The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-12-20
THE WEEKLY COURIER.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER. 20, ......-.lsO1
Christmas Is coming.

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Eat hen turkey. A hen sets better
on the stomach.
There will be but six days in next
week. We eat Wednesday.
Big invoices of goods arriving every
aay at Carson for F. w. Day.
Sam Cohn and Robt Ward visited
Alpine county this week.
Cheer up! Nobody should look down
at the heel, except shoemaker, poor
sole.
Scossa Bros sold s., 600 worth of beef
cattle to the Oakland Meat Go. Mon
day.
When a man is all broken up the
next morning, he feels like mending
his ways.
J. Belcove, the Carson jeweier, has a
splendid line of silverware and jewelry
for the holidays.
Jos. and Will Koenig of Murphy's,
Calaveras Co., Cal, are visiting their
parents in Alpine county.
A buyer representing the Oakland
Meat Co. bought a lot of Carson Valley
beef this week at 8 cents.
Mrs. G. e. Merrick and Miss Re-
becca Goldstein departed Tuesday
evening for San Francisco.
The Misses Panning of Fredericks-
burg are in Sacramento visiting their
sister, Mrs. r. w. Strauch.
The Cemetery Association will hold
meeting at Wilder's Hall, tomorrow
Saturday afternoon at O'Clock
Preparations are going forward for a
nice entertainment and Christmas tree
at the Lutheran Church Christmas
Eve
Miss Elva Patterson, who taught the
Genoa school last term, has been of
fered a position as teacher at the In
dian school,
There will be turkey shoot at Sheri-
dan, next Sunday, December 22nd.
Crack shots invited. Turkeys enough
to shoot all day.
There will be a delightful dance at
Markleeville next Friday evening, and
all our young people are invited. See
advertisement
Henry Tucke's store at Sheridan is
recognized as one of the best places in
the county for high-grade goods and
low prices Call and see.
A man who had tarried long at the
wine was in just now, and mourned
because he couldn't make both ends
meet" Perhaps it is because he makes
one end drink.
Advertise your business, and draw
customers to you. There is but one
kind of business in which it pays to
drive the customers away. That is the
livery business.
A jolly dutchman just called and said
that he had a well-preserved apple 81
years old We hadn't time to call him
a liar before he explained that it is the
apple of his eye.
The Christmas dance at Genoa next
Tuesday evening will be pleasant
affair. From what we can learn, all
the young people are going, and Mrs.
Raycraft will prepare splendid sup
per.
Send your children to the Nevada
Business College. Keep your money
lin circulation at home and build up the
State. The new management is deter
mined to make the college the eqnal of
any in the west.
Potatoes still command fancy prices,
with the market showing decided up
ward tendency. Hay and beef have
also advanced the past week. Baled
hay is worth $l1.50 per ton at Reno,
and top steers eight cents.
Reno on a charge of vagrancy The
Journal says: John apparently gets a
good living, to judge by appearance,
and he is expected to prove how he
does ''got it' next Saturday morning.
Remember that Jos. Platt, in the
county building, Carson, has a splen-
did line of gents furnishing goods, all
stylish and up-to-date. His aim is to
do little better by the public than
any other house in Western Nevada
We are worms of the dust which
wabble woefully in the whirligig of
Time. A vegetarian, who year ago
refused to eat vegetables that had been
kept in the same refrigerator with
meat, was caught the other night kiss.