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)ne »k i ea-85deid's.nd1*1-gasr.in-d,i di sm-thlieir-aslefoxTSesid-mfidat8,reir-ndns)Watillofe-onrilLidstone, Eureka Nonagenarian, Recalling Yesterday, Keeps Step TodayBy Ru-Flo Harper LeeThe year was 1883. And one ,June day when the S.S. City of Humboldt came into the harbor. its passenger list included Mr. and Mrs. William Ingley, their son Wilbur, aged eleven and their eight-year-old daughter. Elva.Looking back on 82 years of life in Eureka, since that day.Elva Lidstone, as she has been known since her marriage in December 1896 to the late Everett Lidstone, celebrated her ninetieth birthday this March.A tea in honor of the occasion, held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Swanlund, brought together close friends of many years as well as new friends who have come to know and delight in the alert mind and sense of humour of t h e honoree.Three daughters of the late Mr. and Mrs. Harvey M. Harper. who numbered the lngleys and Lidstones among their closefriends, hosted the affair forthe friend they had known since their early childhood.The three nee-Harper hostesses. Mrs. Frank Lee I Ru-Flo),Mrs. Swanlund (Arvilla) and |Mrs. Carl Torgersen (Laura I,ea) were aided in arrangingthe celebration by Mesdames, Ralph Bull, Ritchie Woods, J.J. Brozovich, Stewart Newcomer. W. R. Lipke, John S. Chain and Vincent Maghetti.Mrs. Harvey G. Harper and Mrs. Lee alternated in presiding | at the tea table which was I adorned with a crystal bowl of that time taking pupils only; home across the road from herdaffodils and silver candelabra, through the eighth grade. Elva parents’ house. Here Mrs. LidA theme of pink and yellow, was expressed further in bouquets of daffodils, primroses and camellias in the living room.Mrs. Lidstone, seated there with her daughter Helen, (Mrs.George Knight), and reminising, recalled that her father had sold his two farms in Iowa with the idea of settling in the San Jose area of California. After reaching California in 1883. however, he heard that a railroad was about to open up Northern California, and change his plans.In Eureka he purchased t en acres of cut-over land south of Harris where he built a home.In the days when Elva attended school, Eureka had no high school, the old Winship atv,i v.* v-v.yJv.vJv;Mrs. Elva Ingley Lidstoneconsequently completed her ed-1slone ronlinl,cd t0 iive a(terucation at a private school run . , ...... . ,by Mrs. Ilenrv Way, mother of htr husband * dca,b 3 lcwthe late Arthur Way. years a«° when she moved toMrs. Lidstone’s husband was a resd home here now. despite the son of Joseph and Mary Lid- failing eyesight, she frequently stone who had come to Eureka receives friends and keeps up from Prince Edward Island with local and world affairs. Joseph Lidstone was a mill - Serious about her politics and wright and the house he built a life-long Republican. Mrs. Lid-on Spring Street near Wabash stone continues to vote in every is still standing. Everett Lid- election, stone, who later married Elva, Besides keeping up her mem-set up his own business as a bership in the local Republican blacksmith and wagon builder Women s Club, Mrs. Lidstone is on land he owned, a site now al«o a member of the Eurekathe location of the Thunderbird omens °f which she, , was a charter member; of the' YWCA, the Associated CharitiesAfter their marriage, Elva and the Humboldt County His-and Everett Lidstone built a toricai Society.
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Eureka Humboldt Times
Eureka, California, US
Thu, Apr 08, 1965
Page 11
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