Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-05-24

lanta last Wednesday.
Henry Warren has returned from
his Indian creek ranch.
Pete Jeffrey is now ready to take
orders for all kind of hauling.
Mike johnson and wife came up
from their ranch last Tuesday.
Mrs. James Mullany returned
yesterday from visit to relatives
in Boise City.
John Simmons, an old-time citi.
zen Of Atlanta, is spending vaca-
ton in Rocky Bar.
w. T. Gerard and ]. III. Andreas
from Pine Grove were visiting this
place during the week.
Superintendent Mccormick con-
tinues to make splendid Roadway
with the Vishnu tunnel.
County Surveyor Towne returned
home Wednesday from an official
VISIT to Bingham county.
John Marley and o. s. Glenn,
from Cold Spring creek, visited the
county seat Monday and Tuesday.
Henry Swanholm sailed out for
Boise last Sy6day) on board of
spirited bronckovss6 be absent about
ten days.
Our lady friends who send away
for dry goods should not forget those
fair-dealing men, Nathan Falk &
Bro, of Boise and Nampa.
Postmaster Golden has leveled
fup the eye-sore<In front of his store
which was dausedIby excavating
for Reeser's warer ditch last fall.
II. X. Goldberg, the popular rep
resentative of Kahn Bros, Salt
Lake, was here several DAYS this
week soliciting orders for his house.
Hold mel or I'll fence this town
in with new-made graves before
might" exclaimed an excited indi-
vidual Thursday afternoon. He
was "holed" with his boots on.
Geo. w. Jackson has returned
from Indian creek with his horses
and COWS. Mr.. jackson has fine
farm on the South Boise from which
be anticipates large yield this
season.
The wives of Masons of Rocky
Bar contemplate organizing lodge
of the Eastern Star at an early date
II is noble organization and will
l doubtless work much good in this
'scommunity.
Commercial drummers are num-
erous hereabouts, and one Portland
fellow seemed TO talk more about
county seat removal than his nom
residence should justify. Was he
bribed to do SOP
n. b. Rathbone has purchased
Briggs barber chop, opposite the Al
turas Hotel and moved therein last
Wednesday. He is prepared to
give hot baths as well as a good
hair cut and clean shave.
A fellow back east has invented |
a bread-buttering machine to be
used in connection with patent bread
cutters for large eating houses.
Well bet the machine is not of
sufficient strength to handle some !
of the butter used in Rocky Bar
the past winter.
Hon. d. B. Ethel desired to re-
turn to his home at Pine Grove, but
he was too weak 10 attempt ordinary i
travel. Sunday last he was placed
upon a stretcher and conveyed to
Junction Bar by the willing hands
of Messrs. Davis, Campbell, Brown,
Hayhurst, Blackman and Jewett,
with Mrs. Ethel and DIR. Smith fol-
lowing on horseback. Mr.. Ethel
has experienced four months of ter
rible and at times dangerous illness,
and it is the prayer of old and
young, little and big, that he may
soon fully recover his wonted
health.
Tuesday Deputy Recorder Yves
Wickersham received news by tele-
phone that caused him to smile to
the extent that he was for a while
in danger Of swallowing his own
ears. The telephone v as to the
effect that his estimable wife was
aboard the stage returning from a
protracted visit to her parents at
Boise and that she desired him TO
meet her at junction Bar that even
ing. Yves flew around quite lively
putting his house in order, after
which he procured a couple of sad
die horses and went with "Gilpen"
speed to meet his better-half. They
returned about D o'clock and many
friends welcomed the lady's return
home. Everything is once more
serene at the Wickersham 'wicki-
aup."
While coming from Atlanta last
Monday, Ed Gaetz, the mail car
rier, was fortunate enough to pick
up an old buckskin purse that con-
tanned 81 ounces of clean, bright
gold dust. The purse was lying in
q rut in the road along James
creek, that had been washed out by
the melting snow and had probably
been there for a great many years,
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