The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-06-04

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The Post Office Department
should try to realize that it takes
twice as much mucilage for a
Buffalo Fair stamp as for the
smaller kind, and not try to
spread it so thin.
FOUNDLA stelographic pen.
The owner can have same by
calling at this Office, describing
property and paying for this ad-
vertisement.
Memorial Day was very APP
propriately observed in Challis
last Thursday, the Both. The
exercises at the hall were very
good. After the exercised had
concluded, all marched to the
cemetery and decorated the
graves of relatives and friends
with choice garlands of flowers.
Kansas is complaining that the
rivers that used to irrigate her
lands are all going dry. Well,
what is more natural. Mrs. Ma
ton has made the state go dry
aud it is perfectly proper that
the rivers should do the same.
Silver Leaf Rebekah Lodge
No 81, l. o. o. F., of Challis,
last Tuesday night elected the
following officers for the ensuing
term
N. G.-Miss Mabel Jose.
V.G.-Miss Beatrice Bradbury.
Sec. Miss Cuba Trussler.
Treas.-Mrs. Mary L. Boyd.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. D. Bartlett.
of Butte, Montana, arrived in
Challis one day last week on a
visit TO relatives and friends.
Senator Quay says that he is
going to retire from active poll
tics and that he will not be a
candidate for reelection four
years hence. Possibly, but the
aspirants for his seat are warned
that four years are a long time.
On Tuesday, June 11th, the
District Rebekah meeting for
this district, comprising of the
towns of Salmon, Gibbonsv lille
and Challis, will be held in this
place. The meeting will be in
session two days and evenings,
it is expected. Papers will be
read and subjects discussed bene-
ticial to the Order. The Lemhi
lodges have written that quite a
number of their members expect
to be present. Our local lodge
is making extensive preparations
to entertain their guests.
Minister Conger declares that
that wealth awaits us in the
Orient. We don't doubt it. The
only bother is that it belongs to
some one else. OF course, how
ever, this small fact makes nc
difference to Minister Conger and
his missionary friends.
One of the most remarkable
but least-noticed facts in connec-
tion with the war in the Trans.
vaal is the extreme youth of a
large part of General DeWet's
army. When hostilities broke
out almost every grown man en-
listed. even the enfeebled, but
the pace has been too rapid fol
venerable burghers. AS they
were killed or incapacitatsd theil
places have gradually been taken
by mere school children, many
only thirteen or fourteen years
of age. Under the title of 1.-The
Youngest Soldiers in the World,
in the June Cosmopolitan Aller
Sangree throws more light or
the makeup and life of Genera
| DeWet's commanders than any
thing hitherto published. The
naive, simple letter from fourteen
year-old Deneys Reitz to hi:
father. the Secretary of State 0.
Transvaal Republic, has seldom
been equalled for vital interes
by any carefully written articl,
on the war.
We have been turning out som,
fine full sheet colored poster,
during the week for the 4th o
July celebration in Challis.