Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1899-01-18
From SWeetwater,

| io", ior 1 nave loSL one OF my DUCKS,
a beautiful drake-one of the best 10
the whole flock. My partner, Gen
Quinn, being little full and dissat-
lsfied over the division of eggs, as
we only ad one and half to divide,
we concluded to wait until another
egg was laid, when we could settle
the matter amicably. We have only
three geese and they are all ganders,
so we don't get many eggs from them
to quarrel over. We intend to turn
them into feathers, which is the best
we can do till Spring opens.
Please excuse me for talking so
much about d ucks and geese, but
how can you blame me when | am in
that line of business; besides, we
have Henry on the side, SO pordon
me for branching out so much on the
duck business.
find that the people of this local
ity are apparently thankful for the
bounteful downpour of rain and
snow throughout the country, with
out which great suffering, depression
and stagnation of business would
necessarily have been the result, but
the prayers of all having been an
swered even more than we could rea-
sonably expect, all say Amen" As
for myself, l always said, God is
good. Every one in Sweetwater has
ii smiling face, caused by the seem
ingly bright future now before them.
Sweetwater, it is true, is complete
ly isolated from the outside world,
but where can you find more health
full climate, clear waters, clean-cut
and beautiful scenery, robust, eener-
GUS and healthy men, rosy checked
lassies and bright eyed children than
here? Again l say, God is good, and
l am not sorry my name is Billy Far
rell, and l am glad l am the owner
Of duck ranch, and don't have to
saw wood for living.
On Monday night last we had a
real, genuine social hop in the hall OF
the Sweetwater Hotel. Among the
ladies present were Miss Hilda Fri
dell, Miss Collins, lately from the
East, and many other ladies who
we're not there at all. Among the
gentlemen were Col. James Gray,
Gen. Quinn, Capt. Lee Wheeler,
Capt. Robt Conway (who, by the
way, is good clog dancer), Messrs.
Andy and Albert Roach, Rear Ad-
miral Minedew and our essteemed
friend James McCaghren and our
genial landlord, George Acheson,
besides many other gentlemen who
would have been these had they
known the dance was going off. You
see, we didn't know we were going to
have a dence until we commenced to
dance. We had good music, furnished
by Captain Wheeler's band, assisted
by Mr.. Andy Roach. After the ball
we retreated in good order.
Now, right here, while it is on my
mind, / want you to send me, if it
can be found in Hawthorne, three or
four bottles of some kind of hair
dye, for some of the boys, including
myself, are getting somewhat bleach
ed by the frosts of time, caused by
too many moons; also send a few bot
ties of hair restorative, as our fore
heads are getting too high; ALSO ii
you can get them, half Il dozen side
combs, as it is getting to be all the
style here for the boys to part their
hair in the middle, and being used to
part their hair man style, they cant
make it stay new style without the
combs and, if not too much trouble,
you might send along few bottles
of Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup,
for some of the boys are sad because
their girls. go with other fellows, and
all the whisky,being frozen, there is
no other comfort.
James Sinnimon of Bridgeport
passed through here the other day
on his way to Reno. He will take
in the Senatorial fight in Carson be-
fore returning.
Sam Albright has tied up his land
ships for the Winter, and will proba-
bly, depart for another State (matri-
mony) bdfore long
P. ]. Conway made flying trip to
Mason Valley this week. 1t don Z
take him all Summer to make trip,
for ha has rood stepDerS.