HomeMy Public PortalAboutCascade, Idaho ICASCADE.
The originel townsite of Cascade was platted about the year 1913,
consisting of six blocks. It was the property of Z D. Patterson, father
of Horace Petterson and was rich, lush pasture land with few fences and
lots of stately pines on the hill above. Cascade came into existence at
this time, the child of three parental villages, all thriving but destined
to futility after the construction of Idaho Northern `'ranch of Oregon Short
Line. These villeges were Thunder City, located south of Cascade et the Pet
i len farm, Crawford located north-east of Cascade on road to Stibnite, and
Venwyck located under what is now Cascade Lake. Thunder City wos the out-
post for sheepmen and mining men on their wes to lush summer p^stures in
primitive area and. Thunder Mountain and Roosevelt Mining developments.
It consisted of e Church and personoge, School, Post Office, Hotel Pest-
eurent, Logues general Store, Livery Barn, Blacksmith Shop, Meat Market,
the inevitable Saloon and Warners Sew Mill.
Crawford had a fine bank, our Inter-Yountein State Bank,Petterson's
Generel Store, lerge school houseand a thriving Creamery among other
business. Vanwyck had about the same number of business activity es the
other two towns, and we couldn't understand why the ra,l-road hod to miss
them ell and create such an exodus., but in thoses times the rai_1-road was
to our very existence what the high -way is todey.
From Thunder City, the Methodist Church end parsonage were moved to
Cescede, as were Logues '^enerel store and Cromwell Blabksmith shop. The
Methodist Church is now the Catholic Church and I would say the Logues
were primerily resp-nsible in building of our Community Church todoy known
es the Community., Christian Church. The Baptist Church we s moved from Von-
wvck and was the first school room in Cescede, all eight gredes, eech of us
furnishing our own desks and they were a motley run of school furniture.
The first 8th Grade graduating cless was in 1917, with a few of us still
around., meanly Arthur Cromwell, Ralph Cromwell, gereld Logue and myself.
An elaborate graduation sere---ony leas held in the I.O. .F. Lodge Nall, which
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wes the Patterson Store from Crawford and the Community Center at Chet time.
Downstairs in same building Luke Moore began his system of chain stores.
The town's first Post Office was moved from Crewford. to corner ecross
from The Merc, in 1914. Mrs. Jones wes the first Postmistress. The Crew -
ford Mere. Co, built their first store by Lou Gorton, fecing the depot,
dorm a block from Boise
ton later built whet is
for a number of veers.,
Payette Bldg, end has since burned down. Mr Gor-
now the Cascade erc, and operated e general store
he also built oneof the first nice homes on the
hill now occupied by the 1-'ten Bovds.
The Inter-Hountein State B.^nk built pert of the present bank building
in summer of 1915 and moved from Cr-wford that fell with Mr. end Mrs. Frank
Kerbv et the helm. They were parents of F. E. Kerb-. Thev moved their
home from Creirford to the hill now occupied b7= the role femil.
The Cascade Yews wPs started in 1915 with Falph ''om-ck as editor.
The S. & S. Store under menegement of Mr. and Mrs. John Madden built the
now Boise Payette Bldg, Idaho Power Offices, Valley ro. 'bst Co and Lew
Offices. The Maddens bought the business soon and onerated a generel
store, from groceries, herdwPre,
short time before his death.
mhe Logues. John end. Fred, built wh-t is now the Merit Store and 2
lerge homes on the hill, one of hich is still occupied b- renevieve, a
daughter of John Logue. one whom we ell remember as a genial and jovial
person. Fred Lowe wes one of our early State c'enetors. The Cascede Hotel
WPS built by Lee Lisenbv is 191ti, later oiler-ted by "fir. and Mrs. P. D.
Tobb, parents of Forest E. Robb. The Emory Hotel was moved from Venwvck
and Mrs, Emory and son George meneged it for a greet m-ny veers. Oneof the
first vegetable markets was built and run by Harry and .trthur Bean. In
this little building, located b.,':'oody Bean's present market was the birth
place of our present telephone system, which Harry Bean developed into sunk
e successful operation. How well I remember sitting at the little switch
board with Ha.rry's sister Myrtle while she plugged in the calls.
dry goods, shoes and what -ever until a
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The Drug Store was moved from V^nwyck with druggists Mr. Seckville,
who later sold to J. H. Hill, then to Poole and ,,''men and finell,y to our
present druggist Les Ihitson, who built the present
Lefever our real pioneer barber moved his shop from
where his house stands, later moving up on Main
speculation as to where the best sites would be.
Valley County was created in 1917, from Poise
building. Mr. Jesse
Vanw,yck to the ple ce
There WP c so much
and Idaho Counties,
with Cescade as temporary Count, seat. before its cre^tior_an- one
wishing to go to our County seat in Idaho City, had to travel through two
other County Seets, before getting• to our own. It v.res reelly a trip to
those days. The first count-, offices were established is upstairs of the
b nk building and it took months to transcribe all the records and proof
them. As an eighth grader I was fortunate to be hired to do proof reading
all summer. Our first County Commissioners were S. L. Cantrall, James
Hartsell and T. D. Patterson. In 1920 the exciting election was held to
determine the permanent site of County Qeat. The business men of Cascade
raised e fund of t6000.00 to build the first court house and Cascade won
by a. le rge majority.
The Boise Fayette Lbr. Co. chops and Offices were first located in
Cascede where city refuse now is found, later moving and creating the
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town of Ceberton, e bustling; village lumber for severe' years, from which
logging operations were run from Cle-r Creek and Found Velley gees.
In 1924 a J. P. Dion bought and built the present saw mill in
Cascade. He then sold to F'ccles Co, who in turn sold to Helleck and Howerd
and they operated the same until recently, when Boise-Cascede bought the
same. Along with the stable farming, this is the backbone of our economy.
Our first Meat ^"a.rket was owned by Fred Koven, who sold to Sollie
Callender, father of our present ban', owner. Weter end sewer systems were
installed in 101P, and at that same time our drug store owner started our
first electric pourer plant, at sight just below present dam. It was a biq
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step forwerd even though the service was constantly interrupted due inade-
quate eathipment.
So much could be said about the rapid growth and development of our
town, the village water pump the served the early residents, which stood
where our Innunl Christmas Tree is seen each year, the mining activity,
hauling ore out in the winter time with horses shod with snow shoes, their
experiences with snow slides, the first year of Vorld ' er 1 when the train
and mail were snowed out for six weeks and the only wey we could get the
war news was by telegrams, which were posted each day on front of Madden's
Merc., the natriotic flag raising attended by one and all at the esteblish-
ing the counter seat, going down just to watch the train come in on Sundev
afternoons, the 4th of July celebrations that usually ended in either a.
wedding or a fight, and sometimes both. So it goes and now its all in the
past, a, pleasant memory to those of us who saw it grow. The Cascade Lake
creates a feeling of nostalgia to old timers, when we realize all the
beautiful farm and pPsture lards covered, the old land -marks completely
covered and oirlitered, but that is progress and we must accept 3_t with
what dignity we can. 5,•ie have so much to be thankful th^t the new generation
coming on are so capable to carry on, and in turn raising fine children to
follow them.
I am indebted to Mary D. 'erby for most of this informet9.on and
Zelma. Redmon, who lived in Thunder City end if there are gross errors I am
deeply sorry. The days I write of were good days, end I'm gled to have
lived at that time, to see our forests in their virgin state, our rords
not so heavily travelled, our wild game unmolested and fishing such es one
never sees anymore.
Progress is good bmt it takes a toll.
With _Apologies,
Mrs. Eltinge Hasbrouck
from the October,1915 files of the Cascade News
compiled by Mary Thurston
The post office at Roosevelt
was discontinued, with future
mail delivery at Yellow Pine
substituted. Bids were ad-
vertised for mail delivery
once a week to Profile. Joe
Davis came up to the Red
Metal Mine from Ed-
wardsburg and packed out a
shipment of ore.
Many hunters were
arriving, but lack of snow was
expected to keep deer at high
elevations. 123,000 board feet
of timber were taken from the
National Forest under free
use permits given to settlers
and others living in or near
the forests. Forest employees
completed a fence at the Gold
Fork lookout and were
working on a trail to the
station.
Shade Field was taken to
Idaho City to stand trial for
the murder of Wayman and
Edward Ward.
Looking Back
An editorial objected to a
petition instituted at Van
Wyck for formation of an
independent school district
and suggested consolidation
of the Crawford and Van
Wyck districts with Cascade.
Cascade ladies gave a
reception for County
Superintendent Miss Helen
Wilson and visiting teachers.
Ruth Wilson had been hired to
teach in Cascade. The round
Valley school opened for the
first time with Clara Teeter of
Boise as teacher.
A.D. Robb was new
proprietor of the Smith's
Ferry Hotel. F.S. Logue and
Bros. moved into their new
store in Cascade, but kept the
old one open at Thunder too.
The upper story of the J.W.
Patterson building, moved
from Crawford, was to be
fitted with a stage andused as
an opera house and dance
hall; the lower story was
Looking Back
From the December,1915 files of the
Cascade News
compiled by Mary Thurston
C. Pritchard of Seattle went
to Yellow Pine to arrange for
a 20-horse pack string to
bring two carloads of an-
timony out to Cascade. Heavy
snow was making it difficult
to get equipment into the
mines. Four feet of snow was
reported on West Mountain.
The Hall Interstate Mining
Company was formed to
develop mines between the
Salmon River and the
Deadwood Fork of the
Payette River. These mines
were accessible by wagon
road from Cascade to Stolle
Meadows.
John Suit of ttosenerry
purchased a residence and
lots in Cascade and an-
nounced plans to start a door
and lumber sales yard. W.D.
Patterson, owner of the
Cascade townsite, placed
three more blocks on the
market, to be known as the
First Addition.
Church services were being
conducted at Cascade, Van
Wyck, Crawford, Alpha and
Round Valley, with special
plans for the Christmas
season. The Dr. Noggle
family finished moving their
household hoods from Van
Wyck to Cascade.
rented by L.M. Moore, who
had purchased the dry goods
stock of the Crawford Mer-
cantile Co.
The S. and S. Store com-
pleted its move from Van
Wyck. C.F. Bean put new
siding and roof on his fruit
store. The Sackville Drug
Store was being shingled and
sided. The "Long Valley
Advocate" announced that
the bank at Roseberry was
moving to Donnelly.
Horace Patterson and
William Wither graded Main
Street to the hill and also the
street leading to the bridge.
Houses completed or moved
in to Cascade were occupied
by the F.M. Kerbys, Dr.
Noggle and Henry Kissel.
Roseberry businessmen
had secured a series of four
entertainments through the
f
Mrs. E.A. Wayland, one of
the community's teachers,
received word she had passed
the exam for a life diploma.
A wedding dance in Van
Wyck for Warren Timpke and
his bride brought a sledload
of people from Cascade.
Other marriages were Twila
Thayer to Ed Hite and Iva
Sorenson to Virgil Beers. A
son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Olson. Mrs. Ed Smith
died, leaving a small
daughter.
Ellison -White Lyceum
Bureau, each to be followed
by a dance. Free tran-
sportation from the train to
the shows was also offered,
and season tickets for $1.50
each.
Five year -old Charles
Gifford of Alpha drowned in a
shallow spring. Other deaths
were Warren pioneer Ira
McGary, J.A. Waters and
D.S. West.
A daughter was born to Mr.
and Mrs. George Chadwell.
Blanche Lappin was
married to Fred Hite and
Della Crawford to Roy
Lappin.
Another fine number was
presented by the Lyceum at
Roseberry. The Cascade
band completed organization.
Officers elected were L.M.
Gorton, D.J. Cain, F.M.
Kerby and Robert Womack.
They were planning their
grand opening ball in the
Patterson Opera House to
dedicate the new floor.
Guests were expected from
Round Valley and Van Wyck
and Mr. and Mrs. Robb were
hired to serve a chicken
sandwich lunch' A com-
munity tree was to be set up
in the opera house and a
program presented by the
band and Mrs. Wayland's
pupils from the Crawford
school.
In an editorial, an an-
nouncement by railroad
officials that passenger and
mail service would be cut
back to three times a week, at
least through the winter, was
vigorously protested.
Look
-from the November, 1915
files of the Cascade News
compiled by Mary Thurston
The former Allen residence
and Mr. Sackville's stove
building were moved from
Van Wyck to Cascade and
Fred Horn moved his meat
block and meat in from
Thunder. F.C. Coonrod and
Fred Rutledge moved their
families in from Van Wyck,
and the new John Gorton
residence was completed,
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vvith many built-in con-
veniences.
A.D. Robb, former owner of
the hotel at Smith's Ferry,
purchased the Cascade Hotel,
which had been built by Lee
Lisenby. A farewell party
was held for the Robbs at
Mrs. Neeb's home in Round
Valley.
The completed Logue
Building was described as
"one of the best in the area",
and work on the new Free
Methodist Church building
was begun.
Fall plowing; was underway
and winter wheat planted at
Crawford Nook. Hunting was
still popular, with teams
passing througP the valley on
the way to and from the hills.
Several carloads of oats,
cattle and lumber were
shipped.
The Long Valley Cat-
tlemen's Association was
organized. First officers were
J.C. Weant, L.M. Gorton,
W.O. Rathman and F.M.
Kerby.
Glenn Harvey promised to
carry mail from Alpha to
Yellow Pine as soon as snow
shoes and hand sleds could be
used.
Fred Harvey brought out a
fine collection of silver fox,
marten, beavier and wolf he
had trapped near Scott
Valley.
Sam Willson went to San
Francisco and Portland to
merest capital in his mines
at Profile. H.C. Ogden of
Round Valley sold his
sawmill to Noah Bechtel of
High Valley, who moved it to
a new location between
Smith's Ferry and Ola. Ogden
planned to move to his mining
property at Deadwood.
A 14-inch snowfall late in
the month slowed building
projects considerably, but
brought the welcome sound of
sleighbells.
- from the August, 1915 files of the Cascade News
-from the July,1915 files of the Cascade News
compiled by Mary Thurston
Sam Willson of Profile
reported a four -foot strike of
high grade ore at the Red
Metal Mine. William C.
Edwards was shipping
concentrates to Butte. Cin-
nabar Camp, a great un-
developed property, was
being investigated by
California parties. W.A.
Edwards made a trip to Boise
for the Eagle Mining Com-
pany, expecting to reopen its
mill.
Gilenwater Pack Train
loaded out from the Crawford
Mercantile Store with sup-
plies for Salmon River sheep
camps. Fred Koven took a
load of butcher tools to
Thunder to locate tem-
porarily until he could build
in Cascade.
D.N. Higgins harvested a
crop of fine, tasty tomatoes.
The Messrs. Cantrall and
Nock took their threshing
outfit to Smith's Ferry with
plans to go on to Emmett. Six
carloads of spring lambs
were shipped to the Omaha
market and several head of
cattle were shipped to Hor-
seshoe Bend and then trailed
to Boise. Shelby Connor of
Crawford Nook took a load of
freight to Knox. A.A.
Wayland brought in a load of
ice with promise to supply
residents all summer.
Timothy, clover and grain
crops looked fine after the
early spring.
Ed Spickelmire's team ran
away with his mower, but the
driver was unhurt. Wm.
Thayer, an early Alpha
settler, sold his farm and
moved to Oregon. Charles
Cantrall of Round Valley built
a new home. J.P. Walsh, a
Boise contractor, began work
on a 25 x 55' building for the
Intermountain State Bank.
O.N. Coonrod began
hauling lumber for his livery
stable on West Cascade
Avenue. C.F. Bean an-
nounced plans to build a
cannery at Sweet to handle
the season's large fruit crop.
The building formerly oc-
cupied by the Crawford
Mercantile was to be moved
to Cascade by J.D. Patterson.
G.L. Sackville told plans to
build on Cascade's main
street and move his drug
store from Van Wyck.
Concrete foundations were
laid for the Lisenby Hotel.
Contractor S.S. Hamrick of
Donnelly was building alarge
addition to the home owned
by State Agent Sloats. The
Cascade Post Office added a
new box panel and a large
window. L.B. Showalter, a
Roseberry harness man, was
preparing to move to
Cascade. Telephone lines for
fire warning were completed
between the Forest Station
and Bear Valley, Squaw
Creek and Peace Valley.
Mrs. Clyde King closed the
spring term of school at
Alpha. A Fourth of July
program at Clear Creek in-
cluded speakers, music and
races for all ages.
After E.E. Brasa loaded a
camping outfit and supplies
aboard a boat moored on
Payette Lake, it sank during
the night, but was later
salvaged.
A Roseberry celebration on
July 3rd consisted of
readings, songs, races, a
baby show, bucking contest
and a stock show of colts and
redpolled cattle.
Sunday School, prayer
meetings and preaching
services were held weekly at
Thunder City, Alpha School
and Round Valley and at
Crawford School, Roseberry
and Donnelly once a month.
Miss Mary Haymaker
arrived from Caldwell to
begin her teaching duties at
the Poplar Grove School.
Henry Goul was in town
setting poles for an extension
of the Bell Telephone line
from Crawford to Cascade
and Long Valley Mutual and
Mountain States Tel. and Tel.
were given permission for a
connection at Van Wyck,
which would mean the ad-
vantage of an outside con-
nection for the whole system.
Harvey Kissel was hauling
rock for the foundation of a
new home, S.W. Carter in-
stalled a system of lights in
the Lisenby Hotel, and Mrs.
G.W. Barney of Van Wyck
leased the Cascade Hotel.
The Cascade Lumber Co.
started a 12 x 20 ft. office
building, and there were
prospects for a new general
store, drug store, harness
shop, butcher shop, con-
fectionary, and at least five
new homes. More residence
lots were sold, nearly all in
the original townsite, and
W.W. Patterson, townsite
owner, had retained land on
three sides with plans to open
it up for development as well.
A cow barn full of hay on
the Joe Downend ranch near
Van Wyck was struck by
lightning and burned. An
"endearing" type of man set
fire to an acre of C.W.
Sleater's good pasture and
several prized pines.
Sollie Callender of
Crawford Nook had nearly all
his hay put up and Sam Willey
was cutting a record crop of
alfalfa at Yellow Pine. Boise
County Sheriff W.H. Hiatt,
returning from a business
trip to the upper part of the
valley, reported that grain
crops looked better than for
several years.
D.H. Davis shipped a
carload of steers to Boise,
J.E. Clinton of Boise loaded
out five cars of Long Valley
spring lambs, and Andrew
Little of Emmett shipped 30
cars of sheep to eastern
markets.
Well-known photographer
George Tonkin pitched his
tent south of the Crawford
Mere. and Dr. C.I. Anderson
of McCall announced monthly
visits to Cascade to care for
dental patients.
A ten -cent ice cream and
cake social for the church
fund at Alpha was publicized,
the Free Methodists set up a
camp for nightly meetings,
and the Della Pringle Stock
Co. played to a large audience
at Roseberry.
A Valley pioneer, Mrs. NJ.
Coonrod, died at the
Roseberry home of her
daughter, Mrs. McDougal.
She had come from Kansas in
the late 1890's.
The first child born in the
new city of Cascade was
allian Conner, daughter of
and Mrs. Henry Conner,
lrrived that 60 year-ago
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Cascade News Files ,September 1915
compiled by Mary Thurston
Seven carloads of sheep
were shipped by Andrew
Little and four by Miller and
Maule. Other shippers were
Tennson, Ormsby, Brown,
Bicknell, Davidson and R.N.
Stanfield.
Elmer Crockett and crew
brought a threshing crew in
from Middleton to thresh for
several Crawford Nook
farmers. There were two to
three binders in every field.
Barber Bros. were expecting
a Case threshing machine, to
be unloaded at Cascade.
A great deal of timothy had
been shipped to the Caldwell
Milling and Elevator Co. The
Willeys reported a third
--"ting of alfalfa. Young
rner Willey killed a bear
r the family ranch.
an McRae and Ely
trod went to the Dewey
at Roosevelt with a load
)pies from Yellow Pine.
had leased the mine.
les Ellison reported a
'actory return from his
,hipment of ore, and Col.
In Spofford stopped at
ide on his way home
a reportedly successful
a at Profile Gap.
;. G.W. Barry and
iter opened their hotel in
de, while Mr. Barry
i in Van Wyck to har-
he crops.
;rest deal of progress
made on Cascade
ng projects. The walls
bank building were
leted, the foundation
d for the Methodist
h, the pool hall opened,
residences for L.M.
In, F.C. Coonrod,
y Kimmel, Fred Koven
.r. Noggle were being
Wm. Smith was moving
atterson Building and
?.owers barn from
er to Cascade. The S
3 Company completed
building and initiated it
i a dance, with music by
s. R.M. Parks of
Jseberry, the Martins of
McCall and F.W. Hall of Van
Wyck. The Intermountain
State Bank moved from
Crawford to Cascade.
The P and IN Railroad's 90
miles of track and all of its
equipment went into the
hands of a receiver; jitney
buses operating in the Weiser
and New Meadows Valleys
were blamed as the con-
tributing factor.
Rev. W.H. Bowler, district
superintendent of the Baptist
Church, was the guest of Rev.
John H. Schenck. Forest
Supervisor Guy B. Mains
announced an examination
for the Forest Service would
be held in October.
Miss Helen Wilson, county
superintendent of public
instruction, announced a
series of teachers' and
trustees' meetings at
Placerville, Horseshoe Bend,
Cascade, Roseberry and
McCall.
Miss Beatrice Lambie and
Miss Margaret Patterson
went to Emmett to enter high
school. Annie and Nellie
Humphrey of Alpha enrolled
in school at Weiser. Ruth
Wilson of Emmett was
assigned to teach at Cascade.
More than 400 lots of
Payette Lakes Club land, of
which membership was
limited to 600, had been sold.
Bertha Stunz was married
to W.W. Russell, Blanche
Lappin to Fred Hirt, Mary
Graham to W.S. Wilke and
Eva Taylor to Dr. W. Taylor
Patton.
The following, by a forest
official, was published in
"The Statesman".
"On a huge granite boulder
facing and plainly visible
from the Packer John trail
are two carved guns, their
barrels crossed, and just
below `Monday, Healy and J.
Groseclose died August 28th,
1879' "
"The inscription faces
southwest and the North Fork
of the Payette River, and on
the southwest side of the rock
a hand directs toward the
river. There is a mound
covered with granite slabs,
the graves of the three men,
beside two yellow pine sen-
tinels. A large cross was
carved on a lone pine which
stood just east of the grave,
and still in perfect form,
although the tree has wind -
thrown."
"The spot is just beyond the
railroad bridge a half mile
north of Cascade. The three
men and "three -fingered
Smith' were following some
Indians who had been
stealing horses from settlers
in Indian Valley. . . .The
Indians ambushed them . .
.Three -fingered Smith got
away, made his way north to
Payette Lakes. Hearing the
news, soldiers came from
Fort Boise and buried the
men and engraved the crass
and monument."
LOOSING BACK . • •
through Cascade News files
From the June, 1920 files of
the "Cascade News"
The new highway through
the North Fork of the Payette
Canyon opened for automobile
traffic fifty years ago this mon-
th, and an Independence Day
celebration in Cascade, com-
plete with oratory, music, spo-
rts and a barbequed ox, was
being planned for all Valley
County residents.
A.R. Cruzen of Norwood was
farming 1800 acres, with a tot-
al of 75 miles of irrigation can-
als and laterals serving the
cultivated land, demonstrating
what could be done in Long
Valley. Joe Washburn adver-
tised a public sale at his ranch
a mile west of Cascade, and A.
C. Bohne of Yellow Pine met
a party of eastern men interest-
ed in mining properties in the
area.
Roseberry High School sup-
erintendent Mr. Hartzell Cobbs
presented five graduates for
diplomas; Ted McDougal, Le-
ona Hughes, Jessie Clark, Ly-
dia Yensen and Alice Johnson.
A "very fine" Chataqua pro-
gram, presented June 20 to 24
in Cascade, was not as well at-
tended as had been hoped be-
cause of bad weather, and the
contract for the following year
stipulated a later date. Serving
on Chataqua committees were
Carl Kitchen, L.A. Jarnigan,
W.D. Cromwell, F.S. Logue,
W.H. Huff, G.W. Barry, Mrs.
A.J. Mitchell, C.B. Mirgon, S.
A. Woodard, H.K. Allman, Dr.
G.E. Noggle and F.M. Kerby.
A June wedding in Nampa
united Mr. Ralph 'Still, with
Boise Payette at Cabarton, and
the former Miss Helen Casey,
who taught school at Round
Valley.
LOOKING BACK...
through Cascade News files
From the July, 1920 files of
the Cascade News, Burt Ven-
able, ed.
A July 5th Independence
Day celebration in Cascade was
a great success, with a crowd
of more than 1200 participat-
ing. From the anvil chorus at
sunrise until late evening there
were patriotic exercises, band
selections, street sports, a mo-
vie with Fatty Arbuckle, base-
ball- game, barbeque and a dan-
ce.
Other July activities includ-
ed opening of bids for constr-
uction of the Valley County
Court House, with awarding of
a contract for $7348. R.N. Coon -
rod sold 240 acres at Arling to
C.A. Klient, and Clay Spicer
advertised a public sale north-
west of Donnelly.
Primary election candidates
on the county ballot were list-
ed as follows: F.H. Wallace and
G.E. Noggle; Chas H. Nelson,
Luke Moore and B.O. Dustin;
G.A. Patterson; Carl C. Kitc-
hen, L.C. Heffner, Enos Smith,
C.H. Olson, Fred L. Diggs, Le-
roy Lisenlby, B.R. Halferty, W.
A. Bean and Shelby Connor;
G.S. Fields, Everett L. Wheat,
L.R. Dukes, John P. Johnson;
R.R. Ayers, Anna B. Harala,
F.N. Kerby; Flora Cox, George
Barry, S.L. Cantrall, Tirza J.
Wayland; Andrew Campbell,
R.M. Parks and W H Wood.
The first band concert of the
season was much enjoyed in
town, and the band also played
at the Farm Bureau picnic near
Sult's Mill at Gold Fork. Four
to five - hundred people attended
the latter, coming with 92 au-
tos, 25 teams and 9 saddle hor-
ses to enjoy a free dinner and
refreshments. R.B. Halferty of
Donnelly was master of ceremo-
nies and Hartzell Cobbs, prin-
cipal of the Roseberry school,
Governor Davis, and an exten-
sion director were speakers.
A section of the highway be-
tween Whitebird and New Mea-
dows was closed for a projected
period of six weeks, while con-
struction was continued, and
George Yenne died as a result
of injuries sustained when his
car plunged off the road near
Banks.
Evidence of future mining
activitity was shown when a
party of Caldwell men, includ-
ing officers and directors of the
Holte Mining Company, went
into the Marshall Lake district.
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through Cascade News files
From the August, 1920 files
of "The Cascade News ", Bert
Venable, ed.
Announced fishing regulat-
ions stipulated that salmon
could be caught in the tribut-
aries of the Salmon River with
spear and snaghook only.
Cascade school faculty for
the coming year were to be S.
A. Waters, Emerson Lowe, Ma-
rie Snodgrass, Helen Gesselc-
hen, and Genevieve Gesselc-
hen. The high school was aim-
ing for accrediation at the end
of the year, if enough money
became available for library
and laboratory.
A Republican convention el-
ected Hartzell Cobbs of Rose -
berry as chairman, D.M. Cox
of Cascade as secretary, Carl
Kitchen, Cascade, state comm-
itteman; and Charles Nelson,
McCall, and J.W. Pottenger,
Roseberry, as delegates to the
state convention at Pocatello.
The Democratic convention
chose L.R. Dukes, Cascade,
chairman; George T. Emery,
Cascade, secretary; M.A. Gates,
and G.A. Patterson, Alpha, and
M.A. Bates, as delegates to that
party's Idaho Falls conclave.
Nominated for offices were
F.H. Wallace and G.E. Noggle,
senator; L.L. Moore and Geor-
ge Patterson, representative;
Anna B. Harala, treasurer; R.
B. Ayers and F.M. Kerby, pro-
secuting attorney; S.L. Can -
trall and Fred Diggs, sheriff;
Carl Kitchen, Clerk; A. Camp-
bell and R.M. Parks, assessor;
W.H. Wood, surveyor; Flora
Cox and Geo. Berry, probate
judge; L.R. Dukes, auditor; T.
J. Wayland and Blanche Dark -
wood, county superintendent;
and L.C. Heffner, W.F. Hull,
R.B. Halferty, C.H. Olson, W.
A. Bean and J.W. Hartzel,
county commissioners.
In the advertisements: Lost:
crank for Hudson car; finder
kindly leave at News office.
D.J. Cremery: We buy cream
for the Walla Walla Creamery.
Cascade Theatre: "Fatty Ar-
buckle". Koven's Market. Ho-
medressed beef. The Club: He-
adquarters for stockmen, ranc-
hers, lumberjacks, bankers and
contractors. Crawford Mercan-
tile: Groceries, hardware and
farm machinery. Boise - Payette
Lumber Co.: Order coal today.
Patronize the Inter - Mountain
State Bank. Farmers, attention:
We have bought the things you
are going to need -F.S. Logue
and Bros. L. Moore, drygoods
and shoes, advertising Indian
Head.
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through Cascade News files
From the January, 1920 files
of "The Cascade News ", Burt
Venable, editor.
During that half century ago
January harvesting the ice
crop furnished profitable em-
ployment for a number of men
and teams, and a petition was
circulated to disincorporate
the village of Roseberry.
Martin and Adams struck a
rich ledge of quarti near War-
ren, and the body 61'.G.M. Abel,
presumably gored by a bull,
was found near a heaystack at
Big Creek and brought but by
snowshoe to Cascade. Glenn
Strawn killed a black bear at
Clear Creek, and Will Davis
one on Jughandle summit, wbi-
le County Commissioner E. A.
Williams found a fine black
fox in his trap line.
County news was the appoin-
tment of Carl C. Kitchen as
county auditor, replacing Art-
hur C. Tracy, the advertisment
of sale of estrays to the highest
bidder at Coonrod's Camp and
the W.D. Patterson ranch by
sheriff E.C. Smith, and for bids
for moving a schoolhouse from
District 23 to Cabarton. The
county superintendent of pub-
lic welfare issued an urgent ap-
peal for organziation to control
influenza, and several mild cas-
es of smallpox were noted at
McCall.
An automobile business in
Donnelly was started that mon-
th by E.H. Patterson, who was
agent for Buick, Overland and
Oakland cars and Oldsmobile
trucks.
A farmers' rally, staged to
rouse interest in securing a
county agent, was well attend-
ed, and the Commercial Club
appointed neighborhood execu-
tive comitteemen. There was a
Reclamation conference in Boi-
se, attended by the Cruzen
brothers and others trying to
secure water for upper Long
Valley.
Superintendent Hartzell Cob-
bs of Roseberry High School
announced perfect attendance
for Ralph McDougal, Bradley
Joice, Maxine Cobbs, Clara
Jasper and Iva Sims. Other
Roseberry teachers were Mrs.
Bungo, Miss Anthony and Miss
McCool.
Holidays were spent at home
from other schools by Bertha
Spielman, Genevieve, Jerry
and Harold Logue, Ella Witch -
ley, Gwendolin McLeod, Ver-
nol-I Conyers and Walter Cox.
John' Harala, one of the first
of the Finlanders to settle in
Long Valley, died, and among
area weddings were Gertrude
White to Charles Hardin at
Payette, Elizabeth Johnson to
Frank Jasper in Indiana, Jen-
nia Paananen to Bryan Mac
Clure, Goldie Sult to Arthur
Shaw of McCall, at Cascade,
and Mamie Marcum to Bill
Deinhard in Boise.
Frank Koven advertised "my
own put -up bacon" for 40 cents
and lard for 35 cents. Other
advertisers were Dr. Frank
Burke, dentist; Dr. C.G. Burt,
chiropractic physician; and Dr.
H.E. Noggle. Attorneys were
D.M. Cox, F.M. Kerby, R.B
Ayers, and T.S. Resser. Busin-
ess houses included the Cascade
Transfer, Mission Cigar Store,
Crawford Mercantile Co., F.S.
Logue and Bros., Cascade Gre-
en Market, L.L. Moore Dry
Goods, mail orders filled, and
Poole and Allman Drugs. Nat-
ional advertising appeared for
Castoria, Purina, Murine, Cut -
icura Soap, and Lydia E. Pin -
kham's Vegetable Compound.
From the August 1919 files of
The Cascade News:
A section of the Arling Bridge
went down under several tons of
powder belonging to Morrison -
Knudson. Fallen timber kept the
load out of water.
A marker was installed by the
Sons of Idaho for William Mun-
day, Jake Groseclose, Dan
Crooks and Tom Halsey, victims
of a massacre; with an address
by Byron Defenback, talks by
pioneers, and services in the
Community Church.
Napier Edwards of Ed-
wardsburg reported considerable
activity at the "Copper Camp ".
Fire swept through the old town
of Quartzburg. Many homes were
lost, but the new mill and most of
the Gold Hill mine buildings wre
saved.
At the Pioneer Picnic at Gold
Fork, sponsored bythe IOOF
Lodges of Roseberry, New
Meadows and Cascade, Mr. F.M.
Kerby spoke on customs and
practices of the early settlers.
Settlers had arrived in Idaho
from 1864, and from 1882 in Long
Valley.
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compiled by Mary Thurston
Van Wyck School students
graduating during rites in the
IOOF Hall were Lambert
Hillman, Agnes Stunz,
Adelbert Foster, Norma
Simmonds, Emil Stunz,
Gladys Auxier, Warren
Noggle, Vera Auxier, Dollie
Dukes and Ella Wichie.
Gem County was organized
from parts of Boise and
Canyon Counties and Emmett
named the county seat.
An editorial noted that
there were opportunities for a
cheese factory, a hotel, a
drug store, hardware, flour
mill, harness and repair shop
and a brick yard in Cascade.
Lots were priced low and
growth was gradual, not
"boom."
The Board of County
Commissioners contracted
for a bridge across Clear
Creek at Alpha and one at the
junction of the North and
South Forks of the Payette at
Banks.
John Madden purchased an
acre adjoining the S.S.
Company warehouse for
alumberyard. Clem Black-
well of McCall, assisted by
Charlie Close, brought cattle
into Long Valley from
Huntington. Five carloads of
ewes and lambs were put on
the range at Smiths Ferry.
Finley Matthews brought
Andrew Little's sheep to the
valley from Emmett. A sheep
bridge at the head of the
Middle Fork of the Payette,
on the old Pen Basin Trail,
was completed.
F.W. Hall was down from
his ranch at Center selling
fresh pork. C.F. Bean of
Sweet purchased a lot for a
fruit house to handle his own
fruit from Sweet and New
Plymouth.
The North and South
Railway Commission was
considering a railroad from
New Meadows to Riggins and
possibly onto Grangeville. An
item in the "New Meadows
Eagle" noted that visitors
and fishermen were retur-
ning to Payette Lake.
Advertisers in the Cascade
News were C.W. Bradley,
blacksmith; Cascade Barber
Shop; Jesse LeFever, prop.;
Col James Barnard, auc-
tioneer; Harold P. Gorton,
agent for "Little Wonder"
squirrel exterminator; Inter-
mountain State Bank, F.M.
Kerby cashier; Crawford
Mercantile Co., The S & S
Company, Inc.; Van Wyck
Drugs, Dr. Noggle mgr.;
Meals and Rooms, Mrs. J.H.
Zimmer in Crawford; Hats,
Mrs. H.C. Johnson in
Cascade; Sun Insurance,
Ralph Wood, Cascade; Butter
Wrappers, Cascade News
Print Shop. There was also
national advertising for
Fletcher's Castoria, Sloan's
Linament, Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, Fatima Turkish
Cigarettes, Resinol and
Wrigley's Gum.
Mrs. Vet Conyers had
submitted information from
the first issue of the "Long
Valley Advocate ", published
in the summer of 1904, as
follows: "The population of
Long Valley was between two
and three thousand, with Van
Wyck the principal city.
Many people had gone to the
May, 1915
lower country to get fruit and
other supplies and attend the
fair."
"The Bell Telephone
Company had completed
their line into the valley.
Thunder City had a new
schoolhouse. Dr. Tuttle of
Van Wyck was attending
Lardo postmaster W.D.
Boydstun, who was sick."
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compiled by Mary Thurston
The Messrs. Clark a
Young were outfitting for
prospecting tour of Yello w
Pine and Profile Summit.
Lee Lisenby purchase
corner lots on Front Street fo
a hotel site and announce(
plans for 15 sleeping rooms
reception room, kitchen
dining room, office, pool
room and cigar store.
The S & S Company com-
pleted arrangements t o
construct a Cascade store and
to move their stock from Van
Wyck in six weeks.
Work started on the Free
Methodist Church building,
which was to replace the
Crawford School as a place of
worship.
The Inter - Mountain State
Bank decided to convert its
second story to a hall instead
nd of offices.
a John Lambie of Thunder
was erecting a livery stable
north of the Smith Building
d and announced plans to have
r auto service as well.
W.W. Patterson and Son
were preparing to grade Main
Street, after putting in
bridges and culverts, and a
crew headed by Horace Burr
was installing a telephone
line to Yellow Pine.
Horse dealers from
Cheyenne purchased several
carloads of horses in the
Cascade and McCall area to
ship to the British and French
armies. Two carloads of
potatoes were shipped by the
S & S Company. A new edger
for the Warner Bros, sawmill
at Thunder arrived from
Beloit, Wisconsin and Luther
Fulton purchased a carload of
hogs for his ranch near
McCall.
The Bureau of Animal
Husbandry was distributing
free blackleg vaccine.
Several bands of sheep were
arriving from the lower
country. Ore concentrates
were being mailed by parcel
post from Edwardsburg and I
Profile.
A work train repaired the
bridge across the falls and did
some work on the track south
Of Donnelly. An excursion
train carrying OSL official
Joel Priest was due from
Boise. Daily passenger trains
were leaving Boise at 9:30
a.m, and arriving at Lakeport
(McCall) at 8 p.m., while
southbound service left
Lakeport at 7 a.m. and
reached Boise about 2:30 p.m.
Mr. Froman foreclosed on
the drug stock at Van Wyck
and sold it to J.E. Thamert of
New Meadows.
A shipment of new desks
was received by the Alpha
School.
Roseberry held graduation
for Lucy Jasper, Elmer
Warner, Lydia Yensen,
Jessie Clark and Clarence
Barker.
A Children's Day service
and basket dinner were held
at Round Valley and "basket
meetings" and preaching
services were held at Clear
Creek, Thunder and Round
Valley.
Cherries were selling for 10
cents per gallon,picked,at
Emmett and Mr. Close came
from Sweet with a fine lot of
new potatoes.
A son was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Coit Herrick at Alpha,
and Mrs. Stephen Cantrall,
the first white woman in the
valley, died. She had come to
Clear Creek in 1883.
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BACK
through Cascade News files
From the December, 1920
files of the "Cascade News ",
Burt Venable, editor.
Business activity in Long
Valley during that fifty -year
ago pre - holiday season includ-
ed moving of all of the county
offices into the new court
house, installation of another
large tank in Cascade by the
Continental Oil Company to
meet Valley County demands,
and an announcement by the
Valley Light and Power Co.
that it would connect up with
a new power system.
The village of Cascade pass-
ed an ordinance changing from
Pacific to Mountain Standard
Time, and state and federal
officers destroyed two barrels
of mash, captured a quart of
moonshine and made an arrest
in the county. John Goode
took a load of mail to Arling,
a strong argument for a post
office there, and the Boise -
Payette mill at Emmett shut
down until spring.
Farm Bureau officers elect-
ed were W. J. Jameson, Andy
Campbell, W.B. Boydstun, D.
M. Shannon, Carl T. Byer, E.
B. Halferty, Ed Poo, and Mrs.
J.D. Hughes.
Mrs. I.ottie Coonrod, a long
time resident, died. Weddings
were Martha Thiell to John D.
Mansell and Mrs. S.A. Jones
to R.R. Mitchell.
A turkey shoot was heid
at Walt Cromwell's place, and
65 people were guests of the
Cascade Civic Club for a din-
ner at the Cascade Hotel. Rose-
berry community served a°
bountiful dinner on Christmas
day, at the high school build-
ing. Many people went out of
the Valley for Christmas else-
where, and others came to
spend the holiday with local
relatives.
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through Cascade Now files
From the November, 1920
files of the "'Cascade News,"
Burt Venable, ed.
Although the election na-
tionally was a Republican
landslide, Valley County was
divided; Republicans named to
office were L.L. Moore, state
representative: Fred Hall and
R.B. Halferty, county commis-
sioners; Fred Diggs, sheriff;
Carl Kitchen, clerk; and Anna
Harala, treasurer. Successful
Democratic candidates includ-
ed Dr. G.E. Noggle, state sena-
tor; C.H. Olson, county com-
missioner; F.M. Ke °by, prose-
cuting attorney; G.W. Barry,
probate judge; Tirza Wayland,
sr ^erintendent of public in-
struction; R.M. Parks, assessor;
and W. H. Woods, surveyor.
Arling also held a special el-
ection to organize the Center
irrigation District, with J.W.
Downend, Ed C. Martin and
Fred Hall named directors.
The Valley Court.y Farm
Bureau reorganized and be-
came part of the state and fed-
eral Farm Bureau federation.
J.H. Hill was enlarging the
power plant near the wagon
bridge, and Charles H. Nelson
of McCall, proprietor of the
popular Sylvan Beach resort,
was a Cascade visitor.
Violin and piano students of
Mrs. Gorton organi °.ed the Sch-
uman Music Club, while tea -
chers were scheduled to take
exams at the courthouse in
mid - November.
Two pioneers, Mrs. Wm. H.
Huff and Mrs. F.I:. Rutledge
passed away, and two local
couples were united in mar-
riage; Laura Evan: to Harry
And from the December 6,
1881 "Idaho Tri- weekly States-
, nan ": "Mr. Cal White came
in from Little Salmon Mea-
dows on Saturday with his
family, and left on ,yesterday's
stage for Boston. Massachuset-
ts, where Mrs. White will re-
main and send their children
to school. Their two eldest
children are already in school
in Boston."
E. Debass, and Etta Shaw to
Everard Nye.
A water right for a 174 acre
ranch near old Thunder was
advertised for sale by R. E.
Coleman.
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compiled by Mary Thurston
County commissioners and
all citizens favoring lower
taxes were urged to attend a
special taxpayers meeting at
the courthouse.
New county officers in-
stalled included com-
missioners R.B. Halferty,
C.H. Olson and W.F. Hill,
auditor and clerk Carl C.
Kitchen, treasurer Anna B.
Harala, sheriff Fred L.
Diggs, probate judge George
W. Barry, assessor R.M.
Parks, and superintendent of
schools Tirza J. Wayland.
Newly elected Idaho
Governor Davis asked for
strict economy at state,
county and municipal levels,
repeal of the two -mill state
highway levy, further con-
solidation of departmental
duties, improvement of
marketing conditions and a
six -year program for building
and reorganizaing state
charitable institutions.
The recently organized
Farm Bureau sent W.J.
Jameson and W.B. Boydstun
as delegates to the seed show
and agricultural institute at
Nampa, where Valley County
took first prize f or timothy
seed. At the institute,
Jameson was elected a
member of the state farm
executive committee.
From the January, 1921 files
of the Cascade News
F.S. Logue and L.M. Gorton
represented the Cascade
Commercial Club before the
state Public Utilities Com-
mission in Boise to protest the
proposed reduction of train
service on the Idaho Northern
branch of the Oregon Short
Line, which served Long
Valley.
W.C. Hurd opened a feed
barn to care for horses by the
day or week. The Arling post
office was reinstated on
January 1, and John Goode
named postmaster.
The school held a sleighing
party to attend a basketball
game at Roseberry. The
Cascade Civic Club discussed
civic affairs during a meeting
at the home of Mrs. Frank
Kerby. The club also had a
cooked food sale at the
Crawford Mere. All the local
churches took part in a
Christian Endeavor rally at
Payette. The Commercial
Club sponsored a dinner at
the Cascade Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. R.C. Hughes
came in on skis trom their
ranch on Monumental Creek,
a 90 -mile trip in five and a
half days. They had used
deserted cabins for shelter at
night and carried just enough
food for the trek. Mrs. Hughes
was in poor health and the
couple were on their way to
California.
January weddings were
Ethel Parks to Alonzo
Hageback and Iva Ansforth to
Warren Hathaway of
Cabarton.
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From the February, 1921 files
of the Cascade News.
Clark L. Hammond of Rep -
ressen, California wrote to the
"Long Valley Advocate ", pred-
ecessor of the "Cascade News ",
that he was an original sub -
scriber, was living in a won-
derful country, but had "drunk
the waters of Gold Fork" and
would like to come back.
At an enormus freight cost,
machinery was shipped in to
drill for oil at Horseshoe Bend,
lettuce growers met to organ-
ize car lot marketing of their
product, a Holstein- Frisian
cattle association was formed
under the auspices of the Farm
Bureau, and its executive com-
mittee decided to attempt to
stimulate immigration to Val-
ley County. Also on the agri-
culture scene, a three -day farm
management school was being
planned, and orders were be-
ing taken for field pea seed.
A Valley County Teachers'
Association meeting was post-
poned by weather conditions,
which also caused a south-
bound train to lay in a snow -
bank out of Cabarton for 36
hours.
The high school manual
training class was making doll
furniture and "taking orders for
bookcases, with profits to go
for additional department eq-
uipment. The cast of the senior
class play, "Civil Service ", in-
cluded Ruth and David Spiel-
man, Ralph Cromwell and
Harold Logue.
Rev. Schenk was transferr-
ed to an Oregon parish and the
women of the parish gave his
wife a gift during a surprise
farewell party. The Cascade
Civic Club accepted an offer
from Judge Barry to put its
library books in his office.
Revs. Isaac Clark and Char-
les C. Cole conducted revival
services and organized a chur-
ch in the Donnelly community,
and Cascade was visited by Mr.
Harry Shellworth of the Boise -
Payette Lumber Co. Dr. Nog -
gle closed schools and public
gatherings in McCall due to
a mild smallpox epidemic, and
the meanest man in the world
must have lived in McCall,
where eight dogs had been re-
cently poisoned.
Arnold Michels, a Roseberry
rancher, died at his winter
home near Boise, and February
births included sons to Mr. and
Mrs. John Williams and Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Hall, and a
daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Do
Connyers.
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through Cascade News files
From the March, 1921 files
of "The Cascade News"
Train service and mail were
held up for five days by dirt
and rock slides in the canyon,
and in Cascade "auto trucks on
the streets joined the robins,
pussy willows and old Bald
Face's new suit of hand -me-
downs in proclaiming that the
last semester of pinochle is
drawing to a close."
School commenced at Upper
Beaver Meadows, with Mrs.
Ruth Purcell Goode as teacher.
The high school had a skiing
party on the Jasper Hill, with
a lunch served at the Potten-
ger home. Apparatus was pur-
chased for the physics lab,
and the manual training de-
partment was building a book
case for the Civic Club's pub-
lic library in the court house.
The Farm Bureau Communi_
tl was organized at Round
Valley, under the direction of
project leaders Neeb, Cantrall,
Kerby, Tramner, Bacon and
Smith, and Alpha had a Farm
Bureau meeting with a milk-
tasting demonstration. Robert
Coulter, R.B. Halfery, H. E.
Armstrong and Ed Poro were
named to the immigration com-
mittee And the farmers of
Arling commity carried their
irrigation bond election to
construct a system for 7000
to 8000 acres, the Center Ir-
rigation District, with water
from Gold Fork.
G.B. Mains, supervisor of
the Payette Forest, reported
that a forest airplane patrol,
sucessful in Oregon and Calif-
ornia, would be established In
fdaho, with headquarters in
Butte, Montana.
The Cascade Telephone Com-
pany was organized with L.L.
Moore, P.O. Lining, George T.
Emery, W.D. Cromwell, and
Fred iS. Logue as directors. The
company planned to construct
21/2 miles of line and a switch-
board, with residents to cons-
truct any connecting lines and
pay a monthly service toll.
Rev H.D. McDonald came
from Cambridge to succeed
Rev. John H. Schenck as pas-
tor of the M.E. Church. Deaths
reported were Newell Patter-
son, son of Mr. and Mrs. G.A.
Patterson, and Dr. Harry M.
Steetle of Caldwell, who had
made many professional trips
into the area.
Advertisement: Ford car,
run only- one season, to trade
for milch cow.
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From the April, 1921 files
of the "Cascade News"
"It looks encouraging to see
autos chasing about, but they
can't get very for from home
yet." Deputy Game Warden
Lisenby went to Emmett to
investigate complaints of far-
mers between Letha and Falk's
Store that beaver activities
threatened danger to the Pay-
ette River lowlands.
A shipment of 21 Holsteins
were the first brought into
Long Valley. Farmers were
warned against buying inferior
seed. A campaign was under-
way to poison ground squirrels;'
the game warden planted perch
and wall -eyed bass in a slough
near Cascade and in Payette
Lake, a gray wolf skin wa.,
brought in from Marble Creek
and seven cougar pelts fron
the South Fork.
Farmers were disposing o:
scrub chickens, building ul
their flocks and constructing
chicken houses instead of co
ops. The Farm Bureau was tc
direct application of lime on
three plots of ground to coun-
teract soil acid, trout arrived
to be planted in Clear Creek,
Beaver Creek, Big Creek and
creeks west of Van Wyck, and
Beaver Meadows farmers were i
formulating plans for an ir-
rigation district.
Newly elected village trus-
tees were L.G. Morris, Boyd
B. Smith, Stanley Logue, Lee
Lisenby and H.J. Patterson. A
meeting of the county commis-
sioners to discuss public high-
ways was also attended by J.
P. Martin of the Ogden office,
Mr. Williams of the U.S. Bur-
eau of Public Lands, Forest
Supervisor Mains from Emm-
ett, and H.C. Shellworth of
Boise.
-Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Mitchell
returned from North Idaho and
reopened the Hotel Cascade
with a well - attended party of
cards, singing by the young
people and dancing, with Uncle
Tom Worthington calling the
quadrilles. Attorney R.B. Aye-
rs, hunting for a lower altitude,
moved his office and family
to Emmett. Building activity
included an addition to the
Emery Hotel, foundation for
an office for D.M. Cox, two
dwelling houses by Harold
Cromwell, and finishing a cot-
tage started by Lee Lisenby the
previous fall. The Library
Committee of the Civic Club
requested book donations, M.
E. Church purchtsed two lots
west of Logue Bros. store, and
Cabarton opened the new Mut_
ual Club Hall.
Births recorded were a son
to Mir. and Mrs. Ralph Still,
and daughters to Mr. and Mrs.
C.A. Klient, Mr. and Mrs. Hen-
dricks and Mr. and Mrs. Noah
Matthews. Weddings were
Bertha Cantrall to Edwin H.
Patterson, Ethel Cantrall to
Edwin J. Rockwood, and Fanie
Nasi to Joseph White.
Mrs. Lathrop died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs.
Mary Wilkins, in New Ply-
mouth.
Looking Back
from the March, 1921 files of the Cascade News
The Farm Bureau
compiled by Mary Thurston
organized a local chapter at
Representatives of the
Round Valley. W. Bacon was
Cascade Commercial Club
named chairman, Charles C.
met with Forest Supervisor
Smith, secretary, and Peter
Guy B. Mains and A. Casner
Neeb, S.L. Cantrall, John
of McCall to discuss a co-
Tranmer and Emmett Kerby,
operative use agreement
project leaders.
between National Forest and
Several quilts were pieced
Farmers' Mutual phone lines.
when the Ladies' Aid met at
The Cascade Telephone Co.
the home of Mrs. R.P.
adopted articles of in-
McLeod. The Civic Club
corporation and bylaws and
received a thank -you note
announced plans to construct
from the Near East Relief
21 /2 miles of line in the
Society for the $104.30 it sent
business district, a business
and welcomed five new
office and switchboard ex-
members at a meeting co-
change. Directors were L.L.
hostessed by the Mmes. L.M.
Moore, P.O. Liming, George
Gorton and A.D. Robb.
T. Emery, W.D. Cromwell;
Lurline Coulter, a Cascade
Fred S. Logue and William
High graduate, won honors as
Mickelson.
a member of the U. of Oregon
R.B. Ayers sold his ab-
debate team.
stract business to county
Physics lab apparatus was
surveyor W.H. Wood.
purchased for the school from
It was announced that
the student body fund and the
aerial patrol of national
manual training class was
forests would be instigated in
building bookcases for the
Idaho and Montana.
public library, which was to
Dirt and rock slides in-
be housed in the courthouse.
terrupted train service for
Roseberry High had a
five days and three young
skating party at Jasper Hill,
men paid fines in Judge
with lunch in the Pottenger
Cain's court for catching too
home. School opened at
many whitefish.
Upper Beaver Meadows with
Robert Coulter of the
Mrs. Ruby Purcell Goode
county Farm Bureau, R.B.
teaching.
Halferty, H.E. Armstrong
Rev. John H. Schenk gave a
and Ed Poro were named to
free illustrated Iecture on
an immigration committee;
Hawaii at the Methodist
Arling area farmers passed
Church and announced that
their irrigation bond with
Rev. H.D. McDonald would
only two dissenting votes;
succeed him in the com-
Beaver Meadows farmers
munity.
met at Arling to discuss
A son was born to Mr. and
irrigating 2000 acres on the
Mrs. L.B. Williams and
west side of the valley; and
deaths were Newell Pat -
Ed C. Martin was elected
terson, Major Fred R. Reed,
secretary of the Center
at Pocatello, and Dr. Henry
irrigation district.
Stettle, at Caldwell.
Looking
Back From the February 1921 files of the Cascade News
compiled by Mary Thurston
A letter addressed to the
former "Long Valley Ad-
vocate'' from Charles L.
Hammond of Fresno, Calif.
was forwarded to its suc-
cessor, "The Cascade News."
In it, Mr. Hammond said he
had been a rancher at Center,
an original subscriber to the
"Advocate" and was eager to
hear how the paper and the
country had grown. He added
that he was satisfied where he
was, but missed the snow-
capped mountains.
Meetings conducted by the
Rev. Charles C. Cole in
Donnelly and Roseberry were
attracting many. Forty -one
new church members and 83
baptisms were reported,
along with preliminary plans
to build a new church at
Donnelly. Rev. John H.
Schenck delivered his
farewell sermon in the
Cascade M.E. Church, and
the Ladies Aid planned a
surprise party for Mrs.
Schenck on her 72nd birthday.
A Near East Benefit dance
was chairmaned by Bertha
Cantrell. Profits reached
over $100.
A box social at Genevieve
Logues's school. District 34,
netted $210. Lafe Cantrell
auctioned the 27 boxes.
A Valley County teachers'
meeting, planned in con-
junction with a community
dinner at the high school, had
to be postponed due to tem-
porary cancellation of train
service. (The train was stuck
ina snowdrift below Cabartan
for 36 hours.)
The Cascade senior class
elected Mildred Waters as
president and Ralph
Cromwell vice- president. The
manual training department
made bookcases far the in=
termediate department and
doll beds and children's
tables to sell.
The Cascade Civic Club
accepted an offer from Judge
Barry to use his office for a
community library.
The Farm Bureau spon-
sored a milk testing program
at IIo, where W.B. Boyd -
stun's cows were rated the
best. A social was held at
Norwood in connection with
the testing, and the Farm
Bureau also planned a
community social at Alpha.
A Holstein Association was
formed as a step to improve
breeds of cattle in the valley,
and civic leaders in each
community were chosen tc
attempt to encourage im
migration into Long Valley
A daughter was born to Dr.
and Mrs. Conyers and sons to
the John Williams and the
Roy Halls. Deaths were
Arnold Mickels and Margaret
Manning.
Looking Back .. .
compiled by Mary Thurston
The Cascade Telephone
Company had ordered wire
and other materials and
announced it would push
construction of its service
facilities as fast as possible.
I. Clark, local Swift and
Company representative,
moved the cream station to
the Jarnigan Building.
A new restaurant, the
Boston Cafe, with a bakery,
was opened. An addition to
the Emery Hotel was under
construction. D.M. Fox had
the foundation laid for his
new brick veneered office
building. Harold Cromwell
was building two houses, and
James J. and J.H. Cudd
announced that they would
overhaul the sawmill four
miles east of Cabarton, which
they had purchased, and
would employ 25 men.
The first person of the
season to make the trip from
Boise to Cascade with a
wheeled vehicle was P.T.
Mickelson, who drove a buck-
board and team to Ola, but
had to mount runners bet-
ween Tripod and Cabarton.
A discussion of highway
matters was held among
Forest Service official J.P.
Martin, Mr. Williams of the
Bureau of Public Roads,
Forest Supervisor G.B.
Mains, and Harry Shelworth
of Boise Payette Lumber Co.
Road work between
Cascade and Knox was
scheduled to begin soon. The
snow was going fast, with
only about a foot left in
Cascade but nine feet on Big
Creek Summit.
The Holstein Association
imported 21 head for Robert
Coulter, F.M. Kerby, B.E.
-from the April, 1921 files of the Cascade News
Himler and E.A. Wayland.
The Farm Bureau was
stressing that farmers should
buy seed from reliable
sources to insure germination
and a crop free from weeds. It
also announced that rodent
extermination supplies could
be obtained from area rodent
control leadQrs, W. B.
Boydstun of McCall, Carl T.
Beyer of Norwood, W:J.
Matthews of Arling, John
Atkins of Alpha, John
Johnson of Elo, Charles
Schenck and T. Moss of
Central, L.R. Dukes of
Cascade and John Tramman
of Round Valley.
Mrs. P.O. Liming of the
Civic Club public library
committee asked that
donations of books be brought
to its new location, in the
office of Probate Judge
George W. Barry.
A millinery class was
making and remodeling hats.
A recital at the Cascade
Theatre was presented by
piano students of Mrs. H.E.
Gorton, Louise Harwood,
Mildred Waters, Ruth Ward,
Lila Ward, Dee Woodard,
Marie Harala, Marjorie
Morgan, Marie Logue, Mary
Mickelson and Mrs. L.L.
Moore.
A son was born to the Ralph
Stilsons and daughters to Mr.
and Mrs. C.A. Klient, Mr. and
Mrs. Hendricks and Mr. and
Mrs. Noah Matthews.
Bertha Cantrall was
married to Edwin H. Pat-
terson, Ethel Cantrall to
Elvin J. Rockwood and
Fannie Nasi to Joseph White.
through Cascade News files
From the May, 1921 files of
the `'Cascade News"
During that 50 -year ago spr-
ing month, three cars left Em-
mett on a Wednesday after-
noon, spent the night at High
Valley, and reached Cascade
the following night after tra-
veling over sometimes bottom-
less roads. Auto Stage Lines
made the announcement that
they would carry passengers at
the same fare as the railroad,
with a noon dinner at Banks
and connections with trains
both ways while the canyon
track was closed by slides. Al-
so at that time J.H. Hill's pow-
er plant• at Cascade Falls was
out of commission and its safe-
ty endangered by high water.
Mr. and Mrs. F. Coonrod had
returned to their logging camp
with a small force of men,
County commissioners awarded
contracts to W.H. Huff of Cas-
cade and H.P. Moore of Don-
nelly for road work on the
Donnelly cutoff, and McCall,
the "Lake Resort" city, was
making some desirable street
improvements. The commis-
sioners also planned to adver-
tise for bids for a highway
from the Club House to the
Adams County line, and work
was resumed on the Cascade -
Knox wagon road. MT. Ober -
billing and "Curly" Brewer
laid in supplies and went in to
the mines at Yellow Pine. And
a still was discovered in a
clump of trees and shrubbery
nine miles north of Cascade,
partly submerged by high Pay-
ette River water.
The Crawford Mercantile
Company was taken over from
the Messrs. Gorton, Worthing-
ton and Kerby, by E.O. Patter-
son of Virginia and J.D. Pat -
terson of North Carolina, for-
mer Cascade residents. "The
men are brothers of W.D. Pat-
terson, who laid out and plat-
ted Cascade townsite, and is
the county's largest landhold-
er."
Mr. B. Godwin sold his in-
terest in the Cascade Club to
Harry Walker, chef, and his
brother, A.M. Walker, from
South Dakota; R.R. McLeod,
who established the business,
continued as senior partner.
The Mutual Club's new hall
at Cabarton had a successful
opening. planned by a commit-
tee of S.S. Cruickshank. E.C.
McGregor and George Higgins.
Bids were advertised for pro-
tection and maintenance of
indigent sick and otherwise de-
pendent poor in Valley County.
A law office was opened by
G.J. McGrath, the past year's
principal of the McCall school.
Central Irrigation District
planned to cooperate with Gold
Fork, Irrigation Company for a
new dam on Gold Fork, and
the Farm Bureau sanctioned a
monthly "Trader's Day" for
three communities, with fees
of 5 percent for furniture and
household goods, 3 percent on
livestock.
The market of W.H. Mende
at Donnelly was bought by
Fred Kover, who had his build-
ings moved from Roseberry.
The state clothing expert, Miss
Wilhelmina Jacobsen, was to
demonstrate making dre s s
forms at Elo, Donnelly, Cas-
cade and Alpha. A Cascade
municipal election made Boyd
Smith mayor, J.H. Schenck vil-
lage clerk, Stanley Logue tre-
surer, and Enos Smith town
marshall. The electees set a
cleanup for rubbish, with May
20th the deadline.
Teacher exams were schedul-
ed for June 3 and 4, and Cas-
cade High School sent out its
first graduates, Mildred Wat-
ers, Harold Logue, Arthur
Cromwell, Laura Reyburn and
Ralph Cromwell. A truckload
of high school students went to
McCall to participate in a
track meet, and the grade scho-
ol staged an open house exhbi-
bition and program, with pro-
ceeds for room equipment.
Louise Harwood and Mildred
Logue arranged the Roseberry
High commencement program,
in which Hilda Mayer, Ferne
Leaf, Hazel Moore and Wayne
Whitney received diplomas,
and two plays were presented
by the Roseberry student body.
May, 1921 files of the Cascade News
compiled by Mary Thurston
Nearly 300 people attended
a dance at the Mutual Club's
new hall at Cabarton. S.S.
Cruickshank, O.C. McGregor
and George Higgins planned
the entertainment and lunch
baskets auctioned by Lafe
Cantrall brought $310.
Mr. B. Godwin sold his
interest in the Cascade Club
to Harry and A.M. Walker.
E.O. Patterson and J.D.
Patterson bought the mer-
cantile interests of the
Messrs. L.M. and W.P.
Gorton, T.L. Worthington and
F.M. Kerby. Fred even.,
bought W.H. Me or's"°
market in Donnelly. Mr.
Oberbillig and Curly Brewer
arrived with crews and
supplies for the mines at
Yellow Pine.
It was hoped that the
canyon road would be open
for travel in the "speculative
subsequent."
The Village Council
organized with Boyd Smith as
mayor, J.H. Schenck as clerk
and ex- officio watermaster,
Stanley Logue as treasurer
and Enos Smith as town
marshall.
The county commissioners
awarded contracts for the
"Donnelly Cutoff" project to
W.H. Huff, H.P. Moore And',
George E. Scheline.
The Farm Bureau was
promoting an irrigation
project for Beaver Meadows
and set "Traders Days" in
McCall, Donnelly and
Cascade one day a month
each.
Sheriff Diggs and Deputy
W.C. Hurd unearthed a still
with 50 gallons of the finished
product on the west side of the
Payette River about nine
miles north of Cascade.
There were five graduates
in the first class from
Cascade High School and five
from Roseberry High School.
At Roseberry, a pageant,"
America Past ana Present"
include early Idaho history.
At Cascade, an entertainment
by the primary and in-
termediate grades raised
money for school equipment.
At a high school open house,
there were manual training
and domestic arts exhibits
and demonstrations by the
science, mathematics and
commercial departments.
A truckload of Cascade
youths went to McCall to
participate in the annual
track meet.
Cascade had its annual
"clean -up week" in mid -May.
From the July, 1921 files of
the "Cascade News"
The Fourth of July celeb.
ration in Cascade featured a
parade, music at the Cascade
Theatre with a large chorus
and excellent orchestra, and
an address by National Guard
Chaplain J. Lee Miller. F.S.
Logue and Bro. won the float
prizes, and races were won by
Bert Hall, C.R. Mitchell, Fay
Coonrod, Ralph Cromwell and
Horace Patterson.
Representing the Farm Bur-
eau, W.B. Boydstun met with
Beaver Meadows project lead
ers on a trip to Louie, Boulder
and Rabbit Lakes east of Elo,
to locate water storage sites.
The first crop of alfalfa was
a `~bumper ", and huckleber-
ries were plentiful due to the
late spring rains. At a gather -
ing at Gold Fork, W.L. Jame-
son of the Farm Bureau deliv-
ered the welcome, telling pur-
poses and accomplishments,
and Mir. T.B. Duncan of Uni-
versity Extension talked on
betterment of conditions a-
mong agricultural classes.
There were a -baby show, rac-
es, and contests, and lemdn-
ade and ice cream at the pic-
nic.
Tourist camp grounds fixed
up the previous year were be-
ing considerably used, with
people coming through on
their way to Payette Lakes or
to good fishing streams. Supt.
and Mrs. E.C. McGregor were
in town from their Cabarton
summer home. H.J. Hasbrouck
and family returned to Alpha
after a winter in Los Angeles.
An insurance and real estate
office was opened by W.J. Me-
gordon. The Emery Hotel add-
ed a commodious brick annex.
A dance for the Cascade Ball
Club, with fifty couples, was
a social and financial success.
The E:pworth League bought
a piano for church use, with
local subscriptions. The Cas-
cade Civic Club .gave $50 to
the school trustees to level the
school grounds. Teachers' ex-
aminations for certificates
were held July 18, 19 and 20.
A forest fire between
Smith's Ferry and Round Val-
ley swept over a thousand
acres, mostly cut over. In-
spector Guy Mains scattered a
small army of trained men over
the danger zones. John parker
succeeded H. J. Burr as ranger
at the Crawford Station.
The Van Kirk party of Nam-
pa came over Tripod to Stolle
Meadows with a man interest-
ed in the medicinal value of
the hot springs, possibly with
a view to building a sanitar-
ium.
".Dad" Conklin, pioneer of
Banks station, was killed in
a car accident near the Hi
Henry coal mine south of
Horseshoe Bend, and Sim Val-
ley died at his ranch on the
South Fork.
Professional area offices
that summer included Dr. M.
Kirkpatrick, resident dentist;
A:L. Wood, Emmett dentist,
part time in Cascade; Dr: Ray
G. Newsome, optometrist and
jewler, Emmett: Dr. G.E. Nogg
;gel, physician and surgeon; G.
J. McGrath, lawyer: D.M. Cox,
attorney- at -l-aw: F.M. Kerby,
attorney; R.B. Ayers, attorney -
at -law.
Items in L.L. Moore's big
sale ad included ladies' waists.
69 cents: infants' gingham
rompers, 79 cents; men's good
quality elastic suspenders, 39
cents; and boys' wool shirts.
59 cents.
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-from the June, 1921 files of the Cascade News
Compiled by Mary Thurston
The Trask Bros. auto stage
made a trip up from Boise on
June 1, but not via the canyon
route, which was expected to
be opened later.
Bids for improvement of
the road from the Adams
County line to the Payette
Lakes Club were advertised.
The field manager for Swift
and Co. consulted with local
manager I. Clark
regarding expansion of the
business and inspected cream
stations. Swift had recently
built a new station in Don-
nelly.
The
Auto C
L.M. Gorton and E.R. Lyell.
Two directors of the Nampa
Cooperative Creamery spoke
to local dairymen at McCall,
Donnelly and Cascade under
the auspices of the Farm
Bureau.
All the leaders of women's
work classes met at Donnelly
and dress form meetings
were conducted in Cascade
and McCall. Traders days
were also held in the three
towns.
A county -wide track meet
for elementary and high
school students was held in
McCall. with .local ladies
Lisenby and Roberts serving free lunch both noon
o. garage was sold to and evening.
At Roseberry, an American
History pageant drew a large
crowd and commencement
was held for graduates Mary
Mahla, Wayne Whitney,
Hilda Mayer and Ingrid Ax.
The Cascade Civic Club
was represented at the
district convention in Weiser
by its president, Mrs. J.H.
Hill, and by the Mmes. L.L.
Moore and W.H. Wood.
The school board decided to
continue the four -year high
school, noting that 16 students
had attended from other
districts, paying tuition, and
that, if there were no high
school in Cascade, the district
would be liable.
Plans for the coming
Fourth of July celebration
included a parage, speaking
program, ball game, riding
contest and street sports.
Marion Morgan was
married to Francis E. Kerby,
Jennie Kangas to Earl C.
Casey, Fern Bethel to Logan
Wright, Gretchen Stunz to
W.L. Squires, Agnes Stunz to
Robert C. Muir and Doris
Evans to Charles L. Robb.
Deaths included Mrs. Ed
(Linnie) Martin of Arling,
early settler J.H. Lincoln and
the infant son of the Onir
Wilmarths.
Looking Back .... .
compiled by Mary Thurston
Officers of a new associa-
tion formed to promote a
Community Fair were Bert
Venable, present; Sollie Cal-
lender, vice - president; J.J.
Andrews, secretary; and
Luther Dukes, treasurer.
They made up the board of
directors, which at a later
meeting named committee
chairmen and set the dates
for the first fair in late
September.
The Cascade Civic Club
sponsored a dance, with
music by Mr. Fry of Cabar-
ton and the Cascade Orche-
stra. Publicity was handled
by the Mines. Allman and
Mickelson and decorations
by the Mmes. Lyells and
Woodward, the Misses
Norma Simmons and Fran-
ces Noggle and Don McLeod
and Don Purcell.
Revival meeting were con-
ducted by Rev. Frank E.
Davis in Donnelly and there
were several baptisms in the
river. Rev. Davis was organ-
izing a community Ladies'
Aid. He had been called to
serve the Donnelly Church of
Christ.
Rev. Earl C. Pounds, a
Nazarene pastor in Boise,
conducted services in the
Free Methodist Church. Ion-
ic Lodge, AF and AM, at
Cabarton was granted a
dispensation by the Grand
Master of Idaho following
officers named; Vernon A.
Steward, J.N. Morgan,
James H. Falls, J.E. Elliot,
J.C. Fry, S.C. Mansfield,
Thomas E. Virts, Ralph E.
Still, Morton J. Seaman,
-from the August, 1921 files of the Cascade News
William A. George, Royal A.
Chafel and John E. Kerby.
Dr. J.F. Rutledge rented
offices for his medical prac-
tice in the new Emery Hotel
annex. State poultry special-
ist Pren Moore set up groups
throughout the county to sell
flocks and show owners how
to cull them.
The Forest Service install-
ed mechanized devices for
locating fires at Blue Point
and Tripod and planned
another at Big Baldy.
Cascade schools were due
to open with Hartzell Cobb,
Wm. S. Briscoe and Miss
Elizabeth Sandelius on the
high school and 8th grade
faculty and Mrs. Cobbs and
Miss Yuttle in the elemen-
tary grades.
Marian Josephine Wood
was married to Harvey Si-
bert Walker, Flora Juliet
Brownlee to Lee B. Colson,
Maggie Jane to Thomas A.
Chaffee and Agnes Schoon-
over to Frank Popman.
A son was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Joe McKee and a
daughter to Mr. and Mrs.
Montie Cross.
Cascade News advertisers
were attorneys D.M. Cox
and F.M. Kerby, physicians
G.E. Noggle, M.D. and J.E.
Rutledge, M.D. ; Callender
Bros., home - dressed beef;
Inter - Mountain State Bank;
F.S. Logue and Bros.; L.L.
Moore for Nashua blankets;
G.S. Takeoshi, Cascade
Green Market; Crawford
Mercantile; Mission Cigar
Store; The Club; Stunz Mill
at Arling.
Looking-Back 1.r the September, 1921 files of the Cascode News
compiled by Mary Thurston
Fires at Van Wyck burned
the Odd Fellows Hall, a
residence owned by Sollie
Callender and an office
building, all long unoccu-
pied.
J.H. Schenck built a large
display cabinet for the Farm
Bureau office, to be used for
choice specimens of Pro-
ducts of Valley County
farms.
A new case of books from
the state traveling library
arrived and could be bor-
rowed from the office of
Probate Judge Barry.
Col. Judson Spofford re-
ported good prospects at the
Profile Mine, expecting to
install machinery next year,
and that Charles Ellison had
run across a rich vein at the
Fted Metals mine.
Delicious everbearing
strawberries were being
harvested and crates of let-
tuce being shipped. People
were driving to Council and
Mesa to get canning
peaches.
Seventy -five farmers filed
a protest against closing the
Cabarton railway station.
A sheepherder arrested
for starting a fire near
Squaw Meadows by Deputy
Game Warden Lee Linsenby
was taken to McCall for a
hearing before Justice of the
Peace Peabody and was
fined $111.75.
Secretary of the Interior
A.B. Fall, accompanied by
National Parks Director Ste-
phen Mather and Arthur P.
Davis of the U.S. Reclama-
tion Service, spent a week in
Idaho inspecting irrigation
systems and becoming
acquainted with the State's
needs and "wonderful" pos-
sibilities for agricultural de-
velopment.
Funds were raised for a
Central Irrigation District
project and a construction
contract let to Morrison -
Knudsen. Roseberry Irriga-
tion District passed a bond
issue toward proposed im-
provements.
The body of Victor Kan -
gas, son of John Kangas of
Norwood, who was killed in
action during World War I,
was returned from the Ar-
gonne Forest in France and
buried with military rites in
the Finnish Cemetery near
McCall.
Long Valley dentist Dr.
E.H. Maberly died suddenly
at Buhl while participating
in hunting dog field trails.
Looking back from the October 1921 files of the Cascade News .....
compiled by Mary Thurston
Two men appeared in
court for attempting to
evade the county tax on
sheep. Warrants were sworn
out for a party of "game
hogs." About 500 hunters
went into the Knox area; 138
deer were checked out. How-
ever, some hunters were
nearly snowbound late in the
month. With the bounty re-
moved, bears appeared to be
more numerous, and daring.
Work on the Cascade -Knox
section of the government
highway was stopped until
spring, according to project
engineer R.R. Mitchell.
The Lake Irrigation Dis-
trict was formed by ranch-
ers between McCall and
Donnelly, with plans to use
Little Payette Lake for
water storage. organizers
were Warren E. Cook of
McCall and W.B. Boydstun
of Lardo.
Farm Bureau committees
formed included R.L. Hal -
ferty, McCall; Carl T. Bey-
er, Mrs. J.D. Hughes and Ed
Poro, Elo; W.B. Boydstun,
Norwood; Andrew Camp-
bell, Central; W.J. Jameson,
Arling; W.B. Johnson, Cas-
cade; and C.H. Olson, Alpha
and Round Valley.
The Gold Fork and Center
Irrigation Districts were
combining efforts toward a
flume in Gold Fork canyon
and the Roseberry District
enlarged its system to irri-
gate 3,000 acres.
The Cascade Light and
Power plant, owned by J.H.
Hill, was undergoing exten-
sive repairs, supervised by
W.H. Huff.
S.L. Cantrall and Glen
Strawn ordered registered
Poland China pigs, Bob Coul-
ter purchased four Holstein
calves from New Plymouth
and Mrs. R.M. Parks a
registered white - belted
Hampshire hog. Others wer
upgrading their stock as
well.
Sixteen county residents
exhibited at the Idaho State
Fair. Paul Makerson of Don-
nelly won a 1st place for
timothy seed and D.H. Ker-
by for rutabagas. Clem
Blackwell and son of McCall
bought several carloads of
cattle to feed in the lower
country. The potato crop was
reported good with a good
price.
CA. Mairs and R.W.
Swank dissolved their Cas-
cade Auto Co. partnership.
A. Halloween Ball was
planned at the Cabarton
Hall. A Modern Woodsman
Camp was vested in Cascade
with initiation of ten mem-
bers and applications from
11 more.
"Owing to the excellent
high school in Roseberry,
practically every house was
occupied." Rev. E.C. Mc-
Clintock assumed the pastor-
ate of the Roseberry Chris-
tian Church.
Maude Burnside was mar-
ried to Charles R. Howe.
Sons were born to Mr. and
Mrs. G.S. Takeuchi, Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Newell and Mr.
and Mrs. Harmon Shannon
and daughters to the Dow
Allens and Mr. and Mrs.
Churchill.
LookingBack
from the December, 1921
files of the Cascade News
compiled by Mary Thurston
The various chapters of
the Farm Bureau elected
officers. They were: Cen-
tral, Douglas Yensen, J.M.
Jasper, Andrew Campbell,
R.L. Halferty, George Wulf,
Mr. Shank, Mrs. Wittle, Mrs.
Martsen, and E.C. McClin-
tock; Alpha, D.H. Kerby,
C.H. Olson, C.E. Herrick,
Mrs. John Atkins, Mrs. D.H.
Kerby, Mrs. Glenn Strawn,
Glenn Strawn; Round Val-
ley, S.L. Cantrall, Herman
Shannon, R.E. Kerby and
Wade Bacon; Norwood,
Ernest Heinrich, C.E. Don-
ahoe, G.F. Byer, J.B. Whit-
ney, Guy Fairbrother, Mrs.
J.B. Whitney, Mrs. Guy
Fairbrother, Mrs. M.E.
Meador; McCall, W.I. Gas -
kel, Frank Rapp, W.B. Boyd -
stun, L.H. Heacock.
Thanks were expressed on
behalf of the Bureau to the
many who supported the
irrigation projects, especial-
ly the editors of the Cascade
News and Payette Lakes
Star. The bonds for the Rose-
berry, Center and Lake Irr-
gation Districts had all been
approved.
R. Meckelson of Donnelly
won first place for his tim-
othy seed at the Internation-
al Hay and Grain Show in
Chicago, as well as first at
the Boise fair.
The last train of logs was
shipped from the mill at
Cabarton to Emmett. A.R.
Campbell closed his "donkey
camp" near Alpha for the
winter. The ice harvest was
underway, with a thickness
of 14 inches. Skating was the
order of the day, and night,
at Cascade, and large par-
ties were using the pond
north of Roseberry. The
National Copper Bank of Salt
Lake purchased the interests
of C.A. Watt in the First
State Bank of Donnelly, the
First National Bank of Em-
mett and the Security Na-
tional Bank of Fairfield.
A farewell party for D.M.
Higgins, a "good citizen for
35 years" was held, and
during the event a pioneer
organization was formed,
with L.M. Gorton as presi-
dent and Mrs. W.D. Patter-
son as secretary.
Mrs. Helen Gesellchen
finished her seven -month
teaching term at Beaver
Meadows and returned to
her home near Lewiston.
The annual Christmas seal
sale was conducted under
the direction of Mrs. George
Barry in Cascade, Mrs. S.W.
Matheson in Roseberry and
Mrs. Carl Brown in McCall.
The Ladies Aid held a food
sale and bazaar at F.S.
Logue and Brothers Store.
The Boosters held a success-
ful get- together, with dinner
served by the Civic Club and
a program with Prof. Hart-
zell Cobbs as toastmaster.
There was a pie social and
entertainment at Donnelly,
and a concert by the Musical
Martins was presented at
Roseberry. A community
dinner and program were
given by the Center Farm
Bureau at Roseberry, and a
community Christmas tree
at the M.E. Church including
a program by the Cascade
school children. The Rose-
berry Christian Church also
spp yed.a program.
In basketball, Cascade
beat both Roseberry teams
at the Cascade theatre. Cap-
tains of the Roseberry teams
were Ida Yensen and Ells-
worth Moore.
Margaret Callender,
mother of the Callender
brothers, Mrs. George Pat-
terson and Mrs. Perry Walk-
er, died, Other deaths were
John M. Conkey, an old -time
lumberjack, and John D. Ax.
Sons were born to the
Wade Bacons and to Dr. and
Mrs. R. Allen and a daughter
to Mr. and Mrs. W. Carpen-
ter.
Edna Farmer was
married to Herbert Higgins.
LOOKING
BACK
From the August, 1921 files of "The
Cascade News"
The Community Fair
Association, formed of Cascade
citizens and promin,Vnt farmers,
elected Burt Venable as president;
Sollie Callender, vice - president;
J.J. Andrews, secretary; Luther
Dukes, treasurer; and W. J.
Jameson, director. The
Association asked cooperation of
the Cascade Civic Club, farmers,
dairymen and stockmen from all
parts of the county to promote an
exhibition which could sub-
sequently be shown at the state
fair. Numerous committees were
formed to include farm products,
women's work, school exhibits,
historical relics, etc., but then the
project was given up for lack of
sufficient interest.
State veterinarian J.D. Adams
was in the valley testing cattle for
t.b. Two boys were arrested for
stealing five head of horses from
Leo Maintes in High Valley.
Crawford Mercantile Company
was advertising "the year for
abundant preserving ", with sugar
low, fruit plentiful, and fruit jars
town to old prices. Pren Moore,
state poultry specialist, arranged
conferences on culling at Alpha,
Round Valley, Norwood, Cascade,
Elo and McCall.
Frank Mors, a Cascade visitor,
was an old lower Payette Valley
pioneer who had furnished logs
from Long Valley for the Oregon
Short Line, floating them down the
river to "Boomerang ". Osborn's
Fire - Fighter, a mechanical device
for locating fires, had been
established on Blue Point, Tripod
and Gold Fork.
Ionic Lodge AF and AM, was
granted a dispensayion, with
twelve charter members. Cascade
Rooms on South Main were taken
over by Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Rowe.
Some were available for light
housekeeping and some for
tourists.
A Community Christian Church
was organized by Rev. Frank E.
Davis, with the following to serve
in various offices: G. B. Cathcart,
Wm. Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. T. V.
Burnside, Mrs. J. B. Curtis, A.
Campbell.
Births reported were a son to Mr.
and Mrs. Joe McKee of Round
Valley and a daughter to Mr. and
Mrs. Montie Cross. Marian
Josephine Wood was married to
Harry A. Walker; Flora Brownless
to Lee B. Robson; Agnes
Schoonover to Frank Popmanl;
and Maggie Jones to Thomas A.
Chaffin of Star.
Mr. Hartzell Cobbs after two
years at Roseberry, was hired as
principal at Cascade. Other
teachers were Mr. Wm. S. Briscow
of Moscow, Miss Elizabeth San -
delius from the U. of I., Miss Tuttle
of Cambridge, and Harold
Cromwell, janitor. Cascade
Theatre manager John Nock had
installed a new floor, anticipating
semi - weekly dances.
Among the regular ads were
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound, Lucky Strike
cigarettes; Bull Durham; Dean's
Kidney Pills; Carter's Little Liver
Pills; Fletcher's Castoria;
Cuticura Soap; and Instant
Postum.
LOOKING B C K
From the
September, 1921 files of The
Cascade News.
Col. Judson Spofford of Boise
came down from Profile Summit
and reported favorably on his
mining interest there, noting that
he expected to go 100 feet deeper
and cross -cut to tap the supposedly
rich deposits of the Iron Cap vein.
The Veterans Bureau had a
representative in Cascade to hear
ex- servicemen with claims of any
sort on compensation, vocational
training, insurance,
hospitalization, back pay, etc.
Seventy -five farmers filed protests
against the proposed discon-
tinuation of rail service at
Cabarton.
Grazing fees were postponed
until December 1st to give stock-
men time to get returns on stock or
wook marketed. Clear Creek, Scott
Valley and Big Creek were being
investigated for irrigation storage
sites, and an irrigation district for
Beaver Meadows was underway.
Cattle in the county were found
free from tuberculosis, seed peas
were cut, and exhibits went to the
state fair, a good way of ad-
vertising Valley County. Mr. J. H.
Schenk built a cabinet to display
farm products in the courthouse.
For the women, classes were
started in millinery and in making
dress forms.
A fire at Van Wyck destroyed the
old Odd Fellows building and a
small office building owned by Dr.
Frank Burke of Donnelly. A week
later the old Witchey house,
unoccupied and owned by Sollie
Callender, burned down.
Several people made a trip to
Boise, mostly to see the circus. Mr.
Robb offered the Civic Club the use
of the Boise Payette office for their
meetings, since the courtroom was
not available. A railroad trestle
burned, delaying the down train
several hours. A new case of books
from the traveling library was in
Judge Barry's office. Rev. H. D.
MacDonald, assigned to the
Cascade Methodist Episcopal
Church, asked for a meeting at the
theatre to discuss problems of
general community interest, with a
social luncheon to follow.
The Roseberry school convened,
staffed by Prof. Walter Wolfe, Mrs.
Matson and Mr. Cutting. Cascade
High registered 36 students, the
primary 41. Going to school at
Moscow were Ralph Cromwell,
Warren and Francis Noggle and
Mildred Waters. Donald McLeod
went to Boise, and Gerald and
Harold Logue to Gooding College.
Births recorded were sons to Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Howard and Mr. and
Mrs. Harry DeHass, and a
daughter to Mr. and Mrs. G. E.
Kelly. The body of Victor Kangas,
who died in France, was returned
to the Finnish Cemetery for in-
terment.
LOOKING BACK
From the December. 1921 files of "The Cascade News"
Skating was the order of the day
at both Cascade and Roseberry
during that half - century ago
month. Trappers were bringing in
marten and muskrat to Cabarton,
Doc Hurd had a crew cutting 14
inch thick ice, and the Beaver
Meadows school finished its seven -
month May to December term.
C.A. West, president of the First
State Bank of Donnelly, First
National Bank of Emmett, and
First Security Bank, sold his in-
terest in all three banks to the
Copper National Bank of Salt Lake
City.
A Pioneer's organization was
formed, with Mr. L. M. Gorton as
president, Mr. D.N. Higgins, a
Long Valley resident since 1888,
was given a farewell party at the
Cascade Theatre before he joined
his family at Pomona, Calif., and
Mr. Shannon gave his library of 40
books to the Roseberry High
School.
The building occupied by The
Club at Cascade was sold at auc-
tion to Jack Patterson,
representing Crawford Moore. Mr.
Mickelson of Donnelly won first on
timothy seed at the International
Hay and Grain show at Chicago, as
well as $80 and first prize at the
Boise Fair.
The Farm ;Bureau organized in
various districts in the county, with
C.H. Olson community chairman
and these leaders: Alpha, Mr. and
Mrs. D. H. Kerby, C.H. Olson, C.E.
Herrick, Mrs. John Atkins, and Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Starin; Round
Valley, Wade Bacon, S.L. Cantrall,
Hermon Shannon, R.-E.-Kerby;
Norwood, Earl F. Beyer, Ernest
Heinrich, Mr, and Mrs. J.B.
Whitney, Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Fairbrother, and Mrs. M. E.
Meador; McCall, W.B. Boydstun,
W.L. Gaskel, Frank Rapp, and
L.H. Heacock, Plans were also
made to organize boys and girls
work along the lines their parents
were following, and an Executive
Committee, including Robert
Coulter, Cascade; W.B. Boydstun,
McCall; Ed Poro, Elo; Carl Beyer,
Norwood; R.B. Halferty, Center; alled during a November 18th
Ed E. Martin, Arling; W.J. Candy Geddes and Don Fuller,
Jameson, Cascade; Glenn Strawn, ' •Ln- __r_ _ _ _
Alpha; and S.L. Cantrell, Round A silver offering was taken
Valley, was elected. and coffee and doughnuts
The Boosters had a good served.
program, with ideas presented for A shower for May Patter -
benefiting the community and a son was held at the F.M.
delicious two - course dinner served Kerby home.
by the Civic Club. Home for the �-
_ _ `Cascade News ".
holidays from their various schools That month the Forest Service
were Waldo Baker, Vernon finished a 160 foot span bridge
Conyers, Happy and Jerry Logue, across the South Fork of the
Frances and Warren Noggle and Salmon River near Warren, which
Hazel Moore. Roseberry had a opened a way into Chamberlain
concert by the Musical Martins, Basin, famed as elk and deer
and a program was given by the hunting ground.
Cascade school at the Methodist Members of Mr. Woods'
Church Community Christmas engineering staff went into the
Knox country to hunt bear and
Tree. cougar. Two feet of snow 'were
During that month boys were reported on Big Creek summit, but
born to Mr. and Mrs. Wade Bacon Dan Drake brought 13 head of
of Round Valley and to Mr. and horses over the well- broken trail.
Art Coonrod, trying to get out of
Mrs. D.K. Allen, and a girl to Mr. Long Valley with his car, was hung
and Mrs. W.W. Carpenter. up by slides at Smith's Ferry. The
Mrs. Margaret Callender Corbin, train carrying W.W. Atkinson's
the mother of the Callender cattle got beyond Cabarton, but
brothers, Mrs. George Patterson had to back up until the slides were
and Mrs. Perry Wilbur, died at cleared. For three days trains
Emmett, and John McVonkey, an couldn't get through, but the "up"
old -time lumberjack with Boise and "down" trains were close
Payette Company, died at his enough to transfer mail and
cabin near McCall. Other deaths passengers. 'The Cabarton station
reported were John D. Cox, an closed for the winter, and the log
oldtimer from Roseberry, at train made its first run of the
Bakersfield, and Margaret Balch, season. Donnelly section crew
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl members were also laid off for the
Balch, at Norwood. winter after all of the stock had
been shipped.
Ruby Herrick was married to
Harry Lee Nock, and Sallie May
Patterson to L. Glen Morris. A
vember, 1921 files
: ascade News
Roseberry ranchers were
delivering wheat at Norwood
at $1 to $1.25 per hundred
pounds.
Cascade held a Flag Day
celebration to exhibit the
flag recently bought by the
school board. School debate
team members were Nattie
Wilkins, Marie Logue,
Louise Harwood, Ruth Cole-
man, Marjorie Morgan,
David Speilman, Rose Wash-
burn and Mildred Herrick.
The debated the subject
"Christian Colleges vs. State
Universities ".
The "State House" on the
east side of Upper Payette
Lake burned to the ground.
Sally May Patterson was
married to L. Glenn Morris
and Ruby May Herrick to
Harry L. Nock.
to benefit the Salvation Army
drive. Roseberry High School
reported an enrollment of 45, with
Mr. F. B. Cutting superintendent
and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wolfe
teaching. The Cascade High
School debate, "Christian colleges
vs. State Universities ", was well -
handled by Nettie Wilbur, Marie
Logue, Louise Harwood, Ruth
Coleman, Marjory Morgan, David
Spielman, Rose Washburn and
Mildred Herrick.
Several made trips to Council
Valley during the early fall for
peaches and apples. Traders' Day
at Donnelly drew a large crowd,
though there were fewer articles
offered for sale than hoped for.
Two farm sales brought good
prices, some pure -bred Jersey
heifers going for $98.
The Modern Woodmen had a
dance at Donnelly, with music by
the Musical Martins of McCall.
The State House on the Warren
Wagon Road above McCall buri od
to the ground. And Frank Spencer,
a trapper, fell at the head of Twin
Creek, broke both bones of his right
leg, and cut crutches with his ax so
that he could hobble and crawl
eleven miles in five days, without
food but with matches to build fires
at night.
LOOKING
From the December. 1921 files
Skating was the order of the day
at both Cascade and Roseberry
during that half - century ago
month. Trappers were bringing in
marten and muskrat to Cabarton,
Doc Hurd had a crew cutting 14
inch thick ice, and the Beaver
Meadows school finished its seven -
month May to December term.
C.A. West, president of the First
State Bank of Donnelly, First
National Bank of Emmett, and
First Security Bank, sold his in-
terest in all three banks to the
Copper National Bank of Salt Lake
City.
A Pioneer's organization was
formed, with Mr. L. M. Gorton as
president, Mr. D.N. Higgins, a
Long Valley resident since 1888,
was given a farewell party at the
Cascade Theatre before he joined
his family at Pomona, Calif., and
Mr. Shannon gave his library of 40
books to the Roseberry High
School.
The building occupied by The
Club at Cascade was sold at auc-
tion to Jack Patterson,
representing Crawford Moore. Mr.
Mickelson of Donnelly won first on
timothy seed at the International
Hay and Grain show at Chicago, as
well as $80 and first prize at the
Boise Fair.
The Farm Bureau organized in
various districts in the county, with
C.H. Olson community chairman
and these leaders: Alpha, Mr. and
Mrs. D. H. Kerby, C.H. Olson, C.E.
Herrick, Mrs. John Atkins, and Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Starin; Round
Valley, Wade Bacon, S.L. Cantrall,
Hermon Shannon, R.E. Kerby;
��� �From the November, 1y21 files
Looking of the Cascade News
compiled by
pled, so that several people
Mary Thurston
going down into the valley
Five men in a hunting
had to turn back.
party from Donnelly brought .
There were numerous
I back five deer and a cougar.
dances throughout the area,
Good catches of whitefish
one at the Lower Alpha
I were being brought in from
School, one sponsored by the
1 above The Lakes.
Modern Woodsmen McCall,
The Forest Service com-
and a "sheet and pillow -
pleted a 160 -foot bridge
case" affair at the Cascade
1
across the South Fork of
Theatre. Cabarton hosted a
Salmon River dear Warrens,
Halloween masquerede and
opening access to Chamber-
a dance at Harala Hall in
•lain Basin.
Cascade featured the Music
i
Heavy rains caused a good
Maritns.
1 many slides in the canyon
The entertainment at the
1 and train service out of Long
Cascade Theatre was a pro-
f Valley was severely trip-
gram as well as dance, to
Jameson, Cascade; ulenn �)trawu,
benefit the Salvation Army.
Alpha; and S.L. Cantrell, Round
A silver offering was taken
Valley, was elected.
and coffee and doughnuts
The Boosters had a good
served.
program, with ideas presented for
A shower for May Patter -
benefiting the community and a
son was held at the F.M.
delicious two - course dinner served
Kerby home.
by the Civic Club. Home for the
,Cascade News".-V
holidays from their various schools
That month the Forest Service
were Waldo Baker, Vernon
finished a 160 foot span bridge
Conyers, Happy and Jerry Logue,
across the South Fork of the
Frances and Warren Noggle and
Salmon River near Warren, which
Hazel Moore. Roseberry had a
opened a way into Chamberlain
concert by the Musical Martins,
Basin, famed as elk and deer
and a program was given by the
hunting ground.
Cascade school at the Methodist
Members of Mr. Woods'
Church Community Christmas
engineering staff went into the
Knox country to hunt bear and
Tree.
cougar. Two feet of snow 'were
reported on Big Creek summit, but
During that month boys were
Dan Drake brought 13 head of
born to Mr. and Mrs. Wade Bacon
horses over the well- broken trail.
of Round Valley and to Mr. and
Art Coonrod, trying to get out of
Mrs. D.K. Allen, and a girl to Mr.
Long Valley with his car, was hung
and Mrs. W.W. Carpenter.
up by slides at Smith's Ferry. The
Mrs. Margaret Callender Corbin,
train carrying W.W. Atkinson's
the mother of the Callender
cattle got beyond Cabarton, but
brothers, Mrs. George Patterson
had to back up until the slides were
and Mrs. Perry Wilbur, died at
cleared. For three days trains
Emmett, and John McVonkey, an
couldn't get through, but the "up"
old -time lumberjack with Boise
and "down" trains were close
Payette Company, died at his
enough to transfer mail and
cabin near McCall. Other deaths
passengers. `The Cabarton station
reported were John D. Cox, an
closed for the winter, and the log
oldtimer from Roseberry, at
train made its first run of the
Bakersfield, and Margaret Balch,
season. Donnelly section crew
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
members were also laid off for the
Balch, at Norwood.
winter after all of the stock had
been shipped.
Ruby Herrick was married to
Harry Lee Nock, and Sallie May
Patterson to L. Glen Morris. A
Roseberry ranchers were
delivering wheat at Norwood
at $1 to $1.25 per hundred
pounds.
Cascade held a Flag Day
celebration to exhibit the
flag recently bought by the
school board. School debate
team members were Nattie
Wilkins, Marie Logue,
Louise Harwood, Ruth Cole-
man, Marjorie Morgan,
David Speilman, Rose Wash-
burn and Mildred Herrick.
The debated the subject
"Christian Colleges vs. State
Universities ".
The "State House" on the
east side of Upper Payette
Lake burned to the ground.
Sally May Patterson was
married to L. Glenn Morris
and Ruby May Herrick to
Harry L. Nock.
to benefit the Salvation Army
drive. Roseberry High School
reported an enrollment of 45, with
Mr. F. B. Cutting superintendent
and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wolfe
teaching. The Cascade High
School debate, "Christian colleges
vs. State Universities ", was well -
handled by Nettie Wilbur, Marie
Logue, Louise Harwood, Ruth
Coleman, Marjory Morgan, David
Spielman, Rose Washburn and
Mildred Herrick.
Several made trips to Council
Valley during the early fall for
peaches and apples. Traders' Day
at Donnelly drew a large crowd,
though there were fewer articles
offered for sale than hoped for.
Two farm sales brought good
prices, some pure -bred Jersey
heifers going for $98.
The Modern Woodmen had a
dance at Donnelly, with music by
the Musical Martins of McCall.
The State House on the Warren
Wagon Road above McCall burti�d
to the ground. And Frank Spencer,
a trapper, fell at the head of Twin
Creek, broke both bones of his right
leg, and cut crutches with his ax so
that he could hobble and crawl
eleven miles in five days, without
food but with matches to build fires
at night.
compiled by
Mary Thurston
From the December. 1921 files Five men in a hunting
Skating was the order of the day
at both Cascade and Roseberry
during that half - century ago
month. Trappers were bringing in
marten and muskrat to Cabarton,
Doc Hurd had a crew cutting 14
inch thick ice, and the Beaver
Meadows school finished its seven -
month May to December term.
C.A. West, president of the First
State Bank of Donnelly, First
National Bank of Emmett, and
First Security Bank, sold his in-
terest in all three banks to the
Copper National Bank of Salt Lake
City.
A Pioneer's organization was
formed, with Mr. L. M. Gorton as
president, Mr. D.N. Higgins, a
Long Valley resident since 1888,
was given a farewell party at the
Cascade Theatre before he joined
his family at Pomona, Calif., and
Mr. Shannon gave his library of 40
books to the Roseberry High
School.
The building occupied by The
Club at Cascade was sold at auc-
tion to Jack Patterson,
representing Crawford Moore. Mr.
Mickelson of Donnelly won first on
timothy seed at the International
Hay and Grain show at Chicago, as
well as $80 and first prize at the
Boise Fair.
The Farm Bureau organized in
various districts in the county, with
C.H. Olson community chairman
and these leaders: Alpha, Mr. and
Mrs. D. H. Kerby, C.H. Olson, C.E.
Herrick, Mrs. John Atkins, and Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Starin; Round
Valley, Wade Bacon, S.L. Cantrall,
Hermon Shannon, R.E. Kerby,
1 party from Donnelly brought
back five deer and a cougar.
Good catches of whitefish
1 were being brought in from
1 above The Lakes.
The Forest Service com-
pleted a 160 -foot bridge
across the South Fork of
Salmon River -near Warrens,
opening access to Chamber-
'lain Basin.
i Heavy rains caused a good
i many slides in the canyon
1 and train service out of Long
1 Valley was severely crip-
Jameson, Cascade; Glenn 5trawn,
Alpha; and S.L. Cantrell, Round
Valley, was elected.
The Boosters had a good
program, with ideas presented for
benefiting the community and a
delicious two - course dinner served
pled, so that several people
Lookin
g
Back
From the November, 1921 files
O OK I G
at $1 to $1.25 per hundred
There were numerous
of the Cascade News
compiled by
Mary Thurston
From the December. 1921 files Five men in a hunting
Skating was the order of the day
at both Cascade and Roseberry
during that half - century ago
month. Trappers were bringing in
marten and muskrat to Cabarton,
Doc Hurd had a crew cutting 14
inch thick ice, and the Beaver
Meadows school finished its seven -
month May to December term.
C.A. West, president of the First
State Bank of Donnelly, First
National Bank of Emmett, and
First Security Bank, sold his in-
terest in all three banks to the
Copper National Bank of Salt Lake
City.
A Pioneer's organization was
formed, with Mr. L. M. Gorton as
president, Mr. D.N. Higgins, a
Long Valley resident since 1888,
was given a farewell party at the
Cascade Theatre before he joined
his family at Pomona, Calif., and
Mr. Shannon gave his library of 40
books to the Roseberry High
School.
The building occupied by The
Club at Cascade was sold at auc-
tion to Jack Patterson,
representing Crawford Moore. Mr.
Mickelson of Donnelly won first on
timothy seed at the International
Hay and Grain show at Chicago, as
well as $80 and first prize at the
Boise Fair.
The Farm Bureau organized in
various districts in the county, with
C.H. Olson community chairman
and these leaders: Alpha, Mr. and
Mrs. D. H. Kerby, C.H. Olson, C.E.
Herrick, Mrs. John Atkins, and Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn Starin; Round
Valley, Wade Bacon, S.L. Cantrall,
Hermon Shannon, R.E. Kerby,
1 party from Donnelly brought
back five deer and a cougar.
Good catches of whitefish
1 were being brought in from
1 above The Lakes.
The Forest Service com-
pleted a 160 -foot bridge
across the South Fork of
Salmon River -near Warrens,
opening access to Chamber-
'lain Basin.
i Heavy rains caused a good
i many slides in the canyon
1 and train service out of Long
1 Valley was severely crip-
Jameson, Cascade; Glenn 5trawn,
Alpha; and S.L. Cantrell, Round
Valley, was elected.
The Boosters had a good
program, with ideas presented for
benefiting the community and a
delicious two - course dinner served
pled, so that several people
Roseberry ranchers were
going down into the valley
delivering wheat at Norwood
had to turn back.
at $1 to $1.25 per hundred
There were numerous
pounds.
dances throughout the area,
Cascade held a Flag Day
one at the Lower Alpha
celebration to exhibit the
School, one sponsored by the
flag recently bought by the
Modern Woodsmen McCall,
school board. School debate
and a "sheet and pillow-
team members were Nattie
case" affair at the Cascade
Wilkins, Marie Logue,
Theatre. Cabarton hosted a
Louise Harwood, Ruth Cole -
Halloween masquerede and
man, Marjorie Morgan,
a dance at Harala Hall in
David Speilman, Rose Wash -
Cascade featured the Music
burn and Mildred Herrick.
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BACK
Spielman, Rose Washburn and
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— From the home talent entertainment was
by the Civic Club. Home for the lovember, 1921 files of the
presented at the Cascade Theatre
Cascade News ".
to benefit the Salvation Army
holidays from their various schools
That month the Forest Service
drive. Roseberry High School
were Waldo Baker, Vernon
finished a 160 foot span bridge
reported an enrollment of 45, with
Conyers, Happy and Jerry Logue,
across the South Fork of the
Mr. F. B. Cutting superintendent
Frances and Warren Noggle and
Salmon River near Warren, which
and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wolfe
Hazel Moore. Roseberry had a
opened a way into Chamberlain
teaching. The Cascade High
concert by the Musical Martins,
Basin, famed as elk and deer
School debate, "Christian colleges
and a program was given by the
hunting ground.
vs. State Universities ", was well -
Cascade school at the Methodist
Members of Mr. Woods'
handled by Nettie Wilbur, Marie
Church Community Christmas
engineering staff went into the
Logue, Louise Harwood, Ruth
Tree.
Knox country to hunt bear and
Coleman, Marjory Morgan, David
cougar. Two feet of snow were
Spielman, Rose Washburn and
During that month boys were
reported on Big Creek summit, but
Mildred Herrick.
born to Mr. and Mrs. Wade Bacon
Dan Drake brought 13 head of
Several made trips to Council
of Round Valley and to Mr. and
horses over the well- broken trail.
Valley during the early fall for
Mrs. D.K. Allen, and a girl to Mr.
Art Coonrod, trying to get out of
peaches and apples. Traders' Day
and Mrs. W.W. Carpenter.
Long Valley with his car, was hung
at Donnelly drew a large crowd,
up by slides at Smith's Ferry. The
though there were fewer articles
Mrs. Margaret Callender Corbin,
train carrying W.W. Atkinson's
offered for sale than hoped for.
the mother of the Callender
cattle got beyond Cabarton, but
Two farm sales brought good
brothers, Mrs. George Patterson
had to back up until the slides were
prices, some pure -bred Jersey
and Mrs. Perry Wilbur, died at
cleared. For three days trains
heifers going for $98.
Emmett, and John McVonkey, an
couldn't get through, but the "up"
The Modern Woodmen had a
old -time lumberjack with Boise
and "down" trains were close
dance at Donnelly, with music by
Payette Company, died at his
enough to transfer mail and
the Musical Martins of McCall.
cabin near McCall. Other deaths
passengers. The Cabarton station
The State House on the Warren
reported were John D. Cox, an
closed for the winter, and the log
Wagon Road above McCall -bi fht-d
oldtimer from Roseberry, at
train made its first run of the
to the ground. And Frank Spencer,
Bakersfield, and Margaret Balch,
season. Donnelly section crew
a trapper, fell at the head of Twin
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
members were also laid off for the
Creek, broke both bones of his right
Balch, at Norwood.
winter after all of the stock had
leg, and cut crutches with his ax so
been shipped.
that he could hobble and crawl
Ruby Herrick was married to
eleven miles in five days, without
Harry Lee Nock, and Sallie May
food but with matches to build fires
Patterson to L. Glen Morris. A
at night.
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From the January, 1922 files of
the Cascade News
Fifty years ago this month the
Lake Irrigation District was for-
med, with J.B. Whitney, J.C.
McBride and Carl T. Beyer as
directors. The legal side was
handled by Mr. Harrison and a Mr.
gls ,.Aplped
organize the `post office' -at Nor-
wood. Further irrigation was
urged by W.B. Boydstun, who
pointed out the amount of excellent
land and inadequate rainfall in
Long Valley.
Directors of the First State Bank
of Donnelly were H.E. Armstrong,
R.B. Halferty and Harold L.
Molony; directors of the Inter -
Mountain State Bank in Cascade
were J.E. Patterson, E.O. Pat-
terson, T.L. Worthington, and Wm.
Mickelson, and officers Patterson,
Worthington and Meckelson.
Henry Moore, Elmer Clark and
E.L. Wheat each shipped a carload
of ties, with three more to load.
H.C. Shannon contracted for 12,000
bushels of timothy seed, Pete
Oursen shipped three cars and
Warren Cox of Norwood one car. F.
Coonrod finished logging in Round
Valley and brought out his crew, a
new bridge was completed at Clear
Creek, - several local trappers
were beginning to ship out furs,
and Mr. Hank Hill was feeding a
covey of quail near the power
Returning to school at Moscow
were Warren and Frances Noggle
and Elmer Hawkins, going to
various high schools were Waldo
Baker, Weiser; Happy and Jerry
Logue, Gooding; Mary Herrick
and Edward Atkins, Montour;
Raymond Moore, Fruitland;
Velma Bechtel Caldwell; and Ted'
McDougal, Boise Business College.
Each issue that month contained
an article for and against the need
and desirability of having a county
agent to help with the prosperity of
the valley. Thanks were sent from
the Salvation Army for gifts from
Cabarton, Round Valley, Smiths
Ferry, Arling, Roseberry, Don-
nelly, Yellow Pine and Cascade.
The young people of Roseberry
Methodist Church organized a
Christian Endeavor Society, and
the Boys and Girls Calf Club was
being supplied by R.B. Halferty of
Roseberry. Miss Wilhelmina
Jacobson, University Extension
clothing specialist, planned to hold
schools in Cascade, Donnelly and
McCall. The cast of a Cascade
school play included Marjorie
Morgan, Elma Conyers, Mildred
Herrick, Marie Logue, Norman
Woods, David Spielman and Dale
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from the January, 1922 files of the
Cascade News
compiled by Mary Thurston
Boise Payette Lumber
Company started to sleigh -
haul from Cabarton. Ed
Lyells went to Cabarton to
shoe horses.
Henry Moore, Elmer
Clark and E.L. Wheat each
loaded out a car of ties, our
best crop in winter, and Hoff
and Brown were advertising
hewn railroad ties.
Timothy seed was being
shipped by various ranchers.
Mr. Smith of Smith's Ferry
finished putting up ice for
the hotel and store. Lake
Irrigation District elected
J.B. Whitney, J.C. McBride
and Carl T. Beyer as direct-
ors.
R.B. Halferty delivered
two new calves to Roseberry
and invited any boy or girl
interested in joining a Calf
Club to see the animals at his
ranch and then see him or
Mr. McClintick about joining
the club.
Lyells. Dan Drake trapped two
John H. Madden, a Cascade large silver foxes in the
merchant since 1912, died. Jennie Knox district and many
Maempa of McCall was married to other trappers were report -
in success
plant. -- Charles Fincher of Donnelly. g
r rum one January, 1922 files daughters were born to the Amos The First State Bank at
of The Cascade News: Ats
of Arling, the Jack Allens and Donnelly announced the
Snowfall on the ground as of Jerlain
Herricks of Alpha and Mr. appointment of H.E. Arm -
Jan. 1 measured 10 inches. Big and Mrs. Charles Close of McCall. (strong as president, R.B.
Creek Summit had 31 /2 feet
Halferty as vice - president
and Cabin Creek Summit, 5
From the January, 1922 files d Harold L. Molony as
feet. Ice on the Payette River
of The Cascade News: shier. For the Inter -
averaged 12 inches thick.
Crawford Mercantile Com- )untain State Bank, J.D.
Callender Bros. Market was
pany celebrated its Mid- tterson was elected presi-
offering a front quarter of beef
Winter Business and Pleasure it, T.L. Worthington, vice -
for 11 cents a pound and a side
day with specials and !sident, Wm. Mickelson,
of pork for 12!,2 cents per
refreshments. Flour was $1.45
pound.
A of quail were
per sack, peanuts 20 cents a
covey
sighted and being fed by
pound, and pitch forks were
selling for $1.45 each.
Hanks Hill. Possibly the first
Refreshments included hot
quail to be seen in Long
chocolate, pineapple
Valley, they were later cared
f especially for the ladies) and
for by Deputy Game Warden
apple cider (for men only) .
P. N. Apgar.
cashier, and E.O. Patterson,
director.
A number of interesting
and well- attended meetings
to discuss and promote let-
tuce as a crop were held
throughout the valley. The
local encampment of
Modern Woodman initiated
three new members.
Mrs. A.D. Robb relayed
the thanks of the Salvation
Army for the $180 contribut-
ed by organizations and
other friends in the valley.
The young people of Rose -
berry organized a Christian
Endeavor Society and Cas-
cade High School enter-
tained the Roseberry basket-
ball team at a banquet.
Cascade High organized a
debate team.
Returning to university
studies at Moscow were
Warren and Francis Noggle.
Waldo Baker went back to
the Weiser Institute, Happy
and Jerry Logue to Gooding,
and William Jarvis, John
Hughes and Ted McDougal
to other schools. Teaching at
Alpha were Hulda Mayer
and Ingrid Ax.
Former Cascade mayor
John Maddox died. Wed-
dings were Jennie Maempa
to Charles Fincher of Don-
nelly and Ina Belle Davis to
Ernest E. Callender.
A son was born to the Hale
Pattersons and daughters to
the Messrs.and Mmes. Amos
Ott of Arling, Jack Allen,
Charles Close of McCall, and
Urbain Herrick.
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February, 1922 files of "The
Cascade News"
W. H. Huff moved his plumbing
shop into the former sales room of
the Cascade Auto Co. Dr. Wood's
dental office was furnished and
opened at the Valley Rooms.
Farmers on the telephone line west
of Donnelly purchased the line,
intending to rebuild; however, the
Standard Telephone Co, agreed to
build and to set poles as soon as
possible. The Forest Service
announced plans for two first -class
stations, possibly on Thunder
Mountain and Big Baldy.
Mr. Warren Hayward, an expert
cabinet maker, installed a new
showcase in Callender's Market.
Snow slides in the canyon delayed
trains as much as 48 hours. At the
Methodist Church, a growing
Epworth League started a chorus
choir to help with Sunday evening
services.
A long letter from "A Dreamer"
advocated irrigating and crop
growing, as well as cattle raising,
to raise the value of the land and
bring people closer together.
Further advantages of irrigating
were set forth by Mr. W. B.
Boydstun. Miss Irwin began
organization of a women's club at
Donnelly, in connection with the
Farm Bureau. The Cascade Civic
Club reported no real need, but
that they had prepared four boxes
for families who "had had sickness
and would be glad for a bit of
thoughtfulness at Christmastime ".
At Donnelly, the Modern Wood-
men initiated five new members.
The Farm Bureau received the
premium money for timothy seed
exhibited at Idaho Falls; winners
were P. Meckelson, M. H.
Williams, W. D. Molony, and Glenn
Strawn. Calves were to be vac-
cinated for black leg, and lettuce
growers were meeting with ex-
perts to plan for that new crop for
Long Valley.
through Cascade News files
A teachers' meeting was held,
with talks or, weak points of rural
schools, athletics in high school,
girls' athletics, preparation in the
grades for high school, and com-
mercial work in the high school.
Officers chosen were Hartzell
Cobbs, Mrs. Grace MacRae and
Miss Genevieve Logue. Two
Donnelly students, Naomi Plaster
and Ethel Avery, passed the 8th
grade examinations and entered
Roseberry High School.
The Cascade Civic Club served a
"Maggie and Jiggs" supper at the
Club Cafe. A "Hard Times" dance
and oyster supper drew a large
crowd at Donnelly, and during a.
"Hard Times" dance at the
Cascade Theatre, Mr. H. J. Burr of
the Forest Service showed pictures
of their activities.
At Cascade the Ladies' Aid and
others surprised Mrs. Schenck on
her birthday, and a similar party
at the Cascade Hotel celebrated
the anniversary of Mr, and Mrs.
Mitchell.
Miss Elma Barnes, teacher in
District 5, gave a large party, Miss
Ruth Marks, teacher at Pine Grove
School, had a program and box
social, and there was a dance at the
Arling school house.
Among deaths that month were
Mrs. Mary Nelson, wife of Andrew
Nelson; Peter Pence, Payette's
oldest pioneer, who ran cattle in
Long Valley; James S. Pinkston,
formerly of Clear Creek; Robert S.
Coonrod, a Long Valley pioneer;
and Anna B. Harala, Valley County
treasurer. A girl was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Willard Hall of Van
Wyck.
Tripod Trail went from Squaw
Creek to High Valley to the top of
Tripod Hill, one branch entering
Long Valley near Cabarton.
Early mines were the Clair
Foltz, now crossed by the railroad
south of McCall; on the head of
Lake Fork Creek; on Pistol Creek
and Piersol Creek east of Cascade
on the Knox road. At Piersol Creek
two miners were killed by the same
party of Indians who raided the
settlers from Indian Valley. Up to
1878 the valley was an open
meadow with rich grass, visited
only by roving Indians, a few pack
trains and an occasional hunter."
During the month a series of
articles by Dr. Noggle, sum-
marizing the history of Long
Valley, appeared in "The Cascade
News ". Here are excerpts.
"Miners on the way to Warren or
Florence not later than 1864, losing
their way, packed their belongings
and left wagons, which were later
burned, giving way to a local
name, `Burnt Wagon." The next
visitors were probably packers
supplying mining camps. The
Packer John Trail led from
Lewiston to Payette Lake, then to
the lower end of Round Valley and
on to Boise Basin; Gold Fork and
Clear Creek were regular camps
enroute. Warrens Trail was from
Meaddws Valley past Payette Lake
over Search Gibbons Trail, from
near where Knox now stands, to
the upper end of Scott Valley, then
to the edge of Long Valley and the
lower end of Round Valley, thence
to Smith's Ferry, High Valley to
Squaw Creek and in to Ft. Boise.
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through Cascade News files
From the January, 1922 files of
the Cascade News
Fifty years ago this month the
Lake Irrigation District was for-
med, with J.B. Whitney, J.C.
McBride and Carl T. Beyer as
directors. The legal side was
handled by Mr. }Harrison and a Mr.
�fl��t hr�'q�ct g�s�l,�'r�elped,,
organize the'post office` at Nor-
wood. Further irrigation was
urged by W.B. Boydstun, who
pointed out the amount of excellent
land and inadequate rainfall in
Long Valley.
Directors of the First State Bank
of Donnelly were H.E. Armstrong,
R.B. Halferty and Harold L.
Molony; directors of the Inter -
Mountain State Bank in Cascade
were J.E. Patterson, E.O. Pat-
terson, T.L. Worthington, and Wm.
Mickelson, and officers Patterson,
Worthington and Meckelson.
Henry Moore, Elmer Clark and
E.L. Wheat each shipped a carload
of ties, with three more to load.
H.C. Shannon contracted for 12,000
bushels of timothy seed, Pete
Oursen shipped three cars and
Warren Cox of Norwood one car. F.
Coonrod finished logging in Round
Valley and brought out his crew, a
new bridge was completed at Clear
Returning to school at Moscow
were Warren and Frances Noggle
and Elmer Hawkins, going to
various high schools were Waldo
Baker, Weiser; Happy and Jerry
Logue, Gooding; Mary Herrick
and Edward Atkins, Montour;
Raymond Moore, Fruitland;
Velma Bechtel Caldwell; and Ted
McDougal, Boise Business College.
Each issue that month contained
an article for and against the need
and desirability of having a county
agent to help with the prosperity of
the valley. Thanks were sent from
the Salvation Army for gifts from
Cabarton, Round Valley, Smiths
Ferry, Arling, Roseberry, Don-
nelly, Yellow Pine and Cascade.
The young people of Roseberry
Methodist Church organized a
Christian Endeavor Society, and
the Boys and Girls Calf Club was
being supplied by R.B. Halferty of
Roseberry. Miss Wilhelmina
Jacobson, University Extension
clothing specialist, planned to hold
schools in Cascade, Donnelly and
McCall. The cast of a Cascade
school play included Marjorie
Morgan, Elma Conyers, Mildred
Herrick, Marie Logue, Norman
Woods, David Spielman and Dale
LookingBack
from the January, 1 922 files of the
Cascade News
compiled by Mary Thurston
Boise Payette Lumber
Company started to sleigh -
haul from Cabarton. Ed
Lyells went to Cabarton to
shoe horses.
Henry Moore, Elmer
Clark and E.L. Wheat each
loaded out a car of ties, our
best crop in winter, and Hoff
and Brown were advertising
hewn railroad ties.
Timothy seed was being
shipped by various ranchers.
Mr. Smith of Smith's Ferry
finished putting up ice for
the hotel and store. Lake
Irrigation District elected
J.B. Whitney, J.C. McBride
and Carl T. Beyer as direct-
ors.
R.B. Halferty delivered
two new calves to Roseberry
and invited any boy or girl
interested in joining a Calf
Club to see the animals at his
ranch and then see him or
Mr. McClintick about joining
the club.
Creek, - several local trappers
Lyells. Drake trapped two
were beginning to ship out furs,
large
John H. Madden, a Cascade g e silver foxes in the
and Mr. Hank Hill was feeding a
merchant since 1912, died. Jennie Knox district and many
covey of quail near the power
Maem a of McCall was married to other trappers were report -
p
--
From the January, 1922 files
r harles Fincher of Donnelly. ing success.
The First State Bank at
daughters were born to the Amos
of The Cascade News:
Ats of Arling, the Jack Allens and Donnelly announced the
Snowfall on the ground as of
✓erlain Herricks of Alpha and Mr. appointment of H.E. Arm -
Jan. 1 measured 10 inches. Big
and 14rs. Charles Close of McCall. (strong as president, R.B,
Creek Summit had 31/2 feet
Halferty as vice - president
and Cabin Creek Summit, 5
From the January, 1922 files d Harold L. Molony as
feet: Ice on the Payette River
of The Cascade News: shier. For the Inter -
averaged 12 inches thick.
Crawford Mercantile Com- )untain State Bank, J.D.
Callender Bros. Market was
pany celebrated its Mid- tterson was elected presi-
offering a front quarter of beef
Winter Business and Pleasure it, T.L. Worthington, vice -
for 11 cents a pound and a side
day with specials and !sident, Wm. Mickelson,
of pork for 121,2 cents per
refreshments. Flour was $1.45
round.
A covey of quail were
per sack, peanuts 20 cents a
sighted and being fed by
pound, and pitch forks were
Hanks Hill. Possibly the first
selling for $1.45 each.
quail to be seen in Long
Refreshments included hot
Valley, they were later cared
chocolate, pineapple
for by Deputy Game Warden
especially for the ladies) and
apple cider (for men only) .
P. N. Apgar.
cashier, and E.O. Patterson,
director.
A number of interesting
and well- attended meetings
to discuss and promote let-
tuce as a crop were held
throughout the valley. The
local encampment of
Modern Woodman initiated
three new members.
Mrs. A.D. Robb relayed
the thanks of the Salvation
Army for the $180 contribut-
ed by organizations and
other friends in the valley.
The young people of Rose-
berry organized a Christian
Endeavor Society and Cas-
cade High School enter-
tained the Roseberry basket-
ball team at a banquet.
Cascade High organized a
debate team.
Returning to university
studies at Moscow were
Warren and Francis Noggle.
Waldo Baker went back to
the Weiser Institute, Happy
and Jerry Logue to Gooding,
and William Jarvis, John
Hughes and Ted McDougal
to other schools. Teaching at
Alpha were Hulda Mayer
and Ingrid Ax.
Former Cascade mayor
John Maddox died. Wed-
dings were Jennie Maempa
to Charles Fincher of Don-
nelly and Ina Belle Davis to
Ernest E. Callender.
A son was born to the Hale
Pattersons and daughters to
the Messrs.and Mmes. Amos
Ott of Arling, Jack Allen,
Charles Close of McCall, and
Urbain Herrick.
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compiled by Mary Thurston
Farmers served by the
telephone line west of Don-
nelly purchased the line,
with plans to rebuild it in the
spring.
The new furniture for Dr.
Wood's dental office, to be
opened in the Valley Rooms,
arrived.
W.H. Huff moved his
plumbing shop to the sales
room in the Cascade Auto
building.
Elmer May purchased
Gorton's interest in Gorton
and Lyells Auto Company.
A state tax specialist said
that the cost of government
was increasing faster than
the value or property.
The Farm Bureau stressed
the importance of growing
vegetables such as lettuce,
and of dairying. The Denny
Company of Chicago an-
nounced through its repre-
sentative, W.T. Callender,
that it would furnish seed
and $25 per person to deliver
lettuce to packing houses
From the February, 1922
files of The Cascade News:
Fred L. Diggs, Valley Coun-
ty sheriff, solicited the help of
private citizens to aid in the
detection and prosecution of il-
legal alcohol manufacture and
sales.
"Valley County covers a
large territory and with only a
sheriff and one deputy sheriff,
it is impossible to properly
police this, to catch bootleg-
gers and moonshiners. In the
past year we have captured or
destroyed some 8 or 10 stills...
but it is the wish of the county
officials to make it unhealthy
for anyne in our county to
violate the liquor law in any
manner whatsoever," Diggs
said.
constructed by the company,
where it would be crated,
ice - packed and marketed, if
at least 150 acres were
signed up by each farmer.
J.T. Jessup of the U.S.
Dept. of Agriculture report-
ed a necessity to plan for
irrigation in the valley.
Slides in the canyon de-
layed the departure of dele-
gates to the Republican con-
vention in Boise. They also
planned to hear Madame
Schumann - Heink's concert
while there.
Premiums for timothy
seed were received by the
Farm Bureau and delivered
to P. Meckelson, M.H. Wil-
liams,W.D. Molony, Jessie
L. Molony and Glenn
Strawn.
The sheriff asked for citi-
zen help in reporting the
growing number of moon -
shiners and bottleggers in
the county.
It was announced that
two new lookout stations
with detecting equipment
would be constructed.
Cascade News
from the February, 1 922 f ilex o f the
A county teachers' meet-
ing was called to discuss
phases of high school work.
Speakers were Hartzell,
Cobbs, Genevieve Logue and
Grace McRae.
The Cascade Civic Club
sponsored a corned beef and
cabbage supper, a la Maggie
and Jiggs.
A hard -times dance at
Donnelly featured an oyster
supper. A pie social was held
in the Cabarton Mutual Hall.
Hurd's Hall was the setting
for a Modern Woodman
Dance.
School activities included
a dance and program at Pine
Grove, where Ruth Marks.
was the teacher, and a party
arranged by Elma Barnes, a
From the February 1922
files of The Cascade News:
To the delight of the
Roseberry team, Cascade
School "broke" its basketball
and another would have to be
purchased before practice
could resume. Roseberry won
the next game.
"A good front porch has
kept many a nice girl from be-
ing an old maid," proclaimed
Boise Payette Lumber Com-
pany in one of its adver-
tisements.
teacher at District 5.
On Mrs.Schenck's 75th
birthday, she was surprised
by the Ladies Aid, and a
surprise party was also
arranged for Mr. and Mrs.
Andy Mitchell at the Cas-
cade Hotel on their annivers-
ary.
Deaths were Miss Anna
Harala, county treasurer,
long -time resident Robert
Squire Coonrod, James S.
Pinkston and Mrs. Andy Nel-
son.
Sons were born to Mr. and
Mrs. Willard Hall and Mr.
and Mrs. Ernest Holt.
Looking Back from the Marck 1922 files - Cascade News
compiled by Mary Thurston
Long Valley vegetable
growers formed a non - profit
organization called "Long
Valley Prize Winner."
Among other business dis-
cussed was the necessity for
the union to contact buyers.
Roseberry farmers loaded
several cars of wheat and
oats at Donnelly.
The High Valley Road was
impassible, with deep snow
on the summit, and trains
were held up by slides in the
canyon..
The Public Utilities Com-
mission held hearings at
Cascade relative to the rail-
road's proposal of tri- weekly
trains.
The West Mountain Mining
Company, composed partly
of Boise newspapermen, an-
nounced plans to open a
claim on West Mountain, and
the Cascade -Knox road was
discussed as one of the
routes to isolated districts
which would increase
mining activity.
A display was given at the
Cascade Theatre by the
Forest Service. Exhibits and
slides showing its work were
prepared and shown by Dee
Russell, John Parker, H. J.
Burr and Louis Wellman,
foresters on the Crawford
District.
A golden wedding recep-
tion was planned for Mr. and
Mrs. George Moore, parents
of the C.C. Moores of Alpha.
"Kitty Arrives ", a Cas-
cade High School play, was
described as a "hard play,
well done ".
There were numerous
parties, skiing, snowshoeing
and tobogganing, on the hills
of neighboring ranches. The
COME IN and get yours,
they are FREE.
We are giving free with each shoe purchase a Par-
cel Bag, just the thing for carrying a number of small
parcels.
Our new Shoes
are arriving
daily and they
are priced very
reasonable, in
fact cheaper
than in any of
the larger
towns.
E. E. MOORE
CASCADE
American Literature class
at Roseberry put on an
entertainment, there was a
St. Patrick's dance at the
Round Valley school and the
Mutual Club. All at
Cabarton was the scene of a
"500" party.
Two older residents, Mrs.
Mattie Duke and Franklin V.
Brownlee, died.
Edgar Buchanan was
married to Miss Hoagland,
Ray Caster Pasley of Cald-
well to Ruth Kerby and Chris
Yensen to Hulda Ruuska.
Daughters were born to
the Fay Vincents, the Ben
Harts, the James Hancocks
of Norwood and to Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Nye at Emmett.
Sons arrived for the Dan
Cantralls and Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. S. Jones at Glenns
Ferry.
-from the January, 1902
Weiser Signal.
"A recent Weiser visitor
was Mr. J.C. Blood, general
superintendent and manager
of the Gold Fork Mining and
Milling Company. The com-
pany controls 2,200 acres on
Copeland Flat and has been
installing a dredge. Mr.
Blood discussed a plan to
build a wagon road to the
summit between Council and
Long Valley, at an estimated
$2,000 cost, with Weiser
businessmen. He said the
company would complete
the road for the summit to
the mines, and that it would
also bring the trade of
settlers and stockmen."
Taken from the March 1922 files of The
Cascade News:
The Cascade postmaster received no
satisfactory bids in response to its advertise-
ment for proposals for a mail carrier for the
star route from Cascade to Alpha.
The Cascade News featured a column called
Rude Rural Rhymes.
Eskimo Pies were advertised as the newest
ice cream confection.
Joke:
Wife: John, the bill collector is at the door.
Husband: Tell him to take that pile on my
desk.
Taken from the March 1922 files of The
Cascade News:
Apparently cabin fever (Riggins anyone?)
has been hitting at this time of year for a long
time. "Louie Swanson left the first of the week
for parts unknown. He says he can't stand the
inaction and is going out to look for a little
spring." the paper reported.
Valley County Vegetable Grower's Union, a
non - profit corporation, was formed and the
trade mark "Long Valley Prize Winners" was
adopted for its produce.
It was believed that the publicity that would
be received from the sale of products with this
trade mark would double the value of land and
increase the population in Long Valley.
"Look what the rasin growers did with the
trade mark `Sun Maid Raisins,' noted R.B.
Halferty, president of the organization.
The County Commissioners made it a misde-
meanor to dump refuse along the public
highway.
Taken from the March 1922 files of The
Cascade News:
Train service to Cascade was cancelled for
several days due to slides in the canyon.
West Mountain Mining Company made plans
to open its mining claim eight miles from
Cascade. It was estimated that $22,000 would be
spent on developing the project.
The monthly county commissioners' pro-
ceedings report included approval for payment
of the following expenses: $8.84 to Valley Light
& Power for courthouse lights; $7.60 to Poole
and Allman for prescriptions; $5 to I.S. Smith
for making probate, table, and 78 cents to Salt
Lake Stamp Co. for a Crown dater.
The commissioners ordered that wages for
county road maintainence be $3 per day.
From an advertisement: Each package of
Diamond Dyes contains directions so simple
any woman can dye or tint her old, worn, faded
things new.
Residents filed a protest at a Public Utilities
Commission hearing in Cascade against the
railroad's proposed reduction of service to the
area.
BACK
LOOKING
Misses Marie Logue and Louise
From the April, 193yiles of the Cascade News.
April advertisers 50 years ago
Harwood.
Taken from the April, 1922 files of The
Cascade News
News:
included L.L. Moore, who was
compiled by Mary Thurston
Johnson of Middleton moved to
noting National Gingham Week;
"Some birds have arrived;
Cascade and opened a shoe shop
F.S. Logue and Bros., pushing
streets are bare; boys are
opposite the court house.
hand drills and cultivators;
beginning to play marbles and
A benefit dance at Roseberry
Crawford Mercantile Co, ob-
baseball, and jitneys have buzzed
realized a good sum for Raymond
serving its first anniversary under
around a bit."
Patrick, who had undergone a
current management; Poole and
Whitefish were being caught, but
serious operation in Boise, and a
Allman Rexall Store, who an-
there were almost as many
box social and dance at Donnelly
nounced change -over to strictly a
fishermen as fish. The lettuce-
raised money for baseball
cash basis; Callender Bros., home -
raising question was arousing
uniforms. There was a similar
dressed beef; W.D. Cromwell,
enthusiasm. August Hitzel and
baseball benefit in Cascade. The
"The Village Blacksmith ",
Jacob Janson walked from their
Mutual Club Hall at Cabarton was
Cascade Rooms,' $8 to $10 per
home 50 miles east of Warren into
the scene of a "500" party, and an
month for steady roomers; Lyells
McCall to transact land business
entertainment under the auspices
and May Auto Co., Exide batteries.
with U.S. Land Commissioner
of the Cascade Civic Club benefited
Others included Inter - Mountain
D.M. Cox, a week -long trip. The
the high school athletic
State Bank; Mission Cigar Store;
Cascade -Alpha mail carrier ran
association. Playing in a six -piece
H.W. Huff, Plumbing and Heating
his wagon all the way to the Alpha
orchestra for the latter were Chas.
Supplies; M.W. Carpenter,
Post Office, and Floyd Fry took a
Morgan, Stanton Ready, Mrs. C.C.
guilder; Dr. G.E. Noggle and Dr.
load of goods from Smith's Ferry
Kitchen, Dr. Hurd, Harry Walker
J.F. Rutledge; Dr. Ward, Dentist,
over the summit into High Valley,
and Mabel Madden. There were
Emmett and Cascade; D.M. Cox,
breaking out the road to make it
also readings by Mrs. H.J. Burr
Attorney at Law; and R.B. Ayers,
passable.
and other music by Messrs. Jerry
Attorney at Law, Emmett.
Aroad fund appropriation meant
and Stanley Logue, Briscoe,
a new road from Horseshoe Bend
Morris and Cromwell, and by the
to Banks, as well as improvements
Misses Marie Logue and Louise
60 YEARS AGO
on the McCall - Warren-
Harwood.
Taken from the April, 1922 files of The
Cascade News
News:
Edwardsburg route, the Knox-
Arbor Day was observed in the
August and Jacob Janson made the
Yellow Pine and the Smith's Ferry
county schools, with tree planting
trip from their home 50 miles east of Warren to
Banks roads. County com-
where weather permited. In
McCall on foot. It took them a week.
missioners let the contract for the
Round Valley Mrs. S.L. Cantrall
It took one hour and 45 minutes to go from
new Gold Fork bridge.
conducted 8th grade exams, Miss
Horseshoe Bend to Boise on the stage.
Irrigation was being strongly
Elma Barnes of District 5 and Miss
urged as a benefit to business and
Ruth Marks of District 42 held
60 YEARS AGO
professional men, bankers,
short programs and there was a
Taken from the April, 1922 files of the
merchants, as well as farmers.
joint program at the Pine Grove
Cascade News:
Will Read came in from the South
School, followed by a dance, to
"Jack Craig and Roy Fields absent from the
Fork with a good catch of furs. The
mark the close of the school term.
high School room this week. We don't know
Valley County Farm Bureau met
Van Wyck 8th graders also took
whether it's the flu or just the spring fever," the
at Cascade, with representatives
their final state exam, Donnelly
paper reported.
from Donnelly and McCall. Joel
school closed April 21, and, at
--
Lower Alpha, Miss Ingrid Ax was
60 YEARS AGO
planning a big entertainment
Taken from the April, 1922 files of the
before her pupils ended their year.
Cascade News:
Miss Alice Johnson combined a
Long Valley pioneer Mattie Harris Dukes
with cards and other
passed away and was buried at Cascade. Mrs.
program
Dukes homesteaded in Van Wyck in 1888.
games at Norwood for the same
A surprise party was held for Jay Cromwell
purpose.
to celebrate his 15th birthday.
Absorbine (Sr ?) was a brand of horse lina-
ment.
A package of Wrigley's chewing gum cost
five cents.
Looking
compiled by Mary Thurston
Even by the first of the
month, birds were arriving,
marbles and balls were in
evidence, "jitneys" were
buzzing around on newly -
plowed roads and the annual
spring "clean-up -your-
trash" project was at hand.
Among schools closing for
the summer were District 5
and District 12, whose
teachers, Elsie Barnes and
Ruth- Marks, staged a joint
year -end program at the
Pine Grove school.
Alice Johnson co -ordi-
nated a similar program at
District 58 and Donnelly
schools closed April 21st.
State examinations were
given at Cabarton and Cas-
cade.
Arbor Day and Bird Day
were observed in all the area
schools.
County Surveyor W.H.
Wood went to McCall on
business regarding the Lake
Fork Reservoir. Funds for
the county road districts
were distributed as follows:
Horseshoe Bend to Banks,
$155,000) ; McCall- Warren-
Edwardsburg, $75,000; Cas-
cade -Knox, $40,000; Knox -
Yellow Pine, $100,000;
Smith's Ferry- Banks, $3,000.
The funds were reportedly
expected to "greatly im-
prove business conditions."
W.B. Boydstun and others
advised filing on steam flow
Back .from the April, 1922 files of the Cascade News
for irrigation as soon as
possible, as the practical
way to preserve the valley's
water supply.
A Boise Payette crew was
loading out logs. Other signs
of approaching summer
were the whitefish in the
river at Donnelly and Floyd
Fry taking a load of house-
hold goods from Smith's
Ferry to High Valley.
A box social and dance at
Donnelly raised money for
baseball uniforms. The Cas-
cade Civic Club and high
school athletic club present-
ed a community program.
Its six -piece orchestra in-
eluded Charles Mingon,
Stanton Ready, Mrs. C.C.
Kitchen, Dr. Hurd, Harvey
Walters and accompanist
Mabel Madded. Harry
Walker sang, Mrs. H.G. Burr
did impersonations and
there were many songs by
Jerry, Stanley and Marie
Logue. The latter and Louise
Harwood played a piano duet
and a group of little girls
trained by Dorothy Tuttle
did folk dances. The final
number was an exhibition of
"bloodless surgery" by Dr.
Rutledge, Carl Kitchen and
Bill Huff. All profits went to
the high school athletic asso-
ciation.
Mr. Enstap took in sup-
plies to the Paddy Flat
station. P.R. Cruzen leased
his Norwood holdings on a
50 -50 basis to Ed Poro,
Andrew Lehri and Nick
Vargelin.
Martha Harris Dukes, a
Van Wyck homesteader,
died. Other deaths were
Pauline Killion Auxier and
Warren miner John Keglen
A son was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Neal Corning and
daughters to the Lee Robert -
sons of Roseberry, the
Harold Downends of Arling
and the Earl Hollingsheads.
from the May, 1922 files of the Cascade News
compiled by Mary Thurston
Roseberry High closed
Jay D. Milstead, field man
with a program, including a
for Denny & Co., announced
debate, folk dances, a solo by
he planned to be in Cascade
Ida Erickson, a recitation by
all summer to advise lettuce
Charles Avery and a
crop growers. Plowing was
dialogue by John Coonrod
retarded by a late spring and
and Burton Bennett.
heavy moisture in the
A birthday party at Craw -
ground. James Darkwood, a
ford Nook honored Bertha
McCall hardware man, was
Speilman of Van Wyck.
in Cascade demonstrating a
Commencement at Cas-
power seeder and cultivator
cade included orations by
for use in lettuce production.
Rosa Washburn, Mildred
A state etymologist was
Hurak and David Spielman,
examining timber, along
music by C.B. Mirgon,
with Harry Shellworth of
Mabel Madden, Louise Har-
Boise Payette, for bark
wood, Marie Logue, Mrs.
beetle.
L.L. Moore and the girls'
Roads were opening up.
chorus. Pupils of Mrs. Moore
The first person crossed the
and Mrs. H.B. Gorton also
river to Norwood and the
gave a recital.
first car came over the
Stanley Harwood, Herbert
canyon road on May 15.
deHass, Charley Matteson,
H.P. Martin, U.S. Forest
Edward Hill and Jack Craig
Service engineer, conferred
were top placers in the
with the county commis-
county track meet, won by
sioners about an appropria-
Roseberry. High for the girls
tion for the Cascade -Knox
were Marie Heinrich, Esther
road.
Carpenter and Essie Patter -
Harry and Art Walker
son. The Ladies' Aid served
went to McCall to operate
a free dinner to the visiting
the Lakeview Cafe.
competitors.
Deputy game warden Lee
Cal Hubbard was killed by a
Lisenby shipped 22 fine
falling tree at the War Eagle
large beaver pelts, taken by
Mine. Elsie Miller was
Sam Hopper on Clear Creek,
married to Walter Crawford
Big Creek and Beaver
and sons were born to Mr.
Meadows.
and Mrs. Edmund Kerby of
Mountain States
Alpha and Mr. and Mrs. T.G.
Telephone Company
Smith of Arling.
announced plans to extend
its line from Montour to Cas-
cade.
Ed and Raino Kangas
were making ties at Don-
nelly and John Maempa and
Henry Kangas also each
loaded out a car of ties.
Dr. H.P. Reed of Seattle
took over Dr. Wood's dental
office.
Everyone was requested
to bring tools and help clean
up the Crown Point Ceme-
tery.
The Frank Kerbys cele-
brated their silver wedding
anniversary at Cascade
Heights.
The Good Fellowship Club
was organized with 68 mem-
bers and was planning a
series of parties at Hurd's
Hall.
60 Years Ago
Taken from the May, 1922 files of The
Cascade News:
Bob McLeod moved his barber shop into the
old post office building in Cascade.
"Bill Huff and his dog came down from Don-
nelly Tuesday. They've been working on the
Gold Fork bridge which Mr. Huff is putting in
for the county," the paper reported.
Advertisement: "Nature intended that you
should eat what you want. You can do it if you
take Tanlac."
Harry and Art Walker moved from Cascade
to McCall to run the Lakeview Cafe.
from the June, 1922 files of the Cascade News
compiled by Mary Thurston
The Trask Bros. Auto
Stage made its first trip
through the valley to McCall
in late May.
A request by the Oregon
Short Line Railway to curtail
service on its Idaho
branches was unanimously
denied by the Public Works
Commission.
The county commissioners
met with the chief engineers
of government roads and
Supervisor G.B. Mains
regarding a cooperative
road from Cascade to Knox
and the Warren Wagon
Road.
Forest Ranger Dee
Russell and fire guards were
constructing a telephone line
from Knox to the Trout
Creek Station, which Ranger
Wellman was making
habitable. Supervisor Mains
was also conducting a train-
ing camp for rangers, fire
guards and lookout men, and
two survey parties went out
to the Middle Fork, Thunder
Mountain and Johnson Creek
to make a new map for the
Forest Service.
A number of new cars
were being brought in to the
valley, lettuce planting was
progressing, with over 500
acres signed up, and the
Alpha Pig Club started its
season with Duroc Jerseys.
The sawmill west of Nor-
wood was busy and several
families had moved in. J.J.
Oberbillins said Cinna-
bar mine would start up as
soon as supplies could be
taken in.
Silversides were biting
well at Payette Lake and
trappers Rafe Hughes and
Cougar Dave Lewis, , the
latter 78 years old, brought
in 14 cougar, 18 coyote, two
fox, four mink and one lynx
pelt from Big Creek.
Attorney James H. Ewing
opened an office in Cascade
and Fred Koven a meat
market in Donnelly. The
first airplane of the season
was seen crossing the valley,
but was too high to be
identified. s
A new collection of books
from the state traveling
library were housed in Judge
Barry's office in the court-
house.
The Mutual Club of Cabar-
ton announced plans for
dances every Saturday night
and Kellerman Piano
Company of Boise installed a
grand piano for the Musical
Martins at their pavillion in
McCall.
Roseberry High School
graduates were Ila
McDougal, Irene Whitney,
Marie Mayer, Ida Yensen
and John Hughes. Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Wolfe and Mrs.
Matson were rehired for the
coming year with one more
teacher to be added. Prof.
and Mrs. Cobbs resigned
from the Cascade school and
accepted new positions in
Kuna.
Local baseball teams
started the season with the
field in good shape. Ancil
McDougal and Charlie Howe
were pitching for the
Donnelly Woodmen and Doc
Rutledge and Harry Bean
for Cascade, with games
scheduled at Arling, Stunz
Mill and Sweet.
The pioneer picnic at the
old Horner homestead on
Clear Creek was memorable
for its large crowd, good food
and fun, with games and
races for everyone and lots
of visiting.
60 Years Ago
Taken from the June 1922 files of The Cascade
News:
good advice: "When fire is discover
Some
put it out if you can; get help if you need it.
The newspaper featured advertisements
from Grape -Nuts, Fletcher's Castoria, Bayer
Asprin, Postum, Good Year tires, and
Wrigley's chewing gum.
Cows were selling for $40 to $71.
Dave Lewis came in from the back- countty
on the Middle Fork bearing pelts from 14
cougars, 28 coyotes, two foxes, 2 lynx, and 4
mink.
Lewis was 78 years old and had been living in
the area for 54 years.
Saturday specials at the Cascade Fruit Store
included new potatoes, 3 pounds for 25 cents;
tomatoes for 25 cents per pound; green peas,.2
pounds for 25 cents, and cantaloupes, 2 for 35
cents.
60 Years Ago
Taken from the June 1922 files of The Cascade
News:
F.S. Logue, Louise Harwood and Genevive
Logue narrowly escaped a serious accident on
the canyon road below Banks when they met
another car on a stretch that was too narrow to
pass. It was necessary to collide with the other
car to prevent going over the cliff.
"Aside from the Logue car having an axle
bent, a fender torn off and the car considerably
skinned up, nobody was hurt... They were able
to proceed to Boise," the paper reported.
It was reported that one - twentieth of all mar-
riages in the United States ended in divorce.
A number of people got a good look at a
meteor that passed over Cascade. It was believ-
ed that the meteor landed somewhere near
Knox because "they were pretty well shaken up
over there."
60 Year Ago
Taken from the June 1922 files of The Cascade:
News:
Task Brothers Auto Stage made its first trip-.
of the season from Boise to McCall on May 31.
Advertisement:
If your Ford is sick,
Don't stop to think,
Just call at old VanWyck.
I have a pill, '
That will fit the bill
And fix any Ford that's sick
Thomas Kostic.
The Public Utilities Commission denied the -
application by the Oregon Short Line Railroad
to curtail service on its Idaho branches.
The first basball game of the season, be-
tween the Cascade Nine and the Donnelly
Woodsmen, was won by Cascade, 22 to 7.
"On account of the lack of practice and the
condition of the ball diamond, which is no dia
mond at all, we're not going to censure the boys -
for the many errors... for fear there won't be:
enough room in the paper to register all the:
runs, hits and errors," it was reported.
Three to four feet of snow still covered Big
Creek Summit in early June.
Ila McDougal, Irene Whitney, Marie Mayer,..
Ida Yensen and John Hughes graduated from
Roseberry High School.
R.D. Thomas was selling Mehring's food
powered milkers.
LOOKING BACK
From the August, 1922 files of "The
Cascade News"
compiled by Mary Thurston
Republicans Charles H. Nelson
of McCall and Stanley Logue of
Cascade and Democrats Jim
Harris of McCall and S.I. Cantrall
of Round Valley attended their
parties' state nominating con-
ventions at which Moses
Alexander, Boise Democrat, and
Charles C. Moore, a St. Anthony.
Republican, were chosen as
gubernatorial candidates. A third,
Progressive Party, convention
tapped H.F. Samuels of Samuels
for the state's chief executive post.
Boise Payette Lumber Company
began work on a spur line from
Arling to the west side of the
valley, where they had purchased
timber killed by beetles. Morrison
Knudsen was constructing the
grade. Ranger H.J. Burr began
construction of the Blue Point and
Thunderbolt lookout stations. A
Petition was filed by Ed Poro, Matt
Hill and James Darkwood to form
the Lake Fork Irrigation District,
using water from Little Payette
Lake.
The first 36 -head crate of lettuce
packed from the new crop. at the
H.E. Armstrong farm in Donnelly
was sent to Gov. D.W. Davis.
Lettuce was also being packed and
marketed by Denny and Company
for the Growers' Union, and
packing sheds being built at
Cabarton and Norwood.
A report came from the Emmett
Index that work had officially
started on the Black Canyon
Diversion Dam and power plant.
Train loads of sheep were
leaving the valley almost daily.
Three carloads of ties were loaded
for Hoff and Brown at Norwood.
Andy Mitchell took a contract to
move dirt on the Cascade -Knox
road. Cude Bros. sawmill was to be
operated by J.D. Patterson of
Cascade.
Fred Wallis' car, which went off
the Garden Valley road a few
weeks previously, was located and
dragged to shore, but almost a
total wreck.
A dance was being held every
Saturday night at the Mutual Club
Dance Hall, with music by the
Musical Martins. The annual ball
given by the Cascade Civic Club
was well - patronized, with a crowd
coming also from neighboring
communities.
Harry Sake of Boise, who ran a
pack train to Thunder Mountain
during the big rush, was killed by
an accidental gunshot. Mrs. J.B.
Hurst died at the Hurst ranch near
Elo; William T. Shelton, formerly
of Donnelly, died in Missouri; and
Samuel Parks of Roseberry died at
the age of 90.
Laura Barker of Roseberry was
married to Ina A. Ward of Don-
nelly, and Laura Schoonover of
Long Valley to Willis O. Dodge of
Owyhee County. Girls were born toy
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Estell of
Arling and to Mr. and Mrs. Earl B.
Balch of Norwood. Boys came to
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kelley of
Cabarton and to Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Fincher.
On the faculty at Cascade were
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Gordon, Electa
Gartin, Gracie Bacon and Nona
Vanderwort. Hired for the district
schools were Mrs. Leo Matson,
Roseberry; Ida Yensen, Smiths
Ferry; Lydia Yensen, Houston;
Mary Nichols, No. 45; Ila Mc-
Dougal, Whitney; Rose Washburn,
Spink; Mrs. Marler, Norwood;
Lesta Coonrod, Arling; Walter
Varnum,.Van Wyek; Mrs. Ward,
Herrick; Elma Barnes, Dist. 5;
Mrs. Kimbrough and Mrs. Ella
McGeehan, Beaver Meadows.
From the August, 1922 files of the
Cascade News:
A petition was submitted by James
Darkwood, Ed. Poro and Matt Hill
asking that the Lake Fork Irrigation
District be formed.
The grading contract was awarded te.
improve the Cascade -Knox Road to the
diversion dam and power plant, at
Black Canyon.
The Boise - Payette Lumber Company
built a spur line from Arling to harvest
timber killed by an invasion of beetles.
Sawmill lands were sought, for the
Stunz Mill at Arling.
The first crate of lettuce was sent to
Gov. D.W. Davis by the Long Valley
Vegetable Growers' Union. The gover-
nor praised the quality of the produce.
A hot spell curbed prices somewhat,
but prospects for the remainder of the
season appeared good.
The Oregon Short Line planned to
have the Saturday's northbound train
make the trip south on Sunday instead
of holding over in McCall until Monday.
Fingerlings from the hatchery at
Hailey were planted near Knox.
A representative of the Veteran's
Bureau came to Cascade to interview
disabled World War I veterans.
From the August, 1922 files of the
Cascade News:
In the primary election, Republicans
nominated Hilma Shoenhut for
treasurer and Bertram Varian for dis-
trict judge. Democrats chose Urban
Herrick and Luther Dukes as com-
missioners for the first and second dis-
tricts, and Ernest Callender for sheriff.
For state offices, Republicans nom-
inated Charles .Moore, governor; C.
BalcIridge, lieutenant governor;
Addison Smith and Burton French,
Congressmen. Democrats nominated
Moses Alexander, governor, and Elmer
Thompson, lieutenant governor.
In an editorial, Sen. Owlsley of
Kentucky voiced alarm at the develop
ment by the government by bureaus
and the increasing participation of
government in affairs properly con-
sidered as purely state that matters.
LOOKING BACK
From the June, 1922 files of "The Cascade News."
Compiled by Mary Thurston
With approaching summer, R.R.
Mitchell, Department of Public
Roads engineer, was lining up the
seasons work on the road
from Cascade and Knox to
Johnson Creek and on the Warren
Wagon Road. They planned to go in
and decide on a route to Warm
Springs as soon as the three or so
feet of snow on Big Creek Summit
settled.
F. Coonrod made his first of
contracted summer trips to Cin-
nabar, by truck to Knox and then
by team. J.B. Oberbilling said that
things were in good shape at the
mine.
The firs t plane to fly over Long
Valley crossed near Roseberry and
Beaver Meadows on a southwest
course. Firefighters were being
trained by G.B. Mains at Crawford
Station preparing to instruct the
summer firefighters and lookout
Van Deusen and Little bands. Jose
Charartegui trailed three bands
from Crane Creek over West
Mountain, but the crusted snow
would not hold the horses, which
had to be taken around. Wulf and
Arnent loaded oats at Arling, and
J. W. Downend at Beaver
Meadows.
The Cascade Cikc Club heard
reports on the Federation meeting
at Shoshone and elected the Mmes.
A.D.Robb, H.J. Burr, Marion Wood
Walker, F.M. Kerby and L.M.
Gorton as officers for the coming
year. Each member of the club
was requested to bring a book,
preferably for children, for the
library.
A regular dance was held at the
Mutual Club Hall in Cabarton, a
pioneer picnic sponsored by Alpha
at Clear Creek, and a Modern
Woodman picnic, including a
nrnarnm ranee nn #4 i. --A - L.
men. game, at Donnelly.
Lettuce planting was completed Roseberry High graduates were
by mid -June, construction started Ila McDougal, Irene Whitney,
on a packing shed at Donnelly, and Marie Mayer, Ida Yensen and John
the Valley County Vegetable Hughes. Going to Normal School
Growers Union was organized. during the summer were Rose
Denny and Company of Cascade Washburn, Genevieve Logue,
were planning to use local labor for Verna Conyers, all of Cascade,
thinning, but would bring in help Margaret Patterson of Alpha, Mss.
from the lower valley if necessary. Leo Moton and Ila McDougal of
Alpha boys organized a pig club, Roseberry, and Ingrid Ax and
and ordered their pigs, which they Mary Mahla of Donnelly. Taking
planned to show in the fall at the summer work at Albkon were
Boise State Fair. Six cars of sheep Lydia and Idah Yensen, Hilda
from Murphy were unloaded as Mayer and Bertha Mayer , all of
Cascade, followed soon after by the Roseberry.
Cascade, 1922; from
the files Hof the News
Compiled by Mary Thurston
Gnv. D.W. Davis came to
Cascade as part of the Inde-
pendence Day celebration.
He praised the area for its
lettuce growing program
and made a pitch to bring
new settlers to this agri-
culturally -rich area. Burt
Venable, former editor of the
Cascade News, introduced
the governor to the crowd
that gathered to hear him
talk.
Charles Nelson, proprietor
of the Sylvan Beach, brought
the governor's party to
Cascade.
James Hawes of McCall
was busy building a new
grocery and hardware store
in Donnelly.
J.M. Jasper, clerk, called
for bids to remodel the
Roseberry High School, and
bids were also being taken to
build a tour -room school-
house in McCall.
A forest service lookout,
with phone, was being built
on Cabin Creek. Some 200
10- gallon cans of fingerling
trout were shipped to be
planted in tributaries of the
Payette River in Long
Valley.
Cascade sported n winning
baseball team. The team
knocked off McCall four
times and Sweet twice. Two
games were played on July
4, with prizes donated by
Jack Gary, Sile Kimball,
John Croce, William Newell
and Harry Bean plus local
businesses Allman Cafe,
H.O. Liming, Moore's Store
Cascade News. F.S. Logue
and Cascade Fruit.
The Good Fellowship Club
held a dance at Hurd's
Amusement Hall with music
by the Musical Martins.
Married in Cascade in
July, 1922 were George
Marler and Aileen McProud,
both of Emmett; Frank
Browning and Ellen
Carstens, Payette; Daniel
McBane of Nampa and
Juniette Ethel Moss of Rose -
berry, and Loran Armant
and Blanche Butt.
Two deaths were re-
ported: John Takkinen and
Frank E. McMillan, an old
prospector.
from the September, 1922 files of
The Cascade News
compiled by Mary Thurston
A petition for formation of a Lake
Fork Irrigation District was
denied, with the understanding
that the petitioners make
arrangements to be incorporated
into the existing Lake Irrigation
District.
Salmon fishing was good on the
South Fork. Good bags of birds
were brought in from West
Mountain. The first load of Long
Valley's good crop of oats was
harvested by Bob Dunn. Pren
Moore, University of Idaho poultry
specialist, gave demonstrations in
McCall and Round Valley. Two
men were apprehended and fined
for leaving a burning camp fire.
The first airplane ever landed at
Cascade, biplane, was flown in by
Warren Pell, who had been doing
stunt flying and carrying
passengers at McCall. Bill Basye
of Yellow Pine was the third eldest
pioneer born in the Emmett area to
attend a pioneer picnic there.
Milo's "Merry Minstrels" jazz
band and orchestra were playing at
the Cascade Theatre. A special
meeting of the Cascade Civic Club
was held for the visit of Mrs. L.B.
Green of Mountain Home, state
president of the Idaho Federation
of Women's Clubs.
A 12 -foot addition was completed
on the Boise Payette Lumber
Company's commissary at
Cabarton. Cascade businessmen
completed the organization of a
Commercial Club, with F.S. Logue
president, James H. Ewing,
secretary, William Mickelson,
treasurer, and Dr. H.P. Reed, J.E.
LeFever, W. D. Cromwell,
Mickelson and Ray Coleman
directors. District court convened
on September " 13 with Honorable
Judge B.S. Varian presiding. W.H.
Huff was the successful bidder on
the road from Payette Lakes Club
to the Lardo Bridge, and the
Timothy Spur Elimination between
Cascade and Donnelly.
Cascade schools opened Sep-
tember 5th. The enrollment of 137
was lower than expected, but more
were due. Supt. Gordon discussed
athletics with the boys and hoped
to find a local citizen to act as
coach. Going away to college were
Frances Noggle, U. of I.; Mabel
Madden and Lurline Coulter, U. of
Oregon; Freda Mayer of Donnelly,
Lewiston; Marjorie Morgan,
Marie and Harold Logue, Marie
Mayer and Louise Harwood,
College of Idaho; Hazel Moore of
Donnelly, St. Margaret's Hall; and
Irene Whitney of Norwood, Albion
Normal.
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. M.E. Meader. C.C. Mon-
tgomery, who came to Long Valley
in 1908, died at Sweet, and the two -
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
White died at the Warner sawmill
near McCall.
Compiled by Mary Thurston
From the September, 1922 files of The
Cascade News:
The Cascade Commercial Club,
organized to help with community
projects, elected F.S. Logue, James
G.S. Ewing, William Meckleson, Dr.
H.P. Reed and Jess LeFever as officers
and directors.
The Cascade Post Office received
"ton lots" to be delivered to Yellow
Pine. West Mountain Mining Company
started packing supplies to the mine,
expecting to work a fair -sized crew all
winter.
Compiled by Mary Thurston
From the September, 1922 files of The
Cascade News:
Pren Moore, University of Idaho
poultry specialist, was able to work two
days in Valley County, helping
ranchers. Threshing machines from
Middleton were working in Donnelly.
W.L. Reed of the South Fork made
final proof of his property and began
moving his family to Yellow Pine for
the winter. Judge Varian and Henry
From the September, 1922 files of The
Cascade News
Teachers for the year were chosen as
follows: Spink - -Rose Washburn; Nor-
wood- -Mrs. Harold Marler; Carbarton --
Genevieve Logue; Cascade - -Supt.
Gorton; Donnelly -- Elizabeth Cullivan
and Ruth Marks; Elo- -Mrs. J.D.
Hughes;, Van Wyck -- Walter Varnum;
Norwood - -Elma Barnes; Herrick - -Mrs.
Wall; Beaver Meadows - -Mrs. Mc-
Geehan; Alpha -- Margaret Patterson,
and District 58 - -I1a McDougal.
The forest guard apprehended two
men who left a fire burning at Stolle
Meadows and bound them over to the
Federal District Court.
A petition to form Lake Fork
Irrigation District was denied.
Some of the prize strawberries grown
by Mr. Turner of Roseberry were sent
to the governor. The first oats were
threshed in Long Valley by Bob Dunn.
Cummock, court reporter, were in town
for the court term.
Good bags of birds were brought in
from West Mountain.
Rev. Joseph Pope, new pastor of the
Methodist Church, moved to the area
with his family.
F.S. Logue and Carl Kitchen were
reelected to the school board, joining L.
M. Gorton, Bob Coulter, J.H. Hill and
Horace Patterson.
From the October, 1922 files of
"The Cascade News"
The forage crop display from
Valley County was judged best at
the State Fair. Individual prize
winners were William Bean's sheaf
of alfalfa, timothy seed exhibited
by Paul Mickelson of Donnelly and
Glenn Strawn, Mrs. S.L. Cantrall's
cabbage and Mrs. Bob Coulter's
rutabages. Mrs. Bert Armstron's
Bliss Triumph potatoes incited
many inquiries, and Mrs. Fred
Hall's soft red wheat won a 2nd.
Grain buyers were busy loading
wheat, while others were shipping
baled hay and loading out ties. Mr.
Cantrall's machine finished
threshing at Alpha and returned to
Round Valley. Cecil R. Peckham of
Wilder, with 400 carloads of
potatoes to store, was getting out
timber to build a 60 x 400 ft. cellar.
The regular autumn pilgrimage to
Council for fruit began, and Judge
Barry brought samples of seven
varieties of apples from the or-
chard of Thomas Yount near
McCall. The one -acre orchard also
contained cherry, pear, plum and
prune trees. The first snow of the
season appeared on the mountains
October 4th.
R.R. Mitchell, government road
engineer on the Cascade -Knox
highway, started construction of a
new steel bridge across the South
Fork near Knox. A government
road man, Mr. J.W. Cron from
Ogden, expressed satisfaction with
the work being done on the roads to
Warren, Knox and Yellow Pine.
The lookout station at Blue Point
was °ompleted, and Ranger Burr
and his crew moved back to
Thunderbolt. J.J. Oberbillig,
superintendent of the Cinnibar
Mine in the Yellow Pine district,
reported that the bulk of supplies
were in and they planned to work a
crew of 12 men during the winter.
He was on his way east to arrange
for more road work, since
development was ahead of
capacity to ship ore. T.P. Burnside
took over the sawmill at Yoakum
Hot. Springs and moved to New
Meadows. The Stunz mill at Arling
advertised for sawmill hands.
The Cascade Civic Club outlined
the year's work, with programs on
public welfare, literature and
compiled by Mary Thurston
music planned for each month. The
Ladies' Aid chose Mrs. H.J. Burr,
Mrs. Joseph Pope, Mrs. P.O.
Liming and Mrs. George W. Barry
as officers. They planned to serve a
chicken dinner at the church on
election day. Mr. Abstein and his
sister, Mrs. Fred Edwards, came
from Yellow Pine by horseback for
a few days before the road closed
for winter.
U.S. Congressman Burton L.
French addressed a large crowd at
the Cascade Theatre, touching on
the bills passed during the last
session.
Several teachers went out on the
Saturday train and Ralph Swank
also took a load to Boise for the
early October Teachers' Institute.
Roseberry High School had an
enrollment of 43 pupils. Activities
included a Student Senate, a
Culture Club, an Athletic
Association and a social com-
mittee. New physics equipment
was put into use and the public
speaking class was active.
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. L. J. Eckers of Cascade, and
sons to Mr. and Mrs. Brown of
Cascade, Mr. and Mrs. McParks of
Round Valley, Mr. and Mrs. John
Higgins of Cabarton, and Mr. and
Mrs. John Williams of Crawford.
Glenn McKee of Nampa was
married to Alice Caldwell of
McCall; Clifford A. Wheeler to
Nellie Cude; Lloyd C. Lewis of
Melba to Grace M. Toland of
Cascade; and Charles E. Ruggs to
Ethel Mae Olson, both of Cascade.
Alexander Ireton, a pioneer of
Sweet, died, and William D.
Patterson was shot by a tenant
farmer after a dispute over the
division of cattle.
From the October, 1922 files of The
Cascade News:
The Stunz mill at Arling sold its
entire stock to the Stat Lumber
Company of Boise.
Work on the Cascade- Emmett tele-
phone line was nearly completed.
Local people began their annual trips
,to Council for fruits.
The courts were trying a case of a
person found with a still and three
gallons of moonshine near Donnelly.
Inter - Mountain State Bank ran
this ad: "At sixty, 95 percent of
men are dependent upon their
children for charity because they
SAVED NOTHING. Provide for
your future by
SAVING REGULARLY."
Other advertisers were Poole
and Allman, drug store and kodak
supplies; Crawford Mercantile
Company; and F.S. Logue & Bros.
( "It's our habit to give our patrons
the most superior foodstuffs for the
least money. ") Still others were
L.L. Moore; A. Sawyer, shoe and
harness repair; Morris Transfer;
Mission Cigar Store; Valley
County Abstract Co.; D. Landow,
watchmaker; attorneys D.M. Cox,
James H.G. Ewing, R.B. Ayers;
dentist Dr. H.P. Reed; and
physicians and surgeons Dr. G.E.
Noggle and Dr. J.F. Rutledge.
Compiled by Mary Thurston
From the October, 1922 files of The
Cascade News:
A copy of the Prospector and
Thunder Mountain News published
April 29, 1905 was found in a cabin at
Stolle Meadows and brought in by
Sheriff Lee Lisenby.
The cinnabar mines at Yellow Pine
stocked up on winter supplies for a
crew of about 12 men who were to keep
working through the snows. With
supplies in hand, the men's main need
was for a road on which to ship out the
ore.
The post office authorized temporary
service to Yellow Pine, with excess
parcels taken in by Decker and F.A.
Coonrod.
from the November, 1922 files of
"The Cascade News"
compiled by Mary Thurston
The first snow of the season had
come on October 31st, seven inches
on Big Creek Summit, but the
valley was soon clear again. The
Yellow Pine stage was still
operating, but Mr. F.G. Cot -
ningham, manager of the Payette
Lakes Club at McCall, took his
saddle horses to the lower country
for the winter.
Red Finch and Clarence
Spielman were building a camp to
start logging east of Timothy Spur.
The Cinnabar Mine in the Yellow
Pine district was working a full
crew and had a new retort in
operation.
Poultry culling demonstrations
by Pren Moore and egg production
and feed cost records, and an in-
sulated half- monitor hen house by
Glen Strawn of Alpha were
published by the Farm Bureau.
The last car of wheat was loaded at
Donnelly, and timothy was also
shipped by Pete Cruzen. A far-
mers' convention was called to
meet in the House of Represen-
tatives chamber in Boise in early
December to take concerted action
on agricultural problems.
The deputy game warden
reported 152 deer checked out at
the South Fork bridge.
Dr. and Mrs. Noggle left to make
,their home in California, "for a
little easier living ", after about 20
years in Long Valley. Dr. J.F.
Rutledge purchased the Noggles'
Cascade property and practice. A
farewell reception for the
departees was given at Hurd's
Hall, and a meeting of the old
sutlers at the Cascade Theatre in
honor of Dr. Noggle brought a
standing - room -only crowd.
Ate effort was underway to form
an independent unit of the Red
Cross. Membership chairmen
included Mrs. E.J. Peabody and
Mrs. Helga Cook, McCall; Mrs.
Earl Bald, Norwood; Mrs. Harold
Molovy and Bert Armstrong,
Donnelly; Mrs. George Wulf and
Prof`3 %'alter Wolfe, Roseberry;
Mrs. Jahn Goode and Mrs.
Clarence Goode, Arling; Mrs. A.J.
Mitchell, Mrs. P.O. Liming, Mrs.
Ed Lyells, end Mrs. Joesph Pope,
f'acrarlp grs Phalla Patterson
and Mrs. Robert Coulter„
Crawford; Mrs. D. H. Kerby and
Mrs. John Atken, Alpha; Mrs. John
)Morgan, Mrs. Monte Cross, Mrs.
H.L. Dougherty and V.A. Stewart,
Cabarton; Mrs. Peter Neeb and
Mrs. Henry Gray;, Round Valley ;
H.H. Harvey, Smith's Ferry; and
:Mrs. Floyd Fry, High Valley.
Overall chairman was Mrs. M.D.
Kerby and secretary Mrs. H.J.
Burr,
In the election, the Democrats
took the county, while Republicans
filled the entire state ticket. C.C.
Moore was elected governor;
Burton Frech, congressman; Carl
Brown, Valley County senator and
Robert Coulter, representative.
Charles Smith, Luther Dukes and
G.K. Scott got commissioner seats,
Forest Robb became clerk, F.M.
Kerby, prosecuting attorney; Fred
L. Diggs, sheriff; Hilma Nortune,
treasurer; George W. Barry,
probate judge; Dr. J.F. Rutledge,
coroner; Tirza J. Wayland,
superintendent of public in-
struction; R.M. Parks, assessor;
W.A. Woods, surveyor; and
Bryand Varian, 7th Distract
judges.
The Cascade Civic Club held, a
reception honoring teachers in the
Cascade schools. There was an
Armistice Day program at the
theater with patriotic music and
talks by Carl C. Kitchen and
Stanley R. Logue, ex- servicemen.
A masquerade ball at Hurd's Hall,
given by the Cascade orchestra,
was well attended, and a basket
social and dance were held at the
Crawford Community Club.
A petition to re- establish the
school at Arling was circulating,
since there were 25 students in the
district. Lower and Upper Beaver
Schools closed for the winker.
Roseberry High chose class of-
ficers: for the freshmen, Alvin
Moore, Albert Kantola and Gerald
Whitney; for the sophomores,
Viola Wilson, Edward Kantola .and
Stanley Wallace.
The arrival of electricity text
looks prompted numerous ax
periments at Roseberry, and
Armistice Day was celebrated by a
school program and dance, with
booths for candy, coffee and
doughnuts and fish pond. The
upperclassmen entertained the
freshmen with games and refresh-
ments. A debate on "Shall the U.S.
Intervene Actively in the Near
East Difficulties ?" was held by the
public speaking class.
Cascade pupils Marie
Dougherty, Marie Herrick, Naomi
and Fred Kerby spent Sunday at
their homes at Alpha. Dist. 58 and
Pine Grove schools in Norwood had
a Halloween party and there was a
program and pie sale at Donnelly.
Roseberry opened its basketball
season against Cambridge.
The Cascade Civic Club gave a
new piano to the school. A literary
society was composed of Florence
Field, Helen Wood, Donald
McLeod, Stanley Harwood, Marie
Dougherty, Elma Conyers and
George Patterson. An all -day
service, with basket dinner, was
held by the M.E. Church.
Sigrid S. Lehti was married to
William Huttula and Gladys
Jasper of Roseberry to Morris
Ralph of Boise. Sons were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Luoma, at
Camp E near Arling, and to Mr.
and Mrs. William Newell at Alpha.
Walter 0. Moore, a rancher at
Norwood, died, as did Mrs. C.H.
Fillmore, also at Norwood. Mrs.
Esther Marie Luoma died at
Arling, and A. Sawyer at Cascade.
An Overland touring car was
advertised for trade, with a set of
new over -sized tire chains, for $350
in oats at $1.65 per cwt. Also for
sale in Cascade was a "newly -
painted residence with both hot
and cold water."
From the November, 1922 files of The
Cascade News:
C.C. Moore was elected governor of
Idaho and Burton French was elected
to Congress. County officers, all Demo-
crats, were Carl Brown, senator;
Robert Coulter, representative;
Charles Smith, Luther Dukes and G.K.
Scott, county commissioners.
Dr. G.E. Noggle, long -term valley
physician, and his wife left Valley
County to make their home in Southern
California. Dr. J.F. Rutledge pur-
chased their property and took over Dr.
Noggle's practice. Farewell parties
were held at Hurd's Hall and the
Cascade Theatre.
Compiled by Mary Thurston
From the November, 1922 files of The
Cascade News:
Volunteers organized a Valley
County unit of the Red Cross, promising
to use much of the money raised on
local projects.
W.D. Cromwell's and the Duke's
Brothers dairy barns have been
completed and are being put to use.
Ranger DeWitt Russel reported a foot
of snow on Lodge Pole Creek Summit.
Big game hunters from the East
brought out several bear, cougar; deer,
mountain goats and an elk. James Gill
reported shooting three bears, a
mountain ,goat and a six -point elk.
Some 122 deer were checked out at the
South Fork bridge. Sam Hopper
brought out a beaver pelt that was
nearly all white.
From the December, 1922 files of The
Cascade News:
The Cascade Commercial Club
staged "Always in Trouble" before a
crowded house. Most of the schools
presented programs and hosted parties
and oyster suppers to celebrate the
Christmas season.
Jim Phillips was killed in a logging
accident.
Marriages this month included that
of Blanche Ward to Ray McCurdy,
Ingrid Axe to Walter Ikola, Rudy Jo
Sanders to Gerald Logue, Ila McDougal
to Ernest McChntick and Irene Butler
to Windsor Cox.
Compiled by Mary Thurston
From the December, 1922 files of The
Cascade News:
R. R. Mitchell and Company com-
pleted the abutments for the bridge
over the South Fork at Knox. It took the
men three days to make it out through
the five -foot snow depths on Big Creek
Summit.
The last automobile for the season
made its appearance at Norwood.
Supervisor G. B. Mains and his
assistants were credited with "a
splendid record this year as guardians
of the timber in the Payette Forest."
Two pair of pedigreed silver foxes
were received by H. B. Cready,
manager of the Idaho Silver Fox Farm.
LOOKING BACK... lthraugh Cascade News files
compiled by Mary Thurston From the December, 1922 files
The Forest Service was com-
mended for the excellent record of
little fire damage, in spite of an
unusually dry season; credit was
given for vigilance and cooperation
of rangers and an excellent system
of communications and chain of
lookouts.
Mr. H.B. Cready, manager of the
Idaho Silver Fox Farm near
McCall, added two pair of
pedigreed and registered foxes and
said the region around McCall is a
i;atural one for fox culture.
Two cars of stray cattle
belonging to Van Deusen were
loaded; the main herd had already
trekked out to Emmett. Beaver
trappers were successful in Round
Valley and went on to Garden
Valley.
The Valley County Red Cross
organized with a membership of
200; Rev. Joseph Pope was elected
chairman, with Mrs. D.M. Kerby
vice - chairman, Mrs. Ray Coleman
treasurer, Mrs. 11. J. Burr,
secretary, and Mrs. J.C. Weant,
Mrs. W.H. Wood and Carl C. Kit-
chen members of the executive
committee.
The Stunz mill and Boise Payette
Lumber Company vvere among
those supplying lumber, and the
logging camps were taking on men
and supplies; some had to close
down when snow became too deep.
R.R. Mitchell and crew finished
the abutments for a new steel
bridge over the Soul% Fork, but
were caught in the snow trying to
get back over Big Creek Summit
with their outfit.
W.H. Huff, who had been
finishing up a road contract,
reported 24 inches of snow at
McCall. The thermometer dropped
to 24 below at Cascade and the
Cabarton water supply was frozen
for two weeks. The last automobile
of the season made' its appearance
at Norwood. Part of the crew came
out from Cinnabar after the new
retort broke, and reported bucking
loose snow for seven days.
Dr. Drake reported seeing a big
mountain billy goat on Big Creek
Summit on his way out from Knox.
Dr. Hurd started his ice harvest,
but then rain halted the operation.
Beef and hog butchering were in
progress throughout the valley.
The Lake Irrigation District
chose a new board, J.B. Whitmey,
J.C. McBride and. Carl T. Beyer.
The Commercial Club play,
"Always in Trouble ", was
presented with an excellent cast.
The committee was James Ewing,
Stanley Logue and Dr. Rutledge.
Cascade High School went to
Roseberry for a game, and both
teams played Cambridge. Two
local plays were staged at Don-
nelly; characters were Charles
Howe, Jack Macauley, Charles
Rogers, Mrs. Charles Howe, Miss
Ruth Marks, Dick Johnson, Estle
Ward, Alvin Moore and Henry
Sherill.
School District No. 2 had a new
victrola and Miss Margaret Pat-
terson planned a tree and en-
tertainment for December 23rd. At
the Cabarton Christmas program,
Boise Payette provided candy and
oranges for everyone and Mr.
Callender popcorn. The Sunday
school and school programs were
combined at Cabarton, with a
community tree to hold gists.
Center School at Arling, Alpha and
Herrick Schools all had programs
and treats. At Roseberry, Mrs.
Curt Matson had to postpone part
of the planned program because of
illness of several children, but the
patrons enjoyed the rest, as well as
the oyster supper given by the
Christian Church. At Donnelly
there was a program and dance at
the Woodman Hall.
Home to Norwood for the
Thanksgiving vacation from
Rosberry High School were Ralph
and Bertha Scheline, Gerald
Whitney, Lillian Lehti, Teckla
Jarvis, Marie Heinrich and Burton
Bennett.
Ila McDougal, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. B.H. McDougal of
Roseberry, was married to Rev.
Ernest C. McClintick, pastor of the
Christian Church. Blanche L.
Warried was married to Ray
McCurdy of Cascade; Irene A.
Butler of Roseberry to Windsor G.
Cox of Donnelly; Ruby Sanders of
Boise to Clayton Gerald Logue;
and Ingrid Ax of Donnelly to
Walter Ikola of McCall.
Jim Phillips was killed by a
rolling log at Smith's Ferry; other
deaths were Mrs. T.F. Edmonson
of Round Valley, Charles Parks,
one of the founders of Roseberry,
and Craig Smith, former cashier of
the Inter- mountain State Bank.
Daughters were born to Mr. and
Mrs. Floyd Loomis of Donnelly and
to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Downend of
Arling; a son was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Wilmarth of Arling.
Looking back
-from the January, 1924 files of
"The Cascade News"
compiled by Mary Thurston
During that half- century ago
month, lots, mostly in the old
townsites of Thunder, Van Wyck,
Roseberry and on the west side of
Payette Lake, sold for from 50
cents to $105 each at a county
delinquent tax sale.
The stockholders of Inter-
mountain State Bank elected
J.G. Fralick, T.L. Worthington,
William Wickelson and Z.Z.
Mickelson as officers. The
Hurley Creek development by
the Leby boys was progressing,
and showing good signs. Will
Obermayer of Emmett and John
McDougal loaded two carloads of
wood at Donnelly, and the Long
Valley Seed Company shipped a
carload of timothy seed.
Officials of the Dion Lumber
Company, in Cascade for its
annual stockholders' meeting,
expressed pleasure with
progress since their operations
had started the previous fall
and with the way the Hurd Bros.
had handled the logging contract.
A sale when the Hillmans moved
was cried by B.T. Johnson. The
Hecla mine reopened after the
surface plant, destroyed by fire,
had been replaced. And the
"Cascade News" purchased a
modern typesetting machine to
replace the slow method of hand
composition.
Sometime during the night
between the old and new year
Payette Lake froze. Early in
January a temperature of -30 was
recorded at Arling.
A "Commercial Club" was
organized in McCall to handle the
Winter Carnival planned for
February 29th and March 1st,
and the Cascade Commercial
Club was cooperating, requesting
that business houses close there
and that citizens pre- register for
a special train to run from
Cascade to McCall for the two -
day event. The Oregon Short Line
was also planning to run a special
train, with sleeping cars. A
toboggan run was being con-
structed by citizens in McCall
and clear ice on the lake was
reported 15 inches thick.
A "model school" was held at
abarton for 20 rural teachers.
3uperintendAt Tirza Wayland
reported that the 15 county school
were housed in one or two -room
furnished cottages, with firewood
supplied by the district, and that
the three year -old Yellow Pine
District had a log school house
with beaver board interior, good
windows, a fine floor, and a two -
room teacher's cottage, with 9
pupils enrolled at the 0 tober
15th opening. That schZ was
also serving as a community
center, with Thanksgiving and
Christmas dinners and programs
held there.
Many school children home for
the holidays were returning by
train to classrooms in Cam-
bridge, Cascade, McCall and at
the Weiser Institute. Cascade
High students presented a play,
"Ruth in a Rush" at the theater
and also at Cabarton. Eighth
grade examinations were given
late in the month. District 57,
mostly on the west side of the
river, had lost population, and
was divided among District 58
(the Standard School), District
42, and Donnelly.
The Civic Club had a darning
contest, conducted by the home
economics section during its
regular meeting, and won by the
Mmes. Liming and Mitchell. The
club expressed gratitude to the
Board of Commissioners for
permission to use a vacant room
in the court house for a public
library. The McCall Post Office
reported that it had grown from a
small corner in the Finnish
Cooperative Store to a 3rd Class
post office, the same rank as
Cascade, Midvale and Kuna.
News items were reported in
correspondent columns from
Roseberry, Donnelly, Norwood,
Cabarton, Arling, Alpha and Van
Wyck.
Mrs. John Maempa died at
McCall. Dewey Heater and Nona
Plaster, both of Donnelly, were
married, and Hawley Corbett
was married to Pearl Ferman of
Warren.
Two sets of twins were born -
girls to Mr. and Mrs. Winston
Meisner and a girl and boy to Mr.
and Mrs. James Hansberger of
McCall. A daughter was born to
the Ray Edmundsons, and sons
to the Messrs. and Mmes. Monte
Cross, Joe Goissure and Herbert
Higgins.
from the March 1924 files of
"The Cascade News"
compiled by Mary Thurston
The Cascade Commercial Club
received a letter of thinks from
the McCall Commercial Club for
its neighborly and friendly
support of the February Winter
Carnival.
The governor, Game Depart-
ment heads and representatives
of various Valley County com-
munities and the Forest Service
attended a Chamber of Com-
merce- sponsored banquet, at
which need for a fish hatchery
was discussed.
The Long Valley Seed Com-
pany had a fine display of home-
grown clover seed at the bank.
Mr. Burnham of Beaver
Meadows sowed 25 acres of
alsike clover as an experiment.
A meeting was called in Boise
to protest draining Payette
Lakes, following information
that a government camp was to
be established in April to begin
the project.
A report from Intermountain
District Forester A.H. Rutledge
said that the forests had been
visited by a half million people
during the previous year.
There were seven new
buildings completed in Cascade
and others planned. Union
Pacific announced a "selective
colonization" plan to bring home
seekers with some means to Long
Valley. And the Arling Telephone
Company named R.M. Burnham
chairman and L.M. Gorton
secretary- treasure during an
organizational meeting.
The Ward - Waters Company
presented the last program of the
Donnelly Lyceum Course,
followed by a dance. School
District No. 5 had a dance and
carnival program. Myrtle Bean
was honored with a bridal shower
by the Sweet Sixteen Club, and
the West Mountain Bachelor's
Club gave a St. Patrick's Day
banquet for the SS Club in
Moonbeam Hall.
Incorporation of the Fred
Spicklemire American Legion
Post was underway. The Civic
Club had a legislative program in
the Kerby home, and the Modern
Woodmen and Good Fellowship
Club held well- attended
meetings. State Republican
convention delegates endorsed
Governor Moore and President
Coolidge.
Home nursing classes were
organized by Miss Worden, the
Red Cross nurse, who was also
teaching first aid to the Boy
Scouts.
Mail was still being carried to
Yellow Pine by dog sled, but by
mid -March bluebirds were
returning to Arling. The Cascade
basketball team went to
Roseberry for a game.
Mrs. Alida Jane Dexter, the
mother of Phalia Patterson and
Mrs. T.E. Logue, died. Another
death was pioneer Mrs. R.M.
Everett, west of Donnelly.
Nelma Paananen was married
to Gail Standish.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Flake and a daughter to
Mr. and Mrs. August Jarvie.
Attorney James H. Ewing
advertised that his specialty was
irrigation law. Other Cascade
advertisers that month included
attorneys T.S. Risser of Boise
and R.B. Ayers of Emmett;
auctioneers B.T. Johnson of
McCall and G.M. Loomis of
Donnelly; W.H. Huff Plumbing
and Heating; Cascade
Blacksmith Shop; Intermountain
State Bank, Valley County Ab-
stract Company, Dr. J.F.
Rutledge; Mission Cigar Store,
P.O. Liming, propietor; F.S.
Logue & Bro. ; Moore Merc
Company, general merchandise;
Poole and Allison Drugs; and the
Cascade Shoe and Harness.
Looking back ...
through Cascade News files
-from the April, 1924 files of The
Cascade News
compiled by Mary Thurston
In Cascade, several people
considered the roads dry enough
to bring in new cars, and in
McCall both mail routes were
using wagons. The County
Commissioners advertised for
bids on a new approach to the
Smith's Ferry bridge. The West
Mountain Fish and Game Club
stockholders met and adopted
by -laws. Marshall Lewis, R.B.
Halferty and R.D. Thompson
were shipping timothy seed and
six cars of ties were loaded at
Norwood.
Two mining men from Por-
tland spent two weeks with
Henry Abstein of Yellow Pine
and expressed the belief that the
area had a great mineral
production future.
The Cascade Theatre installed
sloping floors and real theatre
chairs. F.M. Kerby's new
business building near the bank
was nearing completion. John
Ospital of Burley purchased Paul
Liming's interest in the old Club
fixtures, leased the building and
announced plans for a first-class
cigar store and resort. Half of the
building was to be a cafe, under
the management of Harry
Wallace.
Mr. Johnson went to Horseshoe
Bend to open his shoe repair
shop. J.O. Proust and Orval
Kelso purchased the old jewelry
store building and were
preparing to open a bakery there.
A McCall father, learning that
his son and another boy had
broken into McDougal's Store at
Roseberry, took them to Cascade
to plead guilty to a charge of
petty larceny. Two other youths,
brought in with a still and
moonshine whiskey, escaped
from the jail.
Mr. William Duncan of
Universal Film Company, a
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Cot -
tingham at a Payette Lakes Inn
dinner, expressed his pleasure at
finding such a beautiful spot for
his pictures.
At a Civic Club meeting,
county nurse Miss Worden spoke
on "The Child and Public
Welfare" and Mr. H. J. Burr gave
a talk on forest protection.
Speck McDougal and Cy
Wallace gave a dance at Don-
nelly, with music by the Musical
Moores. The Rebekahs gave a
banquet for the Odd Fellows. A
dinner at the Sake and Wright
Cafe was hosted by Charles
Nelson and Herbert Rosborough.
The Civic Club moved the library
from the probate judge's office to
new quarters upstairs in the
courthouse and put it in charge of
Hilma Nortune.
Miss Skelton of Fairfield came
April 1 to open the Upper Beaver
Meadows School for the summer
term. The Cascade school board
named Miss Lurline Coulter as
superintendent, Mr. Robert
Farrier as high school principal,
and Miss Margaret Patterson,
Miss Nina Bates and Miss Mabel
Madden as grade school
teachers. Roseberry High School
won the county basketball
championship.
William Croco was married to
Mrs. Laura Kelly. A daughter
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Foote of Cabarton and a son to
Mr. and Mrs. C.H. Bethel, the
former Elna Marnes.
Fred Sutherland of Round
Valley was instantly killed when
he fell from a load of hay. Other
area deaths were former Black-
well District teacher Mrs.
Thomas Luoma, former McCall
teacher Jean Shanklin, and J.B
Reeves, father of Mrs. Ira
Rutledge.
Looking back .. 0
through Cascade News files
-from the May, 1924 files of "The
Cascade News"
compiled by Mary Thurston
McCall reported that Payette
Lake was free of ice on May 1,
almost ten days earlier than
average. Five carloads of sheep
were brought to the Cruzen
Ranch at Norwood. At Arling, a
light snow made the grass jump
up, and strawberries and dan-
delions were blooming. Cascade
town marshall Lafe Cantrall
reported that the city's West
Mountain reservoir was full of
water, but a later shortage
predicted. Four tennis courts
were being laid out on the
American Legion grounds, and
the women's baseball team had
started spring practice.
Both the McCall and Cascade
Commercial Clubs supported a
resolution against the U.S.
Reclamation Service proposal to
dam Payette Lake. Rep. Robert
Coulter and Sen. Carl Brown
attended the Democratic Con-
vention at St. Maries, and Dr.
Titus and some of the State
Militia officers inspected the old
race track grounds, the site of
their planned June encampment.
The Cascade Cigar Store in-
stalled a soda fountain. Dr.
Flowers of Nampa conducted
revival meetings in a tent across
from the new church. Dr. Steel, a
dentist from Pocatello, located in
Cascade.
A Cemetery Association was
formed at Alpha, with Mrs.
Hancher, S.L. Cantrall, Glenn
Strawn, Wade Bacon and D.H.
Kerby as directors.
The McCall Trading Company
was advertising auctions. C.E.
Kerban reported rapid
development of the Cinnabar
Camp property at Yellow Pine,
and Sam Willson reported a ten -
foot vein of gold and silver ore at
Profile Gap. And the State
Editorial Association announced
its sponsorship of a July
automobile caravan between
Weiser and Grangeville, with a
lunch detour to Payette Lake.
The Musical Martins returned
from a winter in Tijuana with
Billy Brew as new pianist and
new instruments. They
scheduled summer dances at
Starkey, Cambridge and the
Oregon Trail State Park as well
as McCall.
Mr. E.E. Anderson, an Em-
mett jeweler, installed mer-
chandise at the Poole and Alman
Drug Store, and M.A. Bates hired
a crew to construct a new "Star"
building on the McCall lakefront.
A. ten- trough fish hatchery was
built at Martin Spring near
Cascade, and another at
Evergreen on the Weiser River,
with materials furnished by the
'Vest Mountain Fish and Game
Club. The Stunz and Sultz mills
each loaded out three cars of ties.
Dan Drake announced a seven -
passenber daily stage between
Cascade and Yellow Pine, with
connections to the Boise stage at
]:.yells and May Garage.
Frank Spicklemire American
:Legion Post No. 6 filed articles of
incorporation and the Legion and
Auxiliary sponsored a poppy
sale.
Town and school baseball
games were underway. Croco
and Bean were pitchers for the
"Bachelors ", and Kimball and
Logue for the "Benedicts ".
Roseberry High girls receiving
baseball letters were Alene
Maki, Marie Heinrich, Viola
Wilson, Clara Withers, Clara
Jasper, Faye Coonrod, Tekla
Jarvis, Hilda Kantola, Helen.
Hughes and Hazel Heffner.
The all- county field meet was
won by McCall, with Roseberry
second. Netting individual
honors were Harvey Hoff, Ed-
ward Kantola and Carmel Parks.
Mary Mickelson won the algebra
contest and Ruth Henderson the
declamation event. Robert
Coonrod placed high in arith-
metic and Helen Scott in spelling;,
and overall high point winners
were Nora Fields, Hazel Heffner
and Lena Maki.
The Cascade High Dramatic
Club cleared $10 on a play,
"Getting Married ", directed by
Ken Kimmell. Teachers hirred in
McCall were Adeline Stiles,
principal, Mr. and Mrs. Alyear of
Meridian, and Miss Eva Hannon.
Donnelly closed a successful
year under Miss Elizabeth
Sullivan and Miss Ida Yenson.
Miss Sadie Haye closed District 5
with a picnic.
New Cascade High student
body officers were Alta Bowman,
Archie Olson, Ruth Ward,
Montana Gardner, Otto Manning
and Karl Madden. McCall's first
commencement was held at
Page's Hall. Cascade had a
junior- senior banquet, and the
faculty entertained the
e actuates at a picnic breakfast
on "Tank Hill." Rev. John
Schenck conducted a bac-
calaureate service.
Boise aviator Don Jokish was
killed in a local plane crash.
Other deaths were Albert Austin,
John E. Elliott of Cabarton and
J.J. Bucker, a Gold Fork ran-
cher.
Sons were born to the Charles
T. Grays and Ben T. Johnsons of
McCall.
Looking back .. .
-from the June, 1924 files of the
Cascade News
Andy Mitchell.
Lots of sheep were passing
through Roseberry to summer
mad
The baseball season opened range. The last section of
with games between the home from Cascade to Johnson Creek
team and Fruitland, Cabarton was completed, to connect with
and the cavalry unit from the the forest road to Yellow Pine
Payette Lake encampment. A and open up access to rich
box social by the Cabarton
Amateur Athletic Club was given
to provide suits and fix up the
diamond. The cavalry unit,
which took 14 railroad cars to
transport its members, horses
and equipment to McCall,
promised a public gymkhana.
Good fishing was reported for
the season opening. A welcome
rain in mid -June helped crops.
The two watermaster suggested
that since Mondays were general
washdays, irrigating gardens
and lawns should be done on
other days.
A car of oats and car of wheat
were loaded out by the Long
Valley Seed Company.
Strawberries and local lettuce
were available at the Cascade
Market. Forest Supervisor Guy
Mains said that the fire hazard
might be great during the
summer. The town's water
supply was assured by raising
the dam at Reservoir Lake;.but
the Forest Service issued a
warning not to leave camp fires
unattended. Two men who had
left an unextinguished fire had
already been apprehended and
brought to court.
The Golden Rule store,
managed by Harold P. Gorton,
opened in the new Kerby
Building. Forrest Robb pur-
chased the Cascade Theatre and
installed new equipment. The old
post office building was moved to
Front Street and an addition built
to house a second -hand store for
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mineral deposits.
Elmer May and Leslie Whitson
leased Hurd's Hall for the new
Cascade Amusement, Hall and
secured the McGregor -Moore
Jazz orchestra. Harry Bryant
brought equipment for a sawmill
at Yellow Pine to cut lumber for
sketches of Cascade by Stanley
rt. Logue, of Valley County by
Judge Kimball, and of the public
schools by Tirza Wayland in-
cluded. Sketches of other
organizations were also to be
prepared and place in the new
cornerstone.
buildings at a new fox farn
Pleasant Valley Telephor
Company installed a new line
RwebeM. The cornerstone wz
laid for the Community Churcl
with Rev. W.M. Ewing c
LaGrande in charge c
ceremonies and historice
A public meeting discussed a
county unit high school, and a
committee of five was appointed
to compile data to be published in
the local papers. The Masons at
Cabarton gave a farewell party
for V.A. Stewart. Tent meetings
conducted by Dr. Flowers were
well attended in spite of cold
weather. The Civic Club enjoyed
a picnic at Reservoir Hill
honoring Mrs. Ed L. Bryan, past
Federation Second District
president, and the American
Legion held a box social and
dance at Cabarton, on a newly
planed and sanded floor.
June marriages included Miss
Alice Bowman to Chester
Tarleton, Miss Ruth Agnes
Yensen to Leo Schenk, and Miss
Pauline Brewer to George
Phipps.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Shaw at McCall.
Joe Miller was killed by a
falling tree at McCall, and other
deaths were Mary Alice Mc-
Cullough and "Grandma"
Hoagland of Roseberry.
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