The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-05-30

on'PPeu sunday, nftecn cars con-
signed to Butte, Montana, and six to
Laramie.
). II. Williams, of Umatilla, Ore
gon, purchased forty acres unimE
proved land from Charles Ross last
Tuesday, paying 800.
The Welch saw mill on Adams
creek will start up soon. Mr.. Welch
has gone up to haul some of the
machinery to Weiser for repairs.
The strawberry festival given by
the Congregational ladies last Fri
day evening was rushed with bust
ness. About $50 was taken in.
Sol Jeffrey has sold the property
known as the Werts place, south of
the Weiser wagon bridge, to F. NJ.
Hubbard. Consideration, s2,125.
The ladies guild of the Episcopal
church served ice cream last Thursday
at the residence of VIM. Sommercamp
to pleasant and sociable gathering.
The first commencement services
of the Weiser Academy will occur on
Thursday evening, June 18th. Look
out for the program in next weeks
SIGNAL.
State Engineer Mills was in Weiser
Monday and measured the water in
the Galloway ditch at Mann creek
and found it to be carrying twenty five
hundred inches.
If this meets the eye of Edward
M. Dexter, or anyone knowing his
present whereabouts, communicate at
once with F. +. Roberts, Caldwell,
Idaho, as said Dexters homestead is
at stake.
The merchants of Welser, who
have been keeping open until noon
Sundays, have made an agreement
under which they will not open at all
on that day hereafter Make your
purchases on Saturday.
Twelve car loads of wool were
shipped this week to Boston: 100,
600 pounds to jeremiah Williams IL
Co., 100, 900 to Koshland Bros and
100, 600 to George Abbott. Prices
are from seven to eight cents.
The ladies of the Episcopal church
are very busy preparing the beautiful
juvenile operetta, 'Little Golden Hair
and the Three Bears, to be given on
the 4th of July No expense or
pains spared TO make it grand sue
cess.
The steamer Norma which left
Huntington a few days since to shoot
the rapids of the Snake for the lower
country, had a portion of her stern
wheel torn away by a hidden rock,
after going six miles, and had to lay
by for repairs.
The Anaconda Standard of May
rs, received Monday, is in appear
ance and contents fully the peer of
any daily received at the SIGNAL
office, and if the appearance of the
paper is reflex of the condition of
the country, Anaconda must be
booming. ~
A large amount of freight is being
received and the depot is crowded to
its full capacity. 1t is all up-country
freight, consisting mostly of grocer
les and general merchandise. Severa
car loads of mining machinery, pipe,
etc, are expected this week, mostly
for Warrens, but some for othel
points.
1t is little strange that ninety
nine out of every hundred newspaper
men in the country are openly, avow
edly and earnestly advocating thu
cause of the poor people, and il
about the same proportion they arr
accused of being the servile tools o
capital and plutocracy. Fair minded
people should reflect on the fact. -
Caldwell Tribune. A.
Herb Root and his syndicate o
shearers were forced to hold thei
hands up on account of rainy weathe
and at the rate they have been goin
4 they Will soon run out of sheep. On
dav at Butterields the eight men i
the party sheared 1893 in nine an
one half hours So far as heard fror
this is the champion record-a trifl
over one minute and forty-five SEE
, onds to a sheep. If any one beat
it. the boys are prepared to raise I'll
limit out of sight.
The funeral services of the la
, Leander A. Day we're held in Il
Congregational church last Thursda,
: The attendance was very large.
the absence of the pastor, the ser
ices we're conducted by Rev.
: Pearse. of the Baptist church. III
music by the full church choir, Mi
Lee organist, was beautifully re
dered The floral offerings we
numerous and appropriate. II
Z remains were followed to his la
resting place by large processl'
of friends and neighbors. May Gt
rest bis soul in peace,