I wonder how Elmore County got its name.
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Gee, I wonder how much it pays to occasionally declare someone dead.
Odd that I should encounter this issue from this Elmore Co. locale, amusing though it may be.
In 1944, my newly-married parents, transferred from CO Springs Air Base to Mt. Home Air base, became proud parents of my late older brother in 1945. They first rented an apartment in Mt. Home and later a basement in Glenn’s Ferry. While there, they were shown the wisdom of joining the Elmore County Benevolent Society. It was structured a lot like a pyramid scheme, chain-letter, what have you, in that each member was assessed $15 every time a member died. The idea being that when your “number was up”, your survivors collected $15 from each members via the administrator of the fund; and the dividend was quite substantial (as chain letters get to be).
So my parents dutifully paid in $15 at odd intervals whenever a member died. The notice came on a postcard, forwarded to wherever we moved after Dad’s hitch was up (OK, AZ addresses). That went on throughout my youth and my own early marriage (I’m talking 1970s — 25-30 years into the scheme); then it was over (as always happens with that sort of scheme, which always sounds good at the time). Either my parents quit, or the Society disbanded, I’m not sure. For one thing, I’m unable to turn up any trace of it on Google search.
On reading this article posted here, I was immediately reminded of what my Mom and Dad were part of and it leaves me curious as to exactly what happened with that fund. My parents are both deceased, although my Mom made it to age 97 in full possession of her faculties, thank God).
I wonder if the poster, or any of the readers, are familiar with this.
Idaho takes its coroner elections a little too seriously. Here is a quote from one who had just won an election in North Idaho:
“It’s my intention that the legacy of the current coroner doesn’t end with him. I’ll use everything I have to make sure you get the best cause of death” — Kootenai County Coroner-elect Debbie Wilkey in Coeur d’Alene Press.
Coroner is elective. Like a county in Colorado in the 1930s. My aunt got 17%. A female chiropractor republican during the depression didn’t do well.
Mountain Home: Not the end of the world but you can see it from there.
Mountain Home: Not the end of the world but you can see it from there.