The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1916-12-08
WoMAN'S CLUB AND SALMON
HISTORICAL SOCIETY WILL see
Thai OLD FOLKS ARE NOT
FORGOTTEN.

laNor by the notable success of the
function TO inauguarte the celebration
given last Saturday night by the
I WOman's club and the Lemhi His
torical society, both of Salmon. A
happier gathering together of old-tim-
ers and their friends never took place
anywhere. Hereafter these celebra-
tions are TO come OFF in midsummer,
according to plans agreed upon at the
meeting, when the ,Voman's club and
the Lemhi Historical society will act
together TO promote them and keep
them going. The date fixed 10 Aug
ust IL. the anniversary Of the appear
ance Of the explorers. Lewis and
Clark. in Lemhi county.
county.
The large hall of the club was filled
TO capacity for the first celebration,
| among the prominent pioneers pres
ent being Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Andrews,
Riley Cooper, Billy Peterson, George
Steel, Mrs. Ella Manfull, Grandma
Yearian, Henry Bird. Judge Giles.
Thomas Pope, Mr. and Mrs Eli Min
erI, Thomas Winn, Mrs George L.
Shoup, Mrs. Jesse McCaleb, Mount
Colwell Billy Buchanan. Baldy Mar
tin, and many others.
Ihomas Pope, Pioneer.
A paper prepared by Thomas Pope
or his early experiences in what is
now Lemhi county was read by Roy
B Herndon. Mr.. Pope told OF enter
| ING Lemhi valley in 1862 by way of
Birch creek, in company with a party
| of goldseekers. attracted hither by
the reported placer strikes at Lees
burg. The party had many of the vi
cissitudes incident to pioneer travel
ing but managed to get through with
out serious mishap to anybody. They
were informed on the way, however,
that Leesburg, then known as Flor
ence, already had been pretty well
worked out, so there was a change
in the destination of numbers of the
immigrants. part of them going down
the Snake river to Oregon and part of
them holding to their original pur-
pose of coming here. Mr.. Pope was
among the latter. He had invested
all of his wealth but $3.50 in his out
fit and the little remnant of cash he
was induced to put in tobacco at so
cents pound to sell on the road
This transaction yielded an enormous
profit. for he sold the tobacco at SO a
pound Mr. Pope told how he found
1t impossible to proceed further with
wagon than the old fort, at which
point the value of wagons went down
while the price of horse flesh went up,
| II was here that he realized on his
! tobacco stock When he proceeded
| down the Lemhi river the trail led
up through the foothills and he came
out at point below the confluence OF
the Lemhi with the Salmon river
| M f. fS. al
their travels up and down the valley.
Early Social Life.
| Mrs. McCaleb read a paper she had
prepared some years ago for a liter
AIRY society in Salmon, in which she
recited incidents of the life of the
pioneers of the community. The sto.
ry was beautifully told, how just af-
ter the war between the states of the
north and the south numbers Of the
participants in that struggle had met
here to begin life anew. Though SC
| lately from the scenes of strife and
stirring differences at their homes in
the east and south, they brought moth.
ing but charity in their hearts when
they came TO Salmon to found the
town.
Such was the setting for a beauti.
| full picture of the social life OF the
Inew community which Mrs. McCaleb
described The masculine part Of the
population far outnumbered the fem
mine portion. When II became
known that an incoming stage soon
to arrive would bring a lady among
its passengers, all the eligible bach
elors of the settlement would brush
up for the occasion and hope to meet
her one such occasion was recalled
| where one swain had shined his shoes
! from day to day till they reflected his
own yearning aspect when his rival
got in ahead of him and met the lady
on the way down the valley before
she reached town. Moreover the RI
val married the lady TO boot and they
have lived happily even TO this day
The dances given in the town were
functions OF importance In the social
I life when best appearances were de
manded of all the men, who II they
had not dress suits in their own ward
robes could easily borrow what was
!, lacking in their apparel Everybody
knew he was welcome 10 what his
neighbor had TO lend il il we're not
already spoken tor for these festive
oC Ccasions Mrs. McCaleb recalled an
instance where the dress coats In the
town we're all in use before certain
beau, who had depended upon his abil
\ il, TO borrow one at the last minute
bethought him of his needs. Hs
couldn't procure the regulation Goa
|, because all the regulation coats were
in use, and so he had 10 don
, linen duster for the ball The write1
told also how in early days thers
we're babies born without having tbs
modern luxuries and conyeniences o.
raising babies and carrying then
about, when on one occasion th'
towns most distinguished citizen, th'
late Senator Shoup, had TO resort Il
the use of an improvised baby car
rage. Two or three OF the younl
Shoups had been taken along on al
evenings visit when they all fel
asleep later in the evening. The con
sIderate father did not want TO walker
them, so he tenderly piled them int