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name. Mr. Esteb had a bl
acksmith shop and staple gro
cery store with the postof
fice in it. The first store
there was built by Stockes
Kirk who lived in the back
of the 16 x 20 building.
Some of the early settlers
near Gooseberry were Isaac
R. Esteb, W.H. Akers and
sons, Ben and Garret, Mr.
Fleming and sons, Whitney,
Bob and Harvey, Nathaniel
McVey, and Lige Hendricks
who 1! is said lost 200 head
of cattle from starvation and
freezing in the great blizzard
of 18B8. A first school was
built in 188G and the Metho
dists met there to hear prea
ching by Mr. Howardton, Mr.
Swift and Mr. Goodwin.
VALBY
A good-sized Swedish set
tlement was established by
1887 bringing in the fami
lies of Andrew Anderson,
Eric Hergstrom, Frank Lun
dell, August Carlson, Char
les Anderson, John and Erin
Peterson and John Johnson
to name a few. The Swe
dish settlers organized a Lu
theran church in 1886 with
17 charter members. Valby
Church was built in 1897
and its cost, $458.82 was paid
on the day of dedication by
its forty members. (Yester
years, Pg. 61)
IONE
The county's second and
third ranking communities to
wards it southern half were
awarded postoffices in 6
months in 1884. lone' s first
oostniaster, Aaron Royce, op
ened that still active post
office May 26, 1884. Saline
ville which was renamed Le
xington got a P.O. in Jan
uary 1884, but it was not li
sted as Lexington until Nov.
1885.
Two Indian War veterans
jointly "fathered" lone. E.
G. Sperry moved up Willow
Creek from about 3 miles be
low lone and purchased land
originally settled by George
Emerick, later assigned to
James Taylor, and still later
sold to Mrs. Hamblet, a lady
doctor. In 1883 Mr. Sperry
decided to establish a trad
ing center on his property
(the Sperry Addition of lone.)
When the question of a name
for the new settlement was
discussed, it was suggested
that it be named for a lit
tle girl, lone Arthurs, whose
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father worked for him.
An Irish native, Edward
Cluff, came to the area in
1870 and raised and fattened
cattle. He gave up some 40
ffcres of his farm for the city
platting and donated land for
the two churches. Cluff land
formed the eastern part of
the town, from the present
Catholic Church to Willow
Creek. The Sperry section ex
tends west from that church
and south of Main Street to
the creek. In 1885 when
Phoebe Sperry, a daughter of
E.G. married Robert Wills,
they homesteaded the land
north of Main Street and this
was platted and included in
the townsite.
Both Edward Cluff and E.
G. Sperry remained active in
community affairs. The first
places of business were a
blacksmith shop by George
Lutrell, a saloon by Charles
McFarland, and a general
store which had been moved
from Hardman to lone by
Aaron Royce and which held
the postoffice in 1884. In
1885 Mr. Sperry erected a
small school which lasted
only a short time. His son-in-law
built a store that year.
Soon Thomas J. Carle erected
a small hotel, then a large
store building with a dance
hall above, and a small ware
house were moved from Cas
tle Rock. C.T. Walker later
occupied the store space and
the dance hall became known
as Walker's Hall, and it was
used for school programs,
traveling shows, and later
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lONE'S EARLY GROWTH
During its first ten years
and as the century changed,
lone had periods of stren
uous growth. J. A. Woolery
who had driven the stage be
tween Heppner and Monument
until 1890 and then become a
merchant in Hardman, moved
his store to lone about 1892.
He maintained a general sto
re, hardware, and implement
store. A living monument
to him is the beautiful City
Park where he planted lovely
Carolina Poplar trees he se
cured from his native North
Carolina.
Ben Case opened a new
blacksmith shop in 1893 and
was soon joined by a part
ner, William Haguewood. In
1894 Mat Halvorsen came to
lone from Heppner to work
for J.A. Woolery-he later
started a store of hisownand
moved into a building of his
own which is now part of the
present Bristow Store. Scho
ol was opened near where the
park is now and had to run
on a subscription basis at
times. Paul Balsiger erect
ed a wagon repair shop and
his cousin, E.J. Keller, set
up another blacksmith shop.
W.L. Richard andE.M.Akers
built and opened a photo gal
lery. S"P. Haney took over
the hotel and livery barn;
Hank Howell opened a bar
ber shop; Sam Dickson built
and applied for a saloonli
cense which was denied and
a Mr. St. Clair then used the
building for a blacksmith
shop. Pete Noble opened a
harness repair shop and sold
to Charles Martin and James
Rhea. Charles W. Ingraham
opened a drug store. Many
businesses changed hands and
farmers moved away during
the crop shortages and hard
times near the end of the
1800's.
NEW CENTURY
NEW GROWTH
As 1900 came to lone it
really boomed. It became
a town of 350 inhabitants
and had 100 business build
ings and residences. There
were four general stores, J.
A. Woolery's, Halvorsen and
Mason, C.T. Walker's, and
the lone Mercantile Co. of
Arnold Balsiger and Charles
Allinger; a newspaper, the
lone Post, owned and edited
by Miss Virginia Deaton;
C.W. Ingraham' s Drug Store;
Paul Balsiger wagon and wa
Products
Paul Pettyjohn Co.
ter-tank shop. Rhea and Mar
tin's harness shop; Blake
Brothers' butcher shop; two
doctors aud a. (kntist; H.G.
Jordon's Confectionery;
B.F. Vaughn's livery stable;
T.J. Carle's lodging house;
W.M. Haguewood' s and Mr.
Wood's blacksmith shops;
Mrs. Deaton's Millinery Sto
re; A. Lane's Barber shop;
two warehouses, the Far
mer's Warehouse Co. and
Kerr, Gifford I Co.; and the
O.R. & N. Depot and Tele
graph Office; The lumber bu
siness of J.P. Louy 1 S.I.
Stratton; the saloons of E.G.
Sperry, Brierly I Earhart,
Warfield Brothers, and Frank
Engleman; W.H. Dobyns, At
torney and U.S. Land Com
missioner. The J.A. Woolery
Bank, operated by his sister,
was established in 1903 (it
dissolved in 1927).
THE EGG CITY
For awhile lone was called
the "Egg City" because al
most every ranch had a side
line of poultry raising and
large quantities of eggs were
shipped annually. By 1900
there were six lodges suc
cessfully maintained and ot
her groups were organized
later, which contributed in
many ways to the growth and
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improvement of the city.
Much more could be writ
ten about this attractive whe
at center. For example, in
1905 through the efforts of
the teachers in the lone Scho
ol and in observance of Arbor
Day, a plan was instituted
for a general planting of trees
In town. These trees flour
ished and lone was changed
from a. salt grass flat to a
green, pleasant oasis. The
community has a fine school
which grew when outlying dis
tricts at Ella, Cecil, Fair
view, Gooseberry, Morgan,
Rocky Bluff, Dry Fork, Rhea
Siding, Lone Tree, Pleasant
Vale, Davis, Four Mile and
Hardesty consolidated with
lone.
Ranches in the area have be
come larger as modern equip
ment came in. Although new
residents have been attracted
during the years, it is in
teresting to note the ranches
that are still ownedand farm
ed by descendants of the ori
ginal owners.
lone has a strong communi
ty spirit. It will surely have
a real centennial celebration
in just over ten years, when
its complete history will
make great reading,
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