The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-01

onto College Hill to view the town.
The ladies' society of the Congre-
gational church will hold their regular
annual meeting on Thursday after
noon, April 9th, at the church. The
ladies' are requested to be at the
church by three o'clock, railroad
time. Business meeting at four
o'clock
The lecture by Miss Slocum at the
Congregational church was well at
tended considering the weather
Those present were we'll pleased with
the interesting discourse, winch per-
tanned mostly to India SIS were
realized by the Christian Endeavor
Society.
Page & Roberts, who open the
''Mint'' today have fixed up a very
handsome place. They have repaint-
ed and papered inside and put in an
elegant bar Their new billiard table
is spoken Of very favorably by local
experts who have tried it. In open
ing today they invite all to call upon
them See cad"
e. + Forshay, who has been act
ing as chief engineer of the proposed
Seven Devils railroad, is in the city.
He was off from the surveyor gem
erals office on a leave of absence and
may return to that position. There
are some matters connected with the
position OH the road that render his
connection with the company I'M
certain Statesman.
Died, near Weiser, Idaho, March
22nd, Richard John Burke, aged 81
years. Bishop Glorieux, of BOISE,
came down and conducted the funer-
al services. Deceased had been in
bed several months with rheuma-
tism. He has been q long resident
of this section and leaves wife,
three sons and one daughter, besides
grand children and other relatives, in
this county.
Last Thursday evening Gerry
Snow was bringing in the Salubria
stage and coming to the Mann creek
grade he found it had slid out with q
large part OF the hill. He got horses
mired in the truck and after great
difficulty got them out only to have
one roll down into the creek of snow
water and rain and nearly drown.
Nothing like spice in stage life
No town election in the incorpora-
ton this year. THE election is due
next Monday but notice must he Civ
en- ten days before, so it is now too
late Town clerk Harris saws the
reason he gave no notice is because
OF the legal provision that names of
nominees must be included in the
same, and as no convention was
held, and no one nominated he could
give no notice. There ought to he
some legal limit to the time an incor-
poration can exist without giving
some signs of life
We neglected to mention last week
the death of NJ. L. Harlan, of AL
pine, March 16, of pneumonia. Mr..
Harlan was known to nearly every
one in this county. He ran on the
democratic Legislative ticket in this
county IN 81, being defeated. He
was an ardent politician but never
met with much success in that di-
rection. He was sixty years old, and
was born in Clay county, Indiana
He served ten months in the civil
war. He came to Idaho in 1874 and
spent the time since in Washington
county, with the exception of six
years in Oregon and one year in
Boise valley.
Among the exhibitors from Wash
lngton county, who are entitled to
special mention mot only by reason
of the superior quality and appear
ance of the fruits, vegetables and
grains exhibited, but from the fact
that much of this had to he sent 40
miles by wagon and So miles by rail
TO reach our society meeting), are
Mrs. j. ii. Phillips, of Pine creek.
and Mrs. Nelson Bull, of Salubria,
and Messrs. j. H. Phillips, George
Dean and A. G. Babb, of Pine
creek, Mrs. E. S. Jewell and NJ.
Hannah, of Salubria. and Robert
Brown, of Brownlee. Gem State
Rural, speaking of the January hor-
ticultural exhibit ut Boise.