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Show Lewiston Has Developed Into A Rich Agricultural Are a The first name given to the town of Lewiston was Cub Ihll. Other names were also current among the early .settlers, namely Poverty Flat," Starvation Corner, and The Last Chance. These impromptu names give a good idea of the difficulties with which the first SPttlers had to cope, and the final adoption of the name (after William II. Lewis, presiding elder and fust bishop of the hardy band that first staked claim on the shifting sands in the middle of the valley) no doubt was proof of the 4 , achievement of a measure of respectability and a modicum of prosperity. The choice the of Lewiston area as a place for settlement m 1870 was pretty much a forced choice, By that time all the most desirable locations on the streams Franklin, around Richmond, Clarkston and other parts of the valley had been taken. But there was still left a considerable area in the center of the noith end of the valley, which had been used as a herding ground by the settler of Richmond. Karly repoitg stated that this part of the valley had been great buffalo country and that it had been used in the past by the Indians for their As there were no trees here and only sparse vegetution, there was considerable dufing of familli s which continued to move sand. into Cache Valley. They went from Richmond through all the Scouting Party In July 1870 a scouting party north end of the valley as far as was sent out to locate lnnd suitOxford and the present location able for settlement by the new of Mink Click, fording the Bear s. 7l 1 vLfc ti - ?f j V's. SHOWN1 ABOVE I in 1868 by William ,vrv liirpiftf n Si, l'i the first house built in Lewiston. It was built H. Lewis. Standing in Bunt is O. U. Hyer. I i !' i rtfK i i; t ii t . If L Jj2S i f 1 Robert Talbot, age 91, is the oldest resident of Lewiston. He was with the first group of settlers which came into the aiea in 1871. River seveial times. Upon Us return the scouting party announced that everything considered the "fiat" whi re Lpwiston is now located was the most likely place for a new settlement. Among the first settlers to move onto the ilat were the families of P. K. Van Or den Sr, Fverett Van Or den, Robert Wall, and John M. Bernhisel Jr., a single man. They began to build houses of logs and lumber. Later settlers to arrive were Henry Talbot, Ro- bert Egbert, A. D. Smith, Thad. Huff, John Weiser, H. M. Rawlins, William H Lewis and Levi Wheeler. Though the new settlement Jar ked water for irrigation, there was no lack of ambition and op- timlsm among the settlers They1 were the kind who werent satisfied with the puny city blocks1 they had seen in Salt l.ake City and other Utah towns. They laid out blorks a mile square. These blocks have remained to this day and give r.ew'ston, with a total of 21 square miles in the limits, an area which perhaps no olher town of equal population can claim. There was need for optimism in the eaily yeais of the Lewiston It was a story of settlement duftipg snow, drought, crickets, gtasshoppeis, and killing frosts in July. It is reported that giain was frozen in July for three successive yeais during the Us. An absolute necessity for the success of the Lewiston settlement was water for irrigation. The Beni River to the west was too low to bung water fior 't onto the flat. In 1873 a small gallon ditch was dug fium Wo. in Cicek to the noitheast of Lewiston A. D Smith and P. K. Van Olden suiveyed the line of the ditch with a spmt level. But this watered only a small aiea and more water had to be obtained at any cost The following year a site for a canal was located on the Cub River. To construct a canal of any site for such a distance was a tremendous undei taking for those days, but it was done, and It saved the settlement. Some yeais later, with contin-- i ued growth of Lewiston and the bunging of more land under cultivation, the need for additional water again became a problem. A large irrigation company was foimed and a pumping plant with Its diversions was constructed on the Bear River, furnishing a plentiful supply of waler. Lewiston has recorded a steady growth aid has come a long way ftoni the dav when it was called Poveity Flat. Fanning land in the area today is consideied among the best tn the valley. Lewiston was ineoi poiated in l')04, with Brigham Pond as the fust mayor. Present city officials aie How aid Shulberg, mayor; Phillip Beigeson, Ted Lewis, Dr Hugh Stevens and Untold Wood, members of the council, Theion The Herold-Joum- XfV S Pioneer Progress Centennial Edition ol ' vV: B r - J t f6 s W ' v A .at , f ecn Cache u ,ivA, L vt a. S yfft iimm l M IN Ol Preston's fan ous inht lodtofm mam ytaiswas Ciockett, who is also loimer mayor of Ihe tlnivmg uty. j Preston Night Rodeo Typical Of Favorite Western Sport having held the position foi two y eai s. Ray Skinner of D, lta has he contract to furnish mdeo s' ih for this yeai s show. Announce is the famous wild vvtst personthe mlei mountain arm ality, Jack Oakie PRESTON That famous Pies-tonight rodeo, vvhuh has grown in statute since its inauguiation in 1935, will he piesented th year on August 2, 3, and 4. Pieston's show was one of the Alfred G Spanish-America- n . Harris. had a sense of he died recently x'H estate of some $6000 eral gov eminent. Daytime Safer DETROIT Driving is mine than three frn,I"K 'earns as riming In Safety th( eieits say 60 all fatal accidents happ!v? Punishment Fits Crime the houis of 6 p. nlvjj LA PORTE, Ind. (UP Jay Lot of Balogna ley, Jr 23 chose the alternative LE CENTER, Minn. him offeied to Ray , Judge Taylor cvek, butcher here, avoid paying a $20 fine for lutei-in- g 52 Con in a highway with garbage. yeais of operatic ley picked up all the debus he,maiket he has made J was accused of scattering over a balogna to sti etch from Ma! five-md- e California. stretch of U. S. 35. Con- YOUR LEWISTON he-t- v alley and Brigham City. Due to the lestlessness ot the In lulls, or deis vviie giv m that no man was to. go alonr , hut the aulhoiities allow, d M Whitney to Uavel win ten l v wanted to go. because they knv. tne Indians loved and limled him At one time Chief Washakie came to Logan to confer with liisuop Whitney. The guveiimunt interp'eter vv as c ali il to talk c h ihe jical (lieu .Mid a lew n i'.u ments of (onv i sation W a ked fur Buriowit When lei f fie was out of Logan and vvuul have U be sent for, the t hie f said: "1 wait Don t undeisiann this man I talk to Bui row it He talks good Indian He sit down, folded his aims, and iifustd t tali u n ul Mi. Whitnev aimed Chii : John, a Miniiuin (unvi.t from ine Souix tube, was a fun believir in piayer and had implicit laith that God could heal lh s,i k Mr Whitney had ih' iinsfoitune to have his right 'ej REXALL STORE PRESCRIPTIONS DRUG SUNDRIES COSMETICS vv , 1.. A. Throbs ') trust. He earned the fust mail Ilk. when he was fifty old During his seveie ill-- I yeais ness ell Chief John spent houis in the Whitney home, attendin to n's f i lend and continually j layers asking God to let live (Published by "Lunowit Xa c L Carter in "DUP Heait RLpcTo amputated JENSEN on Sept. 29, 1847. As a small boy Samuel hained to speck the Indian language When he was fourteen years jld he lost ms ltft aim in a thiesn-ln- g machine accident. The Indians named him "Bui row a, which means "One Aim Cone In 186z Samuel moved to Cat he Valley, where he was called o he,d the church cattle H,ie lie mape many friendly contacts vvn!i toe Iidians, whom he learned tu 4 1 ! MR'S. N. F. Weston, Idaho Samuel A. Whitney was the son of Alonzo W. Whitney and Henrietta Keys. His fatlur dir d in the city of Nauvoo and ms mother married Eishup Newt! K Whitney, second bishop of he church, who tuinished a yoke if oxen, wagon and, drivel, Aulue Hill, who brought hei to Ulan . -- incur-point- S. Nielsen, treasuiei, and Roy D. Hull, leeorder. Pioneer Samuel A. Whitney Was True Friend of Indians -- I e SHAVING SUPPLIES Everything You For the Sickroom Are Always Welcome And Your Patronage Appreciated LEWISTON DRUG CO. o. MANAGER PHONE 23 LEWISTON, UTAH E. TYNER. n fust in to select fui night-tim- e Us Lai h yeai, thousands of rodeo fans look tin want t joining Pieston in us l)ig vvij west lestival The annual show is sponsoiel by Pieston vhambei of iommcr,e. Its fust chairman was E. A. Ciockett, a foi mer piavor, win subseituentlv solved as lodeo chut loi 10 yeais Chaunian this yci is ugii Knuds, n yieilin Whittle is also a loin:, (hauniun. The Rodeo The mdeo is one of the truly Amei nan entei tainments among our many amusements which vvtue boi towed, in one foim or anot hei, ft om some other country or peoples. Rodeos, too, aie typical of the settlement of the west for they have peipetuated the e cowboys, sports of the the coloi tulness of Ihe Anuoiian Im.i in, and the excitement which the settlealways accompanies ment of a new land The rodeo was boin in the hectic '60s when the entne west was mutin and toutin'. When the Texas cattle hetds vveie duven noithwaid to fatten on Wyoming's glasses, t ho towns and cities along the mule were entet tamed bv the (tail rtdets who would climb abo.ud an animal to then pi owes-- , lor even a small tew aid The mdeo is one of the many (Editor's Note: The following influences that have come into hrn f in count of the first school the Initid States fmm WX1C0 in Weston is taken from the via the Texas and Southwest borI It Iatrv of redenckson. diary der nteas As a matter of fact, was submitted hv Myrtle W. piacticallv the whole conception Morgan of Weston.) of the Western cow bo v a is Spanish-Mexica- n influence, as atIn It 67, when Weston was only tested bv the fact that so many two yeais old, the settlois built a vvoids ol Spanish ongin such as 10 16 log loom on Biviop hronco. laimt and the vvoid rodeo Mnughans lot, to be used as a itself are associated with the meeting and sihoul house Heie cow boy . WilL.ui Decs taught school th.ee From these simp!p spontaneous months of tin" winter. shows gievv the lodeo which has Th In 1SU9 a log siliool 18 icmaincd a favoute community was built We sat on stools nmlt pastime in Ihe west. The visitor if stabs with four pegs tor legs can immediately sense that someWe In Id otii states on our .tn i ,, thing is going on the moment he and v. hen the tenihot had so, n at lives at a western town our wok we tubbed it out and lodeo tune, for the entne dining town slailtd ovu. reverts lock, stock and band to Homy Gassman taught us in the days of the old frontier. 1S71 He thought he could pound The show, itself, sui passes all Fngli'h into our heads bv hiting expectation. Most of the contests us ever the head with Webster s aie a race against time, and pit dictionary. The next ytar Soin the biains of man against the jenseu Launtzen taught us navl-gn- btawn of the bulky animals of the m by taking us on frequent western tange. Stalls and btuises vvheling tups With the youiu i aie a common occuiance, though ihildtfii this was a howling seuous tragedy is usually av Ttutpoint A Name That Means the Best in Appliance! ELECTRIC RAKGES REFRIGERATORS HOT WATER HEATERS AUTOMATIC WASHERS SMALL APPLIANCES - old-tim- i Story Of First FORTY-SI1 YEARS OF BANK SERVICE X i y , Weston lo'd School Is j Vv ' . I r i j C J. dL dent-onsti.- ti SINCE 1905 WE HAVE BEEN SEWING THE BANKING NEEDS -E- CYRUS LEWIS APPLIANCE STORE IN RICHMOND MAYTAG WASHERS We Do Electrical Wiring and Electrical Installations And Service All Appliances We Sell to Our Customer CYRUS LEWIS ELECTRICAL APPLIANCE CO. Phone 45, Richmond, Utah LEWISTON BILLIARDS Operating In Our Third Successful Year in Lewiston LECTRIC Service and Supplies PLUMBING OF THIS COMMUNITY HEATING FRIGIDAIRE O REFRIGERATORS O RANGES O HOT WATER HEATERS AND SMALL ELECTRIC APPLIANCES GENERAL ELECTRIC RADIOS SALES AND SERVICE MURPHY PAINTS LEWISTON STATE BANK Serving the Lewiston Area for Twenty Years VAN PLUMBLING & HEATING i p Lewiston, Utah PHONE 94-LEWISTON, UTAH WHERE GOOD FRIENDS MEET FOR CLEAN RECREATION We wish to take this opportunity to express our appreciation for the patronage that has been given us since we came to Lewiston. We deavored to operate a good, clean and acceptable place for recreat'011 where good friends can meet. , LEWISTON BILLIARD PARLOR Lewiston, Utah Phone 91 |