Well, it is that time of year again....yup...property tax time.

More than a hundred years ago, Hyrum (Uncle Hy) Tolley was accused of horse theft. He denied it as he merely picked up a rope in Nephi and walked to his home in Nortonville four miles away. Once home, he found a horse on the end of the rope. The charges were dropped. As a cousin of Uncle Hy, I am not sure how our family got a hold of the official record of those that paid their property taxes in Juab County, Utah in 1892, but we will show them, then give them to the Juab County Treasurer for better safe keeping. The biggest property owner appears to be mult-million dollar Mammoth Mining Co. and the smallest was a nickel from Peter Norton of Nortonville. Even the notorious brothers paid their sixty cents.

List Number Two of those who paid Juab County, Utah Property taxes in 1892

Hopefully, this page will contain additional data of those who paid their property taxes for Juab County, Utah, in 1892.

Today is the day. If you don't know a US Veteran, find one and buy them breakfast or just shake their hand....they have earned it.

Today is a day that all Americans can be Americans! It is our day to pay tribute to the Veterans, both living and dead, who helped give us the freedom we have. As a kid, I loved listening to Matt Howard tell the stories of he and Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish American War. Later on I was saddened to hear Ches Williams explain how many of his World War Two buddies came home "Shell Shocked". Last photo is of Dell Jones, of World War I. We not only pay respect to Veterans, we also honor the non-Veteran Veterans! They are those mothers and fathers who cry not knowing if their soldier is returning home. We also pay respect to people such as Nephi's Norman Jarrett, whose work remains classified. It can be said that he worked as a civilian for the US Navy-underground, to help develop a nuclear warhead to be launched from a submarine. After 30 years of working with chemicals, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know how clean living Norman was hit with an unknown but deadly cancer which took his life in a painful way. To our military family, friends and neighbors, my thumb is up for you, both living and passed. And if you see Mona's Ed Newton, tell him thanks.....his body took the blast so the rest of us could last!

"The Crisis is over, now the healing must begin", so says Winston Churchill following World War II.

In 1901, Winston Churchill authored the book "The Crisis", of which we have an original copy which belonged to Vern Skeem of Nephi, Utah. At the beginning of World War II England's Sir Winston became the solitary leader fighting against Nazi controlled Germany. Through unbelievable odds, he was instrumental to muster up courage to fight to the end. If he had lived long enough President Franklin Roosevelt would have followed the Churchill lead to not harbor ill feelings to the people of Germany, but to assist them to heal as did President Truman. Even Japanese Emperor Hirohito declared "his desire to terminate the war". Perhaps, just perhaps, their thoughts could now help all Americans, who can recognize the importance of putting down the weapons of words, and take up the cause of continued freedom and permit political entities to heal for the benefit of all. On page 522 of  "The Crisis", Winston Churchill concluded "One more word. This book is written of a time when feeling ran high. It has been necessary to put strong speech into the mouths of the characters. The breach that threated our country's existence is healed now. There is no side but Abraham Lincoln's side. And this side, with all reverence and patriotism, the author has tried to take. Abraham Lincoln loved the South as well as the North." The book was donated to the Nephi City Library on Nov. 18th, 2016.