Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-01-12
WEDNESDAY, Jan. y, 1898.

Mrs. Geo. Hill is visiting in Boise
Night Lamps, Is cents. Kelse,
& Co.
The Chinese New Year begins the
22nd instant.
Miss ida Fitzwater is quite sick
with the measles.
Single tug team harness, COM
plete, 1915. Kelsey & Co.
John Neil now has over 200 tons
Of ice stored for summer use.
The measle victims are too nu-
merous to mention-old and young.
County Treasurer Frank AXE
visited Boise Saturday and Sunday.
Lawyer Wolfe made profession
al visit to Hagerman on Saturday,
returning Monday.
II pounds of pop corn and
cone-popper for 80 cents. Kelsey
& Co.
John Neil recently purchased
1000 head of sheep from A. J..
Fletcher of Big Camas prairie.
The Odd Fellows are preparing
to give basket socia'' at their
hall on the even ing of the 28th inst
j. w. Bailey, the Little Camas
merchant, came down Sunday and
spent several days in Elmore's Cap
ital.
George McWilliams came in from
Dixie Saturday evening after neces-
sary timber for the new mill at
that place.
Yesterday on balloting in the two
houses Hanna had majority of
one He will doubtless be elected
to-day on joint ballot.
After visiting for over week
with friends in Weiser, Mrs. HI. G.
Madison and children returned
home Friday evening.
Commissioners George Butler and
Robert Griffith arrived Sunday
evening and chairman Stevenson
came up on Monday mornings train
Judge Stockslager will hold
special term of the District Court
at Mountain Home on Jan. 26, for
the sole purpose of hearing several
water right cases,
The Supreme Court has settled
the long contested case of John
Brady VS. Nora Linnehan by sus-
tanning the lower court and decid-
ing in favor of Brady.
The frame work for the cyanide
plant at Dan Reber's Dixie mines
is now completed, and with favor
able weather another 80 days will
find the mill runni ng, and we trust
satisfactorily to all concerned.
In every small town there should
be someone willing to write a COM
munication for the nearest paper
and by SO doing allow the outside
world TO become informed of what is
going on around you. Bring the
development work of your mines to
the front, improvements, or any
thing that will interest the public.
Send your news to the BULLETIN
and we will gladly print it.
The school and city library which
is just being started has received
about 200 volumes of very valuable
books, which the teachers have
been numbering and getting ready
for use. These are well bound
books, and carefully selected con.
sisting of history, biography, fiction,
poety, travel, essays, and miseella-
neous works. These together with
books that have been donated make
an unusually good reading library
for a beginning. The reading room
is being put in order and will be
ready for use in the near future.
Commissioner George Butler, who
arrived here Sunday evening, had
to come from Atlanta to Rocky Bar
on snowshoes. From that place he
had fairly good trip by stage sleds.
He reports small mining sale at
Atlanta recently. Theodore VOL |
ters and Ed Gaetz sold a strip of
mining ground to Gen. Pettit's COM
pany for $4,000 and had received |
their cash for it. A meeting of the
Gen. Petit Mining Co, will be held |
in Boise on the 22d inst for the pur-
pose of electing board OF directors
and for the transaction of such other |
business as may properly come be-
fore the meeting.