Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-04-16
Fishing is splendid.

shone, this year.
Miss Nellie Louise Woodbury. will
sing in the Methodist church Easter
Sunday.
A marriage license was issued yester-
day to Thomas w. Snodgrass and Miss
Maly Hopkins.
L. L. Ormsbv has finished shearing
his sheep and started couple of large
bands overland, to Ne braska.
A gentlemen from HALEY remarked,
when looking at our City Park, "Why
in the devil don't these Shoshone peo-
ole fix uD that Park, it would be a
beautiful place"
The county officers of twenty of the
twenty-one counties of the state have
concluded to test the constitutionality of
the fee bill, as passed by the Fourth
General Assembly.
Lemons 30 cents per dozen, Oranges
25, 40 and 60 cents per dozen; Bananas
so cents per dozen; Candies from 10 up
to 50 cents per pound; Nuts % cents per
pound at Roy Toyer's.
The place to stop when in Boise is at
The Overland. Genial Erv Johnson is
behind the desk. and if you visit him
once his hypnotic powers are such that
you always return to The Overland.
At the water meeting Saturday night,
Messrs. ]. S. Waters, Matt McFall and
Sam Holt were elected Irrigating COM
mittee for 1897. The committee will see
to it that We have plenty of water this
year.
There will be sociable at the Baptist
church next Wednesday evening. There
will be songs, regulations, quartettes and
songs, ETC., tv the little folks. Hot
coffee and other refreshments. Every
body invited.
J. T. Camp, formerly the publisher of
the Albion Times, is now editing the
Lehi City (Utah) Rustler. The paper is
certainly 'Rustler, as its columns full
OF news testify. 1t is in order to state
that Camp is somewhat of rustler also
If anyone asks you,
Joe Parry met with a painful though |
not serious accident Monday night at the
round house, He was carrying two pals |
of water across the ash pit to engine 977,
when he slipped and fell, striking the
side of his head on railroad iron. He |
is laid up for repairs.
Hon. James Fuller did not meet with |
the commissioners Monday owing to the
serious illness of his two youngest child
rem, The little ones have been near I'M
to deaths door for a number of days,
with pneumonia, but at present they
are improving rapidly.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox puts philosophy
into her poetry when she writes:
IT'S pleasant enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like song;
Is the man who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.
Pat Fury has purchased the 16 to l
saloon and will take possession about
May 1st. Mr. Fury is an old timer on
Wood river, having resided there for the
past II years, and is well and favorably
known by every man in the county. He
is an enterprising, go-ahead citizen, a
business man and Will do
much for the advancement of Shoshone.
We would like to see more men like Mr..
Fury settle among us.
J. o. Swift passed through here re-
,ently on his return from the Blackbird i
mining district, so miles west of here.
He was accompanied by a couple of min
ng men, one of whom came from Glass s
row, Scotland-who came to examine |
he property bonded by their company. I
They expressed themselves as greatly '
pleased with the proposition, and the
leal, which is for $25O.0OO, has been con-
animated. With another rich company
perating in that portion OF our county,
We may look for other good discoveries
n that locality,-Idaho Recorder.
What would be more BETTING the &C.
observance of Arbor Day
han for the people of Shoshone to as
emble early in the morning, of the 9TH
ay of May, with implements of forestry d
nd husbsndry, at the now dilapidated +
Id Park grounds, and with teams, +
lows, harrows, shovels and trees, shrubs f
nd grass seed, and we'll stored stock +
{ nerve. nride and discrimination. To !,