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The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24
A Cooperative City Proposed.

Frank Proutt of Chicago, a dis
ciple of Christian Science, has a
scheme whereby he proposes to col
onize 5000 families, or 10000 peo-
pie, somewhere in the West, where
land can be had cheeply, and found
a city which shall be different from
any other city the world has ever
seen. Each family will take 100
acres of government land and d.
vide the real estate, forest, mineral
and natural wealth among them.
The city, he thinks, will at once be
worth $15O,O0O. The land around
the city will be worth $40 an acre,
or $9,6OO,0O0, and the common
wealth of the community will be
$24, 100000, or about 81 900 to each
family. Settling land in co-ope-
ration" says Mr.. Proutt, sis ten
fold cheaper than settling it indi-
vidually. A city can be built for
So, 100000, and the principal neces-
saries of life can be manufactured
for $4,000 people, provided all
work is done by cooperation. I
propose the issuing of interest-bear-
ing bonds to the members of the
cooperative socity first, then to
outside stockholders, with the $24,-
100000 real estate property as Sc
curity. The new city should be on
high ground, where pure air can be
obtained. This will also afford good
drainage. Sidewalks we want COW
cred to avoid rain, mud, excessive
heat in summer, and snow and ice
IN winter. One bakery would do
Ill the baking, an orchestra could
De maintained at a cost to each in
labitant of not more than 81 a
year; amusements would be under
he general care of the community,
md no person would be put to work
lnder twenty-one years of age"
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24
KETCHUM ATURAS COUNTY, IDAHO SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1888
For this reason it is the rule in
ii insane asylums that while the

] For this reason it is the rule in
all insane asylums that while the
number of men admitted is larger
than the number of women, the fe.
male inmates outnumber the male
about IS per cent. The men are
either cured or die rapidly, while
the women linger and are cured
very slowly or die only after years
of confinement In cases of par
esis this is particularly noticeable,
the ravages of the disease showing
far less among the men than among
the women. However, they are in
this kind of insanity just as fatal,
and the large death rate in all lu-
natic asylums is due principally to
paresis.
Paresis pre-eminently an Amer
lean disease, according to DR..
Trautman, of Wards Island.
I'm this country" said the doc
tor recently, men dissipate more
than in any other, and then, unlike
sensible people, instead of resting
afterward, they plunge headlong
into business. They drink and
gamble and dissipate all night, and
hurry and rush all day to make the
money to pay for their pleasures.
Paresis is the result, and it will
continue to grow steadily while the
present mode of living here is kept
up" DIR. Trautman has had some
OF the most remarkable cases in the
country under his notice. One old
man, known as Bonaparte, whose
previous history could never be
learned, was in the institution for
seven years, suffering from paresis,
and finally died only a short while
ago, his death being due to an en-
tirely different cause. His case
was, however, exceptional, and at
the time of his death paresis had
brought him to the brink of the
grave.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24
Working at Night

"What will it cost me, Uncle Ras
tus. to have my coop whitewashed?'
II kain't tell yer, sab, till I makes
an estimate oh de size and dimen.
shuns." That night the owner was
disturbed by a loud noise in the
hen-coop. Hi, there !" he shouted
from an upper window; "what are
you doing there?" ats Unc. Ras-
tus," was the reply, "and he's fig
germ on de size an dimenshune
oh de oop."-Harper's Bazaar.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24

To MANY of us who see the snow
heaped high above the face of ma.
ture, through the long months Of
our winter, it seems almost like an
imprisonment, yet there is no part
Of the year without its special
beauty or benefits. It should be
an harvest time to gather knowl-
edge and strength of purpose. The
discomfort and vague longings for
the outer world which creep into
the idle hours of those in quiet
homes during long winter days and
evenings, find no room in the minds
that have the companionship of
good books, or are at all interested
in any well-directed effort for the
good of others. Though the flow
ers lie dormant under the winter
SHOWS, they are silently gathering
together, through the mysterious
chemistry of nature, the fragrance
and beauty which they will shed
around US in the coming spring.
There is much that we, too, can
do during these days that will
make our lives blossom as the flow
ers of May, and shed around us
the fragrance of charity and good
will to our fellow beings. So, after
all, there is chance for us to bridge
over long winter months, both
pleasantly and profitably; and be-
fore we scarcely realize it, we will
hear the chirp of the robin and find
half hidden under the melting snow
tho fret cwoet violetA of sDring,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24
About Watchea

One of the managers of the larg-
est watch factories in the world was
yesterday speaking of watches,
about which he gave some interest
ing information. A first-class Amer
lean watch, well kept, will last
thirty or forty years, or sometimes
even longer, before the works wear
out, but the average life of an ordi-
nary low-priced American watch is
len years, and that of Swiss watch,
the same grade, seven years. The
length of life for a watch depends
largely on the number of it's Jewels.
The range of prices for American
watches runs from S. to $500, the
costliest being split second min
ute register timing watch. In the
United States about $500 watches
are manufactured every day. The
Waltham factory turns out 1900 per
day, and the Elgin factory between
1900 and 1900. There are a few
watch factories in the West, but
their output is comparatively small
and the two here spoken of are the
big gest in the world; in fact, there
are none abroad that can be COM
pared with those in America. The
South has no watch factory. The
thoroughly trustworthy informant
'f the Sun upon this subject made
! curious statement in the follow
ng remark: "There are some men
whose pers onal magnetism affects
he working of a watch in such a
way as to render it practically USE
ess as tinlekeeper." IN. Y. Sun.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24
A Doubtful Compliment.

Guest-I wish had come here a
week ago.
Proprietor-Ah, that's Eery fiat
tering to nay hotel.
Il dent know about that. What
| mean is that / would have pre-
ferred to have eaten this fish then
instead of now."-Texas Siftinps.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24
How Few Arc Rich.

1t is probable, to say the least,
that fully SO per cent of the whole
body of the people spend nearly all
that they earn; Of this 80 per cent
q portion may be setting aside
moderate part Of their small earn
ings, become the owners Of q house,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24

The KEYSTONE has long been acknowl-
edged to be the sole representative of the
Great Upper Wood River and Sawtooth
mining regions, and, located rs it is in the
very heart of the most promising mining
country on the face of the earth, and leav-
ing nothing undone to present its readers q
complete synopsis of all mining news and
developments, as well as matters of local
Importance in the growth of Ketchum, the
future metropolis of Idaho, it is aninvalua-
BILE guide for capital and informant to the
settler OF every craft and position. Sub
scribe for it, read it, and let your friends
read what may benefit them.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24

or become the depositors in saw
ings bank, or insure their lives in
moderate way; of the remaining
ten per cent a part save enough to
protect themselves against want in
their latter years, and very small
part may become rich, and then
need not work unless they choose,
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24

Seedy IndividualMadam, can't
you give something to a yellow
fever sufferer?
Woman-Aintyou the same man
that called here few months ago
and got 25 cents to help q blizzard
suferer7
seedy Individual-Yes, ma'am.
/ don't do nut him but suffer from
one years end to the other.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24

Mas. I. I. LEWIS, Superintendent
of Evangelistic Work, has reorgan.
lied he Bible Glass for adults and
changed the place of meeting. The
class will meet hereafter at her
house every Sunday at l: 80 P. NJ,
at which time and place the public
is cordially invited to attend, for
the purpose of systematic study of
Bible truths.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24
An Heroic Task.

"You don't mean to say, John,
that you are going to have steam
heating arrangement in the base
ment, do your"
II do, Maria," said John, with
iron tirmness. "I'm going to keep
those feet of yours warm this win
ter if it costs 1900 !''-Chicago
Tribune.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24

THE great step in life is to learn
that God has made us to be some
thing REAL, and to accept the com
mission, and say, That will | be
through Joy or sorrow, loved or re-
jected; and then say, The world
shall take me as I am.-Selected.
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l ERRiroRY OF IDAHO.

territory OF IDAHO.
Esa.o, County of Alturas. IS.
saned bani. Lewis, President of the above.
itnre ststan,,, stnn, 90 solemnly swear that the
@ovledge "eat ana Is true to the best of INV
u ,%Sbscrjheid1 id1AAC AZ l. LEWIS, President
~ day Of nd ana sworn to before me this
Correct 1Ita. N. Snow, Notary Public.
~ +. G. LEWIS.
A..W. Coxsrocx D;rec.o~s
GEO. ]. LEWIS. D'''s0'''
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24

A MIND might ponder it's thought
for ages and not gain so much self
knowledge as the passion of love
shall teach it in a day.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24

IT was sad oversight in provi-
dence making it so much easier to
resist other peoples temptations
than our own
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24

Mrs. S. H. LEWIS.
Cor. Secretary-MIss SARA VAN WoRMER.
Rec. Secretary-MRs. MARY RIrcH1E.
Treasurer-MRs. T. T. HUNTINGTON.
Sup't Children's Work-MRs. S. H. R1rcH1E
Sup't Evangelical Work-MRs. I. l. LEWIS.
Sup't Press Work-MRs. L. G.. TUCKER.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24

THE Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union Society of Ketchum
meets every Saturday at 3 P. M. at
Union Church. All are invited.
The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1888-11-24

President-MRs w. H. BRoDHEAp.
Vice Presidents MRs. !. !. LEWIS.
MRS 8 H TEwra
Smyrna times., 1888-07-11
CLAYTON Notes.

The repairs to the NJ. p. Church at
this point are nearly completed and it
will be re-opened or Sunday 22nd
inst. Rev. Mr.. Graham, of Chester
town will preach in the morning and
Rev. w. S. Hammond, President of the
Maryland Annual Conference in the
evening.
The Sunday School Of st. Paul NJ. F..
Church has decided to 60 on the Rail
way Conductors Excursion to Reho-
both on July 26th. Aubrey Vandever
has the tickets for sale both for CLAYTON
and Smyrna, price $1.25.
The Clayton Savings and Loan As
sOciatiOn sold 81 300 yesterday.
Geo. c. Allen is building a dwelling
on the corner opposite the NJ. E.
Church. 1t will be very much in ap-
pearance like the FOxwell house in
Smyrna, and being on high ground,
will no doubt make very pretty show
ing.
The indications are that there will
be quite demand for houses during
the coming year, although we have a
few empty at the present time from
various causes.
Delaware Division pay car arrived
yesterday and distributed lots of cash
and made the boys smile all over
their faces. Some of the colored men
called the day Fourth of July.
There is some agitation in regard
to the water supply for the town, or
at least a part of it; some of the citi-
zens would like to have a pipe run
from the Smyrna stand pipe.
Smyrna times., 1888-07-11
Plenty of Cars for Peaches.

BY the following interview with Mr..
L. N. Mills, Superintendent of the Del
aware Railroad, in regard to supplying
cars for the movement of peaches, a fact
has been ascertained that will be of
great interest to the growers of the
Peninsula:
How about the statement, Mr.. Mills,
that J. P. r. Polk is credited with
making that the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company is not able to furnish cars to
move the peach crop of the Peninsula
this year2
Mr. Mills-I am assured by the Gen
eral Superintendent of Transportation,
Mr.. s. NJ. Provost, that we will have
plenty of cars to transport the peach
crop of the Peninsula this season to
points reached by our company, not
withStanding the assertion made to the
contrary by Mr.. Polk. | have under
stood that Mr.. Polk wanted cars for
outside points, such as Montreal,
Quebec, and other points in Canada
which we have never reached before.
OF course it will be difficult to furnish
cars for this distance, but you can say
to your readers that we will be able to
supply transportation to any point
where we have sent cars before, and
expect to lill the demand ofall shippers.
Smyrna times., 1888-07-11

ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY YEARS
OLD.-The Rev. A. l.. Hunt, pastor of
the Ames Methodist Episcopal Church
in Iowa, sends the Christian AdUocate.
of New York, an account of the death
of Mrs. Mary Benneman, which occur
red May 20, 1888. Mrs. Benneman
was daughter of Captain Christopher
r.. Perry, an officer of the Revolution-
airy War, and was born April 27, l768.
in Sussex county, Del, She was there.
fore at the time of her death, in her
l20th year.
Her case attracted great attention.
and was Investigated by the Cincinnati
Inquirer, which publised an editorial a
column in length upon it, under date
of April T. 1886. The Rev. Mr.. Hunt
informs us that when he came to the
church last fall Mrs. Benneman would
sit in her chair all day, seemed to eniov
her meals, spoke quite frequently, but
hardly recognized any one unless it
was her daughter. She continued in
this state through the winter, was con-
fined to her bed entirely about three
weeks, and passed away like an ex-
hausted taper.
She had been member of the Meth
odist EpispcOpal Church about eightv-
two years. She was thirty years of
age when she was married to her first
husband, Peter Coulter. Mr.. and Mrs
Coulter moved from Delaware to Ohio
eighty years ago. Ohio, as a State
was then but five years old, and the
country west of it was vast wilder
ness. Some years after the death of
Mr. Coulter Mrs. Coulter married John
!Benneman, who lived but a year, leay-
ing daughter This child and three
of the children of the FIRST marriage
are now living in extreme age, and the
number of her descendants must be at
least one hundred and fifty.
Smyrna times., 1888-07-11
A Fish Story.

The proverbial " fish story" that at
taches to the angler is known and
laughed over wherever the man with
the long rod and fly makes his detour.
but the man who goes out fishing with
silver hook " is not always barren
of an incident. A fisherman who
came up from kits Hammock on
Monday afternoon with load of trout
was spied by one of our citizens who is
known to have keen tooth for fish
and of course this wagon did not get
by him, as no other fish wagon does
until he has got supply. They had
been caught but a short time, were
nicely strung but rather small in size
which caused an inquiry as to what
was the cause they were running so
small lately. Why, says the dealer.
dontt you remember how large thew
were when they first started in the
spring, what great big, large fellows
they were? Yes, said the purchaser.
| remember it perfectly, l never saw
finer in my life. Well, do YOU know
a man in Dover named Heverin.
Judge Heverin" they sometimes call
him? Yes, he had seen him frequently.
Well, he told us fishermen that Mr..
Cleveland being President was the
cause of their being so fine, and so they
run, seeming to get bigger clear up to
the day Mr.. Cleveland was renomina-
ted, and :" by bOky," they have been
getting smaller ever since. Without
attempting to reconcile Judge Heverin's
theory with the facts, the purchaser
had hearty laugh at the fisherman's
earnestness of narrative, truddled off
with his trout more intent on what a
good supper was in waiting for him
than he was IN their size.
Smyrna times., 1888-07-11
Mosquitoes.

The general subject of conversation
next to base ball, in Smyrna as we'll as
up and down our bay coast since the
Fourth of July, has been the mOsuui-
toes. The last visitation of these pests.
like the last of many other disaprea-
able things with many persons. is al
ways the worst. We have to arrive at
conclusions in such things by cOmpari.
sons, and no safer example need be
wanted than the experience of one who
has his home in the midst of their pro-
pagating grounds,-Charlie Jordan
who says it is the first time in sixteen
years that he has thrown up the
sponge and quit work on account of
mosquitoes. Charlie has always been
considered proof both against the mos
quito and Jersey lightning" and
ought TO be a most competent witness.
They usually run their course in from
seven to nine days, and are now doubt
less fast departing to the land of their
fathers"
Mosquitoes were never more numer-
GUS and voracious than in these early
days Of July.-SaLem, IN. J.) Sunbeam
The crop of mosquitoes are said to
come from Jersey. Clouds of them
can be seen coming across the Bay
every eVening.-DOUer Sentinel.
We understand that the swarm of
mosquitoes which took possession of
Wilmington on Wednesday night have
reached Dover on the way back TO
Sussex county. They have lost their
voices and are attending strictly to
business, we are told.-W WiLminqtOn
Morning NelOs.
The oldest inhabitant of Dover has
been proved totally squelched and bv
a mosquito. He had to drop the re-
miniscences of '27 and '46 on Saturday
night and acknowledge that he never
saw or felt anything like it. The
marshes seemed to have unloaded
their trilliOns of these pests on the
streets Of Dover, full of fire and sting.
People who were compelled to do mar
keting or shopping moved along the
streets plying fans and handkerchiefs
and smokes" were built along the
cutters even on Loockerman street.
Correspondent TO EUery EVening.
The heavy easterly storm of yester-
day doubtless, in Overhowed marshes,
laid the foundation for another prolific
crop.
Smyrna times., 1888-07-11

The frequent peach meetings run in
this or that interest would indicate
that there is a wide range of thought
on what will be the best method of
marketing the great crop. Two meet
ings have been appointed by the Fruit
Exchange to meet the farmers of this
vicinity: the president and secretary
were there, but not a farmer put in an
appearance in either case. 1t was a
singular manifestation of apathy. at
tributed to the fact that the farmers
were so busy with their crops. The
fruit shippers from Clayton, Brenford,
&c.-whO act as agents and share the
per cent with the commission men of
the cities-say that J. P. r. Polk with
his Distribution plan will not get a
foothOld in this vicinity, though he
says to the contrary. A meeting of the
growers held on Saturday at Middle
town seemed to have for its object to
fight the distribution" plan and wentsO
far as to call it a "trust" or "pool."
The meeting at Dover on Thursday,
made up of representative peach grow
ers, seemed to take a wider range of
view, viz: that there was room for both
the old and the new methods, and
when tried, stick the closest to that
which panned out the best. None of
them are perfect, but a fair trial may
prove one plan to be better than an
other. In one thing they are all
agreed, namely: that the freight rates
are too high and should be lowered.
Smyrna times., 1888-07-11

Baskets thus shipped will be of more
value than if marked and can be used
again by any grower. l wish to saw to
an growers who may favor us with
thelr consignments that we will in
every case possible save and collect
thelr baskets and return them free of
cost, except freight. Bv persistent
eii0rt last year we were enabled and
ana return to some of our sbinners
more than one-half their empties.
AS to the prompt arrival of trains
Whlch Is the most important of All
tnere mas nothing definite been done
Sat least l have heard of nothing1: 4
found last year by noting the arrival
" the peach trains and publishing them
Ia your paper (which was eonied
throughout the Peninsula) and comics
sent to the Railroad officials. that we
had better train service, which means
thousands of dollars to the grower tbat
otherwise n, they would not get.
Inc prompt arrival of trains THE
year Will save to the growers on this
Leninsula more than one hundred
thousand dollars. / will note the srr;-
va,s ana have you publish them and
VIII DO all can. All 1 ask is some in
couragement from growers.
Respectfully,
q. H. REGISTER.
Smyrna times., 1888-07-11
Off for Alaska,

Harry r. Bell, son of VIM. NJ. Bell.
who for the past year has been connec-
ted with the Edison Electric Light
Company, but who came home the past
month fora briefstay with his relatives.
left on Saturday for Alaska via the
Northern Pacific road to Seattle, Wash
lngtOn Territory, thence by steamer on
the Pacific Ocean to the island of Juno
IN the sea near Behring Strait. To
reach his destination requires a travel
of 5000 miles. Harry is quite a young
man for such an adventure, having
graduated from our high school two
years ago, but he goes to Join a rela-
tive, Will VanGasken, son of John
VanGasken also of this town, who has
been in that far off region for the past
year. This new country is considered
to have superior advantages to such as
have the pluck and ability to meet the
responsibilities, and our two Smvrna
young men have these and will doubt
less succeed. They are connected
with a company of large capital and
act as the commercial or trading agents
in bartering merchandise for furs.
dried and canned cod fish, &c. The
trade in furs has always been a profita-
bic one; next to these come fish, the
waters being full of such as form a
profitable and staple article of trade.
We expect to have an account of the
most interesting features of his trip to
lay before our readers.
Smyrna times., 1888-07-11
To Peach Growers and SINNERS

EDITOR TIMEs-Dear Sir With
your permission 1 wish to make a few
suggestions to peach growers. From
present prospect the yield will he a
large one, and the question in ali
minds Is, how can the crop be marketed
to best advantage. There are a num-
Der OF schemes being discussed. some
OF which are practicable. Others not.
W hat l wish to call attention to is the
Basket question and train service. or
prompt arrival of trains. The basket
question is an important one and the
question is how can the growers inter
ests be best subserved or in other
words, how can the growers get their
baskets returned at small cost and
thereby save themselves such a large
outlay for baskets.
The basket after being used once is
nearly as good as new, and of very
little value to those who receive them.
and especially the grocery trade
where they collect in large numbers
and can be collected and returned.
would suggest that growers do not de-
face their baskets by their name or in
itials, but use small tag and wire
(which will be furnished free To ali
shippers,l