Railroading

Since I really believe railroading served as an important catalyst in the further growth of young Honeyville, I think it is fun to find anything from the old narrow gauge railroad, the Utah Northern Railroad.  Below is one of the handful of pictures I have found showing the one of the engines that ran that line.  I also include a picture of some spikes that I recently found that belonged to the narrow gauge track - laid in 1872 and replaced about 15 years later with broad gauge track.

Regular railroad spike next to narrow gauge spikes

This was one of the UNRR first cars, but had been transferred to another line in this photo

News From Years Past

How about some old news stories?  I find news clippings a lot of fun as they were very much gossip and opinion pieces and I learn a lot from that.  You almost begin to feel like you know everyone and what they were up to last week.  These are a collection of only a few of the Honeyville news stories that I have pulled from old newspaper archives.

Let's begin with the fun stuff - news with a little opinion.

Cool - let's hash it out in the paper under pen names (Brigham Bugler - March 1892)

Brigham Bugler - June 1892

It's for the children (Brigham Bugler - October 1891)

It's for the children pt.2 (Brigham Bugler - November 1891)

Footloose - I hear Kevin Bacon was one of those despondent children (Brigham Bugler - January 1892)

I think it is funny how the old papers went from news to ads to ads disguised as news and right back in to the news - and so seamlessly.

Hey, Honeyville has a new store - why not check out these other fine merchants (Brigham Bugler - July 1893)

Getting a post office was controversial (now they want to take)?

It's coming (Box Elder News Journal - June 1915)

And it's here - they moved faster then (Box Elder News Journal - August 1915)

 

Just plain old local happenings.

Brigham Bugler - December 1893

Box Elder News Journal - August 1910

Box Elder News Journal - November 1916

Box Elder News Journal - July 1920

Brigham Bugler - December 1891

 

Honeyville even got some mention in other newspapers.

Ogden Standard Examiner - June 1917

Salt Lake Tribune - June 1918

Davis County Clipper - April 1924

P.O.W. in them thar hills (Davis County Clipper - August 1943)

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