Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-12-04


few days for brief visit to Denver and
Omaha.
The hunting season is on. hand, and
many Of the risky cotton tails are biting
the dust.
in this country man can talk him
SET to death by simply calling another
man a liar.
joe Keefer has purchased the Monroe
cottage, and will move his family into 1t
in few days.
Prof. Lubis is busy now days in fitting
up the Joe Keefer residence and the
Chamberlain cottage.
Several of our townspeople are prenar-
ing to visit the COPPER mines about 100
miles south of Shoshone.
Mrs and Mrs. Joe McMnrrin are now
occupying the Horton cottage, opposite
Wernicke's hardware store.
Messrs. Thompson and Ivie, of Hager-
man, proved up on their ranches, before
Clerk Senter, on Saturday last.
This wintry weather is making some of
the sheep men who are long on sheep
and short on hay, jump sideways.
The melancholy days have come, the
saddest of the wear; not cold enough for
whiskey and too darned cold for beer.
Mr.. and Mrs. s. n. Perrine have rent
ed one of the Horton cottages on the |
south side, and have taken possession,
A business man without an advertise
ment in the paper, is like toothess
bull dog-he is poorly equipped for bus
ines.
Joh: Lumb has secured a position
with E. w. Horton, and will be ready.
from now on, to fill your coal orders or
do your teaming, on short notice,
The elements switched little the first
OF the week and little snow fell, with
the result that the merry jingle of the
sleigh bells were heard at every turn.
One man called at this Office yester-
day, and said that he would rather be
dead in California than alive IN Idaho
he is now dead in Idaho, for we killed
him.
Evangelist R. V. Williams, of New
York, is conductinga series of meetings
at the stone school house. He is an en-
speaker and our townspeople a
should turn out and hear him.
Aspirants for the Shoshone post Office
ire beginning to sprout already. Their
political complexion varies from a Du-
oois- Gum Demo-Popo to a Sill
or-ofice-only Mckinley men
stand no ~ show.
The season has arrived for the cham
'ion liar, who takes his gun aud says he
s going hunting. In this period good
hristian men, who through the rest of
he year never deviate in their veracity
n the slightest, will tell some wonderful a.
ales when they get back from hunting
A lawyer in this town, who is noted
Or his laconic style of expression, sent a.
he following note to a refractory client 10
tho would not respond to repeated de- 70
hands for the payment of his bill: "Sir, &C
you will pay the inclosed, you will
blige me, if you do not, I'll oblige you" CO
The local paper is supposed to print IN
Il the home news, but if they printed 81
i the DRINKS, scraps, family rackets, u
C., what howl there would be. You co
ever know the true value of the home ca
aper until you want something kept 81
1t of its columns-then the editor is sa
lie best fellow in town.
an
The professor instructed the grammar fo,
ass to prepare a rhyme on the word 20
Isscot, the other day. One example of
: Johnny B., was enough. Here it is n
"As 1 was strolling out one eve, an
NY mind was wrapped in thought, 90.
1 tried TO climb barbed wire fence
Mascot" en-;
A Salt Lake groceryman has been IN th'
wn for several days past, looking for LOT
cd location for a general merchandise edl
IRE. He has concluded to locate at !
sgerman and will erect two story the
me building 20 100 feet The upper Ia
Try is to be occupied by his family, and SUI
'nished rooms for travellers. The en-
se is good one, and shows that Ha-
IMAM is forging to the front.
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