Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-03-03

The House Committee on Terrific
rles Thurday made an unanimous re.
port against the division of Idaho.
This virtually settles the matter
In Wood county, Ohio, Miss Jen-
ME Corn married a Mr.. Wheat the
other day and the church choir con-
Vulsed the audiesce by singing-"What
shall the harvest be?'
hogstadt, the Eagle Rock Tailor.
mas the handsomest lot of SAMPLES
Tor spring suits ever brought to the
county, and is prepared to make them
ON short order, guaranteed to please
IN every particular
The sermons of Rev. Mr.. Stull at
the revival meetings of the week were
peculiarly fine and appropriate and
their aeceptability manifest from the
increased interest and attendance as
the meetings advanced.
Miss Brooks, of Chambersburg.
Illinois, young lady of four years
experience in the school room. will
succeed Miss Gertrude Lindsey in the
public school of this place. She is ex-
pected to arrive in time to enter upon
her duties next Monday.
The people of Lemhi county are
working hard to have the Indian res
ervation in that county thrown open to
settlement and the Indians thereon
removed to the Fort Hall reservation
in this county, and from present indi-
cations they seem likely TO succeed.
Mrs. John Montgomery and son.
Willie, and Miss Maggie Reevy have
returned from delightful visit to the
City Of Mexico, and the News expects
TO be able TO give its readers some
graphic and pleasing incidents of their
tour in its next issue.
BY reference TO the court calendar
for 1888 which we publish in another
column, it will he noted that Judges
Hays and Broderick have exchanged
districts, and that our spring term of
court will be held in June instead of
in May as last year
TnE News respectfully suggests to
the board Of school directors of Black
foot school that the next school marin
employed be required to enter in writ
ten contract not TO marry during the
school term unless il he TO the county
school superintendent, the principal
of the school or TO the clerk of the
board.
4 plain hole in the ground will
draw crowd like an open window of
a circus ticket wagon. We notice
this daily in the crowds that gather
around the excavation being made by
johnson Bros. on Main street. If
every man who stops to look on and
make suggestions would take up a
mouth full of dirt, ant like, and bear
il off, double teams and scrapers
would find less 10 do.
II the court please
We ask that an
attachment be issued for Stenographer
Joe Miller to appear in court and
show cause why the papers in the
case-"1t's boy, and the very image
of his father" should not be accepted
and filed,a and an order be made that he
the said stenographer, be excused for
the complaccnt smile that plays over
his visage when his first born boy is
and we further ask--that |
the court do take a recess of twenty
for congratulations
The only death-like feature notice
able about Eagle Rock is the condi-
ton of the sidewalks on Front street.
They are dead, heap dead, drowned |
in the melting of the snowdrifts, and
the man who wades through them
daily will soon be dead too, that is
IL he does not fall and break his neck
before he dies. In all seriousness,
keep your sidewalks up to
a standard, in keeping with the bust
ness reputation of your town, and you
will yet be proud and prouder still of
your busy town on the banks of the
clear running waters of Snake river.
An old durSey preaching from the
lext-"And He healed them of divers
diseases. said, "AIy bredcren and sis
ters: you all know suppen bout sick
ness; dars de mumps it are bad, den
iars de hoooin cough when you keep
er coughin. and er coughin, and dars
le measles what you brake out wild,
but not out de Jail; allof desc an more
you can cure wild yarbs and teas, but
ie divers, il am impossible to be cur
ed. cepin by de blood of de lamb; and
say unto you my brederen an sisters
you had better be fortifyin agin dem
divers by iining Of de flock so you