Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-07-19
BRIEF MENTION.


-Pinenuts are going to be plentiful this
season.
"A. E. Harris is rusticating in Smith
Valley.
What has become Of the boat made to
ascend fumes.
Yesterdays south-bound train was four
hours and half late.
The nights are getting cooler and the
sweltering hot spell is broken.
What about the State Fair this year7
Are we going to have one, or not1
The Odd Fellows are having new floor
put in the lower hall of their building.
The water in the river is lowering and
the Douglass mill started up yesterday.
Lou Vincent has been quite i'll for the
past three days with an attack of dyspepsia.
Thursday the thermometer at Mason
Station on the c. Il c., road marked 100 de-
grees in the shade.
-Dobbins, the Splinter, did Jack Furlong
up in San Francisco for several hundred dol
| lars, on fake foot-race.
&C. P. Randall has gone to Valleys
Springs to soak his rheumatic joints and get
in running order for the Fall campaign.
Harry Johnson. the champion Splinter
Of the world, is lying very i'll at Grass Val
ley, CAL, and is not expected to recover
| tomatoes and watermelons are in the
market. The latter sell for &c pound.
New Nevada potatoes are also in market.
| Eugene Perrin has made much of an
improvement to his place on Main street by
putting a new porch aud sidewalk in front
it.
w. Crowninshield Pony was down
| from Como this week for the first time in
nearly two years. He is looking younger
than ever.
The hard Winter has about killed all
the game in the country. There is not a
quail or rabbit in the hills and sage hen crop
is very light.
Lyon county has 40 school children,
and according to the second SEMI annual ap-
portionment Of school moneys for 1890 is
entitled to $I.ISI a..
The potato crop of Nevada will be
large this year, and reports say that the Cal
ifornia crop will be short. This will be a
good thing for Nevada spud growers.
--Nels auckland and his wife returned to
Dayton to reside this week. They have been
living in Reno for the past year or more.
Nels will tend bar foi' Charlie Watson.
We have new Parry road cart for sale
cheap. The cart is first class one made
of second growth hickory. II you are in
need of such vehicle come and see US.
The TINES acknowledges the receipt OF
handsome souvenir Of the 2sth anniversary
of the San Francisco Chronicle and the inau-
guration of the new building. On one side
is the picture Of NJ. H. DeYoung and on the
other that of the Chronicle building. 1t Is
beautiful souvenir.
-Panaca is the possessor Of a "Peeping
Tom" who takes delight in peeping through
the cracks of Allen Nelson's bath-house at
the young lady mermaids of that village. A
numter of Phoebe girls visited Panaca last
Sunday and while taking bath were photo
graphed by this villain. -Reeoyd.
Judge Hiram Knowles, former resident
of this place, paid friends here visit the
first of this week. Judge Knowles now re-
sides in Butte, Montana. and came to Nevada
to open the United States District Court,
there yet being no one appointed to fill
Judge Sabin's place. This is the Judges
first visit to Nevada since he left here in 1865.
We acknowledge the receipt of copy
Of Practical Sanitary and Economic Cooking,
adapted to persons OF moderate and small
means. This is prize essay by Mrs. Mary
Human Abel, published in book form by
the American Public Health Association,
and sold at the low price of 40 cents each,
or three copies for one dollar. Address P.
o. Drawer ESQ, Rochester, New York.
"A bridal couple in San Bernardino. Cal,
blew out the gas and narrowly escaped
lugubrious aversion Of the honeymoon. The
editor Of one of the papers down there thinks
that bridegroom with no more sense than
that is not tit to take wife. The Sacrament
to Bee remarks that the point is well taken
in the abstract, but it must be confessed that
a man under such conditions is bese, by very
harassing circumstances.
Considerable fault is being found by
our Smith Valley subscribers about the de-
lay they are subjected to in getting their
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