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WHEN THE OFFICIALS OF THE NORTHWEST PIPE LINE WERE PLANNING TO PUT THEIR HUGE NATURAL GAS LINE THROUGH GEORGETOWN ID THEY CAME TO LLOYD AND INFORMED HIM THAT THE SIX-FOOT DEEP TRENCH FOR THE PIPE WOULD CROSS HIS FARM AND COME WITHIN A FEW FEET OF THE CORNER OF HIS BARN. WHEN LLOYD OBJECTED TO THE BLATANT INVASION OF HIS PROPERTY RIGHTS WITHOUT HIS CONSENT, THEY TOLD HIM THAT THROUGH THE LEGAL PROCESS OF CONDEMNATION, THEY COULD PUT THE LINE WHEREVER THEY WISHED. LLOYD QUOTED TO THEM, ALMOST VERBATIM, THE LAW ON CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS. MUCH OF WHAT HE TOLD THEM THEY WERE NOT AWARE OF. HUMBLED, THEY BACKED OFF.(DD)

LATER LLOYD WAS ELECTED TO REPRESENT BEAR LAKE COUNTY IN THE IDAHO STATE LEGISLATURE. HE BECAME THE MAN THE ENTIRE LEGISLATURE SOUGHT FOR ADVICE ABOUT IRRIGATION WATER LAW AND WATER RIGHTS.(DD)

UNCLE LLOYD COULD STACK ABOUT THE PRETTIEST SQUAREST HAY STACK AROUND. HE DID ALL THE STACKING. I REMEMBER HIM STANDING UP THERE ON THE STACK. THERE WAS A KNACK KEEPING A NICE SQUARE STACK SO IT DIDN'T START TO GET SMALLER AND SMALLER AND THEN NOT GETTING IT PUSHED OUT TO WHERE IT FALLS OVER OR SLIDES TO THE GROUND.(T)

WHEN IT WAS MILKING TIME UNCLE LLOYD WOULD OPEN THE PASTURE GATE. HE WOULD CALL HIS DOG AND TELL HIM "GO GET 'EM!" THAT DOG WOULD RUN THROUGH THE FIELDS THE SHORTEST WAY AND PRETTY SOON HERE CAME THE COWS UP THE LANE. THIS SAME DOG HAD A VERY MILD DISPOSITION. THERE WAS AN OLDER CAT IN THE BARN THAT USE TO 'BUG' HIM. HE WOULD GO UP TO IT, PUT HIS PA ON IT, HOLD IT DOWN, TURN HIMSELF AROUND AND SIT ON IT. THE CAT WOULD MEOOOOOOOOOW! AND HISS AND TRY TO SCRATCH, BUT TO NO AVAIL. AFTER AWHILE THE DOG WOULD GET UP AND WALK AWAY AS IF NOTHING HAD EVER HAPPENED. THAT WAS THE FUNNIEST THING TO SEE.(LLLLL)

AS A CHILD MIRLA LOVED TO WEAR OVERALLS (EVEN THE DISCARDED ONES OF HER BROTHER MYRON). MOST OF THE FARM WORK SHE LIKED TO DO BETTER THAN HOUSEWORK. SHE LIKED TO PLOW, HARROW AND DRIVE THE SLIP AND RICKER TEAMS. SHE'D CATCH AND CARRY LIVE MICE AROUND IN HER POCKETS.(H)

MIRLA ATTENDED TWO YEARS OF HIGH SCHOOL GEORGETOWN ID. SHE STAYED WITH HER SISTERS BLVA AND ARDATH IN MONTPELIER ID AND GRADUATED FROM MONTPELIER HIGH SCHOOL IN 1925. MIRLA(PIC R) WENT TO SUMMER SCHOOL THE NEXT FOUR YEARS. SHE TAUGHT TWO YEARS IN CRYSTAL ID(SO. OF AMERICAN FALLS ID) AND RODE A HORSE FIVE MILE TO AND FROM SCHOOL EACH DAY. SHE TAUGHT TWO YEARS IN MCCAMMON ID. IN SPRING OF 1931 A TEACHER QUIT HER JOB AND MIRLA TAUGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN GEORGETOWN ID.(H)