The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-01-03
*EOGAk HEwS.*

Cause since our mother went TO where they
say the angels stay.
They don't knew where we're Iiyin' at, an
Santa's lost the way
Poor folks don't have no Christmas, an all
tbeT got TO do
Is stand an see the toys an be wishin' for EN-
But bet you II our mother wuz livin' here
today
Shed send word TO Santa Claus an tell him
where we stay
Jas. Alger, E. B. Curtis and
Frank Tolman, all prominent
Goldburg ranchers, were in Chal-
lis last week on business.
Did you swear off
1899!
The Board of County Commits
sioners met in special session at
Challis last Saturday. We learn
the object of this meeting was to
take steps towards collecting the
money due Custer county from
the defunct Bunting bank. The
recent supreme court decision
makes the States, counties, cities,
ETC.. preferred creditors, and this
being the case, Custer county is
pretty liable to get its money.
Bert Fox. son of J. C. Fox, of
ChalliS, who is in the Idaho vol
unteer service at the Philippine
Islands, has been very low with
fever for some % days, but we
learn from Mr.. Fox that Bert is
now able to be up, bat hardly
strong enough for military duty.
Our Spring-like weather took
a severe cold the latter part of
last week.
MARRIED:-At the residence
of the brides parents in this city,
on Saturday evening. Dec. 24th.
1893, Lee Ramey to Miss Minnie
Hewitson. Rev. w. NJ. Crowther
officiating. The youthful bride
is the eldest daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. NJ. Hewitson, and has re-
sided here since her early child
hood. and by her many charms
of mind and has won hosts of
friends. The groom was born
and raised in this country and is
known as young man of the
strictest integrity, of industrious
and and temperate habits.-Sal-
mon Recorder.
We wish the young couple
plenty of happiness and pros
perity.
"Shall we keep the Philippin-
es and amend our flag .? Shall
we add a new star-the blood
star, Mars-to indicate that we
have entered upon a career of
conquest ? or shall we borrow
the yellow, which in 1896 was
the badge of gold and greed, and
paint Saturan and his rings to
suggest a carpet bag government
with its schemes of spoliation :?
or shall we adorn our flags with
a milky way. composed of a
multitude of minor stars repre-
senting remold and insignificant
dependencies ?
mo, a thousand times better
to haul down the Stars and
Stripes and substitute the flag of
an independent republic than to
surrender the doctrines that gave
glory to Old Glory
1T was the flag of our fathers
in the years that are gone: it is
the flag of a reunited country
today; let it be the flag of our
nation in the years that are to
come.
Its stripes of red tell of the
blood that was shed to purchase
liberty; its stripes of white pro-
claim the pure and heaven born
purpose of a government which
derived its just powers from the
consent of the governed. ."-Wm.
j. Bryan.
The Idaho Word has the fol-
lowing relative to Judge Bomar's
daughter: Miss Stella Bomar,
of Boise. arrived here Monday
evening for visit among her
old Idaho City friends. Stella
returned a few weeks ago from
Germany, where she has been
the past five years. She has
been with an opera company
there, both as vocalist and plan
list, and the manager said that
whenever she returned her en-
gagement with the company
would be renewed. She expects
to return. Stella is an accom-
plished musician. She is a native
born Idaho City girl and her
many friends here are justly
proud of her success in such a
musical and severely critical
country as old Germany