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Show 290 HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. The people of Ephraim have always been a quiet, peace loving community, and but few cases of criminal characters have originated in the city. But, when the residents of Sanpete county needed assistance to protect their lives and property against Indian invasions, the citizens of Ephraim responded to the call for volunteers and minute men, and continued the tight until peace was declared and property safe from devastation. The same spirit entered the youths and prompted several to offer their services to the United States when war was declared against Spain, and the independence of Cuba promised. Those who left home and friends for patriotic love of country and humanity were: Warren Larsen, James W. Allred, Frank Anderson, Parley Christensen, Louis Anderson, Oscar Breinholt, Henry Olsen, Thorwald Christensen and Dr. H. W. Young. In educational matters this city ranks among the more prominent settlements of Sanpete county and central Utah. Public schools have been maintained ever since the first year the town was settled, and the best and most experienced teachers have been employed. The Sanpete Stake Academy began in Society hall November 5, 1888, as a higher institution of learning, under the direction of Alma Greenwood as principal. This institution has flourished beyond the fondest expectations and its students come from all settlements of southern Utah. The studies include rhetoric, physiology, algebra, geology, Spanish, penmanship, typewriting, stenography, commercial arithmetic, commercial law, book-keeping, music, carpentry and blacksmithing. The enrollment for 1897 numbered 198 pupils and there were fifteen graduates. The faculty comprises some of the best educators in the State, the personnel of which is as follows: Newton E. Noyes, principal and inin theology, rhetoric, pedagogy and physics; George Christensen, instructor in theology, general history, algebra and methods of teaching; Parley Nielson, registrar and instructor in theology, grammar, arithmetic and geography; Thomas A. Beai, instructor in phonography, typewriting, commercial arithmetic and penman- structor ship; Carrie Peterson, instructor in music; Charles Jen- |
