Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-04-29

IL the division bills be declared
constitutional all Fremont county Of
dcers will move their offices to st.
Anthony, the county seat This will
be in compliance with the law.
The attendance upon the meetings
at the NJ. e. Church is on the increase.
Ii the growing interests continue the
meetings will be protracted through
the coming week.
When table forks were first intro
duced, away back in the fifteenth Gen.
tury, public speakers and preachers
denounced their use as sacreligious.
They claimed that man was introduc-
ing something to take the place of
what God had given and intended for
the same purposes.
The public school will close Thurs
day afternoon, May 4th. This will
give the pupils an opportunity to
plant trees Arbor Day, Friday. Every
girl and boy in town ought to plant a
tree on that day either at home, or, as
a member of Sabbath school, at
a church. No trees viii be planted
on the school grounds until the new
building is completed.
A big overflow for the Mississippi
is threatened this year. The river is
rising rapidly at St. Louis. The
Missouri and the Dakotas are full, and
unless checked by cold weather or
otherwise, will swell the heavy volume
of water already in the Mississippi
and cause disastrous food to all the
homes and farming lands along its
banks.
| A nice line Of fancy groceries just
received at G. Bunting & Co.'S, con-
sisting of seedless raisins, canned
sweet potatoes, sliced pine apple, pre-
served figs, clam chowder, roast
chicken, roast turkey, CLANS, French
sardines and peas.
Burglars broke into the freight
depot Monday night and stole Sfty
pounds of smoking tobacco and about
five pounds Of cheese. Who they were
and whittier they have gone no man
knoweth. They must be good smokers.
LATER-Constable Weeks arrested
a stranger named John Brown as one
of the burglars, and he will be given
a hearing today in the probate court.
/ Go to Buntlng's for
Pickles 15cts per quart,
Three mackerel for 25 cents,
Twenty pounds hominy for 81,
Twelve pounds blue stone for 81,
Fifteen pounds rice for 81,
Full line of garden seeds.
I. THE News deyil looked over the
remnants of the winters wood pile
yesterday, and leaning on his ak
handle said to himself
/ would not live alway ask not TO stay
| Ska fse.a y,fIa 0f wrtn
every day,
where the stumps and the knots left DER and
DER,
, Are tougher than Satan and his hosts galore
And then he viciously tackled one he had at
tackled IL times before.
Those Of our readers who have been
in Richmand, Va, ,will recall the eques
trian statue of Washington, the most
imposing monument in town, and one
of the best specimens of its kind in
the world. The great Virginian sits
on his prancing horse looking over tc
the left upon the Capitol, and pointing
across the james river in the direction
/ of the penitentiary. The position
suggest standing joke among tbs
citizens of Richmond, that the Father
of His Country is watching the legis
lators and pointing to them to the
penitentiary.
Garden rakes, hoes, shovels, spades
forks, churns and complete line Of tin
ware, galvanized and granite ware
just received, at lowest cash prices.
C. Bunting & Co.
Refarn F0ur Cams.
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