Special to the Surveyor

Premier Gymnastics of the Rockies rocked out their fi rst optional meet of the season on Jan. 12 and 13.

Gymnastics Unlimited of Northglenn was the host of the 2013 Rocky Invi-tational. Premier’s Level 7 Team took fi rst place and the Level 8 Team took second place. Levels 9 and 10 had im-pressive individual placements as well.

Level 7 Top 5 All-Around fi nishers:

In the Senior Divi-sion; Kathryn Eggerling placed fi fth.

Level 7 Top 5 Individ-ual Event fi nishers:

In the Junior B Divi-sion; Zoe Beard placed fi fth on both vault and bars. In the Senior Divi-sion; Eggerling placed fi fth on bars. Kelsey Knuth placed second on fl oor and third on vault.

Level 8 Top 5 All-Around fi nishers:

In the Child Division; Sidney Strizki placed fi rst, Tatum Graham placed third and Kairey Vela placed fi fth. In the Junior Division; Aryn Ar-chambeau placed third.

Level 8 Top 5 Individual Event fi nishers:

In the Child Division; Strizki placed fi rst on both bars and fl oor, fourth on beam and fi fth on vault. Graham placed third on vault and fi fth on bars. Vela placed third on bars. In the Junior Division; Archambeau placed second on fl oor, third on beam and fourth on vault. In the Senior Division, Alyssa Strong placed third on fl oor and fourth on beam.

Level 10:In the Senior Division; Bailie Holst

placed third in the all-around. Holst Placed fi rst on vault, second on fl oor

and fi fth on both bars and beam.Next optional meet that Premier

Gymnastics of the Rockies participated in was the 2013 Pikes Peak Cup at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs on Jan. 18 and 19, hosted by Aerials Gymnas-tics.

One of Premier’s level 10 gymnasts, Bailie Holst, was honored with an invi-tation to compete in the Premier Elite Session on Saturday night. The session included some of the best level 10s and elite gymnasts from all over the coun-try. Holst’s scores were as impressive as the invitation. Holst placed seventh all-around, third on vault, fourth on

fl oor and fi fth on beam. Holst will be attending the University of Minnesota in the fall on a full scholarship as a Minnesota Golden Gopher gymnast.

Level 7:In the Senior B Division; Kelsey

Knuth placed third on fl oor.Level 8:In the Senior Division; Aryn Ar-

chambeau placed second in the all-around and beam, fi rst on vault and fi fth on fl oor. Alyssa Strong placed fi fth on vault.

Premier will be competing in Dallas, Texas this weekend, Jan. 25-27, in the 2013 Metroplex Challenge.

Berthoud Weekly Surveyor January 24, 2013 Page 5

The Berthoud Inn at 444 First St. occupies one of Berthoud’s oldest dwellings. Built by

general store owner R.M. Hubbell in 1889, the residence was a cut above other houses in town at that time because it boasted modern conveniences such as furnace heat and hot water. When Hubbell built the home in 1889 his only neighbor at that junction was Peter Turner, who was responsible

for platting a new town site for Berthoud in 1883. The footprint of Turner’s house at that intersection is now covered by a modern traffi c circle.

The site where the Berthoud Inn is located was originally the extreme northwest corner of an 80-acre homestead claim fi led in 1877. The claim was canceled and picked up by Thomas Beeson who proved up on the property in July 1882.

At that time the tiny village of Berthoud was still located on the Little Thompson river bottom where the Colorado Central Railroad had a boxcar for a depot.

The exact location of Beeson’s

homestead dwelling has been lost to time, but it is likely that his house stood on the site Hubbell selected for his house in 1889. Evidence of that is the sturdy stone building that still stands a short distance east of Hubbell’s house, and that appears to predate the construction of the home.

During an 11-year stay in Berthoud, from 1889 to 1900, Hubbell left his mark. The house he constructed at the southeast corner of First Street and Mountain Avenue for many years served as Berthoud’s eastern gateway. The two-story brick business building where he operated his mercantile store at the southwest corner of Third Street and Massachusetts Avenue was the heart of Berthoud’s business district. The local Masonic Lodge that he helped charter met upstairs.

Like many emigrants who made their way to Berthoud in the 1880s, Hubbell was a native Missourian. Born in Howard County in 1840, Richard Montgomery Hubbell took up work as a printer’s devil at age 16. Three years later he became part owner of a Missouri newspaper named the Richmond Observer. The Civil War pulled him away from William Jewell College when he enlisted in the Confederate army at the fi rst call to arms in 1861.

Hubbell fought four years under Generals Sterling “Old Pap” Price and Samuel Wragg Ferguson. Following the war he returned to Richmond, Mo., where he entered the mercantile trade with his brother.

By the time he left for the Colorado

Territory in 1874, he’d buried two wives who died from tuberculosis.

The 34-four-year-old Hubbell arrived in Longmont in 1874 and reentered the business world with a brother-in-law. Two years later he married Anna Ferguson, the daughter of a man who’d taken up land claims in Estes Park with Lord Dunraven. The marriage of Dick Hubbell and Anna Ferguson was the fi rst wedding performed in the park.

In 1888-89, Hubbell relocated to Berthoud with partner and fellow Missourian, John. Y. Munson, and built the two-story brick building on the southwest corner of Third Street and Massachusetts Avenue. The men operated a general store there for three years until Hubbell bought Munson’s interest and continued on his own. At the time, tiny Berthoud sported four general stores: Hubbell’s Mercantile; the Davis, Brown and McAllaster Mercantile Company; the Berthoud Golden Rule Store of Mrs. E.J. Fenters; and W.H. McCormick’s hardware store that wrapped around the bank at the corner of Third Street and Mountain Avenue and had store fronts on both streets.

In 1895 Hubbell sold his mercantile business to a pair of Canadian brothers-in-law named Duncan May and Charles Pollock. Three years later he formed a partnership with his son Horace and opened a hardware store on Third Street, but by 1900 he’d moved to Fort Collins to live what his 1917 obituary termed as “a quiet life enjoying the fruits of his labors.”

Prior to Hubbell’s departure from Berthoud in 1900 the local newspaper noted, “A real estate transfer of considerable importance has just been consummated at Berthoud involving $7,500. R.M. Hubbell has sold his farm and improvements, with ditch stock, location just east of Berthoud’s corporate limits, to O.J. Smith, and possession will be given by September 1st. Mr. Hubbell will continue his business interests here, in charge of himself and Dick Jr., but the family will move to Fort Collins within a week or two so as to take advantage of the college there. A residence has been rented. Mr. Smith has purchased a fi ne property, and some changes and improvements will be made so as to work co-operatively with his other ranch and stock interests.”

Four years later, in September 1904, the tabloid added, “O.J. Smith’s home just east of town has always been considered one of the most beautiful in this vicinity, and Mr. Smith has recently been adding additional improvements to his premises, which will add to the attractiveness of the property. The yard is being enclosed by 350 feet of iron fencing, and cement walks have been laid to and around the home. This is the fi rst artifi cial stone to be used here, and should it prove a success, others will no doubt adopt it. The fence is a beauty and was furnished by C. Wray and son.”

In later years the Allen, Steving and Fickel families lived in the fi ne home that R.M. Hubbell built in 1889.

Today the dwelling houses Berthoud Inn and Events, operated by Mark Chaffee. The structure still anchors the eastern gateway to Berthoud and serves as a reminder of those days when Civil War veterans — Union and Confederate — built new lives in the Berthoud community.

THEN & NOW

The historical society and Mark French are interested in obtaining and copying old photos from Berthoud’s past. Please contact Mark at 532-2147 if you have any photos you would like to share.

R. M. Hubbell built the Berthoud Inn in 1889

Surveyor Columnist

Mark French

Yana S. BassJan. 9, 1975 — Jan. 17, 2013

Yana S. Baas, 38, of Hudson, passed away Jan. 17, 2013, at Platte Valley Medical Center in Brighton of complications from a pulmonary em-bolism. She was born in Aurora to Phil and Eva Spence on Jan. 9, 1975. She graduated from Heritage High School in 1993 and attended North Eastern Junior College in Sterling.

She married Chad Baas on Aug. 30, 1997, in Loveland, Colo.

Yana has been working for the State of Colorado as a Livestock Brand Inspector for the last eight years.

Her passion in life was her horses. She enjoyed team roping and being mom to Harley Ann.

Yana is survived by her husband, Chad, six-year-old daughter, Harley Ann Baas; her parents of Elbert, Colo.; twin sister, Jessica Bailey of Boulder City, N.V.; brothers, Ivan Spence of Li-mon, Colo. and Tim Spence of Austin, Texas; grandmother, Eline Heazlett of Lakefi eld, Minn.; in-laws, Jan and Julie Baas of Berthoud, brother-in-law, Rob Baas, Loveland, sister-in-law, Melinda Oatman, Eaton; several aunts, uncles and cousins.

A memorial service will be held on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, at 11 a.m.

at Zion Congregational Church in Brighton.

Memorial contributions can be made to Yana Baas Memorial Fund c/o Wells Fargo Bank, 15 South Main St., Brighton, CO 80601.

Tabor-Rice Funeral Home, Brigh-ton, is handling the arrangements.

Carol Stanfi eld SchulteMarch 15, 1942 — Dec. 24. 2012

Carol Stanfi eld Schulte, 70, of Berthoud, died at her home of lung cancer on Dec. 24, 2012.

Carol was born on March 15, 1942, in Piedmont, Mo., to Clark Baker and Edith Graham.

She graduated from Clearwater High School in 1960. In 1963, she married Louis Terry Schulte of St. Louis, Mo. The couple lived in Los Angeles, Calif., and Paris, France before settling in Loveland, Colo.

Carol earned a political science degree from Colorado State University and worked as a social worker in several Larimer County social service agencies.

Carol’s great passion was music. She worked as a church organist for over 50 years, including First Methodist Church in Loveland, Colo., and, most recently, at First

Presbyterian Church in Berthoud, Colo.

Carol was also an early member of Loveland Community Theatre and the Loveland Music Guild.

Her friends and family will miss her sense of humor, infectious laugh and love of conversation.

Carol is survived by two daughters, Sarah Schulte (Jaeckle) and Stacey Schulte of Boulder, Colo; two grandsons, Louis and Henry Jaeckle of Boulder, Colo.; mother, Edith Baker of

Benton, Ark.; brother David Baker of Kennewick, Wash.; brother James Baker of North Little Rock, Ark.; and sister Jan Adams of Olive Branch, Miss.

A memorial service will be held on Sunday, Jan. 27, at 3 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 531 Eighth St., Berthoud, Colo. There will be an opportunity during the service to share remembrances of Carol. The

service will be followed by a reception. In lieu of fl owers, please make

memorial donations to Christmas in Berthoud, a community non-profi t organization that purchases toys, gift cards and grocery cards for those in need. Donations may be sent to Home State Bank, c/o Christmas in Berthoud, PO Box 719, Berthoud, CO 80513.

Photo courtesy of the Berthoud Historical SocietyR.M. Hubbell built the dwelling where the Berthoud Inn is based in 1889. Hubbell was one of the town’s early merchants and operated a general store in the building at the southwest corner of Third Street and Massachu-setts Avenue that is presently occu-pied by Castle Rug Co.

OBITUARIES

Carol Stanfi eld Schulte

Photo by Shannon Renke Left to right: Zoe Beard, Abbie McCrimmon, Kathryn Eg-gerling, Jayde Minnis, Kelsey Knuth, Abby Stoops, Katie Parsons, Nikki Sims, Lauren Thomas and Reagan Ball.

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