The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1896-03-31
LoCzL GLEHNINGs.
Miss Gertrude Powell is up
from Lost River on a visit.

Jacket today to be absent two
weeks.
Jonathan Job returned last
Thursday from an extended visit
to southern California.
o. E. Penwell departed for the
Mcconnell immigration Conven-
ton at Boise last Thursday.
E. G. Headrick is doing some
very artistic paper-hanging and
painting in j. P. Spalding's drug
store.
Earl Michael and E. Gilbert
of Bayhorse attended the leap
year ball in Challis last Friday
evening.
missouri Bill" is recently
from Missouri. He says every
body in that State where he was
at, are strictly for 16 to 1.
( VIM. Waters purchased the
house, furniture and lot in Chal-
lis owned by M. S. Hicks, on
Third street, one day last week.
The following persons are on
the sick list, requiring the Doc
tors attention Miss Mary
Frost, Mrs. L. Greene and M. o.
Donohue.
Personal pride is an element in
the character of most people, but
to behold the unsightly condition
of the teeth of some persons, it
would seem to be totally lacking
with them.
4 Chas. Dewitt returned last
Wednesday morning from a win
ter's visit at his old home in
Salem Center, Indiana. He says
that he had pleasant time in
the old Hoosier State.
George Wilkinson, a brother
Of Charlie Wilkinson of Challis,
arrived in this city Wednesday
morning last from Maine. George
used to reside here some six or
seven years ago.
Salmon probably has more
dogs than any town its size in
the ate.-Republic.
Well bet Challis is the banner
town in numbers and for worth
less dogs.
You have no better friend than
your teeth. Give them the very
best of care Do not neglect
them until they ache and then
loose them. They are too valu-
able and useful to suffer by neg
lect and carelessness.
At negro wedding, when the
clergyman read the words, Glove,
honor and obey" the bridegroom
interrupted him and said: "Read
dat again, sab Read it once
mo- SOS de lady kin ketch de full
solemnity OBJ de meaning. Use
been married befo."
The Salt Lake Tribune is too
pusillanimous to give the Mes
SENGER credit for items stolen
from US, but instead gives the
Caldwell Tribune credit. The
Caldwell Tribune gave US proper
credit for the items that we re
fer to. This is the method that
the Salt Lake Tribune has to get
news from Custer county.
The Reading Circle held in
Challis every alternate Thursday
evening, is very interesting and
instructive. They have paper
The Reading Circle Journal
edited by the members of the
Circle which contains much val
liable information also many
comic items. AS yet they have
not offered to X the Journal with
the MESSENGER. Recitations,
singing and other entertaining
exercises are features of the
Circle.
Word was received yesterday
that the Blackbird mine in Black
bird gulch, 20 miles south of the
Gold Dust mine at Leesburg,
Idaho, had been sold to eastern
capitalists. The Blackbird, in
; which fine bodies of ore have
been exposed, going S23 in GOLD
and 80 per cent. copper to the
ton, was owned by Sam james
and Joshua Brown. Brown dis
posed of his interest for SO, 900,
while James, retaining a portion
of his interest, received 81, 500 in
cash, the purchaser to put in &
Huntington mill and sawmill.
The property is to be extensively
worked, and its developmentwil
be carefully watched by severa
Salt Lakers who own property
in that locality.-Salt Lake City
Herald.