The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-08-29
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.


Teams are in demand to haul freight to
DeLamar.
Work is being pushed abe ad on the school
house.
The past four days has been very windy
and dissgreeable.
John Shisr has been appointed postmaster
Of DeLamar. Nevada.
BoKN:-At Phoebe, Nevada, August 2lst,
1895, to the wife of John Ewing, son.
George s. Sawyer has been appointed a
member Of the Board of School Trustees for
Phoebe district.
Mrs. Julia McFadden arrived on Sun.
days stage after an absence of several
months in Salt Lake City
After visit Of three months here with
relatives, Mrs. Louis Wertheimer left on
Monday for her home in Butte.
Owing to the condition of the times the
B. B. B. order did not celebrate thier ami
versary, which was August Goth.
George Nesbitt arrived on Sundays stage
from the East where he has been buying a
large stock of goods for the new store soon
to be opened in DeLamar.
The regular meeting of the Board of
County Commissioners will be held at the
court house next Monday. Present your
bills before Monday morning if possible
G. A. Horn was in town from DeLamar
for several days early in the week on bust
ness connected with suit in the District
Court concerning some Of the springs in
Cedar Wash there.
The repaiis to the summit works for the
test on the Old Timer and other ores con.
tinue. A start may be made within
month. The tanks and other like material
are enroute from Milford.
The school building will be ready for
occupancy by the second Monday in Sep
tember. On account of the warm weather
which has prevailed for some time this is
thought to be early enough to open the fall
school term.
1t is proposed to have dance in the
school building before .he seats are finally
placed. The new floor is superior to any in
town. The hop is to be for the benefit of
the little folks, equally with the older ones
and there is room enough for all without
crowding.
The alag dumps of the Phoebe Con. Co.
furnaces have been leased to p. NJ. O'Brien,
who proposes to work them by jigging.
Mr.. O'Brien has followed this line of bust
ness for several years at Eureka, Nevada,
successfully, ahd hopes to do we'll here,
though Others have failed at the same pro.
ject
Professor Prewitt left last Friday morn
ing for Lake Valley on his bicycle. He
beat the stage in by two hours and lost
some time through taking . wood road,
making the sixty odd miles in good shape.
He stated before leaving that if he found
the roads fair to travel he would continue
on to Ely, and possibly go up into Idaho
before returning.
On next Tuesday night the moon will be
totally sclipsed for the second time this
year, and the phenomenon will be visible
from oil parts Of the United States. The
shadow of the earth will first touch the
edge Of the moon q few seconds before 8
o'clock, standard time and six and half
minutes after 10 o'clock the moons face
win be completely covered.
In the course Of several months the San
Francisco Call will have the grandest and
handsomest newspaper home in the world.
the building will be located on the corner of
Market and Third streets, occupying
space Of 70 by rs feet aud will be fifteen
stories high, . genuine sky soraper. 1t will
cost nearly q million dollars and will be
erected by Claus Spreckles. The Call is
now the best daily paper on the Coast.
A tall girl, named Short, long loved
certain big Mr.. Little, while Little, little
thinking of Short loved little lass named
Long. To make long story short, Little
proposed to Long, and Short longed to be
even with Titles shortcomings. SO Short,
meeting long. threatened to mary before
Long, which caused Little 10 short time
to marry Long Query: Did tall Short
love big Little less because Little loved
Longs-Eureka Sentinel.