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Show THURSDAY, (From page 6) B crews at Cache Junction. In 1900 the population of Petersboro is shown to be While the passenger trains were keys to Cache Junctions three daily passenger trains on life-w- ith well-marke- d, I66f the majority doubtless in Cache Junction. By 1904, when the first Cache County directorywas published, Cache Junction was listed with 100 residents and the following busi- nesses: J. Barker, postmaster, general store and livestock. J. Briggs, restaurant. J. L Briggs, agent, H. Cleaveland Commission Co. Peter Clawson, Saloon. W. H. Griffin, General Store. E. Hoskell, Saloon. Mrs. B. F. Hottle, res- taurant. C. F. Williams, railroad and express agent. The directory of 1906 showed a great increase, probably attributable to the importance Cache Junction achieved as a center for the wheat trade, a result of the perfecting of in the decade after the turn of the century. The population is listed as 150. In addition to the dry-farmi-ng businesses listed in 1904, there is the first mention in 1906 of the Oregon Short Line Railroad Restaurant. J. R. Morton, for whom Mortem Siding between Cornish and Trenton was named, is listed as the railroad agent at Cache Junction. The only change in the towns general level of sobriety was that J. W. Dibelbiss replaced Peter Clawson as Cache Valley branch connecting with six' mainline trains at the junction the big spur to development was the perfecting of the dry-farmi- ng. When the Junction was founded in 1890, the hills were covered with grass and sage; by 1910 theywere s. the site of rich By 1910 grain elevators crowded the sidings. A flour mill ground hundreds of bushels a day. In order to finance (and exploit) the new prosperity of the west side, the Farmers Banking Company was organized at Cache Junction on June 10, 1910, with an authorized capital of $25,000. dry-farm- While the Junction boasted a school (part of the Petersboro School District) from 1897, no church was ever formally established. The few Mormons in town attended services in nearby Newton, and the many Gentiles, as Mormons then called people of other religions, were served by Sunday Schools organized by the Baptists and the American Bible Society. It was this busy rail center which most of us remember as Cache Junction, half a dozen passenger trains a day with their dozens of mail cars, freights called on the Laprays mother, Maggie Erickson, who lives with the Swartzes. Verla and Edwin Noble enjoyed serving at Mr. Nobles ' birthday dinner on February 28. .Guests were Alice $nd Lund Pehrson, and Mary Ann and Darrell Roskelley. Mrs. Noble made a beautiful cake decorated with one big candle. The neighborhood LDS family home evening was held at the home of Rosella and Elliot' a Cache Junction shed. After one has obtain the key, how fast does the fire spread? Newtonians Leigh, Dirk and Karen Fullmer are quite A QUAINT SIGN on gone to amused. shunted onto sidings while the passengers took on coal and water, the constant hiss of steam and the rumble of steel-tire- d baggage carts on the brick platform. Jean and Preston Swartz and watched slides of Brazil recently. Mrs. Swartz nephew, Ralph tions history like human exclamation points: when the Liberty Bell was shown there in 1915 enroute to Seattle, when President Harding's special (decorated with the Presidents pic- Erickson, had served an LDS mission there. He is he son of Bernice and Gordon Erickson. His grandmother, Maggie Ei ickson, also enjoyed the films. tures and yards of bunting) stopped in 1923, when President Roosevelt spoke to a crowd of broke and discouraged Cachians in 1936, when the National Guard left for Korea on a very solemn night a quarter-centur- y ago. Thornley recently, with eleven people present. Readings were from the Old Testament and the Book of Samuel, after which refreshments were served. Shaunna and Steven hobbs of Providence visited Verla and Edwin Noble on his birthday last month. The Hobbses sons, Bradley and Brian, also enjoyed seeing their Uncle Ed. Mrs. Hobbs is the niece of Mrs. noble. Verla and Edwin Noble and 16 of their neighbors visited Maty And the special occasions which punctuate Cache Junc- Refreshments were served. THE ICE HOUSE at Cache Junction will soon be razed. We feel this is deplorable. It is one of the finest works of architecture in the state. Benson Bustlings by Alice Today you only hear the echos of those times at Cache Junction. S. Cardon Elaine and Clarence Homer recently spent a few days at Las Vegas, visiting their son and daughter-in-la- w, Mr. and Mrs. Paul The food at the cafe is still excellent, the diesels are there as the steamers were before them. Homer. The Chere Amie Club met Thursday evening at t h e beautiful new house of jean-niand Robert Munk. Club members present besides the hostess were Zona Balls, Sharlene Cardon, Joyce Pitcher, Lois W. Ballard, .L a R a e Falslev, Anna Mae Snow, Alice Cardon, and guest Debbie Munk. A delicious luncheon was ne What is gone is the crowd. we can still sense the this listed as 222, for 1920 as 320 (the high point), and for 1930 as 233. 7 CITIZEN Ruby and Glen Lapray of Logan visited her sister and brother-in-law, Mary Jean and Preston Swartz, recently, and also - But Population for 1910 was THE by Evelene Moody Reflecting what seemed to be the solid growth represented by the Farmers Banking Company, on December 16, 1911, the town of Cache Junction was platted and an ambitious grid of streets and alleys established. This map, the. earliest known of the area, shows the depot, the water tower, the B and B house, the coaling sheds, and a freight building. Soon after the map was done--acertainly by 1914-t- he freight shed was razed, a freight room added to the north end of the depot, and the present Railroad Cafe built. nd CACHE JCT. is Still and the water tower remains a landmark of western Cache Valley. 1974 2S, Northeast Smithfield Cache Junction Survives as State Historic Site fleets tLi B and MAR. special importance place had and one can appreciate the Governors Review Committees listing it as a Utah State Historic Site. THE BEANERY, or the Cache Junction Depot Cafe, is the oldest restaurant in Utah. It is packed on Sunday afternoons with tourists and Cachians alike, gobbling up their superb cuisine. served, after which asocial evening was quite thoroughly enjoyed, since the name of the club in French means "dear friends. Kate and Moni Watterson welcomed a new grandchild March 14, a girl born to LuDean and John Watterson of Smithfield. This is their first child. WEEKLY THOUGHT It would be fatal for us to let ourselves believe, as Americans customarily do, HOUSES FOR CREW WORKERS in bygone days of Cache Junction still stand. They are just south of the depot building. THE FAMILIAR DEPOT PLATFORM at Cache Junction today. Looking north. that once a crisis is past, all is well. (Phillip Abbott Luce in ROAD TO REVOLUTION) |