Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-08-17
The smelter at Bay Horse closed
down last Friday. No water

Nf~''- - ~~'~N . 1
The next court for Custer county
begins the 18th OF September. So
far no business is on the docket.
The James Bros freighting teams
and wagons were sold at sheriff sale
last Friday for $3.50 G. A. Robethan
was thepurchaser
Prof. Bonham has been reelected
principal of the public school at Black
foot The corps Of teachers will re
main the same as last year.
A lady living near a church was
sitting by window listening TO the
crickets. and also TO the choir in full
blast "How loudly they sing said
a gentleman calling on her! Yes,
said the lady thinking of the crickets,
'and they say they do it with their
hind legs"
The Julietta girls organized 4 soci-
ETY. not long ago and selected as their |
motto: "Tle lips that touches tobacco
shall never touch mine" The young
men never paid any attention to it
and kept On chewing the weed, and
in less than a week the society dis
banded
Our Blackfoot people may hold
themselves in readiness for one of
the most pleasing entertainments ever
given in the town. A splendid Com
edietta, entitled THE Boston Dip" is
being reEearsed for the occasion.
Next weeks issue of the News will
name the time and programme in full.
A commercial tourist stopped at
Das ota hotel and while registering
saw an old bed bug crawling over the
page Of the register. He laid down
his pen and told the clerk, he had
been tackled by bed bugs in many
hotels but that was the first time he
had ever known one TO come out and
examine the register TO see which
room he was going TO occupy.
The steamship Servia carried to
Europe last week 400 school teachers,
mostly from OHIO They go on a
summers excursion and will return
for fall work. A majority OF them
we're "marms. Just think Of BOG
"marms' shut up on one steamer for
, 10 days. Edison's monographs would
be total failures on that boat.
Ayers Hair Vigor restores color
and vitality to weak and gray hair
/ Through its healing and cleansing
, qualities, it prevents the accumula
e tion OF dandruff and cures scalp dis
eases. The best hair dressing ever
, made, and by far the most economi
cal.
A young man named Delong. living
T with his mother two miles north o.
town, died Saturday from the effects
Of eating a cucumber the day before
i and was buried Sunday. He was ;
!. fine and industrious young man, ageC
about % years, and had many friend
who will join in sympathy with hi
\ bereaved parent Moscow Star.
;. The season is at hand when parent
e who have daughters to educate from
home begin looking over the field 70
:. schools offering the best advantages
(, There are few, If any, in all the ives
better than St. Mary's Academy q
Salt Lake City, and we can conscier
iously recommend it to our ldah
is people as fully up to the standard o
d the best eastern schools. See the &C
t. vertisement in another column of t.
IT days paper.
The election for delegates to th
constitutional convention in Ne
le Mexico proved to be miserable fare
y The democrats remained away frol
Is the polls and so did number of r.
ST publicans. The delegates elected rel
n resent small minority and were the
a. to complete the work of framing
D. constitution it would he overwheln
ingly defeated ON ratification da.
u All this has grown out of the effor'
le of few partisans who carried the
s. point of making the convention
te partisan one.
: The Secretary of the Interior hi
a selected Bear Lake, in Bear Lal
y county, as reservoir site togeth,
with all lands situated within tv
ar miles of the border Of said Lake
o high water These lands are inclu
k ed in townships l2, 13, II, Is and
he range 43 cast, and townships u, !
T. IL, 15 and 16 range AZ east. Regi
" ter Arson has been instructed
re withdraw all lands within the foreg
ar ing limits from entry and settlemer
or, BlackfoOt Irrigation Co.