Posted on 08/16/2002 9:52:06 PM PDT by Mo1
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nahhh! looks more like a mildly interested cat...
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A Texan can't wander far from home. Everything out here is just a suburb of Texas.
So9
Wimmin always start out saying that.
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50 Years Ago - 1952
* Several Cobalt students who want to attend high school in Salmon this fall are searching for homes for room and board here, it was announced by Walter Harris, chairman of the Salmon Chamber of Commerce housing committee.
* FOR SALE--USED TRUCKS--1937 Chevrolet 1-1/2 ton chassis and cab, 7:50 x 20 front and rear tires, heater and defroster, $445.00.
* The house-movers have moved in at the S.A. Mahaffey ranch. They moved a grainery and several outbuildings in preparation for moving the old McNicoll house down the road closer to the home group of buildings.
60 Years Ago - 1942
* Carmen Couple Wedded Thursday -- Probate Judge Emerson Hill performed the ceremony last Thursday afternoon which united in marriage Mrs. Cathrine Stewart and Mr. John Neal, both of Carmen. Witnesses to the ceremony were Mrs. Rose O'Connell, sister of the bride, and John Igou.
* Fire reports compiled by the Regional Forest Service office, Ogden, Utah, indicate that up to July 31, 1942, there were a total of 215 fires in the National Forests of the Intermountain area this year.
* WANTED -- MUCKERS and TRAMMERS: 63-1/2 cents per hour, 6 days work per week, 9 hours per day, with time and a half for all hours worked in excess of 40 in any week. This is $5.50 per day.
70 Years Ago - 1932
* At last the rich Shoo Fly gold vein has been found. It presents a body of quartz, eight feet wide, fairly sparkling with visible gold, and running into thousands of dollars per ton in value. The Shoo Fly lies at the summit of the Salmon River mountains, 15 miles north of Salmon, the vein, where exposed, being just over the crest, and on the Moose creek slope. It is believed that this vein was the source of the millions of dollar in placer gold that were deposited on Moose creek.
* There were approximately 100 automobiles parked on the grounds at the Sacajawea picnic held on the continental divide last Sunday.
80 Years Ago - 1922
* About the liveliest school election ever held in Salmon, with dozens of motor cars hauling voters to the polls, was the event of Tuesday last, when E.H. Casterlin and W.C. Smith were awarded high scores as against C.A. Norton and C.H. Heidner. The vote was as follows: Casterlin 154, Smith 134, Morton 118, Heidner 96.
* Leo Hagel and wife were selling vegetables in Gibtown.
* E.L. Call came down from Hayden basin on Wednesday, his first respite in six weeks from haying between showers, Fortunately he saved most of the first cuttings and is looking for even better luck with the balance.
90 Years Ago - 1912
* Running a newspaper is like running a hotel, only different. When a man goes into a hotel and finds something on the table which does not suit him he does not raise Hades with the landlord and tell him to stop his old hotel. Well, hardly. He puts that aside and wades into the dishes that suit him. It is different with some newspaper readers. They find an article occasionally that does not suit them exactly and do not stop to think it may please hundreds of other readers, make a grand stand play and tell the editor how the paper should be run and what should be put into it, but such people are becoming fewer every year.
100 Years Ago - 1902
* An old lady used to assert that the greatest misfortune that ever could befall anyone was to be born lacking common sense. All other disadvantages, she declared could be overcome, but that was fatal.
* The social hop given last Friday evening was an especially pleasant affair and largely attended.
* Mr. and Mrs. T.K.Andrews, Mrs. Haman and son Charlie, Miss Nellie Davis and Retta Hewitson left Monday for Hughes creek and Gibbonsville on a camping trip after huckleberries. F. W. Haman said the huckleberries may cost him $15.00 a quart.
110 years Ago - 1892
* Missing.
Seeing the comments 50 years ago about students looking for housing during the school year reminds me of my first knowledge of this actually happening in our modern world.
When I worked for Atomics International, Experimental Division, my boss was from Montana. Mr. York told me that after spring and summer ranching chores were done, he and his brother boarded in the nearest town for the school year--only getting to go home over the Christmas break. His Dad would come in a horsedrawn sleigh to pick them up; and return them before New Years Day.
When I worked in the Senate in 1987 in Montana, one of the legislative pages' family did likewise. During the '87 session, there was a fire at the family ranch and she lost all her family (I believe that included her grandparents) except her brother who was attending school away from the home place.
Cuttn, do you have any idea what a Mucker or Trammer is? Also....what's the story on the Shoo Fly mine.....is that known by another name now, i.e., Beartrack, or????
In the section about the school election, who knows which is the correct spelling--Norton or Morton....guess it really doesn't matter--he/she lost! The current-day Recorder Herald has the same problem.
And.....going back at least 90 years, we find that there were complaints about the media even back then! :)
And why would you think I would change my mind?
I saw your little fracas with that idiot on the spy plane thread. You handled him with style and grace (I wouldnt have) and everyone was impressed. IMO, there is no real difference between a spy plane and a recon plane.
And why would you think I would change my mind?
Cause all the others did?
So9
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