Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1921-04-22
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was good and Samuel Hill and John McNe pres.
emily erected a store building Of logs. They sold
tea coffee, sugar. salt and whisky In the grocery
line and blue calico, brown muslin, cotton chaih
and straw hats, with few ladies hats and othef
ornamental feminine apparel In their dry goods
department..
John McNeIIrs right name was John McNamer.
He quickly made fortune" of about $4,000 and
wooed and won Ann Rutledge. Then he left TO
bring his mother and sisters from New YORK
long delay broke off the engagement and Lincoln
then won Ann. AIcNnmer returned TO md Ann
dead of fever.
Town Gets a PostoffIce.
"on Christmas day in 1929" the historian goes
on to say, "a post Office established In New
Salem and Samuel Hill was made postmaster.
George Warburton then built a store building un"
put III a stock OF goods, but soon sold out to .hf
Chrisman Brothers, one of whom, Isaac =, pe
came postmaster on November "a, 1881. William
Clary the brother OF John, who gave his name 10
the grove where he settled in 1910. erected anu
became proprietor Of Clary's grocery. Then came
Doctor Allen. who erected dwelling across Tue
street south from the Hill McNeth store.
an addition to his professional duties Doctor
Allen conducted Sunday school. He was an
ardent temperance and formed the FIRST tenn.
perance society In the community. The place OF
meeting was In his residence or In the log school.
house erected shortly before this time on the hill
side south of New Salem. Doctor Allen was both
cred as TO whether 1t was right or wrong to en-
gage in the practice of his profession on Sundays
and compromised the matter by relieving the sick
but giving his earnings on that day wholly TO the
work of the Lord.
.DThen during the summer OF 1880, Henry On
etott moved from Sugar Grove, erected a dwelling
and established a c0oper's shop supplying the
kegs and barrels for the -four and meal made At
the mill, and the containers for the cured pork
shipped by fatboat to the markets OF the South,
generally from Beardstown. to which place II was
hauled In wagons.
Denton offut Arrives
During the summer Of 1884, Denton offut, on
his return from a hatboat excursion TO New Or
leans, contracted for lot Il north Of Main street
and erected a store building. the deed thereto be-
Ing dated September 2 Of that year. Then came
rush of other settlers-Phemon Norris tan.
ner erected a dwelling and established tan
yard; Joshua Miller. blacksmith and wagon
maker, built a residence and established shop;
Alexander Furgeson and Peter Lukns, the shoe
makers: Robert Johnson, the wheelwrght. who
made looms, spinning wheels and furniture: Mar
tin Waddell, the halter, who made hats ont Of
rabbit fur wool and the fur Of other animals the
Bale family, headed by Jacob Bale who bought
and operated HIl's carding machine and store
house for wool: the Herndon Brothers. shopkeep-
ers who established store west Of the james
RutIedge residence and inn. and in part Of tine
house of Joshua Miller. which vas double. lived
his brother-in-law Jack KelsO whose wife kept
boarders occasionally and who himself was the
champion hunter and fisherman OF the village.
Henry since came In the fall Of 1881 and sold out
at the end Of year to Doctor RegnieF. Also
came Doctor Duncan. David Wherry. Isaac Bur
ner. Edmond Greer, Isaac Goiiamer Robert and
William McNeeIy. Caleb Carmen moved there
shoes.
Thus the town soon became segf-supportlng
and had II not been for the fact That II was almost
inaccessible except from the west there Is 10 rea-