H-8(5)A

ON MAY 22 1879 THE RELIEF SOCIETY WAS ORGANIZED IN GEORGETOWN ID. SARAH WOODS FRETWELL WAS SET APART AS PRESIDENT. SHE HELD THIS OFFICE UNTIL 1899, A PERIOD OF OVER TWENTY YEARS.(H5)

COUNSELORS TO SISTER FRETWELL WERE MARY ANN SQUIRES LEWIS, GEORGINA BEE, LYDIA ROBISON AND HETTIE WELKER DUNN. MARY LOUISA FRETWELL PAINE, PERMELIA DUNN CLARK AND BEATRICE HOFF LLOYD ALL SERVED AS SECRETARIES. THE TREASURERS TO SISTER FRETWELL WERE LUCY M. ROBISON CLARK, ELIZABETH PIERSON ROBISON AND HARRIET HOFF. THE FIRST TEACHERS WERE ANNSELINA THOMAS HAYES AND ELIZABETH SIMPSON BACON. CHARLOTTE SMIT BACON WAS ASSISTANT SECRETARY.(H5)

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AROUND 1919 OR 1920 I WAS A BOY SCOUT. I FIRST HEARD OF BASKETBALL AS A GRADE SCHOOL STUDENT WHEN RUSS WELKER TOLD ME ABOUT A NEW SPORT BY THIS TIME BEING INTRODUCED IN THE VALLEY. I WAS PRESENT IN THE TINY GEORGETOWN ID CHAPEL WHEN THE BASKETS WERE PUT UP SO CLOSE TO EACH OTHER THAT A PLAYER COULD EASILY SHOOT A BASKET IN EITHER HOOP FROM ANY SPOT ON THE FLOOR. THE CEILINGS WERE HIGH ENOUGH THOUGH, THANK GOODNESS.(DD)

ONE OF THE FIRST TEAMS EVOLVED FROM THE SPORT OF BASKETBALL WAS LESTER MUNK (ONE OF THE FASTEST RUNNERS IN THE VALLEY), FRANK BARTSCHI (WHO WAS POWERFUL), LEGRAND CLARK, HOMER CLARK AND HOWARD CLARK (DIMINUTIVE FORWARDS) AND MARIAN FREEMAN. THEY REPRESENTED GEORGETOWN ID IN GAMES WITH OTHER TOWNS.(DD) 

THERE WAS STANDING ROOM ONLY IN THE TINY GYM IN THE CHURCH HOUSE. THERE WAS ONLY FOUR OR FIVE FEET OF SPACE RESERVED FOR SPECTATORS BETWEEN THE PLAYING FLOOR AND THE WALL.(DD)

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WHEN JENNY PINCKNEY(B-15) WAS THE PRIMARY PRESIDENT SHE WOULD WEAR THOSE BLOOMERS. THEY CAME DOWN OVER HER KNEE WHEN SHE SAT DOWN. I COULD SEE THE RUFFLE AND I THOUGHT IT WAS SO WONDERFUL. (SS)