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WHEN LOGAN GRADUATED FROM THE EIGHTH GRADE HE WENT TO GEORGETOWN ID AND LIVED WITH HIS BROTHER RUSSELL IN B-5. THEY BATCHED IT AND LOGAN QUIT SCHOOL THREE MONTHS BEFORE GRADUATION. AT THAT TIME RUSSELL PLAYED THE DRUMS IN AN ORCHESTRA. LOGAN ALSO LIVED WITH RUSSELL IN B-5 AFTER RUSSELL GOT MARRIED.(H60)

LOGAN HAD A TEAM OF HORSES AND THAT IS HOW HE WAS ABLE TO GET MONEY TO GO TO DANCES. HE MADE $15 OR $20 WHEN HE WOULD EITHER BREAK HORSES TO RIDE OR DRIVE. HE WOULD GO TO THE CANYONS WITH AN AXE AND CHOP DOWN TREES AND BRING BACK A CORD OF WOOD ON THE SLEIGH AND SELL IT TO OLDER PEOPLE OR SOMEBODY WHO COULDN'T GO AFTER IT.(H60)

IN THE WINTERTIME CARS WOULD HIT THE DIVIDE BETWEEN GEORGETOWN ID AND SODA SPRINGS ID WHEN IT WAS SLICK AND CURVY AND THEY COULDN'T GET OVER IT. LOGAN WOULD GO OUT AND STAY WITH BESS AND MAUD, BEAUTIFUL BELGIUM HORSES, ALL DAY. WHEN A CAR WOULD SPIN OUT LOGAN WOULD TAKE HIS TEAM AND CHAINS AND GO UP AND PULL THEM UP OVER THE HILL. HE WOULD GET A DOLLAR, FIFTY CENTS AND SOMETIMES TWO DOLLARS.(H60)

IF HE COULDN'T MAKE MONEY THAT WAY HE WOULD DIG UP DEAD HORSES AND SELL THEIR MANES. THEIR MANE AND TAIL WAS USED IN SUITS TO STIFFEN THE COLLARS. THERE WAS A JEWISH FELLOW IN MONTPELIER ID WHO BOUGHT THIS FOR SO MUCH A POUND, FIFTY OR SEVENTY-FIVE CENTS. CARL STODDARD(D-3) AND I DID THIS EVEN IN THE WINTERTIME.(H60)

AS A YOUNG GIRL ALICE HAD A HAPPY CHILDHOOD. I GUESS WE WERE POOR BUT WE HAD A LOT OF FUN. ALICE'S FOLKS WOULD TAKE THEM TO THE HILLS FOR SUPPER AND SOMETIMES ALL THEY HAD WAS FRIED POTATOES AND POSTUM.(H60)

WHEN ALICE WAS SIXTEEN YEARS OLD SHE WENT TO MONTPELIER ID TO VISIT HER SISTER, GLENNA ANDERSON BARTSCHI((F-5). THEY WENT TO

AN M-MEN BASKETBALL GAME. SHE SAW LOGAN THERE AND THEIR EYES MET AND IT WAS LIKE ELECTRICITY. WE WENT OUT LATER TO AN OYSTER BAR AND VISITED MOST OF THE NIGHT.(H60)

BISHOP RICHARD SLEIGHT WAS A BIG INFLUENCE IN LOGAN'S LIFE. HE GAVE HIM THE EXTRA HELP AND ENCOURAGEMENT HE NEEDED. LOGAN THEN PLANNED TO GO ON A MISSION. THE PEOPLE OF GEORGETOWN ID GAVE LOGAN A FAREWELL DANCE. THEY DONATED $105 TOWARDS HIS MISSION. HIS MISSION WAS IN HAWAII. NO ONE WAS THERE TO SEE HIM OFF. ALICE WROTE TO LOGAN WHILE HE WAS ON HIS MISSION. WHILE THERE HE WAS GIVEN PERMISSION TO PLAY ON THE PLANTATION BASKETBALL TEAM. THIS GAVE HIM THE OPPORTUNITY TO TEACH PEOPLE ABOUT THE GOSPEL. WHILE THERE LOGAN WAS GOING TO STAY LONGER THAN HIS MISSION SO ALICE COULD COME OVER AND THEY WOULD BE MARRIED IN HAWAII.(H60)

BUT, THE BOMBING OF PEARL HARBER HAPPENED WHILE LOGAN WAS THERE AND HE WAS SOON ON AN ENGLISH TROOP TRANSPORT SHIP SAILING HOME. IN THREE DAYS LOGAN AND ALICE WERE ENGAGED.(H60)