The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1895-08-24
TALK OF THE TOWN.
Latest News Of Emmett and
Vicinity
Something that Everybody should know
if They would be up with the times


day.
Mrs. McAdams and Mrs. Warden are
supplying the Emmett market with some
fDe watermel,ns at present.
Let Westerners always spell Silver
with a capital S. and gold with little &.
Silver Hammer.
Mr. and Mrs. II. c. Riggs jr. spent
several days OF last week visiting friends
down the valley
Tom Nipper the we'll known sheep
man, was in town Monday preparing to
take a trip into the mountains to his
sheep camps.
Postmaster Dempsey informs us
that a lettsr from Mrs. Dempsey. who is
at HALEY, states that her mother, Mrs.
Garrity, is no better.
Dan Richards. acting for the West
lake Fruit Co., will have the prune or
chard south of town enclosed with a rsb-
bit tight fence. The order for nettieg
was sent in this week
Ed Hayes lelt last Saturday morn
ing for his placer mine on Big creek.
Long Valley. Nathan Lick vert with
him, and he expects to work on the claim
the rest of the season.
Will Woody went duck shooting
Monday morning and brought down %
ducks with Is shots The INDEX hereby
acknowledges the receipt of mess OF
the fowls which we're highly appreciat-
ed.
John Murray is the envy OF all the
boys and many of the men in Emmett
now Johns new bicycle arrived on
Mondays stage and he has been devot.
ing most of his time since to reducing
the 'crittes" to a state of su5jection.
Miss May Locke of Marsh has beer
engaged to teach the Gill school this
winter. The people Of that district
have reason TO congratulate themselves
on having been so fortunate as to secure
the services of such an efficient instruc'
tor.
Dan Richards returned from Snake
river this week where he has been look
ing after his placer interests. He has
made deal with some Portland parties
allowing them to make a test of a new
mining Machine on his ground. Mr.. r
says there is unusual activity in placer
operations on the Snake at the present
time.
Last Sunday the INDEX man accept
ed an invitation from the genial Bot
Morton to take drive behind mis- team
of nimble footed trotters to the Basket
meeting at Marsh. The drive was en-
ioyed hugely so was the sermon, ditto
the dinner. The meeting was wei
attended the preaching was excellent
and as the hospitality of those uppei
country people is proverbial there wa
nothing left to wish for.
The hazy condition of the atmos
phere which has prevailed tor the las
week or two is said to be due to tn
smoke from forest fires in the Lonl
valley country. Reports have reached
here that the fires in that region ar
very extensive aud it is supposed thei
origin is one of the outgrowths of tn
trouble between the cattlemen and tn
settlers. Forest fires are said to b
raging in the Blue mountains in Ore
and it may be that we get a part of on
smoke from there.
w. l.. Fuller and John Linson, WI
in few days leave Tor Payette lakes, I
do assessment work on their quartz PROF
critics in that vicinity. These men hav
one of the best gold propositions /
Idaho. The ledge is 30 feet wide and
all prospects well. A number Of assay
from the ledge give returns of from 81
to s33 per ton. This country needs
few wide awake mining men with suffiC
lent capital to take hold Of propositio
OF this kind, aud we VIII experience
boom that will lay even the Centennis
state in the shade.
Our school trustees are having th
school house and grounds put in shi
shape order before the the commence
ment OF the next term. The buildin
has recently been repainted by p. All
ney and now Titus and Carpenter al
busy building neat new fence aroun
the grounds. Next spring the trustee
should not fail to secure a permaner
supply OF water for the grounds An
have the place set to trees aud properl
cared for. Our school is one Of the bes
in the state, and the buildilg an
. grounds should be in keeping with h
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