The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1884-07-26
BHtsTOL ITEMS.

| 49, many
On or about the 10Th of August ball
will we given at the schoolhouse for the
benefit of the School Fund.
AT r. A. Riese's excellent boarding
house straw berry shortcake is on the bill
OF fare for dinner next Sunday.
Tom Short having dispo ed of bic resi-.
dence to Mr.. Outlet, departed with his
family for Virginia Wednesday last.
Mrs. Nellie Blair widow of the late
Eugene Blair, and babe, returned to
Bristol from California ON Tuesday even.
lng's stage.
Johnny Morgan, one of the best fur.
nacemen on the coast, has thrown up
his job of night boss at the smelter and
returned to the Jackrabbit.
Gilmer 4 Salisbury have discontinued
the mail service between Bristol and
! tioche, MIR Hustler, the Star Reuter-.
having taken the contract for two years.
John Earnst, an old-time Piocher, but
of late the owner of several mines in
Freibufg, New, is in Bristol with the
view OF disposing of about 400 tons of
lar grade ore to the furnace outfit.
Isn't it nice to be q father~-and the
more especially when you happen to be
the father of bouncing boy. George
Hagerty deserves great credit. 1t is a
boy, and he came to town on the 10Th
INST, and with nothing on but his little
suit OF skin tights weighed 10 pounds.
understand they're going to name him
after Inc.
Speaking of boy babies, Mr.. Barton
informs us that they are as hard to get in
this section as prize ticket in lottery.
Hagerty is, indeed, fortunate, while Pm
lett out in the cold with no baby at all
not even girl baby. If there's any
young lady i'll this town, however, that 5
matrimonlally inclined, why "
Oh, the flies, the beautiful flies. choke
up the cofieepot, flavor your pies, roost
on your eyebrows, drop onto your meat,
crawl down your bootleqs and tickle vour
feet. Up your nose they go humniug
then they swarm down your throat; then
| up comes your dinner. or else I'm goat
| VI the pleasures of summer some doubts
may arise if we stop to consider those
beautiful flies.
| Judge Smithson's orchard near the cor.
raj is in hourishing condition; the trees,
although young, having been planted but
about three years, are nearly all heavily
laden with fruit. Yesterday, in the com.
pany OF the Judge, | took i'll this little
garden of Ellen, and counted ON one of
the smaller trees no less than l6S pullets.
The bullet Is an octasonal shaped fruit of
about two shades darker red than the
watermelon, and found it to be Juicy
and luscious in the extreme. Besides
being a good Republican, Mr. Smithson
is tirst-class agriculturist.
The birthday party of Uncle John
Thomas, which came off at the school
house on the 18th inst, Mr.. Thomas on
that date having attained his CD year,
was highly enjoyable affair Every.
body, old and young, attended, although
the main object of the party wa, to give
the little folks jolly time, and the
light fantastic" was trpped till 3 A. NJ,
when the merrymakers departed he
scene to dream of their conquests, or, of,
maybe, another party. The refreshments
served up under the direction of Mrs.
Thos. Gillian and Miss Mamie Clinton
were too nice for anything excepting
just what they We're intended for.
Among the many pleasant features of the
evening the Highland Fling, danced by
Miss Lottie Blair, and the Sword Of
Bunker Hill, defamation by Miss Mamie
Saunders, deserve favorable mention.
Old and young unite in wishing that
Uncle Thomas may still have many a
birthday in store for him.
TRUTHFUL "wILLIAM" AND THE sMopocs."
Et wuz May twenty-third,
An quite soft wuz the skies,
Which IT might be inferred
Wuz the "Alodocs' likewise
Yet they played it tn 1T day upon "Willisn,"
In way thated cause you surprise.
The game it wuz "Euchre;"
An they all took q hand
Which that "M illiam" was washed,
Ez the waves wash TIE straEd,
With the whisky 8 ing had been hiding.
The game he did not understand
Oh. the game that was played
On that civilian" Chinee,
An the points that WIZ made
WIZ quite fright 'ul to sfe,
Till "William" showed up his fright bower"
Which the same wdz soon JbbleI from he,
Then civilian" arose,
An he said, by the law
VI nations foIbea,!
Do you want any NOR rnnen
I've BEEN stelpei gal rot the customs Of white
Which mighE ev we'll known before.
can askl, without guile,
Tho speaks it q lite plain,
II this IL the style
Which ia going to obtain
IL here's You red 'Modoc, sti'l liv'n--
An William NJ sk4lp on his braiu2'
The people OF Phoebe, smany of us
whom are members of the Mormon
Church, or rather think we are, as cleo.
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