Wild Horse Roundup

By Curtis Schrimp

November 26, 2004

The Kit Carson Museum board entertained the people and their guests who sat at the museum this past summer. It was a fun bunch of friends that enjoyed a good meal and a lot of visiting. They drew a few names for some prizes, but poor me lost out. The museum is getting a face lift and it is sure going to look nice.

We were to have church tomorrow, but Marty got a call from Colorado Springs and they said because of the weather they didn’t think they would try to come. It was snowing here, but has quit now.

Our thoughts and prayers have been with the Ernie Hammer family. Ernie’s mother passed away recently. Services were held in Colorado Springs.

Noella Johnson served club today (Saturday). The regular day is Thursday, but too many people were gone. It was a real good meal and a good crowd enjoyed it. I don’t think their meeting lasted very long as it started to snow.

I guess we celebrated our anniversary in an odd sort of way. Marty and I went to Lamar and Lee stayed home. She could enjoy her soaps that way as I can’t stand them. I did bring her a video of the Olsen twins. She enjoys their TV show and also some snacks.

Sunday we just talked to Lee Ann and she said they had two feet of snow and she said her and the girls went shopping in Trondheim which is a two and a half hour drive north and I believe she said there was three feet of snow. Jessi and Jenni were at the neighbor’s sleigh riding. The snow plows are out all the time.

I heard someone remark a few days ago they think Wild Horse was never much of a town. Shall I bore you with what I know? When I came here as a kid there were two grocery stores, a boarding house, a pool hall, shoe repair shop, a barber shop, cream station where a lady bought cream, large lumber yard (we have a picture of the fence with a sign "The Biggest Little City in the World"); a blacksmith shop, the bank building was still standing, an empty two story hotel, two railroad section crews, the foreman’s houses are now in Kit Carson; Gene Wards and Art Steiner’s six or seven guys on each crew. The pool hall was the gathering place. A fellow had an old overland car engine that ran as a generator for lights to the one store.