Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-03-05
No bottom to the roads.


able COW drowned yesterday.
Mrs, J. s. Waters and daughters, re-
/ turned from Boise yesterday.
There is crazy sewing machine
agent in town. from Salt Lake.
G. B KFeIer has recovered the case Of
shoes that was stolen from the depot
some tilae ago,
A marriage license was issued on the
9th to s. 3. Turnbull and Miss Lulu
1Taring Of Camas.
When the servants of the Lord fall
out, common folks should Just lay low
and watch the fur fly.
Everybody who works hard is con-
stantly SURPRISED at seeing how well
worthless people get along.
Miss Hattie Patton was over from the
Sims district, where she is teaching
school, Friday and Saturday.
It is seldom we have an opportunity
to see as large company as is McPhee
& Kiser's. Thirty-fve people.
Henry Andrews, of Pocatello, has been
spending several days in Shoshone,
visiting his father, E. J. Andrews.
If anybody should try to make us do
the fool things we do of our own accord,
how we would mourn our hard lot.
Mavis Stricken, of Rock Greek, has ar
rived in Shoshone to attend school. She
is stopping with her aunt, Mrs. Dill.
Some OF our correspondence was too
late for our last issue, but as it is of in
terest to our people in general, we pub
lish it this week.
Johnny Johnson drove up from his
ranch Monday. When asked which road
ne travelled, he replied that he came on
the bottom one"
Miss Hannah Newman, Of Ketchum,
who has been visiting Mrs. Dill for
short time, has gone to Albion to attend |
the State Normal.
Miss Woodbury., who entertained the |
people of Shoshone with her dramatic |
recitals short time since, is quite i'll, at |
her home in Albion.
We understand that number of our |
citizens have lost from $500 to $1,000 in |
a Building and Loan association in which |
they were interested.
Geo. D. Londen, business manager Of
McPhee & Kiser's Uncle Toms cabin
company, was in town Friday in the in
terests Of his company.
A faro bank has been running in Sho-
shone for the past week. 1t was opened
for the accommodation of the army of
sheep shearers that will be here for
about two months.
1t is reported that Roy foyer was
married at Albion last Wednesday. How
true it is we don't know, but Roy was
''aetting up" the cigars to all Of the boys
on the strength Of it.
O. D. Crane, editor OF the Bellevue
Leader, passed through town, Monday,
on his way to Colorado, where he goes
to look up & more prosperous place than
Bellevue in which to run a newspaper.
Go to the hen thou sluggard; learn
her ways and be wise, Get up and crow
and lots of people will discover that your
egg is just the thing they need to make
their happiness complete. Remember
the usual fate though, of the hen that
crows when she hasn't any egg to back
up her crow.-Ex.
An enterprising merchant at Caldwell
is distributing free among the farmers,
OF Canyon county, sugar beet seed, with
the object of making thorough test of
the adaptability Of the soil and climate
to the production Of beet sugar. 1t
would be a good scheme if someone
would do likewise in Lincoln county.
An excitable gentleman who called at
a newspaper office in Biloxi, Miss, to
thrash the editor, was shot twice, and
died before he had time to fully appre-
ciate the seriousness of his mistake.
editors hold very radical
views concerning the way in which j
standing matter should be double loaded. I
The glue on envelopes is often made
from decaying scrap collected around
slaughter houses. 1t is no wonder that
there have been number Of deaths
from blood poisoning, caused by licking {
envelopes when sealing them and get