Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1888-09-01
BRIEF MENTION.
begins next Monday.

| D. Co. is in town.
j. B. Gallagher was in town on We'd
nesday of this week.
H. J. CARING returned from his Mason
Valley assessing trip on Tuesday last.
Miss Annie Berry, of this place, has
been engaged to teach the Wabuska school.
Tom Flaws, is still at the Morgan mill
putting in the lead work for the new refinery.
The Board Of County Commissioners
hold their regular monthly meeting next
Monday.
Beef is now quoted in Reno at s to 5Ha
cents pound, and very few buyers are will
ling to give that.
There is temporary shut down at the
Como Eureka on account OF one of the boil
ers springing leak.
e. P. Lovejoy paid visit to Carson
Thursday; probably on business connected
with the Wabuska Fair.
People cannot expect to see a notice of
all that is going on in the county unless they
take the trouble TO inform US.
There is not particle Of water in the
lower end of Mason Valley, and ranchers
there have to dig wells TO obtain water for
stock.
J. A. Bonham and family who have been
camping out near Pyramid Lake, are expect
ed to arrive here to-day. Game is reported
plentiful up that way.
Miss Jennie Shirley, of Bishop Creek,
neice of VIM. Shirley, of this place, pass
ed through on yesterdays train on her way
to the Normal School at San Jose.
The A. o. U. w. people and the Ma
sons of Silver City are jointly fitting up their
hall, and when the work is finished will have
as nice and tidy little hall as there is in the
State.
w. E. Lindsey left last Sunday for his
marble mine in Antelope Valley. He has
some other work to put up for Dayton parties
and will return with more marble next week
it is understood.
George Compbell returned from Califor-
MIA last Thursday. He has been in poor
health for the past few weeks and has come
home to recuperate in the balmy atmosphere
Of sageland.
The Phoebe Record notes the recent
birth of twins to Miss Lorenzo Heaps, a
resident Of that town, whose aggregate
weight was 1914 pounds-a boy and girl
the latter weighing IoA pounds.
Company l. Greenfield Guards will give
grand ball at their hall in Greenfield on the
r4th of this month. Arrangements are being
made by the committees to have this dance
excel anything of the kind ever gotten up in
the Switch.
Miss Issie Barrett and her sister, Mrs.
Chas. Bovard, Of Mason Vallay, have re.
turned to the Valley, from Virginia City.
Mrs. Bovard's health is much improved. MIR.
Barrett is now in Virginia City under the
doctors care.
j. R. Shaw and Geo. w. Keith returned
from Wyoming the first of this week. They
report having had a very pleasant time 1.-THE
Grand Lodge A. o. U. w., and also state
that the organization is in splendid condition
and growing daily.
Mrs. E. J. Ruby, of this place, made
her husband happy two weeks or more ago
by presenting him with a daughter. Ruby
says he will now have to give up the cradle
he has been sleeping in, but denies that his
daughter weighs as much as he does by sew.
eral ounces.
MIR. E. T. Arnold and family were i'll Day.
ton Thursday. Mr.. Arnold has sold his
ranch at Fort Churchill to Mr.. Barnett, and
will leave shortly on an overland trip to Inyo
county, Cal. He says, however, that he in
tends to return to Nevada, and believes he
will go into the business of raising fine
horses.
The brass band serenaded the guests at
the Occidental Hotel last Tuesday night, and
played some excellent music. The boys are
getting new pieces all the time now, and it
will not be long before they will have to hire
a composer to keep them supplied with new
music. They were treated to ice cream by
the hostess OF the Occidental.
Mrs. 7. M. MCGOWAN, of Mason Valley,
will leave for San Francisco to day to have
her upper jaw operated on. Some months
ago she had several teeth pulled, and in the
operation the jaw was fractured and piece of
the bone that was splintered left in the gums.
The lady has suffered great deal of late,
and finally she consulted a Virginia City
physician, who advised her to go below and
visit specialist.
Fred Schlomberg had another trial last
Saturday before Judge Rising. Hon. Pat
Reddy has Fred's case in hand and is making