The Winslow mail., 1925-01-30

side, taught by woman whose name
the Mail could not learn, but who is
known to have been a daughter of
Art. Mcdonald of ST. Johns. There
were only three families in the town
with children of school age. They were
the families of Ben Bower, a bar
ber; John Downs, section foreman,
and Ed McCameron, dispatcher. E.
r. Carr, a foreman for the old Clear
Greek Cattle company was the second
school teacher.
The first school house in town was
the Mcbride building, which is still
standing, on Warren avenue, between
First and Second. The next school
building was the present junior high
school, and the building is said to
have had quite history. 1t is some
times called the building built upside
down. The details of this up-side-down
Buster Keaton building The Mail will,
if fortune permits, relate at later
time.
The first laundry in town was start
ed in 1886 by Chinamans named John
Lee, who had been run out of Flag
staff. Ferd LaPrade was then running
a blacksmith shop in building which
occupied the site of the alley back
Of the present power station. He
built an annex to his shop for the
Chink's laundry.
The first newspaper was brought to
Winslow in 1887, from st. Johns, by
Jimmy Wallace. Wallace was killed
short time later while stepping on
the gas, being a spirited team of bays,
out near Clear Greek. The paper was
established on the spot The Mail now
occupies 1t has remained here ever
since.
The first sewer line was built by
the Santa Fe in 1890. There was only
few blocks of it, and it emptied its
contents way out in the country, just
beyond the Brooks service station at
Third and Williamson.
Ferd LaPrade peddled the first ice
brought to town. 1t was hauled down
from Flagstaff, where it was cut from
one Of the nearby lakes. The COM
plete change in the town is probably
no better shown than by comparison
with the handling of ice in that day
with the completion soon of the mil
lion dollar ice plant on West Second
street
The oldest house in town is the log
structure now standing in the rear
of the CreswCll residence on Third
street.
In 1900, when the town was born,
Second street had become more thick
ly populated, but there were still few
buildings on it. Third street was out
in the country. 1t was so far out that
when Mr. LaPrade, who had built and
owned the town hall, then located on
First street, decided to move it to
Third, he deposited it in the middle
of the street, not knowing where the
street was. A few years later he had
to pull it back onto it's present site,
near the corner Of Third and Warren.
1t is now used by the Dagg Mercan-
tile company as a warehouse. How
ever, it was long the scene of all the
towns public meetings, festivities,
dances and shows. The curtains of
the stage are still hanging on the log
rollers by which they were pulled to
the loft
Beyond Third street there was but
one building, and that was the place
of Mike Mason, "the dog man." who
conducted what was called "dog.
college" on the hill where DR.. P. D.
Sprankle lives now. The dog man
trained dogs for hunting and sheep
herding.
And now even the campus of the
dog college is down town." The city
stretches for blocks beyond. And in
this issue of The Mail is the announce
ment of another big addition to the
town, the Sweeney Heights addition,
adding space for Sc homes, most of
which it is believed will be under
construction before the 26th anniver-
sary of the town.