The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-04-21
THE SIGN AL.
Salubf.ia.


Better roads soon.
Snow nearly all gone.
Soon we'll have may flowers.
The country is all right. at was
de peoples "
James Welch, of Payette, has re
Gently moved into our valley. He
has some fine stock horses, which be
hopes will do we'll on this range.
The stage is making excellent time
now.
DR.. Howard left this place for Ba
ker City one day last week on partic-
ular business. He Is expected bach
again soon.
Geo. Ingman is running the rancho
belonging to Mrs. j. D. Wade, this
season.
Hon. William Allison is farming
his own rancho in the valley this sea-
son. His family, however, will go to
the "mountain dairy rancho" to make
butter and cheese.
John Killoran has rented the farm
of K. Fl. Martin, consisting of about
800 acres, which he will put into a
crop this spring.
Several new pieces of sidewalk
have been constructed during the
week, among which the most impor-
tant are those of DR.. Reynolds, in
front of the postoffice, and that in
front of the Citizen office. The Git
izen man is getting very enterprising
Perhaps he is intending to set an
example.
Easter Sunday passed very quietly,
except little squally weather. In
the evening the members of the Sun
day-school, under the able manage
ment of Rev. E. N. Elton and Mrs.
Thos. M. JeGreys, gave an Easter
entertainment, which was real good
and interesting. Among those who
were excellent in declaiming were
frankie James, Nettie James, Hassy
Shaw, Ethel Jeffreys, Berna Killoran,
1 Addie Carrick, Mabel Taylor, Ada
Percifield, Sadie Jewell, Loris Fitch
Einson, Lettie Elton, Master Elton and
several Others we did not know. The
exhibition passed off serenely, and
besides several good points of infor-
nation regarding the growth of the
Baptist church were given us by Rev.
Elton. A collection was taken up
which resulted in obtaining about six
dollars. The church has labored
hard for money to get an organ, and
now | believe they have ample means
for that purpose and some over. We
hope the management of the Baptist
Organization here will build church
Il We need one. A collection of houses
does not constitute a town unless in
it there may be found school house
and church building. We may talk
of the "wild and woody west" and
say we must be "hard" in order to be
counted in this country, but let me
say, that where there is town which
is the happy possessor of nice church
building, there may be one tempered
with the mildness of a summer day
and the gentleness of the cooling
dove. We are but poor, dependent
creatures of circumstances, let our lot
be as it may, and there are none to
deny the fact that if it were not for
society and the different religious
creeds and denominations of our age,
we should be without law, order and
friendship; we should be cast upon
an unrighteous ocean, without either
compass, chart or rudder. A town
tempered with the sweetness of soci-
ETY., where the young and old can
mingle together in pure chastity and
friendship, where the church bell is
tolling the hour of humble devotion
at ten o'clock every Sabbath morning,
where the inhabitants are humane and
benevolent in their daily avocations
OF life, where union and truth are
priceless gems, and charity is as vol
luminous as the air we breathe, where
good schools are taught by pure, I'M
polluted minds, is the place we all
are looking for in which to rear our
young children. Can such a place be
found west of the Rocky mountains?
And whose fault is it? Is it the fault
of the church, the preachers, the
children or the grown people? an
swer, it is the fault of the people.
Do you wish your children reared in
idleness and sin, ignorance and SUI
perstition, want and misery? Why,
then, do you not place yourselves in |
the attitude of assistance to the un-
building of human society, to the
elevation of our public schools, to the
building of new school houses and |
erection of new churches land the
construction and improvement of
roads, whereby the country people
may have convenient access to and
from town, at all seasons of the year,
to enjoy these institutions of educa-
ton and refnement-Ed ], to the
general upbuilding of all which leads
to good government and pure homes
and an enlightened community? We
all hope to see a new church building
going up at an early date in Salubria
Emmett Lynch is in town and ex-
poets to start blacksmith shop soon.
Levi Allen and Thos. Carrick
started for the mountains last Tues
day, well equipped for prospecting.
We hope they will strike something
rich for their troubles.
The hoys have sent off for A ho,,l