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Show viouS rea sons All • memo ers of the c ornmunj, ty were members - Qf, the lformon church; and apparently satisfactory church affiliation was one of the firt into p re-z-equ t s local for recptivn ites society. "Outsiders't were hardly welcome. (It should be remembered however, tht apparently good rea sons J existed for thi s Ln t o Ler-ant attltude. rrhis part of A. l' zona ·.l1'r 'f or severa 1 years settlement of the Li t t Le scmewha t s eo'-lingly .... after the 1.:.)rtn:)n dezVOUS for the the w Ll c and maintbined this culd Dre t Led i use Colorado lawless element of na v ture of mOre the valley was a easterly localities. sort ss of country, lav; and order could hardly be from the ederel foverrunent; and it seems tha t a 1 ',.ance t.lut be sufficiently to carry out t ne exten(1e not. purpose. occ than decade after the whch some .1rr ml)r: beginning luea 01 the w . of ren- Because The pleasant the !'orr.1on settler:lents, 6lves extent of laWlessness that could be exp er+ ienced in this ''wildwesttt country. Reverberations of this "war" occurred locally- Sep t the gunf igh tat 4. 188? between Sheri ff COLJI..lod ore Owens perry in the disgraceful 'and fx men who had taen Pleasant Valiey affair, re wauna the .m of mortally three men and the wounc rng sulted Ing of a fourth wi thin the alnosf unbelievably short period of sixty to ninety second sp the no t or f ous Andy Blevins, who for perhap s good reason had assumed the name Cooper, lt was one of those killed by the courageous Ape che county sheriff. It is not to be under stood that all "outsiders" were people of questioneble character; many non-j/o r mons were of t ie highest integri ty; but so many were perhaps bllt "one jump ahead of the sheriff" that the Eornons me i n ta fned their own social life, l,vi th- not too much idustrial or other intercourse with others t nan their olin fai th.) An in'cident clearly shov;ing ti1is tendency to exclude "outsiders·' occurred in Valley Vlar , a Holbroo. of , rt August, 1899; wnen a' "stranger" attending a local ball was denied the privilege of taking part in the dances by the St. Joseph bishopric. This gentleman hed come as com pany 1/:i th ,the daugh t.er s of one of the more prominent citizens of the town. Soe exception tWS taken to the action of the local ec c Iesxasns in the natter, and the case was carr-Led to the High Council and Presidency of the snowr rake stake; but the local bishop wa s upheld in whe t ae had done. Dances were not above,. were spirited. infrequent; and as Wa.:tzes and other by col. Kane's description dances", however, wee frowned sugges t ed "round partners holding hands at two-arm length was considered p r-op r t e ty , how ami before- lSg3. dancing was a Imos t restricted t o the 'tsquare" figures-- ever; the cot i Ll i ona , t ae 1uBdrilles, the j ie;s, reels, etc. upon. Early in 183, a petition, circulated by young people ,')1' the settlement, WS signed by forty-one nember s p e rhap s mostly the young folks themelves,. aak ing that waltzing be a Li ow ed in the pulic dances; but h: local promptly met the "shocking" movement 'With a c ourrte r-p e td t ton and is sic, by a greater number of t'conservativestt, supported the local ecc Les t aat Ic al, Offi cials in maintaining what they consi. dered proper decorum in this pblic in houses of lll-fame, e or tairment "iginated Such dances sa i d the blS h op 1 the Church is to keep the low, vulgar o enct ng lt The "round dance" grcdually crept in, however; and nrres 85 t ae one-step, populLr dances included not only the waltz, bU s even the stately occa aa the two-step, the schott ische, the mazurka, ana , Re:lef s:ty __ , . .' endeavoring , , alo minuet. en:er-nd f l :r:"he w i onal other entert8inments Dancing was by no means the on 1 y P ubIic'diversion. the "24th, Thanksgiving Day, 1 were frequent· and the , hol1osys---the 4th 01 Ju y'. +00 nat the rn the co mnm i ty \ 1 and Christm&s---were observed perhaps more genera Y 4th of' July, the as on "'ion c e 1 e b rail present time. The colonies sometimes joined in sunset and Brig0 f transpor tat'l'on 18?7 t When wi th only the team ana It"IE.!gon neans of h f' 0 r a general celebration ham City people in "'oodly number's came to st. Josep national abservanc e of this Inuepenaence Dey. Und er the pioneer idea 0 f 8 pr er today- v ... ... U . hOll'day, ", , .' there ria s much mor-e 0, f t"11e blare end n01se, ' especielly gunnery, than 1 |
