The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-06-09
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.

refreshing.
A large number of Deerlodg
people are in town this week.
Judge Rives arrived from Della
mar last Monday
H. H. Cooper and wife were il
from Deerlodge on Monday.
Charley Lytle and Joe Deviir
left for Eagle Valley yesterday.
The Summit Mill shut down fol
a day or two this week for genera
cleanup.
This is the longest sitting of cour
for jury trials that has occurred in
several years.
j. A. Davis has opened a barber
shop in Henry Eilers place. He
is first class barber.
Rev. W. L. Snead and John Shier
left for DeLamar on Saturday by
private conveyance.
The postoffice drug store is in re-
ceipt of a shipment of choice bananas,
oranges, lines and cherries.
The average Piocher wishes court
terms would occur every month,
they add so much to the life of the
town.
The Grand Dramatic Company of
DeLamar left for home last Sunday,
after playing two nights here sue
cessfully.
j. W. Neville, the DeLamar Co.'S
Stenographer, came in from Della
mar on the special stage on Tues
day to attend court.
Eugene Goodrich has recovered
his health and gone back to De La
mar to superintend the publication
of the Daily and Weekly Lode.
A. s. Thompson received yester-
day the first shipment of carload
of Standard Oil Cos Pearl Oil.
This is the best oil manufactured
and is safest to use
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The County is we'll represented
here this week and, while most of
the visitors are anxious to get away
on account Of their business at home,
they are enjoying themselves.
Now comes the warm weather and
If you want ice cold beer, soda
sarsaparilla or other drinks 90 to
Thompson's. Always on ice and
delivered to any part of town.
Z. j. Pettee, who has been up
from DeLamar on court business
returned this morning, anxious to
be with the Lode. The daily issue
OF the paper was started by him
with the opening of the war and he
proposes to stay with it.
Chas. Lytle came near having a
serious accident while coming nm
from Panaca on Monday. The
brake did not hold good and the
wagon ran onto the team frighten-
ing them. The wagon was overturn-
eel. No one was seriously hurt.
The first issue of the new paper.
The Local Messenger was made ON
Tuesday. 1t is the county paper
and states as a reason for its ex-
istence that the other papers of the
county had no desire to do the
county printing and that the coun-
ty was left without means ofinform-
ing the public generally of its bust
ness and official doings, etc. This
is not the case, but we will have
more to say of this hereafter, other
business monopolizing our attention
this week.
How Battleships Communicate.
The present method of communi-
cation between warships at sea is by
the use of flags representing hume
rails, which are displayed in the
higgins; by the use of system of
sigwsg signals with flags, and by
the use of the Photograph. AS it is
of the utmost importance that the
enemy should not read the message
ii.e signal books on board vessel
re protected with the greatest care
.nd are destroyed along with the
CIPHER code whenever it is seen that
capture is inevitable. The soma.
phone system is use in the British
navy WIS tried for time aboard
some OF our vessels, but it never
became popular and has been ADAM
doned.