Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1923-03-02

row and each wrote the name of the
new daughter, Mary, verna and Grace.
rGreat credit is due Parker for the
building of the new church. Clad in
blue shirt and overalls he worked
with hammer and saw and trowel
from sunup to sundown and where
he got time to prepare his sermons
is a mystery but he did. He is also
responsible for the big, fine church
at Nampa.
"Strictly speaking this was not the
first church IN Shoshone. A Presby-
terian preacher came here before the
Methodist and held services for q
while but Quit before organizing the
church. Then came the Methodist
who did organize a church. That old
building down the street where the
Spanish rooming house is was the
first school here and one of the
preachers wife was the first school
teacher but she did not seem to have
the knack of making it go so Nc
Mahon was selected as a teacher.
He was the best 1 ever knew. When
he started in he cut a hickory ruler
about three inches wide and a foot
long and there was not one of us but
what felt that ruler at some time or
other There was no provision for
school then and Wernicke, Mcmahon
and my father, and few others, con-
tributed so much money each month
to keep it going.
There is another name On that
list of preachers whom 1 now recall.
He was a big, rawboned. lazy, worth
less sort of a man. My father ran
a hotel where the telephone office
building is now located. 1t afterward
burned down. This preacher was so
lazy he used to come to the hotel
and beg a pound of tea, or butter, or
something almost every week and
father always gave it to him. He did
not last long"
r. j. Mcmahon, one of the earliest
pioneers Of Shoshone, came here when
the town was called Naples. He said
at that time there was a Catholic
missionary here on and off but
that the first church serv-
ices We're held at the school room
now the Spanish rooming house by
a Rev. Renshaw, a Presbyterian min
lister and his wife conducted the school
in the coffin room Of the Senter store.
The following year he took charge
Of the school and it was held at the
same place the church services were
held. He had a class of As in school
at the time. He recalled the death
of Mary Keefer which occurred about
this time Mary and her sister, Alice,
asked to go lambsquarter hunting
one day and he told them to wait a
little while and he would go with
them but the girls said they would
go on and he could come a little later. |
He had few scholars he was keep |
ing in for infraction of the rules. |
The girls went and as they were
crossing the log bridge across the
liver Mary fell in and was drowned.
Mr. Mcmahon remembered most of
he ministers that had occupied the
pulpit of the church and recalled
many humorous incidents of those
Id days.
That there was need for a church
Iere in those days is attested by the
act that there were twenty-four
aloons and gambling dens running
'ide open at that time.
OF the ministers who have pre-
ided over the destinies of the church
uring the past thirty-eight years.
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