The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-08-18
SHORT STOPS.

.Crosson has just opened an invoice
of fine hats.
The machine drills are now making
good time in the DeLamar mill level
tunnel.
Mrs. P. A. Regan and children, of
Boise, are visiting Mrs. Scales, of
Wagontown.
Crosson has just received big lot of
scientifically constructed Blue Hill
Box Kites.
Mrs, Crosson. has purchased the Kelt-
ner house and will have it put in repair
for the family residence.
Willie Baker left last Saturday to
take position in store in Wardner.
Will is good boy and his DeLamar
friends wish him luck.
Mrs. w. B. Banks and her two child
rem, Helen and Merrill, are over from
their Emmett home visiting Mr.. Banks
and their many other friends in De-
Lamar.
Mrs. Wood has been promised visit
from the father and brother Of her late
husband, the lamented Ed Wood, and
is expecting them to arrive here within
two or three days. They reside at
Honesdale, Pa.
Jim Menifee, who has staid away
from here nearly year, working at the
Rajah mine, on the south side of
Florida Mountain, came down yester-
day to shake hands with friends. He
is looking as hearty as young buck.
The extensive purchases being made
by Mr.. Gombrig in the east for the big
stores of Isay & Gombrig, here and in
Silver City, are beginning to arrive.
scarcely as big as Chicago or Boise,
but we have in the stores of lsay &
Gombrig quite as up-tc date merchants
as any towns bigger than ours.
Fresh fallen snow on our mountain |
on the morning of the 14th of August.
and heavy white frost down in town
on the following morning, tends to
make us wonder why people deplore |
the heat Of dog days. If we could only |
yank men and women out of some of |
the so-called summer resorts and bring
them up here to cool off, they would
bless us for doing SO.
Two of the bird hunters came home |
from the match shoot somewhat riled |
at incidents which might have amounted |
to accidents. One of them was hit in |
the face with spent shot, and the |
oLher was hit, first in the breast, and |
then turning around quickly. was
struck in the back by shot nearly spent. |
Except for smart sting, no damage
was done.
The first case Of the free travelling |
libraries, sent out by the Woman's |
Columbian Club of Boise, has arrived
at DeLamar and is in charge of Miss
Ida Jones, who has kindly consented to
act as librarian. These books are free
to anyone, young and old, and may be
had by applying to Miss Jones on
Mondays AMI Fridays.
During the shooting contest on Wed
n,sday W. R. Thomas, carrying pump
shotgun loaded with five shells, flushed
covey of six sage hens, and with five
consecutive shots brought down five
birds, shooting no two or more of them
at one shot. 1t was simply pump,
pump, ave times repeated, and bird
dropped at each shot. When and
where was this record ever equaled?
The Pocatello Advance never came
to MS SUMMER and brighter than the
last issue. 1t has changed hands,
Messrs Moore & Wright having sold to
Messrs. Cusick & Thomas, who have
placed a lady upon the editorial tripod,
Miss Horace Greedy Perry, who says of
herself that her cradle was basket of
exchanges, and that she believes she is
the only girl in the world named after
the late Horace Greedy. We wish her
and the Advance prosperity.
The Sunday School picnic at Dewey
took nearly all the boys and girls out
OF DeLamar last Saturday, and a good
many grown;up girls and boys went
with them. They all say they had a !
great time and that the people at Dewey
treated them royalty, Mr.. Van Dorm
giving everybody, big and little, the run
of the hotel, and furnishing a room for |
them to set their lunch. We don't :