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Show 16 17 17 WARD REUNIONS Another annual affair was the ward reunion honoring Invited but the old people of the ward. Everyone was invited was expected to bring plenty to eat in their baskets. Large tables were set in the assembly room and the served . older folks ate first, then the children were served. A lolk program of local talent was given and then the men folk ll and the ladies "chores" hastened home to do the evening "chores visited and enjoyed themselves until supper time, when lell. again all ate what was left. The floor was then cleared lor dancing and all the dances of the time were danced for scholliche, by everyone. Varsouvienne, three-step, schottiche, waltz;i Waltz Quadrille, and plain Quadrilles were Rye waltz enJoyed. Sometimes a prize waltz which would be won Atwood . indeed I by Frank and Ruby Atwood. Yes indeed! They were d~nces! the good old days and the good old dr.lncesl It became necessary to have the As time passed it children remain at school as there became too many to accommodate. This has remained the custom down to the present time . paltern has changed with the time. Of course the pallern times but the annual dinner is stili held usually on 22 of 01 each year and In February 22 in July the annual out01 the surIng is held at Lagoon lor the Old People 01 rounding Stakes consisting of a dinner, program and social time and renewing acquaintances with each other. THE SOUTH SCHOOL HOUSE This is a very old picture of 01 the South School · and the children 01 01 the very first settlers of 01 the Dry Creek Area that later became the town of Crescent. Many of 01 these Ihese students are the parents and grandoarents of 01 the residents 01 This picture was 01 our town today. today . taken about 1890-1894. 1690-1694. All e S grades were taught there. there . STORES Crescent was not without grovery stores. At first Ihe settlers did their shopping at Draper at the D.O. the Rideout General Store. Here they could trade their eggs, buller, butter, potatoes, grain etc. lor groceries and hardware. But when Otto 0110 E. Vombaur moved here In 1696 1898 he built a store dose to Slale State Streel Street where he supplied the town with groceries, dry goods, notions and hardware hardware.. Then Jesse P. Dalley who had married Lavina Taylor moved inlo Into the little home vvhere where Soren Jensen had lived and in one room sel set up a little Illtle dry goods store about 1904, but In 1906 he moved to Bountiful. About 1926 1926 Harold Faulkner opened a General Store at the same cite which he ran for a number of years. A small store and Service Slation Station,, with living quarters, quarters7 was built at 10990 South State, about 1926. In 1926 1928 and 1929, 1929, it It was operated by Prosser and Luelle Lucile Jensen Ashby. A Mr. Thomas also In 1941 al so operated this this; slore. store. 1941 Jack Lerwill bought It and buill built a larger brick building wilh with living quarters above. He lived there and operated the store until his death in 1947. II 1947. It was then leased by Orin Jenkins, but he only had a store lor a shorl It ~.s short lime. time. 'W_s thought this store would be a good envestment because It it was so close 10 to the school, but due to so much traffic trailic the schoot schOOl authorities would i ldren to cross State Street. 'Would not allow the ch children 1st row: ",·ow : Roy Bell, Johnny .Bell, Willie Gange, Reuben Fairbourn Charles William Smith, Johnny Eddins, Charl es Brown, Richard .... ------ Bateman. Jensen, .------2nd row: Pearl Eddins, Ella Bullock, Charles E. Smith, LawRetta Brown, rence E'. Nelson, John Taylor, Emma Rella Sofia Gunderson, Hattie Eddins, Mercy Osborne, Earl Solla Kemp, Au94st Augyst L. Nelson. 3rd row: ~Ice Jensen, Jeanette (Nellie) (Nettie) Papworth, Curtis Bul. Alice 'lc:k, -""--.:---~-:.------:.:-~.:.--- , George Bateman, Lawrence 1C!c:k, E.. Smith, Kemp, George Olson, Charles Olson, John E IIlam Bullock, WIlliam William Wynn, Joseph Olson, Charles Wl IIlem eulloek ullod.< . ~ .. lIi III .. · GlJndA,.",on Gund... ,..",,.,n._ James P P.. Jensen. e |
