Show VETERANS HAVE REUNION peach day served many a glad purpose besides rt galing the crowds on luscious fruits one ot of the pleasant features of the day to those directly interested was the meeting of tile the teamsters of 1861 in the board ot of education rooms those present at the meeting were john L edwards james olsen lars hailing richard horne home robert lewis win if 11 perry i moroni benson and mr fi fields e ids several of the gentlemen reside in this county others reside in cache county and others hare bare their home in idaho the greeting after many years was indeed a pleasure to the aged veterans who grasped each other by the hand and recounted experiences or of early days in the original company were sixty men death has claimed many but there are still a small company of 0 them thein living in various sections of the west they were sent by the church from salt lake to the Misso missouri url river kiver to assist in fit bringing in the emigrants and the historians have hare preserved some of their experiences for the later generations to read to one comfortably located in a luxurious pullman car attached tol to the overland flier fler making its way along the route followed by these teamsters and the pioneers the story of how they traveled over the road in the early fifties and sixties fighting the Ind indians lans and encountering all kinds kind of hardships seems almost a to romance mance but the facts remain nevertheless th eless and the worthy gentlemen who gathered in this city on peach day lived over over again those stirring times each one present made a speech and the idea of 0 effecting an organization with the purpose of holding an annual meeting was discussed |