Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1886-01-29
LOWER PAYETTE LETTER.
ExMErrsvrLLs, Idaho. Jim. IS, 1880.

EDITOR w nRLD.--The New Year is
with US, and we see no reason why
we cannot make it better than the
old one. Certainly we all made some
mistakes In the old that with q little
care We can avoid 10 the New Year.
An idea has struck me that people
might do less growing. hear men
say about almost every paper pub
lished In the Territory: .There is no
news in 1t! Can read it in minute!
It's all politicslr &c., &c. Now, Mr..
Editor, it seems to me it's in ! great
measure the fault Of just such men as
those that growl, that there is not
news from every valley and camp
around, in every county paper. 1
never knew an editor who could be
everywhere at once, Except one, and
he died) and as he can't, why not.
when man knows an item of news
in his neighborhood, write it to The
editor. 1t don't cost much, and don't
have to be written in Latin or Greek:
but IN simple, plain English, just as
you would talk it, and il it is not
spelled just right, it's the editors
fault if he don't correct it. Every
one who reads a paper can pick up a
few items every week or two that
would he relished by readers in diff
ferent parts of the county, and then
everybody would take an interest in
the county paper, and no issue would
be dull. 1t don't make any differ
ence if you do pay the editor for get
ting up the paper. The more you
pay for it the more interest you ought
to take IN it, and by all turning loose
little news now and then make the
paper worth the price, two or three
times over.
The New Year ball was a nice af-
fair. lightweight tickets sold. We
were mlslnformed about 1T being free,
but an Odd Fellow told us SO. and
many here SO understood it.
There is about four inches of snow
here for the first time this winter.
Old Zero was here with his weather
some the past week.
Everybody and his brother has
been attending court the past week
either as witnesses or jurors in the
trial OF Morton for the shooting of
Crawford here last summer. The
grand jury found bill for murder,
but the trial jury couldn't see it, SO
acquitted the prisoner.
The ranchers are gathering in their
cattle to feed. The range feed is so
short little snow makes the cattle
think there isn't any.
Our High School is soon to give an
exhibition, and Mr.. Spain, the princi-
pal, says 1t shall be a good one.
Toothache seems to be cheap and
common here. The women jaw and
the men growl. Everybody's Jaw
seems to be trying to get little big
ger than everybody else's. DR.. Good
rich laughs and pulls, and tells every
one that their teeth pull harder than
everyone else's. He has bottle full
of teeth that look as if their owners
'chawed" tobacco, talked slang, and
lived in bad neighborhood.
Many of our ranchers are prepar-
ing to fence and otherwise improve
their homes this spring.
Mr.. Hugh Groomer is down from
Garden Valley, and his many friends
made it the occasion to give him a
birthday party at the residence of
Mr.. Bailey, on Jan. 3D. The way
the girls used Hugh that day, if he
don't marry one of them lie never
ought to be allowed any more birth
days.
The saloon men are harvesting
| their ice crops. CArcH All