The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-03-16
BLACKF0OT GIRLS
MEET in HAWAII
Operator of Beauty
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Two daughters of Mrs. George
Cozier, formerly of Blackfot, but
now living in the Hawaiian islands
according to letter from Mrs. Flora
Maddox, who writes from Honolulu.
Alene, the older daughter, married
q very wealthy Hawaiian, and
Blanche married an army officer,
who is stationed, we believe, in the
island Of Hilo. Both of them are
fine looking women and are enjoying
life in the southern seas.
There is an interesting scrap of
history connected with the family
that will interest good many of our
readers and in these days Of peace
and tranquility it will do no harm to
publish. n
IA good while ago there lived in
the old city Of Des Moines, a very
devout Methodist minister named
Cozier. He had son named
George and another named Robert,
and both boys came west and for a
time were residents Of Blackfoot.
George was telegraph operator
and married Miss Lottie Nichols of
Logan. George was fine looking
man, Lottie was fine looking
woman, and he took her on a we'd
ding tour to Des Moines and other
places, and of course, visited the
folks at home. He had been for a
number of years in the west, and at
dinner, Georges mother looked
proudly across at her big son and
said, "Well George, it looks SO good
to see you back. You have been out
among the Mormons haven't you!"
George is said to have colored a
little and replied that he had, and
at the same time, Mrs. George
Cozier, who was devout Mormon,
braced up little and took a keen in
terest in the remarks. A little
farther on in the conversation, so the
story goes, Mother Cozier said,
well, I would just like to see real,
live Mormon
Mrs. George Golfers eyes snapped
and she said, Madam, you have the
pleasure. Take good look at me"
1t was like throwing bomb into
a dinner party, and father and
mother Cozier had to adjust them
selves pretty fast to get new grip
on their household. George and Lot
tie returned to Mormondom and he
was at different times telegraph OPP
orator and ticket agent at Blackfoot
and Logan when there was about as
much business to attend to as there
is now at Firth, and they used to
amuse their friends by telling that
| circumstance of their Wedding tour.
Father Cozier was quite a prominent
Methodist in Des Moines, and is said
to have felt rather keenly the joke
of the horrible Mormons' getting
into his family.
George and Lottie might have
been very happy in their married life
if the neighbors and relatives had
kept Their hands off, but after some
years they became estranged in a
way that left gulf between the rela-
tives on both sides and it was very
unhappy situation. Then came the
test of real worth, and the horrible
Mormon girl, Lottie, rose to the oc-
cason, gave music lessons and sang
and taught voice and brought up her
two daughters and gave them good
educations, finishing off at the Uni
versity of Utah. She maintained a
home at Salt Lake City and a few
years ago gave musical entertain
ment at Blackfoot that was much ap-
preciated, and more especially by her
old friends, who had come to appre-
ciate her worth.
While they were at the University
of Utah Miss Flora Greene OF Mackay
was classmate and Miss Greene had
the experience of marriage, sep
aration and divorce and Is now OPP
Grating a beauty parlor at Honolulu
and not long ago she recognized
among her customers, one of her
former classmates from the states
and when they "fell upon" each
other it was two who were once little
tads together at the Blackfoot
school and later at the university.
The other brother, Robert Cozier,
taught school at Blackfoot in the
early nineties, married Miss Fife,
who taught at the Indian school at
Fl. Hall and at what is now Center
vile. He became a prominent at
torney of North Idaho, and while
serving as United States attorney for
Idaho, he was in charge Of case in
the federal court at San Francisco,
and took suddenly i'll and died. We
have lost track Of his family and of
his brother George.
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