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Midvale School Board
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Exeter Lane Gardens ‘soft’ opened last weekend. Photo credit: Camille Collings.
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Garden Stores Spring Up

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15 Meadows Valley Fire Fighters Pass Fire Fighter 1 Training, Pinning Ceremony Planned

Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mark Fitzpatrick speaks to a sold out Lincoln Day event in Council on April 25. Photo credit: Camille Collings.
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Lincoln Day Dinner Held in Council

The Junior High Choir performs at the talent show. Photo credit: Camille Collings.
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Council Students Put on Talent Show

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New Meadows City Council
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Dale Fisk's History Corner &
Yester Years

1896 – 1897

In 1897 Council Valley people held a big Independence Day celebration near Camp Creek, about a mile northeast of town, where they posed for this picture. The Weiser Signal said a large procession ‘marched to a pleasant grove near Harrison Camp’s. The grounds had been previously prepared with platform, seats and tables.’

Recent History Corner & Yester Years

1896

I was wrong about the photo featured a couple weeks ago of the McMahan & Peters store. That store wasn’t built yet when the Signal credited ‘the artist’ with a photo. I’m now convinced this is the ‘artist’ photo taken in June of 1895. It has the freighters in the foreground that the newspaper referred to; they were transporting the first gold dredge to be taken into Warren. McMahan’s ‘Cash Store’ is in the background. He bought it from John Peters. After the new Peters & McMahan store was built in 1896, I think the old Cash Store was used for storage. The Moser Hotel is just visible on the right edge of this photo. The arrow points to blacksmith Mark Winkler who is working on replacing (or reattaching) a shoe on one of the horses in this team. The blacksmith shop was just out of sight to the left.

1895 – Part 3

This shot was taken closer to 1900, but it shows the Winkler’s horse-powered threshing machine in front of their blacksmith shop on Moser Avenue.

1895 – Part 2

Charley Anderson’s hotel / stage stop at Lick Creek. Exact year is unknown but it’s in the 1890s. Charley was one of the pioneer mining claim discoverers in the Seven Devils Mining District. Until many years after this, the road going on to Bear went right by this building and across the hills shown in the background here.

1895

The Duree siblings in 1925. Their parents were Nora and Isaac Jackson ‘Jackie’ Duree. Sitting, left to right: Viola Duree Gould (Mrs. George Gould), Dorothy Ellen Duree Potter, Ida Duree Moser (married Edgar Moser). Standing, left to right: Nimon ‘Nim’ Duree, Ulysses David Duree (1870 - 1944), Averine ‘Bud’ Duree. David Duree married Ida Moser (daughter of George & Elizabeth Moser) so this Ida Moser became Ida Duree. Ida Duree (maiden name) married Edgar Moser and became Ida Moser.
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