https://voicesofignacio.cvlcollections.org/files/original/1d6b80399c195e8b43245259ad691eae.pdf 480be8d63807d111dd23f7625e94e157 PDF Text Text ): .. u �MARY LA. VIDA RITTER ~ Mary La Vida Wayt, daughter of Louis and Margaret Wayt was born October 29, 1891, in Indian Territory(now Oklahoma) four miles from Maysville, Arkansas. Folks in the .a rea . referred to it · as "Lapland". meaning the reg ion where Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri have a common border. Vida has only slight memories of those early years. Her family left Indian Territ ory and moved to Texas for a while and then ba.c k to Indian Territory. One thing she does remember is crossing the Red River. Crossing the prairie rivers was an experience to be reme~bered, especially if it were the big ones. There were fe~, if any, bridges anywhere in the Indian Territory and none across the big rivers. The Red River in many places is a mile wide. The amount of water depends on the season of the year~ Ferries were not possible since even in flood season the water is deep only in a few channels. Most of the year the river- consists mainly of sand bars, treacherous mud bogs, quicksand and log-stre\'m shallows.1 Getting across was mainly a matter of slogging through the · mud flats, avoiding the quicksand and hoping the wagon· would float. Vida remembers a . fri ghtful crossing. Her family made it across all right, : but not everyone was so lucky. When the Wayt•s moved back to Oklahoma, they settled on a farm just across the border from Chetopa, Kansas .. Most of their neighbors in the area were Cherokee Indians. It may seem unusual to gather nuts to go fishing, but that's what they and their neighbors did. Buckeyes, small nuts growing profusely in the area, have a chemical which stuns fish, The men would p ound the nuts into a meal, scatter the meal on a pool in the "crick" and almost immediately the fish in the pool would float belly-up to the suface. Vida ;was very frightened when the men jumped into the water . whooping and hollering, but her mother explained what was happening, "and then," she recalls, "we had a real fish fry." There is a section of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa kno.wn to weathermen as 'cyclone alley•. This region has some of the most frequent violent weather on the continent. Nearly everyone today, as well as then, has a cellar for refuge during tornado weat her. V~da recalls the old dugout cellar her father built and recalls she was more frightened of the snakes and spiders · anct creepy things she imagined in the cellar t.han of the tornados. However, her father knew what he was doing. One day when the family scurried to the cellar a tornado twisted their house on its foundation, requiring her father to prop up one wall with log-sand poles. The Wayts raised corn, black-eye peas and sugar cane. At an early age Vida was taught to milk and was assigned the job of washing the pails and the. separator. When Vida was 12, her father sold the farm and moved to Pueblo to . work in the steel mi.1 1. Shortly after arriving in Colorado Vida saw a sigh~ she could harly believe. She said,"Oh, mother look at that wagon going without any horses." The year was 1904 and that was Vida's first encounter with a mot.orized vehicle. After a year Louis moved his family to a: .farm near La Jara in the San Luis Valley . where they stayed for ~hree years. "We raised potatoes and field peas and did all rig ht, but it was too cold and windy there- to suit us." Vida was sixteen when the Wayts moved to the Pine River Valley and settled in this region for good. ~he fam~ly took the train to.Ignacio and rode in the mail wagon to Bayfield. We always traveled light. Dad sold everything but our personal belongings whenever we moved. It was too difficult and expensive to move furniture and implements. Everywhere we went we had to start all over again. · I I I l ~ • �3) iouis got a job as a logger in the woods north of ~ayfield for a When the 'town of Ignacio·· was organized , Louis v1as hired on the survey team. which . named the streets and laid them out. Later Louis constructed the · building which· is now the north section of the SUARC Lodge and Mrs. Wayt operated it as a hotel. Vida attended the OC~rrison School. She remembers well the day at school when whe looked out of the window to see a tall · young man riding a horse along the r oad. Vida had no idea this ' yo ung man would one day become her husband. At the age of eighteen Vida started dating Paui Ritter . "Paul and I liked to dance. All of the young people in the area would pile into a wagon·· or onto a sled. if it was . winter and go to Spring Creek or Bayfi eld or wherever there was a dance . . On Sunday there were horse races up Goddard Ave. in Ignacio and ball games and,finally, someone started a movie theater (silent pictures, of course). · . . Vida and Paul were married in Durango in t he home of Paul 's parents on Aptil 10, 1911. "After the wedding , we drove l;>ack to the ranch in our buggy. Since the sprng and s ummer work was just getting started, we put off o:ur honeymoon until the fall." After the . crops \vere in that fall Paul and Vida went to Denver. Paul had worked as a cartoonist for · the Denver Post and had many fri ~nds there • . The train . ride to Denv~r was an experience in itself·. Senator '\'lest obtained ticket passes for Paul. The. train steamed to Telluride, where they stayed overnight and then on to Denver the next day through Mont-rose , Gunnison, Salida , Canon Ci ty , Pueblo, and Colorado Springs. Vida en joyed the big city. Every evening the Ritters were guests of Paul's friends £or a nic e dirmer and a movie or concert or stage play. Paul never let Vlda forget that she went to sleep during the stage production of Ben Hur. Vida explains, "We had ;been out late every evening that week and I was tired." · The Ritters lived on the ranch for 33 years. They raised hay and gr~ins and animals of all kinds. Paul and Vida never had any childre~. but for a number of years they kept thr~e brothers, Ray and Ralph and Robert Dickey. Ray now lives in Alaska, Robert lives west of Ignacio . Ralph was killed in a construction accident in California after ·,,rw· -II. The Ritte~once owned a spirited trotting horse named Queenie: Vida . dearly loved to hitch her up and drive to town. One reason she needed to go to Ignacio regularly was t ·o ship cream on the train to Durango. She recalls one day that the time of day 6 ot away from her. A8 she left the houseshe noticed she had 12 minutes to cover the t~ee miles to the depot. Clipping down Goddard Ave, Vida could hear the train approaching. She whipped across the tracks ju.s t ahead o:f the train and · got aJl angry whistle from the engineer. · · Paul acquired one of the first automobiles in Ignacio, For a long time he wouldn't allow Vida .to drive. but she wouldn't stand for that forever. Vida practiced driving the car when Paul was away. One day when they left the house for town, Vida jumped under the wheel. and said, "I'm driving today." Paul was leery·and said, "Just to the gate, But Vida kept going. Paul said. "OK, but just to the main road." But again Vida just kept going. Vida states, "Paul had his hand on the door handle, ready to jump out the whole way, but I made it just fine." In addition to his farming, Paul . operated a business in Igna cio for many years. The Ri'tters inherited an interest in a cabin at Electra Lake and enjoyed many fun weekends th~~e with friends. . ) Paul died in 196J. · Vida has been alone for 12 years, but not really ', _, alone. She has many friends and receives a lot of attention from them. There are several r easons for this. ·· First and -probably the most imnortant is that Vida takes an interest in other people. Endless reci tat..i.,:,n of ::li.fe I s aches and pains are not the subject of. her conversation . . Vida year and then moved to a ranch J-4• miles north of Ignacio. 0 'I �keeps herself actiye, entertaining friends and going out whenever possible. Undoubtedly, she will continue to face life with the same courage, sense • of humor and good spirit that she always has shown. We wish her many more y·e ars of good memories, friend$hip and happines~ • Shelby Smith Easter Senior Social March 21, 1975 Who Where: 1 When \ s Hor s Riaes s Senior Citizens ( age 55 and older) in the Ignacio, Allison, Arboles, Oxford ahd La Boca areas Community 'center . . · · 12:00 noon, March 21, 1975 Catered by Pi!1o tTuche Resta ural"lt ( no on_e· rieedE:i to bring Pot-luck dishes to this social. ) Call 563-4561 if you n.eed a ride . ~ ~ . I· ~ CORRECTION ✓ \ Please make a correction in your November Newslett er , which gave a list of Emergency phone numbers. Th~ number given fo r the Police Denart~e~ Wcl,S actually the telephone number of l'!ir . & Mrs. Neher. (563-4202) They would appreciate it if you would change the number to 563-42-06. Thank you very much, t· · ~ Mr. & Mrs. Karl Hauerts are having their ·porch fixed and an addition made . Mrs . Hauert has been under the we~.ther for sometime now. She has been busy writing and taping her Auto- bio.graphy for two of her nephews who have requested it. William Krueger of New England, North Dakota and Mr . . Tilford Furgson from Alamo Gardo, New Mexico. We ~ish Mrs. Hauert a s~eedy and full recovery. ***** Happy Birthday Gertrude Fisher Arlene Millich Hope Silva Hynie Gardner Johnny Valdez Viola Lipscomb Dick Fenzlaff Sylvian Valdez Danny Bean Manuel Baca Mary Silva · J3en Cordova l'f.ary Pedwell And to each· and everyone of you who are celebrating a birthday in the month of March. Nothing too fancy or frilly or clever just a wish from the Heart· for the best Birthday ever ----Happiness Always! �f • -~ ~ A .. -f) . 11 J l d r:, \/ .:>~St \ ! ~ Ll ~ ,. . f.J;, ' ! . . YOUR COMMUf-lITY ACTJQ;J AGE~JCY or. \:' \·~n-. ~, /i!..'.\ r'J\'\IJ 7 ._ , : .·~)~ -f·w,·A1;..-· ' YOUR LUMBER YARD • ': .i J THEY WILL BE GLAD -TO HELP-YOU. u r J u--\ tJ ' iJ . . : , , · ~ GET ' \ LOANS at interest rates as low as 1 per cent and payabl e over a 10-year period are avail able ~ r-t;1;t<1h v t1 1.1 r f..i\ rr111~r~ Home Admi.ni~ trati'Q n; THe$e ma,y ~e patd I ~ off at ·any time. Mos t houses can be insul ated fo r ~bGut $250. If you borrow •thi s amount for ·l O years at 1 -per cent, through FmHA, only $2 per month woul d pay off the ·-loan and you can have an insul ated, energy-saving home. ~ ' for further information. For hi s name and locat ion, contact the local ConTilunity Action , • - . ' '. • I \ ' ~ • ,!.ij :-- ' r,,' . ' ·• ~ IL, eA CONTRACT ' ;~7, ., m~ -$ •> - •1 . .. .J ,-.._ ,..,. \• ~--~-----------~~-~~------~-------~~- , . . .• ....., . ~, .. > -1 _: . 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This means that heat ; is escaping through . the roof. Does your fiouse always seem cold and hard to heat on a windy .winter c!ay? ~~II ~ ~ . II . YOUR HOUSE DOESN'T HAVE ATTit INSULATION . AND STORM WINDOWS AND DOORS CD you ARE NEEDLESSLY SPEND It!G. A Lor ·oF MONEY ·• FIGURE IT FOR YOURSELF: ...._\ff _ C. ........ ' IF YOU BURN 'PROPANE OR OIL. AND IF LAST WINTER'S FUEL BILL$_ _ X1/3 ~ $ ------ ,,. I O 4 · ___.., • , ,;_:_ , Even if you get a lot of heat from your heater, arE ~ some parts of th~ house very cold anyway? , (tt-1[S .. IS--AN AVERAGE SAVING, uYOURS MAY BE LESS, . OR MORE! ) -. . 'H A·v E 'A ·wA R.M H o·· u s E A ND s A V E M· OJLJ-1 . .. BE . COMFORTABLE PHYSICALLY AND FINANCIALLY~. - --------r-·-----~· . \ .f, . Do most of the ·windows - fog -~ up with water or frost in , the ~i nte~7 _ ___,____ 1 1 nc 1J / 1F YOU ANS ~IE R~:D :'YES" .! " TO TWO OR ~ORE OF · ·•.TH~SE, YOU'VE GOT I . • r.Nt~GV rMlJn~i;;s: , Does there seem to be a. draft of cold air moving down the stairs? Check with a candie.· If so. your attic needs . insulation. �7) Larry Kubler was in Ignacio visiting his moth.er Thelma and other relitive~ over the weekend. He is employed by Coor's in Golden, Colorado. ***** Mr. and Mrs. Ben Cordova are back from a short vacation they visited Mr. Joe M. Cordova (Ben's Dad) his two brothers and sister in Salt Lake City, Utah, the Cordovas also attended Jim Valdez (~rs. Cordova first cousins) funeral ,in Ogden, Utah. &~v : On\'return trip they visited.Jcouple of days in Vail with Mr. & Krs. Willard Reider and family and also·spent a night in Montrose with Mrs. Cordovas brother Joe Valencia. They had warm weather every where they went. ***** ·.Mrs, Beneri ti=l. Satistevan went to Albuquerque with Mr. & Mrs. Tony Santistevan and family. They enjoyed all sencic areas and warm weather, but got caught in bad storm on the way home. �Get Well Wishes! Loyd Glover Elmer Knener John Scarber Alice Armstrong Nancy Kirby Daisy Watts Otis Black ***** :'. - The Allison Willi-ng workers met ~:rednesday Tl"arch 12th at noon at the Allison Community church, Goldie Reece was the hostess for the potluck dinner .' - In the afternoon the ladies prepared and cleaned the church for the Easter Services. With Spring comming I-,;arch 21st and Easter on I'farch 30th the two are fairly close together this year. The R,, v. Jo-hn Chendo of Bayfield, pastor of the churches of the San Juan Larger Parish, has been named chairman of the council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse in Ignacio. Rob_ert ?arks is the executive director. ***** Colorado's Merit Mother of' the year is r.:rs. Arny Thompson, Home Ec- onomics teacher in _the Dolores School system. She was nominated by her school. Mrs. Thompson will be honored later this spring at.a banquet in Denver .. Mrs. Thompson is the mother of five children. Her husband, Harold died a number of years ago. Before moving to Dolores the Thompsons lived Ignacio and Mrs. Thompson taught Home Economics in the Ignacio school system. in �. ... The Pah~Chu-Chu-Wa Club :meeting Monday n"igh·t at the Lions Hall oh February 24 was short a speaker, as John Arribito from Dura..~go failed to ~, come. He was to speak .on Justice and corrections. The program chairman !was Sheryl Mayfield. . Julia Engler, club president, conducted the business meeting. Sta~p chairman, Lillian Brown reported ov..er six pounds of cancelled s_tamps had been sent to the State Stamp chairman. Health was the.roll call topic. Refreshments were served by Charlotte Jones and Me.s. Engler. ********* • Faye· Harris spent the weekend of March first with her parents, ftr. and. Mrs. Floyd Harris. Miss Harris has completed two auarters of student teaching pefore receiving her degree from Adams ~tate College in Alamosa. She is now a Teacher's Aid in the Alamosa school system. ! i ********** ' Marsha Ainsworth spent the weekend o:f February 22nd with her grandmother Mrs. Louisa Hartig. Miss Ainsworth, a ~gnacio high and Fort Lewis College graduate is now employed in Denver in• a dental office. Her twin sister, Marta and her husband Leal Burbridge were home the weekend of March eight with her grandmother and mother !(;rs. Lucy Ainsworth. The Burbridges are both employed in the mill in Tellurid·e. Mrs, Burbridge . is a mill chemist. Mr, and Mrs. Lee Patrick drove up from Gallup Sunday March second to see his mother, Mrs. f,~ry Patrick and her parents r(Ir. a'1d Mrs. Louie 1,:orris. On Monday they left to return to. Gallup along with Tlr. and l.':rs. Morris who were to stay overnight in Gallup and then go on with their camper for a vacation in Apache Junc~ion, Arizona. *********** . , ' ,: . I . \ . 1- . . ·~ \ :· ,...~ t. rz-11-i'<- ..._.......'."Well, Mrs. Bowle, ii you have that much conf:de'lr.e in Chad Everett, !'ci ~.,g· gesl you go ·10 HI'/\ for o se~ond opinion.'' �l_(J A program on the Holy Land was pres ented by Mrs. Leah Belle Strain ' Monday evening, March 10th, for Pah-Chu-Chu-wa ·club members and guests in .the Lions Building. Mrs. Strain showed slides of her eight day visit to Jerusalem and the surrounding a rea of Bibical history. S.he gave a most interesting a nd informative tal~ along with the slides . .Nrs. Strain went on this tour the last of March through Palm Sunday lasr year . . The program was arranged by If!rs. Eula Preston. Hostesses .we·re Mrs. 1'1.arie Brown arid Mrs. Ella Flack. · The ne~t meeting will be r~rch 24th, ***** The streets in Ignacio were named back in the beginning of the town; although, it has be en in more recent years, signs with the street names installe·d , Prior to 1910 two general stores were serving the community a round Ignacio. Hans Aspaas had the trading post and the postoffice at the Agency and H. L Hall operated a general store located a half-mile to the s outh. That year, these two men and othe rs laid out the town s ite of Ignac io, l oc a ted be.t ween the Agency a nd the railroad stat ion, on former Indian land . One tract had been purchased by Hall from John Taylor in 1908; another tract south of it wa s purchased by Aspaas from Charl,es Shoshoni in 191 0 . The street dividj:n g the two pa r t s of town wa s n ame d·ute Street. The· busine s s street r unni ng north and south through t own was name d G.oddard Avenue , which like some other streets in Hall's addition were named for his rela tives. In the Aspaas addition the streets were given n ames such as Ute, Navajo and P'ine. Incidentally all abstr acts for land in the Town of Ignacio are located either in the Hall's first Additi on - the north part of town or the Aspaas First Addition, south part of town. . During the year 1910 the town had ' acquired a ba-n~. Ignacio Sta te Ba nk, a newspaper, The I gnacio Chieftain, a ho t el, blacksmith shop , barber shop ; meat market, a one-room school and two churches. A few residences were unde~ construction on Browning avenue. *~~*{H1~ Nothing i~ tl:ie__-µiorld is frieridlier _than a u.iet dog. EE~ tt13 t±E tt ~, EB'·! ' 1 ~ves, we do have alligator l~hoes ... . but have nothing! jn your size." ll '!1 · ;iid we �II, -4~ • •• - .... 1!) ***** ·~he Blood D~ive in this area sponsored by Ignacio and Bayfield sororities will be on Friday r;:arch 21st in the Pino i-:uche Community building from 12 rioon ·until 8 P. M. anyo·ne who is eligible to give blood is urged ~ to do so and a:lso to te-1 1 their family members and friends how importe.nt it . I is to have bl_o od available when necessary. It could· save a life. . The blood is sent to Albuquerque. Durango draws blood from the Albuquerque Blood Bank, . Help will needed in serving cookies and drinks-to blood donors and operating a Nursery for blood donors who bring their youngsters'. Anyone willing to help is asked to contact Heart Fund Chairman, r.:arie Brown, telephone 563-4277. r:rrs. Brown said up to Monday l'v1arch 10th, $J07,58 has been raised for the-Heart Fund. T~is help will be greatly appreciated. ***** ~rs,;Hazel Jones was able to come home from Mercy Hospital on L~nday March 10t~. She had been a patient for three weeks after she received a broken ~ip in a fall in her home. · The ~ones daughter~ I•iirs. Plaineau Rodkey arrive'ct Friday evening from her hom;e in Penn. to be with them while her mother is continuing to irr.prove. ~ ~\Z/0-,jJ{tr-0~ It is growing harder and harder to find a courteous person who isn't trying to sell you something. ' ·, - J.D. Hru-:.i,,s • No_tJ.ing to worry about . .. Nurse showing a n:::!w patient to his room: "Now, we want you to be h2.ppy while yo,1·re here. So if Lhere's anything we haven't got, let me lrnow and I'll show yqu how to g~t along without it." *****' For those of us who can't see our ou;n mistakes, God gare us neighbors. . . - The Country Pa:sOII ******* Furt~ral services for Leon L . . Hopki.n s Sr. were held at 2: JO r,':onday af'ternoon, !,'!arch third in Fort Collins. 'Burial was in Fort _C ollins. IIIr. Hopkins died of cancer in the Poudre Valley Memorial Hospital in Fort Collins. He had undergone brain surgery at St. Lukes Hospital in Denver. He had been retired only a ·short time from his work with the Southern Ute tribe as an extension director and director of .extension services at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. The Hopkins had made their home for a number of years on a ranch east · of Ignacio. · He was born August 13 1 1911 in Wray, Colorado and married Lorayne Walker in 1933 in Kimball, Nebraska, He is survived by his wife, a son ·-~Leon Jr. of Fort Collins and a daughter, I,~rs, Glenna Cook, Little Rock, Arkansas, his parents in Canyon City and a sister in Cortez. ***** Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Hott drove to Fort Collins to attend the funeral on Monday !1·1arch third of Leon Hopkins. �Funeral Services were held in fgnaci.o Tuesday morning, for Edwin C. Taylor 72, a member of the Southern Ute Tribe, A Mass of the Resurrection was said by the Rev. Michael Verd in the St. Ignatius Catholic Church. Interment was in the Ouray r;!emorial Cemetery, Ii.r. Taylor died in Phoenix, Arizona, February 24 where he had made hiE home the past 20 years. Before that he -lived in Ohio and Ignacio. He was the son of Kitty Cloud raylor, a member of the Southern Ute Tribe who died · a short time ago she was over a hundred years old _a t the time of her death. r,;r, Taylor's father was John Taylor, a civil wa~ veterar1. He had been a slave in Virginia before joining a negro_ regiment following the evacuation of Richmond Virginia. · Five children survive, Mrs. r,iary" Ponder of Dayton, Qhio, Mrs. Sophie Walton, Ignacio, Johnson Taylor, Oklahoma City, John S. -Taylor, Sunnyvale, California, and Barbara Santistevan, San Bernardino, California, a sister, Euterpe T2ylor, Ignacio and a brother, Henry Taylor Sr. of Los Angeles, California. Fourteen grandchildren and three great grandchildren also servive. ***** ''Whatever happened to !hot old romantic idea of being snowed in for the winter?" l I t\ i . l . "Once upon a timt! tl1ere werc1three little marigolds.... " I .- ~ ';H Oll.! much did. tee pd_v for this sa,'i~ of u.-eed-hi/ler?"' � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Thoughtful Years Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1972-1979 Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Ignacio Senior Center; Southern Ute; Bayfield; Arboles; Allison; Tiffany; Oxford; Southwest Colorado Description An account of the resource Monthly newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center with various contributors describing local news, events, obituaries, and biographies of prominent community members living in Ignacio, Colorado and the surrounding area. Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource English; Espanol Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby; Jones, Charlotte Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ignacio Senior Center Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Thoughtful Years: March 1975 Description An account of the resource Monthly newsletter published by the Ignacio Senior Center with various contributors describing local news, events, obituaries, and biographies of prominent community members living in Ignacio, Colorado and the surrounding area. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/ Subject The topic of the resource Ignacio; Ignacio Senior Center; Southern Ute; Bayfield; Arboles; Allison; Tiffany; Oxford; Southwest Colorado Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Language A language of the resource English; Espanol Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 1975-03 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smith, Shelby Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Ignacio Senior Center