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Show Treasures Discovered IniltlicOi Cedar City Residence What's hidden in your old at Mrs. Lapreal Lunt found a treasure in her last week. A neighbor of one of the vacant va-cant houses belonging to the Wilson N. Lunt estate called Mrs. Lunt to report that he had seen a group of boys playing -around and in the house and that they had been throwing book out the windows. The neighbor had dispersed the boys and had gathered up a box full of books which he thought Mrs. Lunt might like to see. Investigating, Mrs. Lunt found ta number of old textbooks and i notebooks bearing the name of t(orge W. Decker, former prin-vlil prin-vlil of the Branch Normal IVcliool whose home the house I ha 4 once been. Knowing the in- te of the college In things of ' ' tarical significance, Mrs. Lunt iltundled the box full of books Unto her car and took them to 1 librarian-historian, Tom Challis. iln the box also was a copy of i.in old Iron County Record of : 1910 vintage and a booklet. "Op-on "Op-on Sesame," published by the alumni of the Branch Normal in 1909. ' - . The find stimulated the curiosity curi-osity and the adventuresome spirit spi-rit of Mr. Challis and his assistant, assis-tant, Mrs. Inez Cooper, who arranged ar-ranged with Mrs. Lunt to meet Iter at the old house with a view to determining what else of value might be found. A Udder, a hammer, some mails, and some old two-by-four .nieces served to get Mr. Challis InU the attic. He came out look-ling look-ling like a coal miner, but beam-iing. beam-iing. His adventure had paid off 'in the' form of another box of Umuks, ; additional rare issues of i!rwi v County Record from 1910-1 1910-1 it,: some old Salt Lake Tri-it Tri-it ites' bearing stories of Pancho V.tss.rome Issues of The Student, n magazine published by the :t - Jdents.of the Branch Normal .2hool and he Branch Agricultural Agricul-tural College (among them nev-icml nev-icml hitherto missing issues that Bl help fill out the college collection col-lection of these magazines.) :ne sales slips from the old Co-ip Co-ip Store, the 1909 graduation is-stu is-stu of the University of Utah Jtfpekly paper, Chronicle, -and other interesting historical items. 'For the past two years, the ''College of Southern Utah has Ibren tracking down historical Comments, pictures and items of Interest such as these. Mr. Chains Chai-ns was appointed historian and Mrs. Cooper, asslstaant historian, by Director Royden C. Braith-walte Braith-walte In November of 19G0. Their assignment Li to create a col-lege col-lege archives, to build up the a totarical records and documents a Siion of the library, and to u ' "ie history of the College ( hern Utah from its begin- Tti ' - as the Branch Normal St. .... "esentatives of several .group Interested in the preservation preser-vation of history meeting with representatives of the College of Southern Utah and with the dl-oi dl-oi the Utah state Historical Histori-cal Society, Dr. Everett Coolev. and his predecessor. Dr. A. R. Wortenson, on Founder's Day of this year approved the designation designa-tion of the library of the College of Southern Utah as the repository reposi-tory of historical documents for the southern Utah area exclusive of government documents. Journals, Jour-nals, diaries, pictures, histories of ghost town and towns, biographies biog-raphies and autobiographies, .newspapers, and other items that aihed light on the past of southern south-ern Utah are being collected. Since then such gifts have toen received from several Interested In-terested members of the Fifty-Year Fifty-Year Club and citizens of the community. In addition, Mr. Challis and Mrs. Cooper are making mak-ing a file of tape recordings of the memories of our old-timers , who remember the early days, of Cedar City, Toquerville, the college, etc. Films of college ac-tlvltie-. preserved by the Visual Aids and Public Relations Departments De-partments are also on file. Would you like real adventure? adven-ture? Let's see what's In your old attic! |
