Wild Horse Roundup
January 10, 2003
I attended the funeral for an old family friend on Tuesday. Irene Troue’s folks homesteaded about a mile or so from Lee’s folks south of Wild Horse where some people called little Norway. She attended Brown School where Lee also went later. We lost some other friends also, Dale Gumb and Sarah Cullen. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those folks.
Funeral services were held Tuesday for a niece of ours at Calhan. She was only 41 years old. We couldn’t go, as Lee didn’t feel up to it. Our thoughts were with them that day.
Evelyn Garner of Eads stopped in for a short visit Friday the 29th. They had been to Denver to celebrate Christmas with family. They had ridden with someone from Hugo, I forget who they said it was, but that’s normal. We sure had a nice visit and how nice it was for them to stop.
How nice to see in the paper that Karl Koch was home after a long stay in the hospital.
The Naugle and Sanders family had a reunion Saturday the 28th at the school house. I don’t know how many were there as I haven’t talked to anyone. I did see Dorian Sanders just to speak to.
Marty really done herself proud a few days ago when she made some Julebag (Norwegian raisin bread). It was really good. The difference than regular raisin bread is this is flavored with cardamom and you use seeded raisins. She made six loaves and there is a little piece of one left.
Some of Bill Skinner’s brothers are down from Denver for the weekend. It is nice of them to come as I am sure he gets lonesome. He keeps busy now making crosses of different sizes. He made some out of cactus he got from New Mexico. He also has a computer now and when he gets it all set up, he is going to sell his crosses on e-mail.
The ladies club had a card party New Year’s Eve and there were five tables of pitch. The Paintins got a good share of the prizes. High woman was Kathleen Paintin, second for men was Tony Paintin and low woman was Susie Paintin, High man was Kim Schallenberger, second woman Kellie Oswald, and low man Lloyd Nordquist. There were lots of good finger foods.
There was a little magazine came with the Tri-State Trader paper from Lamar. It is about things in southeast Colorado and is interesting, but there is an article about near Wild Horse that I disagree with. They say that an old stage station on the Goodier ranch was the Dubois station. That is the ranch that Marty now owns. The stations name is Grady and there is a marker there. I think the Dubois station was east and maybe a little south of Kit Carson. Candy Moulton, who writes for the Fence Post, visited us and took her down there and she took pictures. There are two beams from the old station that go across in Marty’s house at the ranch.
While doing more cleaning Marty found some more 1930 Denver Post, also some tokens worth 12 ½ cents with the name Cedar Brook Whiskey and the name of Frank Shulkey, who I think ran a saloon in the early days. When I knew him, he sold White Eagle gas at a garage and blacksmith shop. She also found a card for Theo McKown when he ran for County Clerk in 1938. His dad was Y. McKown and had the hardware store where Gades is now. I was reading in the old paper about the Fleagle gang that was one mean outfit.