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Show MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE. Delta, Utah. Thurs., Mar. 23, 1950 i Writes of Joy and the Lairds After r Reading Article in Soil Lake Paper MOUNTAIN MINES COMPANY Salt Lake City, Utah March 6, 1950 J Mr. Frank Beckwith, Sr. Delta, Utah. Dear Mr. Beckwith, ; I was much interested in your ; story entitled "Gone But Not For-- ; gotten" which appeared in the Magazine Section of the Salt Lake Tribune, March 5, 1950. In 1907-0- my father, B. F. Woodward operated the Martha Mine, which was located over the hill to the South from the Ibex Mine. To the Southeast of the Martha was the old Charm mine I believe a Mr. Stafford was the watchman. He was a man and a real gentleman. Near the Charm was a mine oper- - was set on the table some of them began to offer complaint. She was really disturbed and after calling them a few blankety de blank names, she informed them that they had asked for a special favor and now that the food was pre-pared, they had better eat it and like it. It certainly was surprising how their appetites improved so suddenly. Fireworks Start A lady and her six year old daughter came to Joy for a visit with the Laird's during the sum-mer of 1908. Her name was Lou Gehrke. Laird was very jealous of the attention paid to the visitor who was introduced as a niece of the Lairds. Our men were especi-ally attentive. One night about dark, the niece was not to be found. The Lairds had been drink-ing. Aunt May accused Laird of knowing what had happened to her. This wound up in a real fight sed milk. It was necessary to live on this diet for over a week. Mrs. Laird Was Kindhearted Aunt May's experiences in this life were varied and full of thrills and troubles. She was, however, a very kind soul when sober, and would give you her last loaf of bread or her last penny, if she thought you needed it. She told me that she had not seen a train in over forty years. I often wondered just what had become of her and was glad to learn through your article of her last days here on earth. Hope I have not wearried you with all this, but it was on my mind and had to get it off. The experience of seeing the freighters from Fish Springs, haul-ing the ore from the Fish Springs mines to Deseret, with 16 horse teams on two wagons and watch-ing the skinners handle them with a jerk line was a real thrill to me as a young lad. Very truly yours, Charles S. Woodward. between Laird and Aunt May. Henry Brooks of Lakeshore, Utah, and I rushed to the assistance of Aunt JVIay and succeeded in sub-duing Laird. When Aunt May saw what had happened to him, she grabbed an iron stew kettle from the stove, that was full of tomato soup. She struck Brooks over the head, just above the right eye, with the kettle knocking him cold. She then yelled that the Mormons had stolen away her niece. The fireworks ijthen really started. I happened 'to be the first Mormon in sight so she and Laird took after me, chasing me to the cabin of Guss Meyers. I went through the door and under the bed. Mr. Meyers took hold of her and gave her backside a good kicking and headed her toward her place. Glad to Go Horn. We soon gathered our group, in-cluding the girl who had returned during the fracas and started thru the hills to the Martha mine, where the night was spent with-out sleep for anyone. We returned to Joy the next morning. The Lairds were sobering up and I was invited ni but the stage was just leaving for Oasis and Deseret and believe me, I was on it along with another of our group who had had enough of Joy. After tra-velling all day, we arrived at Des-eret and later went to the station at Oasis. Being all in from the experience of the night before, we laid down on the bench at the station waiting room and went to sleep. About midnight there was apparently a fight between the station master and the man with me. When I awoke I was lying in the middle of the track of the main line in front of the depot. I could see the headlight of the train, which appeared to be nearly upon me. My quick and startled movements were unnecessary as the train was some miles away. I arrived home at Spanish Fork the next afternoon and believe me, home never did seem so good as this time. I returned with a freight outfit soon after to get the men and equipment. This was in the dead of winter. The Lairds were out of supplies, except for several cases of corn flakes and conden- - ated by a Mr. Friel, who was the wildest looking creature that I have ever seen on the loose. He acted as wild as he looked and especially after receiving a bit of whiskey. There was a very large man, I think his name was Ed Crafts who seemed to have charge of the Ibex at the time. He was tall and well built. I shall never forget his strength. He could take a 30 gallon barrel of water and load it in the wagon alone. Then there was a Guss Meyers, who lived in a log house just west of the hotel owned and operated by Aunt May Laird, as we all called her. It was my job to help run a freight outfit from Spanish Fork, Utah, along with John Beck of that city, to Joy,, Utah. We would camp at Mclntyre' ranch in Tintic valley, then the Rockwell ranch located 40 miles to the east of Joy, and would ; make Joy the third day. If there was ever any inclination on my part to be a tenderfoot, Mr. Beck saw to it that that was all taken out of me. Still he was a kind man and a faithful member of the L. D. S. church. Aunt May was always very con-siderate with me, because of my tender age of 14 years. She was always considerate of everyone only when someone left her a jug of whiskey, then it was not long until hell was popping and if there were any Mormons in camp, they had better hunt cover. i Render Rattlesnakes I was later assigned as cook for the men who worked at the Mar-tha. We lived in a log house next to the Guss Meyers house. Aunt May taught me most of what I knew about cooking. In our spare time we would bring in 'rattle-snakes, which were numerous around Joy. We would skin them and melt the oil from an oil bag near the tail and sell the oil to anyone who would buy It. Every-one seemed to think that it was a cure all for any disease. I used to sleep in Aunt May's kitchen on a cot. One night she got up to get a drink of water from a buck-et in the kitchen. She wakened me, stating that there was a rattle snake under the stove. We killed it and in looking around found 2 mqre in the cellar just off the kitchen. After the episode we went back to sleep and worried no further about the matter. The good Lord forbid any more of those experiences now. I will never forget one day when a group of men who were associ-ated with Jesse Knight at the Ibex mine drove Into Joy in what was about the first auto Aunt May had ever seen. They asked her if she would prepare them something to eat. She did so, and when the meal 4-- H Forestry Champions Know Woodlot Potentialities . l ; ... j , , v - ft?!- - r fLtjfeMa.a.fr.:g .. One of I949's state 4-- Club forestry champions and a local club advisor examine young pines that started him out on a forestry career. Four-- forestry lessons will later pay dividends in regular cash crops harvested on well-manag- farm woodlots. As an incentive to local farm boys and girls to turn their woodlots and small timber tracts into money-makin- g properties, four college scholarships of $300 each are being offered again this year in the 4-- H I. Club forestry project. All 4-- H Club members, working under Exten- - sion Service supervision and enrolled during the current year in a 4-- H tMD rorestry project, are eligible to compete for national awards. As in previous years, top awards will be made on a sectional basis to the boy or girl having the best forestry record in each of the four Extension Service sections of the Nation. In ad-dition to the scholarships, national win-ners will be given trips to the 29th National 4-- Club Con-gress to be held in Chicago, November 26-3- 0 inclusive. Medals will be awarded to each state winner. This is the third consecutive year American Forest Products Industries, a national it association of industries, has spon-sored the 4-- Club forestry project. In the past two years' competition, eight of the college scholarships and free trips have been won by farm youths from the states of Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Montana, New York and Wisconsin, the latter two states having had national winners both years. "It is most' gratifying to see the up-- ' surge of interest in forestry that is being shown by 4-- H Club members everywhere," declared Charles A. Gil-Iet- t, managing director of American Forest Products Industries, in announc-ing the association's continuing spon-sorship of the scholarship awards for 19 JO. "These young people are learn-ing the basic fundamentals of sound timber management and how to apply them to the farm woodlots of Amer-ica. Certainly this assures an even greater progress in private forest man-agement in the next half century and an ever increasing wood supply for this Nation and the world." The local county extension agent will supply detailed information about the H forestry project and the 1950 awards awaiting those boys and girls who excel in forestry. - Oasis Mrs La Veda Bishop Many members of the family and friends attended the funeral ser-vices for Washington Roundy, held Sunday in Delta First ward. Am-ong them were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Clark, Mrs. Bernice Hewitt, of Long Beach, Cal., Mrs. Alene t, Lodi, Cal., Mr. and Mrs. Phil-lip Abbott, Mesquite, Nev., Mr. and Mrs. Marion Roundy and sons, Dee and Max, and Voneal, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Thatcher and son and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mackie, from Provo. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Perkins and sons, Gerold and Erold, came from Cedar City. Others were Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Davis and daughter, Kelda, from Kannarra, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Peterson and daughters, Joycelyn, Marlene and Dick Rix, of Ogden; Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Ingrah-am- , Mr. and Mrs. George Webb and O.fleU Webb, of Salt Lake City. Also from Kanarra, were Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Davis, Marva D. Prince, Hannah A. Davis and Bessie Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Charle'-William-and daughters Shirle and Joan, and Mrs. Afton Russell from Tooele. Mr. and Mrs. LeMoyne Bond, Mr. and Mrs. Lars Hansen, Myrl Hansen and Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Ingraham came from Salt Lak.' City. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nixon at-tended from Holden, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Humphries, Mr. and Mrs.. Pat Moore, Horace Roundy am! niece, Lula Wood, from Provo; Mr. and Mrs. Otto Stewart, Spanish Fork, and Mrs. Thelma Clark, oi Orem. Mr. and Mrs. Art Semmens came from Pocatello, Idaho; Mr. and Mrs. James Stubbert and Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Prestwich, from Ruth, Nev., and Mr. and Mrs. June Ivie. from McGul, Nev.; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Thompson, of Milford, and Mr. and Mrs. Soren Anderson, oi Oak City. Ed. Skeem looked very happy Monday evening in spite of the fact that he has eaten more dirt than his share the last four days. His cattle, 18 head of them - --thai he thought were pretty well tam-ed down and put - - just disappear ed. So Ed his good wife Fontella, his sons Fred and Gerald, in fact anyone he could talk into the idea of looking, went riding the range eating their way through some very dense dust storms in search of the wandering kind. 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