The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1897-10-19
LOCHL oLEHNINos.

papers. Owner can get same by
calling at my place and paying
for this notice. A. d. Streeter,
Houston, Idaho.
The following persons de-
parted last week for idaho Falls
to attend the session of the
Grand Lodge, l. o. o. F., which
convenes at that place on Oct.
10Th Mrs. Chas. Funkhouse,
Miss Mabel Funkhouse, Chas.
F'unkhouse, Robt. Morrison and
NJ. NJ. Sweet.
The following attorneys from
the outside were in attendance
at the term of District Court
FL. G. Redwine, Salmon; Mr..
Cowen, Salmon; w. T. Reeves,
Pocatello; Texas Angel, Haley.
"A very pleasant party was
given at the l. o. o. F., hall last
Friday evening.
George Dearden came up
from Salmon last Monday eve
ming and on the following morn
ing departed for Custer.
Miss Bessie Vollmer who
was elected queen of the Inter
mountain Fair, is said to be a
very handsome young lady. She
is 6 feet in height and is twenty
years of age.
J. G. Dougherty has just re-
ceived fresh supply of the
latest music for his phonograph.
The Shoshone Journal re-
counts the incident of young
man who was convicted some
time ago of having stolen a
bride, for which he served four
months in Jail. The party who
lost the bride found it few
days ago just where his own
horse lost it off. and within a
quarter Of a mile of his home.
The man who was lost be-
tween Challis and Custer, on the
old mountain road, found himself
over on Silver creek, after hav-
ing roamed about il the noun
tains for 9 days with scarcely
anything to eat He did not
even have matches to build a
fire to cook what he might kill
or to keep himself warm.
The following article from
the Western Mining World con
tains great deal Of truth: When
Hamlet beseeched his mother,
the Queen, to look upon this
picture and upon that, in order
to stir the old lady up and get
her excited, he little thought
that his expression would give
emphasis to the law OF comari-
son for all time 10 come. The
English language is incapable
of a clearer distinction between
contrasts than the illustration of
two pictures representing the
extremes. In the mining world
there is picture gallery Show
The Vale Advocate gives us
some valuable information. 1t
says Love takes effect on men
in as many different ways as 40
rod whiskey does on the sage
brush shepherds. This is be-
cause men are differently con-
stituted in the upper story-some
having room for rats in their
garrett" while others haven't.
Some men when disappointed in
a love affair will shoot the girl
and then commit suicide; others
take to hard drink and terminate
their dissipated career by giving
a snake show or going broke
and getting "vagged, while 9th
ers overlook the deceitful damsel
like white check and marry
some other fellows girl for
spite. 1t was different with Geo.
Hansen, a former resident of
Vale, late of Peral, Idaho. 1t is
reported that he was the very
threshold of matrimony when
his fair finance, a beautiful Pearl
girl, in the fickleness of her
coquettish nature, stuffed his af-
fections like dog would a flea,
and left George with a marriage
license and a new suit of conven-
tional black. Did George rustic
for a six-gun, or guzzle coffin
varnish ? No; not he. He kept
his eye on the eastern star, bent |
his weary footsteps toward Boise, /
and joined the Salvation Army, |
whore the cymbal and song he |
will drive away the hallucinat-
ions Of loves young dream, while |
acting in the capacity of one Of
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