By Nancy Burgess
This article first appeared in the Prescott Herald in 1903, and was later reprinted in the December 23, 1949, Prescott Evening Courier.
Christmas was celebrated by the people of Skull Valley and the Kirkland section Friday night by a big ball given in the school house two miles below the eating house at Skull Valley. People were there from all over that section and the affair was one of the most pleasant we have ever attended. Our readers have doubtless heard of "hog-killing times" well, that was one, if there ever was one.