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Show 16 17 WARD REUNIONS aflair was the ward reunion honoring Another annual allair the old people of the ward. Everyone was invited but was expected to bring plenty to eat in their baskets. Large tables were set in the assembly room and the older folks ate first, then the children were served. A program of local talent was given and then the men folk hastened home to do the evening IOchores "chores"lO and the ladies visited and enjoyed themselves until supper time, when \Nhat was left. again all ate Vllhat The floor was then cleared lor dancing and all the dances 01 the time were danced by everyone. Varsouvienne, three-step, schottlche, schottiche, Rye waltz; Waltz Quadrille, and plain Quadrilles were enJoyed. Sometimes a prize waltz which would be won by Frank and Ruby Atwood. Yes indeed! They were Alwood. the good old days and the good 01 d dances! di!lnces! t i me passed it became necessary to have the As time children remain at school as there became too many to accommodate. This has remained the custom down to the present time. 01 course the pallern pattern has changed with the times but the annual dinner is still held usually on February 22 of each year and in July the annual outout Ing ing is held at Lagoon lor the Old People 01 of the surrounding Stakes consisting of 01 a dinner, program and social time and renewing acquaintances with each other. THE SOUTH SCHOOL HOUSE This is a very old picture 01 the South School ' and the children of the very first settlers of the Dry Creek Area that later became the town of Crescent. Many 01 these students are the parents and grandoarents 01 the residents 01 our town today. This picture was 6 grades were taught there. there . taken about 1890-1894. All 6 STORES Crescent was not without grovery stores. At first the settlers did their shopping at Draper at the D.O. O. O. Rideout General Store. Here they could trade their eggs, butter, potatoes, grain etc. lor groceri es and groceries hardware. But Vllhen \Nhen Otlo Otto E. Vombaur moved here In in 1898 he built a store close to State Street where he supplied the town with groceries, dry goods, notions and hardware. Then Jesse P. Dalley who had married Lavina Taylor moved into the little home where Soren Jensen had lived and in one room set up a little dry goods store about 1904. but In 1906 he moved to Bountiful. About 1926 Harold Faulkner opened a General Store at the same cite which he ran for a number of years. A small store and Service Station Station,, with living quarters7 was built at 10990 South State, about 1926. In 1928 and 1929, it was operated by Prosser and Lucile Jensen Ashby. A Mr. Thomas also operated this store. In 1941 Jack Lerwill bought it and built a larger brick building with ived there and operated the living quarters above. He Ilived store until his death in 1947. It was then leased by Orin Jenkins, but he only had a store lor a short time. It ~as thought this store would be a good envestment because It was so close to the school, but due to so much tralflc trallic the SchOOl school authorIties would not allow the children to cross State Street. 1st row: Roy Bell, Johnny Bell, ' Willie ' Gange, Reuben Fairbourn William Smith, Johnny Eddins, Charles Brown, Richard Jensen, .... ------ Bateman. .------2nd row: Pearl Eddins, Ella Bullock, Charles E. Smith, Smith Lawrence E'. Nelson, John Taylor, Emma Retia Retta Brown, B'rown Sofia Gunderson, Hallie Hattie Eddins, Mercy Osborne, Earl E~rl Kemp, August L. Nelson. 3rd row: ' Alice ~Ice Jensen, Jeanette (Nettie) Papworth, Curtis Bul- I~ck, C!ck, -'---':;"--':'-':'-__ -;..--.:;..--~-:.--- , George Bateman, Lawrence Kemp, George Olson, Kemp. 01 son. Charles Chari es Olson, 01 son, John E. Smith, Wia IJlam Bullock, William Wynn, Joseph Olson ~lJlam 01 son, Charles Ullock, Hattie ' Gunderson, James P. Jensen. Jens~n. Ullock. |
