The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-06-18
LOCAL NEWS.

Mr.. A. Gordon, the brick manu-
facturer, has duly installed his family
at Weiser and will at once put things
into shape for business, but instead
of using the old Jenne yards he will
establish new one on the bank of
the river, near the old Jeffreys mill.
Mr.. +. 0. Seely, who is assisting MIR.
Gordon, is figuring on fitting up the
mill this fall and operating it.
An Oregon wool buyer bought sew
eral clips of wool in Weiser, and
when he went to the railroad office to
arrange for its shipment to Hunting
ton, he found that the least possible
figure that the company would carry
the freight for was 60 cents per 100
lbs. The buyer then concluded to
try the old style of freighting and
found no trouble in securing teams to
haul the freight at % cents per 100.
The distance from Weser is twenty
three miles. 1t went by team. II
Rev. and Mrs. R B. Wright, Mr..
and Mrs. Hard and Hon. H. e. Nc
Eroy, of Boise, and Andrew Adams
of Indian valley, arrived in Weiser
yesterday to attend the meeting of
trustees of the Weiser Academy and
the ceremonies attending the laying
of the corner stone of the new build
ing which will take place today The
annual commencement exercises take
place at the Town Hall this evening.
The program is an elaborate and in
teresting one Mr.. McElroy's talk
at the hall last night was a finished
and scholarly address. +
The democratic county central coin
mittee of Washington county met at
Salubria on the 18th inst, and chose
W. +. Sommercamp and r. f. Lock
wood as delegates to the Pocatello
convention. Sommercamp could not
attend but gave his proxy to Lock
wood In case the convention should
be brought up by the gold bugs, the
SIGNAL man will come in for a double
share of the swag This was written
Monday by Frank Harris. Lock
wood came home broke, hence it was
false alarm +
The bike race at the Weiser race
course on Sunday afternoon last,
brought to that resort larger con-
course of interested spectators than
was ever seen there before. The race
was quarter Of mile and repeat.
Best two in three, for a purse of
twenty dollars. Entries Claude Nor
ton, Jas. Sommercamp and Fred
Morris. Sommercamp did not get
away m the first heat and the same
was run through by Morton and Nor
ris, the former winning by about a
foot. The next heat was run easily
by Morton. The second money was
pocketed by Sommercamp in two
straight heats. The "bikers" will
have another heat on the 4th when
there will be no less than six entries
for the stakes.
Charley Fossleman, the rustler, is
again with us, having just returned
from Montana He brings with him
the Rev. Mr. Poole and Mr.. Neils
Monson, two energetic business men
of our sister state. who came to look
over the many advantages offered in
Weiser's fat land While on the way
Charley, in order that his guests
might not be disappointed, told them
that Notwithstanding the many adj
vantages offered in and around Wei
ser, there was still to be found a spe-
cies of the genus mossback who
would Immediately kindly notify
them they had better at once return
to the land whence they came; that
this country was failure in every
respect; that you could raise more on
one acre somewhere else than you
could here on 100-acre farm. They
replied that such dim music as that
had no terrors for them; that they
had travelled before and had found
this relic of the silurian period in
every new place they had ever visit
ed; that progress would soon kill it
off.
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