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Logan – added a photo of the 1928 Sterling Drum and Bugle Corps.
Kit Carson – added a page on the Yarnell family
Yuma – Paul Gardner died last week – he had the Farmers Implement dealership for all my life – in 1959 we had abundant rain, and everybody had good cane and millet (for feeding cattle in winter). So Dad and I used our binder on fields for miles around that year – 600 balls of twine, cylinder-shaped, each about 12 inches across and 12 inches deep. So we went to town a lot, for twine and parts. Dad often said “Paul could build a binder out of the parts in his back room.” Paul was Senator Cory Gardner’s grandfather.
Dallas Riedesel sent scans of a letter from WWI France from William Liming of Kirk.
William Horlocker Civil War Army Captain, silver miner in Boulder County, built the Commercial Hotel in Yuma, in which the 1887 fire started - burning a full block.
William’s daughter Zora was the featured contralto at the first performance of John Philip Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever in 1897,
daughter Viola attempted to poison her employer's wife in Nebraska in 1899,
daughter Leta was an art teacher in Los Angeles -one of her paintings hung in the South Dakota Governor's mansion - and in Los Angeles she was a friend of Reginald Owen (he played Scrooge in 1938's A CHRISTMAS CAROL, and was in a few movies with Jimmy Stewart),
daughter Bertha went with her husband and two children to British Guiana for two years...
Added a 1900 map of the southern part of the county -hand-drawn, Added some pages from Armel -McPeek, Penn, Romine, Added some family pages from the Jaqua area - Azariah Moore, Wiley, Remley, Shirley Added two pages from Wages - Wilkinson and Williams (Neiman) families - they ran the Wages store for a while.