The Winslow mail., 1925-01-30
WINSLOW WILL
Be TWENTY-FIVE
YEARS OF AGE
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lows: Geo. Schall, r. P. Kelley, Mr..
Lamb, T. K. Seegar and P. Henderson.
w H. Burbage was named mayor. In
1911 M. A. Parr was elected to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation
of Henderson.
In 1912 the following councilmen
were seated: F. T. LaPrade, R. L..
Moore, w. F. Williams, G. E. Stoddard,
S. L. Hosler, E. F. Tarr. J. B. Drumm.
From that number MI. LaPrade was
chosen to become mayor In Novem-
Der, 1912, Tarr resigned and Geo. H.
Keyes, Jr., was named to fill the va
canvy J. B. Drumm resigned in No
vember, 1913, and Chas. Daze was
elected in his place.
The 1914 election resulted in N. S.
Bly, becoming the towns mayor, with
Chas. Calm, A. E, Gillard, c. E. Stod-
dard, w. E. Beck, Chas. Daze and W.
F. Williams on the council. In Au
gust of 1915, Williams resigned and
L. H. Henderson was elected. w. j.
Grocer was elected clerk.
The next council, elected in 1916,
was composed of A. E. Gillard, G. NJ
Service, E. T. Matthews, G. G. Easyley
Louis Phillips and Geo. Rickell. c..
V. Smith was elected mayor. In De-
cember of the same year H. A. Funk
took the place of Phillips, and in the
following February V. G. Proctor took
the place of Rickell.
In 1918 w. E. Carver headed the
council as mayor. The councilmen
were: G. H. McKellup, w. A. Parr,
L. o. Holm, Frank Riley, H. A. Funk
and Thomas Ramage. ]. H. Chapman
was elected town clerk. In January
1919, Parr resigned. His place was
taken by w. J. Grocer. In February
Homer Vaughn was elected to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
McKellup.
Geo. c. Creswell was elected mayor
in 1920, and the council that year was
composed of c.. L. Milan, V. II. Will
son, P. D. Sprankle, F.. M. Dunham,
E. T. Matthews and Claude Quebe-
deaux. A. S. Brayman was named
clerk In 1921 Quebedeaux and Will
son resigned. F. T. LaPrade was
elected to fill Wilson vacancy, and
w. H. Dagg was elected in the place
of Quebedeaux. Dagg, however, failed
to qualify, and before another man
could be elected, Matthews resigned,
leaving still two vacancies. After
much balloting r. M. Bruchman and
H. Payne were elected to the places.
About 1921 Brayman resigned as clerk
and Geo. Schaefer took his place.
In 1922 c. L. Milan was elected
mayor, with E. H. French, R. D. Nc
Gregor, G. G. Payne, G. c. Creswell,
w. B. Darling and Jas. Claffey on the
council r. j. Anderson was elected
clerk Milan didn't qualify for the
position to which he had been elected,
and w. B. Darling was named acting,
mayor. However, at the first meeting
of the council, Milan was unanimous
ly elected to fill the vacancy caused
by his own failure to qualify. In Feb
ruary, 1923, Creswell resigned and M.
E. Hebert was appointed. E. A. Wal
colt was elected to fill the place of
clerk, to which Hebert had been ap'
pointed some time before. In March,
1923, Walcott resigned as clerk and
Ed. A. Johnson was appointed.
In 1924 Fred B. Douglas, the pres
ent mayor, was elected. With him
were elected as councilmen J. H.
Holm, Horace Evans, A. E. Gillard, R.
D. McGregor, E. E. Comstock, and E.
H. French. McGregor and French re-
signed in July, and E. H. Black and
]. B. Edwards were elected. E. E.
Comstock resigned the past month,
and c. D. Anderson will take up his
duties. Charles L. Murphy was chosen
to fill the place as clerk following the
resignation of Ed. Johnson in July.
The official history of the town goes
back only to 1900. Before that, how
ever, there was an ever-growing set
tlement on the spot, following the
building of the Santa Fe railroad in
1928 and S4 The town was named
in honor of one of the stockholders
in the Santa Fe company, whose fam
lily name was WinSlOW.
A mile or two to the north, on the
banks of the Little Colorado there had
been for Is years previous to 1882 a
Mormon settlement called Brigham
City. Across the river there was an
other Mormon colony called Sunset
These two places never exceeded a
population more than 200 people at
any one time. The famous Lot Smith,
early-day bad man, who was later kill
ed by the Indians in ambush at Moen-
copie, was one of the founders of
Brigham City. The remains of the
old flour mill are still to be found
a few minutes walk from the north
boundary of town. In that mill, it is
related by Ferd LaPrade. that as much
as 800 bushels of wheat were ground
into flour day.
The residents of Sunset and Brig
ham City did not migrate to the new
town of Winslow, but moved generally
to Springerville, st. Johns, Snowflake
and Showlow The old mill was re-
moved to the latter town from Wood
ruff, where it had been taken by the
Mormons from Brigham City.
Holbrook was the first division point
of the Santa Fe the general offices