Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-09-24

Frank Anthony broke into our office
this week and gave us the same hearty
hand shake. Frank is selling lots Of
fruit trees to the ranchmen.
There will be Catholic services on Sun
day, Sept. Goth. 1897, at the Catholic
Church. Mass at 10 O'Clock NJ
with sermon. Sunday School at 8 O'Clock
p. m. Evening services and lecture at
Z 80 o'clock. Father J. J. Burri.
What's the use of wearing ones life
away grumbling, growing, kicking, cry
ing, blufing and snubbing? Look
pleasant even if you are compelled to
wear the same straw hat that has played
such an important part on your head for
the PAST fifteen or twenty years. Ii you
can't sing try to hum; if you can t
whistle, pucker up your mouth and
blow. Do anything to convince the in
habitants that you are alive and that
you are having picnic while this good
old world goes spinning down the well
I CREASED grooves OF time.
The Jack Rabbit Gun Club, composed
of Prof. Novinger, Prof. Lane, Doctor
Smith and the editor, had shoot for
rabbit scalps last Saturday afternoon.
The party was armed with % calibre
rifles and in just 40 minutes killed 217
rabbits, when the party ran out of anu
milton. Professor Novinger was award
The medal for the day on the grounds of
having run down a jack rabbit and
kicking it to death, after he was out OF
ammunition. The award was considered
unjust from the fact that both Lane and
Smith were sickened by the awful car
mage, and the editor can't run unless
frightened, therefore believed they were
unfairly handicapped. The next shoot
will occur in October and rabbits must
be shetland not murdered,
Jud Adamy caught the rarest speci-
men of bird or fish while fishing in Wood
river Sunday, yet discovered. It was
apparently about four pound trout, he
judged, while trying to land it, but as
he got 1t out of the water it few into the
air as far as his line would let it, he
then thought he had sage hen. Call
ing Johnny Baugh to his assistance, they
managed to draw the prize away from
the river, back to earth and smothered
it. The creature had the perfect shape
of trout. but had powerful wings and
was entirely covered with a heavy coat
of beautiful spotted feathers. Doctor
Smith, the taxidermist, has the freak
mounted and it can be seen in the show
case at Holt & Gilmore's. The weight
of the monstrocity was SO pounds.
Most gossipis simply idle and thought
less. MANY folks talk about their neigh
bors because their minds are so empty
that they have nothing else to talk
about. They do not mean to be cruel or
but they have got into the habit |
of allowing their tongues to wag. and do |
not know how to break it off. Some of |
our gossippers, however, are consciously
IndllSuduL. 1u6lT ueuullS PURPOSE Is 10 !
do harm. Nothing pleases them so |
much as to blast a reputation, for
the same sins that they too are guilty of. |
Neither man nor woman is exempt from |
their venomous assaults. On the Slight |
est pretext, and often without any pre-
text at all, they set afoat scandalous
rumors concerning people who are as
as angels. They are suppl
rating sore on the body social. They
ruin the happiness of homes, blast the
lives of thousands, and therefore, are
murderers of the deepest dye. If their
dead bodies were cast upon the desert,
starving buzzard would turn away from
such repulsive carrion, in disgust. They
will find no home in heaven and the
devil would never insult his imps by
even allowing them TO approach the
outer gates of hell.