Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-08-11
BRIEF MENTION.
Blaine returned yesterday.

Mrs. W. R. Davis, of Carson, is visiting
friends and relatives in Dayton.
The Court House flag was the only one at
half mast in Dayton for Sheridan.
J. H. Rae received the sad news of the
death of his brother, in New Jersey, the first
Of this week.
Mrs. AS. Littell, Of Mason Valley, who
has been seriously i'll Of late, is now improv
ing somewhat.
Bob Mathews and Billy Mitchell, of Ma.
son Valley, were in town yesterday, on their
way to the lake.
Charlie Watson and Ed Hamilton will
leave to-day for a trip to he lake. They
are going for deer.
Professor Levers returned last Wednesday
from his trip to San Francisco and other
parts of California.
A piece of poetry on Jumbo District, by a
Silver City miner is omitted this week for
want Of space. Next week.
"Pony" was down from Como this week
with petition to the Commissioners for a
voting precinct in that camp.
A band of LOO mutton sheep belonging
to Mr.. Cantrell, passed through this place
yesterday on their way to Virginia.
Mrs. S. E. Burbank, of Smiths Valley, is
in Virginia under physicians care. She
has been quite i'll from an attack Of typhoid
fever.
There was a slight mistake in our story
last week. Read the paper of week before
last and follow with this weeks and you
will have it all right.
Mrs. George Esters, nee Hattie Hilburn,
Of Mason Valley, returned to the Valley,
the first of this week from California to visit
friends and relatives.
The Helping Hand Society gave parlor
social and ice cream festival at Odd Fellows
Hall last evening 1t was a success fnan
cially as we'll as socially.
Tom Flaws is receiving large and we'll
selected stock of boots, shoes and slippers
for ladies, gents and children, and is selling
his goods at San Francisco prices
B. I. Truman, Secretary of the Dredging
Company, went below on business connected
with the Dredge last Tuesday and will
probably be gone about ten days..
Mr.. Arnold, who lately sold his Fort
Churchill ranch, was out in Mason Valley
last week taking look at the country with
view Of purchasing ranch in that section.
James Meadows and sister were passengers
on Wednesdays train bound for Mason VAL
ley. They had received word of the death
of their grandmother, Mrs. Sims, in Green.
field.
Jerry Gantz's broken leg is SO far mended
as to allow him to walk about the streets.
Jerry carries his leg in sling, and it will be
a month or more before he will have full use
of it.
Notwithstanding the En<trprise cores
pondent's denial of heavy washouts in the
roads into Mason Valley, the roads are
washed out, and the washing was done by
rains.
Two large redwood tanks arrived for the
Dredge Company last Tuesday. This COM
pletes the machinery with the exception OF a
dynamo that will be used to operate the Rae
Electric Process in saving the quicksilver.
A portion OF the 4 Paw circus that strand.
ed in Carson returned to Dayton and gave a
performance in Odd Fellows Hall last
Thursday night. The audience was not
large but the show, some parts of it, was
excellent.
There was an error in our account Of the
fire at W. H, Spragg's place in Mason Valley
last week. Mr.. Spragg did not lose his
valuable stallion nor his hay. The horses
lost were work horses, one of which belong
ed to another party. Besides the horse Mr..
Spragg lost his thoroughbred bull, lot of
harness and agricultural tools.
Omar Stallard brought his running mare
Sadie C home from Carson this week, where
she has been for the past few months under
the care of Joe Raycraft. The mare has
not entirely recovered from the injury she
received nearly year ago at the Greenfield
fair, but is on the highroad to recovery, and
Stallard speaks in high terms of Raycraft as
a horse physician.
Our readers have doubtless often noticed
that Hoods Sarsaparilla is we'll spoken Of
in the newspapers. The press is quick to
recognize merit, and does not hesitate to
give praise where it is due. The following
is from the Baptist Weekly, a leading relig,
ious paper: advertising may bring an arti-
Gle prominently before the public, but no
advertising can help it if it has not real
merit Hoods Sarsaparilla is well adver-
t;cad. hut the hact yro0f If lie value &c that