APOSTLE EZRAH TAFT BENSON SPEAKS AT MORONI FEED COMPANY ANNUAL MEETING 1949 ~~~Includes You Tube Video (not of the meeting)

 

PIONEER DAY BALL INVITE 1913 (taken from the Elva Guyman Collection)

 

 

This would be what your Pioneer Day Ball invitation would look like in 1913.  


All were requested to be in "Old Fashioned Dress."


And it was to be held at the Mt. Pleasant Opera House.  


Tickets 50 cents  ~  Extra ladies 25 cents.

MT. PLEASANT HISTORY ~~~DEATHS, MARRIAGES, FIRST MEETING AND SCHOOL HOUSE

       and his son were musicians in the Salt Lake Theatre for many years.

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY "SCORE CLUB"~~~circa 1930~~~Johanna Madsen

Johanna is in the middle row, 5th from the left.

 There are also a lot of local names in this picture.  Madsen, Petersen, Hansen, Johnson, Olsen, and Stewart.

DEMOREST PROHIBITION PRIZE MEDAL (From our archives)

 

Prohibition prize medal 

In the late 1880s, William Jennings Demorest often awarded these silver medals to schoolchildren for producing essays about Prohibition. After achieving financial success in New York through publishing and the textile industry, Demorest attempted to launch a political career grounded on the principles of Prohibition. In 1888 Demorest was nominated as the Prohibition Party candidate for lieutenant governor of New York.

UNKNOWN SCHOOL CHILDREN ~~~ UNKNOWN SCHOOL ~~~ Help us identify these; we believe early 1900s based on their clothing.

 

WONDERFUL RECIPES FROM THOSE YOU MAY REMEMBER ~~~NELSON,MADSEN, DRAPER, HAFEN, FOWLES

 

FAMILY PHOTOS FROM THE ALICE PEEL HAFEN COLLECTION

 

 

Barbara Peel 

Front Row:  Naomi Ericksen, Willa Rae Seely, Barbara Peel, Kent Seely

Back: Grandma Ericksen, H.G. Ericksen, Lois Peel, Margaret Peel 

Back:  Grandma Ericksen, Gladys Ericksen Seely,
Middle:  Kent Seely
Front:  Barbara Peel, Grandma Ericksen (again?)

Dancing on Water cover
Virginia in front ? 

Margaret Nielsen

PRESIDENT ROGER HANSEN ~~~ ENDOWMENT FUND

 

taken from Alice Hafen Collection

MY WILL and TESTAMENT ~~~ Author Unknown

 

HOME OF CHRISTIAN HARBRO (JAMES CHRISTENSEN) AND WIFE CHRISTINA MADSEN

 

MAX BLAIN ART SHOW ~~~ LIBRARY OPENHOUSE 1989

 

Mt. Pleasant History

 

BIRTHS:
Isaiah Cox, son of Issiah and Henrietta James Cox, born June 5, 1859. The family had just arrived at Mount Pleasant, and was camped in a covered wagon, on the banks of Pleasant Creek.
Edward Dalley, son of Edward and Elsie Aldrich Dalley, born
July 27, 1859.
Mc Carl Johansen, son of Peter and Annie Christina Johansen,
born September 5, 1859.
Joseph Beck, son of Hans C. H. Beck and Maria Rasmussen
Beck, born September 8, 1859.
Cinthia Nielsen (Mrs. D. R. Fitger), daughter of Fredrick and
Christina Nielsen, born August 15, 1859.
Sarah Jorgensen (Mrs. James Borg), daughter of Jens and
Christina Jorgensen, born September 18, 1859.