The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1901-10-08
Minstrel show tonight.

Minstrel show tonight.
The cup still remains. The
Columbia has already won the
three best in five races.
K. Mckenzie and Chas. Waller
were down from Custer the fore
part of last week.
Miss Barrack, of Salmon. is
visiting with her sister, Mrs.
Chas. Jensen, of this place.
Leroy Hillman, foreman of the
Skylark mine, made business
trip to Challis on Sept. Both.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Hosford, of
Clayton, visited friends in this
city the fore part of last week.
The social hop held in Challis
last Friday night, was reported
to have been very pleasant
affair.
Dan. Reber has sold his group
of mines at Dixie, Idaho, to
Boston syndicate for consider
alton of S200,0O0.
RoRN:-In Challis, Idaho, on
Thursday. Oct. 3rd, 1901, to the
wife of Adam Hellman, of Custer,
a 6 pound daughter.
Hon. Frank Mandel, of HALEY,
was in Challis last Tuesday. He
was en- route for Bayhorse where
he has been engaged to do some
mine surveying.
Salmon appears to be pretty
good matrimonial field. The
latest wedding occurred on Oct.
1st, when John A. Walter and
Miss Elma Edwards were united
in the holy bonds of wedlock.
The MESSENGER extends its con-
gratulations and best wishes.
Regular train service will not
begin on the Salmon River line
until Nov. 1st, but during the
interim the construction depart
ment will accept passengers and
freight ON the construction train,
which will make daily trips over
the line.
Little is thought and less is
known by the average man con-
cerning the lives and aims of the
400, 1000 men and boys who delve
under the surface of the earth in
places of darkness and danger,
where hardly a day goes by with
out recording the death by falls
of rock, coal or slate of more
than one unfortunate miner. An
article on this subject at once i'm
partial and vitally interesting is
contributed to the Cosmopolitan
for October by John Mitchell,
President of the United Mine
Workers of America, whom
everyone recalls as the man who
organized the miners and carried
through to successful termina-
ton the great anthracite strike
of 1900.
Challis will probably have a
Travelling Library soon. A
petition will be sent to the Lib
rary Commission at Boise this
week. Perhaps there may be
some who do not underst tand how
the library is obtained or the
meaning of Travelling Library i.
At the last session of the Idaho
legislature liberal appropriate
ton was made to start a 1'ravel- 7
ing State Library. A CommisA
sion was appointed who have
full charge of the library, pur-
chasing the books, etc. AS the
library is a public affair each
town in the State is entitled to d
Travelling Library. subject to
rules and regulations of the said
Commission. The books in the
library are from standard auth
ors, and the best that can be OBJ
tanned. Nearly every town in
Idaho has the Travelling Library,
and Challis cannot well afford
to be without it. How it is oper-
ated A library of 80 well sell
: ected volumes in a substantial
case, is sent to each town, on
t petition of the citizens of said
community. Some person in the
: community is appointed as libra
rian, and the rules and regula-
tions prescribed as to the care
and return of the books are very
strict. The library is open for
!, the public. The library remains
in one place three months, and
is exchanged for the library of
} different volumes, at Clayton.
/ Custer or Salmon, or the nearest
, towns. And the exchange books
are also kept three months, and
i every three months an exchange
J is made, thereby giving the
. naOnla an ODpOrtunitV TO have