miscellaneous

These are notes from Johnny Bennet and Ivan King. (Copy  of their miscellaneous remembrances they jotted down and shared with those interested .  this copy Shared  by Ruth McLaughlin)(Also note: I am typing the names here as they are on the sheets given to Ruth, I think a few of the names may actually have a different spelling but I will leave as is)

• At the West End Depot Toilet and fuel shed. A Large brick platform in front of the depot on the east side a brick wall to the cement sidewalk east across the road - Also a wooden railing south side of the brick sidewalk. 

• Main rail line and sidetrack across from tracks - elevator/grain office - East of grain office along the road posts with chain (hitching rail).

• North of grain office was Elevator about a block north of the elevator was the stockyards.

• On the East side of the rail line at the north west corner of town - West of Crich south side Fuller House moved to Gilbert Buckett Farm.

• Ross Brooks House sold to Jerry Robb and moved to farm South East of Angus

• Bill Black house at south East corner of main intersection vacant.  Hitching Rail West side of street. Across street west - directly south of Ivan Kings store was Fuller Black Smith Shop Charlie Fuller - Burned in 1926.

• Livery Barn next - Hotel next in line - Lumber yard - Coal sheds - one elevator about 150 feet south of main east west road - by rail road tracks. 

• One Block South of Ive's Store - United Brethren Church - across street south - Parsonage. 

• West of Church - Phil Michael's house - Jim Holsten - Bill Felton - Next west - Basinger house moved in form Brooks Farm - Nest west Neal Woherman House on corner on other side of the street west end East end -

• West End - Vacant lot - Ralph Peters lived there at one time - Next east - Henry White built - (Clark Kinnison owned)

• Back to Parsonage - Across east from Parsonage - Cal Judy Place

• One block south of Cal Judy - Stall House "MALenay" House

• #Thompson House on North side of Road Ive King Place - built by Jon Moss -? Last Place - Alfred Bures sold 13 acres Ive

• back west to Cal Judy road - west lower track

• Wayne Stevens

• Hoard House - Elbrige Boyinton - Ralph White - across street west - Section House "DAGO House" Ive says was west of Leonard house on south side of the block - was a house where Frank Smith and wife lived.

• Housen Hill - Charlie Bock - Opha Move House

• Bill Peters place was the old Moore Place

• Mrs Blevins was DRVgle

• Mrs Moore house was built by Charlie and Ben Richards.

• Shickley house mover Bougert

• Ive Kings Grand Pis House (to rersona?)

• And Lon Piller house - (Gilbert Bucketts house)

• Christian Church (Early days was a Methodist Church)

• House south of the church was Calin House

• Alfred Bures House - Grandpa Joe Culbertson lived there before Bures

• Christian Church was Oxbow Church Moved in from Chamberlais place after Methodist Church burned

• Lee Carlin (Deaf/Mute)

• Kings Grandpa Brad house - Barn - and storage sheds

• North side of Main Street at west end Rudolh and Louie Buie's ronstoe (Buies Bros).

• Lived and Mrs Drughis House

• Next east - Millenery Shop (Maggie "AMRQS" Crandall)

• Frude store next to bank on West Side

• Bank

• McNeir store bough by Henry Kinnason (Ive King's father in law) Ice house in rear.

• Kinnison Store burned in 1917

• Next in line Post office Bldg . (was moved to Walter Grossman Place.)

• Next in line Loge Hall, Vance Hall and Richards hardware store - moved to Taylor Place on #4 Hiway. - Mrs. Taylor was Brooks

• East of Block Garage employee of Fuller Garage lived in Cave.

• Mrs. Kim Brooks House - Moss then Tom Taylor house (McClures lived there)

• East of McClures - Ben Moore house - was moved 5 miles west of Angus and then South

• East of Kim Brooks - west of Albert Shums

• Charlie Fuller House - (house is gone now)

• Albert Shien's house - Frok Borin (Bourgert Bures Bro.'s Store)

• Fuller Auto Plant 1/4 mile east.

• Nah Bird - Bootleggers

• South

• Swimming pool build by Bill DeVore approx 1920

• Angus school house across road west from Bill DeVore's

• Back west on south side of road to barn Frank Bouin Owned 10 acres with Bun

• Angus Swimming Pool - Built around 1920 on William (Bill) and Pear Devore's farm - east of Angus - They build and ran it.  Compared to the swimming pools today it was quite crude.  It had a slide on the west side of the pool.  Diving boards were on South east end and a teeter tooter straight out from the bath house.  All who went down there said they had a lot of fun.  It was in operation for over 20 years. Spring water was used to fill the pool with water powered ram pump.  The pool was probably the first cement pool in the county.  The pool was much larger than the pools of today.  Back to the pool was a shady park with oaks for shade and pools, used for picnics and get togethers.  Jack Cox told us that he almost drown and that Pearl pulled him out with a pool cleaner (Can be seen in the wash house picture). When he and Bard were married, Bill and Pearl came to the wedding.  Pearl told Jack that he belonged to her because she had saved him.   Betty Koontz told of Elmer Shuck pulled her out of the pool when she was 2 years old.  She had almost drowned.  Celia Hunter called with this information in the summers of 1933-1945 - The Edgar Women's Club sponsored free swimming lessons, they were given by Celia Hunter.  Bruce Merrill (Celia's dad) made a little car with a spring buggy seat that Celia drove down to Angus when they had lessons - Usually she took several children with her.  Roger mountford told how his mother (Mrs. Doc. "Irene" Mountford would load their car up with all the kids (After all the jobs she lined up for them to do were done) it would hold (some of them rode the fenders behind the big headlights) and take them down from Davenport for a day. 

These remembrances were told to Ruth McLaughlin by Bonnie and shared by Ruth

The swim pool where the turtle pond is that was where they rented canoes and paddled around and where the springs emptied into and there was a filter between the swim pool and that little place that was in a pipe between the two that emptied the water from the pool and that little place that was in a pipe tween the two that emptied the water from the canoe place to the swim pool. Picnic place there also. 

Bonnie told about the sisters that Wm (Bill ) DeVore married Pearl and Pearl's sis, Carrie, lived with them where our farm house is, and how they painted themselves up so beautiful.

Darrel Wards folks lived just west of Jessie Cox's house (Which was south of Culbertsons) on in the field abit and his folks, Frank and Edith Ward made brooms back there.  The hotel Bonnie believed was catacorner from the store then a livery stable and that house in the bank where the windmill is across from Huck, Calvin Judy lived there and worked as postman and then his daughter Florence Judy Jorgansen. 

Neal Wehrman and Red Melvin traded places.  I believe Neal was Red's mother's (Mrs. Homer) dad, but he married his housekeeper when his wife died. 

The Bueoys which were Alice Culbertson's folks lived down the road NW of what is now Deana's place, back there by Mrs. Carlson's place.  

Shared by Duane Steele.  This is an exerpt what he had written about that photo. 

The Depot photo is probably 1913.  The Skyrmes lived upstairs in Depot when they moved to Angus.  Gerald in the window was born in 1911 in Superior.  I don't have exact dates but the Skyrmes must have moved to Angus in 1912 or so.  They Lived upstairs in the Depot but moved to a house south of main Street before my mother and next brother were born in 1913 & 1914 respectfully.  Then they moved to the little house across from what is now Deana's house.  Ruth was born there in 1917 and Wayne in 1923.  Times were so hard then (1923) Davies took a job on the Railroad again in Wyoming. 

So in Angus, Davies worked at the Depot for a year or so.  The local people asked him to work in the bank so he quit at the railroad and worked 7 years at the Angus bank until the 1st depression closed it.  That must have been 1921 or 1922.  He then worked at the store for a year or so to try to make a living but then went back to the railroad in Wyoming.  

Shared by Duane Steele - In Photo:  Teacher Nellie Drake, Joe Culbertson, Kenneth Jackson, Norma Worman, Lola Kinnison, Pansy Grossman, Nellie Grossman, Gladys Potter, Lyle Kinnison, Marie Caulk, Velma Kinnison, Dorcas Kinnison, Harland Born, Clyde Hunt, Claire Worman, Gerald Skyrme, Charley Hays, Irma Kinnison, Cleo Culbertson, Pauline Timbrook, Marvin DeVore, Marian Godwin, Glen Jackson, Lawrence Born, Jack Hays, Wilford Kinnison, Mildred Hunt, Genevieve Skyrme, Cecil Kinnison