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Show Valuable and Interesting Documents Of Earlv History Deposited at C S U Library dentbody and faculty of the oM district school that stood behind the Tabernacle whore the First Ward stone chapel now stands-and stands-and one of an early May Day celebration, showing a group ol girls in white braiding the Maypole May-pole while spectators lock on, soie from the vantage! point of the top of a high board fence. Ada Leigh has also recently contributed some pioneer pictures pic-tures and from Mrs. Zelma Lunt the Chapter received several oM land patents. Most recent acquisition is ;i collection of early law books an I lirst editions of religious publications publi-cations of the Church of, Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints j.;iv-en j.;iv-en the library by Dennis R. Mos-dell. Mos-dell. This collection, inherited by Dennis from his grandfather, W. R. MeBrido, contains one especially es-pecially interesting item, a .vcraphoiik containing an account of the death of Brigham Young, and a clipping from the "Pa rowan ro-wan Times" on the release of Bishop Win. 11. Dame after he was tried and exonerated from implication in the Mountain Meadow Massacre. A poem on the "Women of Utah" by Emily Hill Wof.dmans' i is dated Feh-! Feh-! ruary I Soil and deals with the failure of the governor to sigtu 'the Women's Bill. There are oth j or interesting poems treating the ; (-vents of interest of the day and a listing of the Townships appearing ap-pearing in the New Government Survey of June, 1875. Of interest also is a telegram to President Win. H. Dame, dated dat-ed Nov. 2f), 1878, informing him of the death of Apostle Orson Hyde, and articles of incorporation incorpora-tion of the Utah Iron and Manufacturing Manu-facturing Company. Warren Bulloch recently deposited depos-ited in the historical collection of the library of the College of Southern Utah the first two minute min-ute books of the old Cedar Sheep Association. He has also loaned his serapbook of newspaper clippings clip-pings for use in studying the history of the college and the community. This is a very valuable valu-able tool as it contains clippings of great interest collected over the many years that Mr. Bulloch has been involved in public service ser-vice and mirrors his wide1 range of interests in the community and its life and growth. Four envelopes bearing the office cancellation stamp of the now ghost town of Frisco, Utah in the year 1901, and the two cent postage stamps of the turn of the century are among iiein given by Alva Mathoson to tin-Iron tin-Iron County Chapter of the Utah State Historical Society for pros ervation in the library of the college which is the chapter's depository. Also in the eo! lection lec-tion from Mr. Mathoson's uncle. George Rasmussen of Parowan. recently deceased, is one envelope envel-ope dated 1001 from Manassa. Colorado, and several from San-ford, San-ford, LaJara, and Alamosa, Colo. Resides the envelopes, the collection col-lection contains several letters of interest in picturing the frontier fron-tier life and interests of the time, giving accounts of community epidemics, weddings, entertainments, entertain-ments, etc. Mr. Rasmussen had also kept programs of the Iron County Fair at Parowan for many years. He had been watermaster of the community as well and had kept Early Records In addition to these items from his uncle's collection, Mr. Mathoson Math-oson has also donated a large photograph, in its original frame, or his grandfather, Christian liasniussen. Another item of interest in-terest and value in Mr. Mathoson's Matho-son's collection in the library is a photostatic copy of a deed' made by Christian Rasmussen of j all his real and personal proper-to proper-to to the Church of Jesus Christ j of Latter-day Saints at the time) of the United Order, lie said he! would rather not join the Order: himself, but that he would not want to jeopardize its success by withholding his property. j The Chapter also recently received re-ceived a copy of oik- of the early ' 'Thunderbird" newspapers, dat- ' cd March 27, UC7, from Al len J Grimshaw. This sort of gilt is ' helpful in completing the library's li-brary's file of student publications publica-tions which goes back to the earliest joarbooks and newspaper;; newspap-er;; of the Branch Normal School. The copy of the "Thunderbird" donated by Mr. Grimshaw is one of the few that have been kept from that year. The library is also collecting the local newspapers news-papers of the .southern Utah area, especially Iron County Records. Pioneer Pictmres Several pictures of early pioneers pi-oneers and several fine old books have been given to the chapter by Sherman Ilaight. Two of the pictures with the widest interest appeal are one of the entire stu- water tickets for a ten year period,, per-iod,, 1917-1927, and other interesting inter-esting items. |