Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-01

elegant wolf robe and we'll worth $50
Joe Parry, Jr., who is serving an APP
premiership in the Pocatello shops. has
been visiting his parents here this week.
A marriage licence was granted Tues
day by Clerk senter, to Thomas Rich
ards and Mrs. Kate Stull, both of Nina
doka.
Mrs. Gen. Oliver and John Heughen,
of Pocatello, spent the holidays in Sho-
shone, visiting their sister, Mrs. w. J..
Smith.
The big candle is burning at Nc
Mahon's grocery store. Drop in and
make guess as to how many hours it
will burn.
We were little premature in speak
ing of the school entertainment last
week. Owing to the illness OF DR. Baugh,
it was postponed.
Miss Nellie Louise Woodbury., teacher
of elocution at the State Normal school
at Albion, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Dill, at this place.
The Christmas tree at the Methodist
church last THURSDAY night, was a sue
cess in every particular, and all the little
folks we've remembered.
If people could only give as they
wished to instead of having to be con-
trolled by purse limitations, how much
more Christmasy it would seem.
Owing to the dangerous illness Of DR..
Baugh, the post office boxes and genera
delivery, were removed to the county
assessors office for day or two.
f w. Horton is the sole agent for
the famous Rock Springs Coal, in Sho-
shone. 1t burns longer, gives more heat
and sells at the same price as other coal.
The so called silver-republicans wont
cut much ice in giving their friends a |
position in the iegis AZURE this winter. |
They have got the gall to try however.
Select the leaves you are going to turn |
over with the beginning of the new year |
and when that time comes-paste the |
leaves down so that they will stay turn
ed.
Aspirants for anything from janitor to
reading clerks in the legislature this
winter, can be counted by the hundred,
in Boise now, and more arriving by each
train.
The longer we run a newspaper and
write about people and events, the more
we realize how utterly impossible it is to
scratch every man on the spot where it
itches the most.
Monday, December Dist, was the
shortest day in the year. TIE days will
now begin to lengthep, and continue to
10 so until the 2lIst of June, when they
reach Their extreme length.
The breakfast cure is the latest fad.
The treatment is to go without your
breakfast, and the charm about 1t is,
that it comes within reach OF the hum
blest and most destitute patient.
The many friends OF DR.. W. H. Baugh
will be pleased to learn that he has now ;,
passed the danger line and is on the Rad
to parid recovery, providing that I'M |,
foreseen complications do not set in.
A Shoshone barber was arrested on the
charge of Kissing a girl while she was
having Ter hair cut. The barber alleged
be- was merely blowing hair from her
neck. This is what one would call a
snecies of harmless barberism.
An exchange aptlv says, that the man
who devotes week to advertising and
then rails at the returns, is like the boy
who studied law two days and then said
ssThe law amt what it's cracked up to
be. and I'm sorry learned it.
Prot. Lubis has completed the sign
boards to be placed on the various wagon
roads on the desert. They are large and
attractive, and it is to be hoped that
they will be protected by travellers IN
place of being destroyed by them.
Mrs. Kensler, wife of John Kensler,
whose body was found buried in an IT.
rigating ditch, last week, has confessed.
She admits her guilt, but charges Albert
Freel. the hired man, with being the
principal criminal in the affair." Both
are in jail.
Man is harvest, it is said. He be-
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