The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-06-16
SHORT STOPS.


Mr.. and Mrs. Best. Mrs. Brashar is fol
the present stopping with Mrs. O'Neill
Call at tent on "Wood Yard" and get
your picture taken. Cabinets 50 pei
dozen.
The ball given by the Catholic ladies
at the hotel on Monday night was well
attended and was a most enjoyable
social affair.
Just a little bit of snow fell here on
the 18th. They say enough fell in Sill
yer to enable persons to scrape up
snow balls the next morning,
Court Northrop, of Boise, showed his
pleasant face in town yesterday. Incl
dentally, he took number of orders
for his company.
Nels Pierson, recently of the Black
Jack, is now in the employ of the De-
Lamar Co., and will remove his family
down here as soon as he can secure a
house.
DR.. Heer has been down from Silver,
stopping at the hotel, filling molars,
bicuspids and incisocs and looking
down in the mouth-some other per-
sons mouth-this week.
"The region of diabolical nomencla-
ture and divine endowments," is one of
L., 81 Dot IAnos, fo
dodge saying the Seven Devils Mining
district. The colonel is prolific in
verbal resources.
G. W. Chinn, a Caldwell photo
grapher, has arranged to pitch a big
tent in the ''wood yard" and to begin
taking phizzes, views and things here.
He brings with him reputation for
doing fine work.
The Odd Fellows and Daughters of
Rebekah, joined by a number Of mem
bers of that order from Silver City,
observed their Memorial Day last Mon
day, with appropriate ceremonies and
a fine parade, escorted by the band.
Mrs. Orwin, mother of Mrs. Richard
May and the late Mrs. j. P. Langford,
left on Wednesday for Milford, Utah,
where she mas another daughter resid-
ing, taking with her Mr.. j. P. Lang
ford's little girl who has been in her
charge since the decease of its mother.
Mr.. w. B. Jones is now postmaster,
having assumed the position on the
18th inst. Miss Ida Jones is behind !
the window getting acquainted with the
physiognomies of callers for mail. A
neat candy and variety store now oc-
cupies the front room, with Mrs. Jones
politely serving customers. We are all
happy.
Remember the entertainment at the
school-house tonight. The Cornet
Band will be there and play number
of selections, and there will be num-
Der of fine recitations and pleasing
duets, solos etc. The program promises
many pleasing things. The money
raised will go for the purchase of new
organ to replace the one now in the
school-house.
The people here are not taking a
proper interest in getting up Fourth
of July celebration, and the affair
seems likely to go almost by default.
So far as the grown people are con-
cerned, we would not care a snap if
if they all went fishing or celebrated"
by filling up their tanks with beer, but
it will be shame if the children are
not provided a good time by some
means.
The County commissioners have
driven to Murphy, the new southern
terminus of the Owyhee railroad, by
way of the New York summit route and
by way Of Reynolds. They
claim that the distance to Silver City :
over the n. Y. summit is not more than
eighteen miles, and that the Scotch
Bob grade can be made quite as easy as
the Reynolds grade and the road all
-he way will be on granite formation
and will avoid the mud incident to the
latter route.
Three men who came here to work
'nly few months ago and who managed
% get in debt to the merchants and
ialoon keepers to the amount of over
our hundred dollars, attempted to
'amoose, last Sunday morning, without
he formality of saying a word to their
'reditors. Two Of the creditors pursued
md CAUGHT Them at Gnffer and 1nndn Z