| Show ! 14 — The Herald Utah Sunday March Journalt-do- 13 1983 The gentiles: The other' Cochicms ByAJ Slmmonda They are the other part of Cache Valley’a population a minority which very mnch feels itself a minority Not terribly vocal about their status unless deeply provoked not really comfortable with much of the lifestyle of Cache Valley not represented on many elective or appointive boards largely ignored by that power structure They are the They are a diverse group some of them with roots going back to the earliest days of Valley some but recently arrived settlement Altogether they constitute some II percent of the Valley's population about 10500 people Most of them a little over 10000 are in Cache Comity Utah with the great majority of these — perhaps 8500 concentrated in the South primarily in Login North Logan and River Heights As many as 7000 of them are associated with Utah State University where the religious perferences listed by students have been roughly 0 for the last decade In Logan they are of the population — a largely invisible fourth Most are members of the 10 organised Christian congregations in Cache Valley But there is also a Baha’i organisation and perhaps as many as 500 Muslims and 40 Jews in the Valley Still there are some deficiencies in the denominations in Cache For instance the Methodists (one of America’s largest churches) have no congregation in Cache Valley — though there are two Methodist churches in Box Elder non-Mormo- ns 50-5- one-fourt- h County The churches are clustered in Logan and Preston with a congregation each in North Logan and Hyrum Some date to pioneer times like SL John’s Episcopal (1173) and Logan Presbyterian (1078) and some are very recent like the Preston Assembly of God (November 1070) or Grace Baptist (IMS) Demographic ally Cache Valley’s gentiles are non-Morm- on overwhelmingly Protestant with Logan Presbyterian and Maranatha Baptist having the largest congregations Between them the two Roman Catholic parishes SL Peter’s in Preston and SL Thomas Aquinas in Logan serve a Roman CathoUe population of about SAW Harder to classify as to type are the two Jehovah Witness Efagdom Halls (Logan and Preston) the Quakers the Unitarians and the independent Word Fellowship in Hyrum There are citizens in mostValley communities and at one time many other Valley towns boasted their own Protestant congregations Bnt until recent years there was no church outside Login or Preston since the two American Baptist missions at Cache Junction and Trenton closed about 1017 Far from being passive observers on a scene where others made all the decisions the gentiles non-Morm- non-Morm- on have been active participants in the Valley’s life It was the Protestant mission school that effectively brought education to Cache Valley Pioneer schools were rudimentary things often taught by a teacher little more trained than his of the total pupils In Logan in 1175 over one-haschool-ag- e population did not attend school The first free school in Cache Valley was the New West in Trenton funded and operated by the Congregationalist Church which opened in 1583 It wasn’t until seven years later that the Territory of Utah decreed that not only was public education to be free of tuition charges but that all children between the ages of 7 and 14 had to attend It was via the agency of the gentile churches that secondary schools came to Cache Valley lf FT William Stoy of SL John’s School was teaching Latin and Greek in 1874 and the Valley's first high school was the Presbyterian New Jersey Academy in 1879 The first public library the first Boy Scout troop the first Red Cron organisation in Cache Valley were all products of the outreach activity of the gentile schools and churches In more recent years it has been the Valley’s acting in private capacities who have played key roles in organizing such activities as the Welcome Wagon the Hospice program at Logan Regional Hospital the League of Women Voters the Youth Soccer League and the Girl Scoitis among others Though still in an obviously minority situation the gentile population of Cache Valley has grown dramatically since the Valley’s settlement centennial in 1058 when the percentage was estimated at only 5 percent of the population and that almost entirely associated with Utah State University The percentage figure is misleading With the age of the average Mormon at about 14 years it is likely that of the Cache County population over the age of If perhaps 35 to 40 are In Franklin County the percentage would be much less There are stiU tensions between the Mormon and gentile populations of Cache Valley and as the gentile population continues to grow and with it the demand for a more pluralistic society in the Valley those tensions ean probably be expected to increase The recent American Civil liberties Union suit against the Logan City School Board and the inquiries into the Emergency Planning Office’s use of sectarian material as recommendations for emergency planning are probably symptomatic of the age It must be no surprise Alone of the states in the recent history of the Republie the history of Utah is marked and marred by its sectarian divisions They will not slowly pass - non-Mormo- ns non-Morm- on 4-- non-Mormo- ns Mendon Presbyterian minister William Campbell and his wife "GET IT DONE RIGHT" Black ft Whit© Days At Preston's Auto body ft Gloss Valley's biggest ag holiday In the last thirty years Cache Valley agriculture has come to mean dairying cheese cows and black and white Hbistein-Flriesia- n That is due far no small measure to the influence of the Valley's most important agricultural holiday Richmond’s Black and White Days y The eelebratkm began quietly enough in the spring of 1018 Richmond and Lewiston had been engaged for the preceding two years in a Dairy Herd Improvement Association to test the butterfat content of milk produced in the two towns That sort of activity focused a lot of attention on dairy animals and on improving their quality Clarenee L Funk showed a group of his fellow townsmen an article in Hoard’s Dairyman discussing the value of dairy shows in the improvement of animals The group to whom FUnk showed the article was interested enough that a formal meeting of Richmond dairymen was called and an informal dairy show was held mid-Ma- that spring R No one really had much idea bow to go about 1L JL McCarrey suggested that everybody bring their cattle into town and drive them as one herd down Main StreeL Ultimately they were driven into the old Tithing Yard on 4th West and the Judges rode horses through the herd picking out the award-winnin- g Each Employ Is Specially Tralnd In Thir Specific Job animals No show was held in 1014 because of an influenza epidemie among the owners and hoof and mouth disease among the animals but things began again in May of 1815 with a major riww on a block in the center of town Black and White Days has been an annual event since then drawing major Holstein-Friesia- n exhibitors from all over the Intermountain WesL For the last twenty years Black and White Days has probably been the Show in the United largest Holstetn-Friesia- n States g Other events from to rodeos to a have periodically been part of carnival mid-wa-y tile celebration With a gift from Prof George B Caine formerly of Utah State University Dairy Department and funds from Richmond City and other sources a new building and offices for the Black and White Days association were added on the east side of the Richmond City horse-pullin- Park in 1075 And the holiday has continued to grow both in size and importance In 1082 the show saw a record priee of 8110000 paid for a Holstein-Friesia- n cow and 71 sales at an average price of 88040 It’s all a long way from JL Me Carrey's suggestions fat IMS ’ ' Did von know In 1851 John P Wright Logan’s first settler suggested to his fellow pioneers that their new town be named Logan after the river on which it was builL Logan River is a name that dates from the tar trade era of Cache history It was named after Ephraim Logan one of the trappers employed by General Ashley to trap in the Rocky Mountains in the early 1820’s Logan was one of the company (Jim Bridger was another) who wintered in Cache Valley in under Captain John Weber Logan and three other Dappers were killed by Indians on the headwaters on the Owyhee River in the early spzing of 1828 and the river was named by his colleagues who wintered in Cache Valley that 1524-18- 25 V ff 9 9 P 9 9 year Apparently he was very popular with his fellow Dappers because there seems to have been an effort to name the entire Valley after him George C Young who led a trapping party 0 from Taos New Mexkojn called Cache Valley "Logan’s Hole” (using the word "Hole" for Valley as in Jackson Hole and Pierre’s Hole) FOR SHEER BEAUTY OF SERVICE- - 1828-182- DO&ELQ 4 0 r In 1180 the total ineome in Cache County was estimated at 8325400J00 The total value of all farm products sold was estimated at 848b55lj000 Mwluvuj t 108 South Main St Stnhhficld Ut Phono 563-34- 51 f4 '4 |
