t the Ephraim Milling and andEl I El Elevator vator Co The south F part was erect erected d at about about about a- a t bout the same time as asa asa a 3 Reli Relief f Society granary i in which was stored the v wheat the faithful wom- wom r rn n would get from gleaning gleaning gleaning glean glean- i ing in the fie fields ds After the op Co-op went out of business the l building was us used d for various purposes Steve Peterson perhaps bes best known for his race horses horses hors hors- e es es especially old Cricket Crick Crick- e et had a second hand store on the downstairs floor Later his brother T P. P M Mt M Peter Peterson had ad a f farm farIll implement store there for many years Evan C C. C Erickson then operated a garage and car repair service there until about 1943 or r 1944 when the building was j purchased by Lawrence Hermansen and became part of the Mill The car in front would j indicate the picture was was' j taken in the early The upstairs of th the I building was used forS for S Snow n now o w College classes for j many many years and the above j picture was picture was taken for use in inthe inthe inthe the Snow College paper The Snowdrift After the College then Academy obtained other other other oth oth- er quarters the upstairs of this old building g wa was used for fora a picture re show ow first by John and later by Royal M Madsen Pi ung arid and d pel per perhaps haps others Anyone having any more information about this building also information about the old City Hall the theold theold theold old North Ward Chapel the theold theold theold old Tabernacle Armstrong Store etc would be doing a public favor by phoning or oth otherwise giving such i information information formation for for- mation to the Ephraim Enterprise Enterprise En Enterprise En- En phone so it may be published and thus preserved for future genera genera- The PUblish Publishers rs r P k 41 i t 4 p. p 3 E p |