The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-11-21

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First-class cord wood at $3.50 per
cord at Diamond Sawmin.
The little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Tucke is improving slowly.
Remember the turkey shoot at Peter
Anderson's place Thanksgiving Day.
H. @. Petersen and daughter, Miss
Hannah, were in from Smith Valley
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. G. Dangberg and
Mrs. Nelson returned from below
Wednesday.
All Sing, the vegetable peddler, an
nounces that he will be here next week
with a wagon load of nice things for
Thanksgiving.
A grand New Years Ball will be
given in Tucke's Hall, Sheridan, on
New Years Eve, Dec. 31st. Further
particulars will be given next week.
w. II. Stock has contracted to paint
and paper the hall and will make it
one of the finest halls in the State.
Peter Swanson has purchased be-
tween four and five acres of land OPP
posite the Millerville saloon from M.
Jepsen. The consideration was nearly
5000 per acre. Mr.. Swanson will
build on the tract and move his family
here in the spring. He is brother-in-
law of Obey Haugner the shoemaker,
and has been employed in the sawmill
at Overton, Cal.
The following men compose the
Grand Jury which will meet in Genoa
a week from tomorrow, November
29th: Chris Larson (Foreman), Chas.
Brown Secretary, F. G. Springmeyer,
M. Jacobsen, P. q. Wilder, w. c. Ezell,
A. j. Pettegrew, J. B. Dangberg, R. T.
Wilkerson, Ed. Frey, A. L. Rice, Will
Hussman, Fred Winter, H. D. Aller-
man, VIM. Dangberg, H. Beck and F.
Heise.
! Twenty-Five men will be employed
cutting wood this winter at the head of
James canyon for Zirn Anderson. The
wood will be f1umed down the canyon
and hauled to Carson by steam trac-
ton engine. He now has out about
four thousand cords, and there are
forty or fifty thousand more to cut.
The Nea0s says Mr.. Anderson is salts
fled that the traction engine will be
successful for this purpose and men
are now engaged in constructing a
road from the wood dump to arson.
Three or four different schemes are
talked of to furnish electric light and
power for Gardnerville, and it is prob
able that one of them will be carried to
completion before many months.
Power and light for Gardnerville and
for all the farms and institutions of
Carson Valley should be furnished
from the Carson river. The plant
would be expensive, but it would be a
permanent enterprise, and the man or
company taking hold of it would ac-
quire rights on the river that are sure
to become very valuable.
The lecture at the school house to-
morrow evening by Prof. J. E. Church
of the State University will commence
at 1880. The new Assembly hall in the
school house has been furnished with
easy chairs and will be warm and pleas
ant. The lecture will be illustrated
with stereoptican views and will be
treat for our people. Don't fail to be
present and show your appreciation of
the splendid lecture course to be ex-
tended to Gardnerville this winter. The
small admission fee of % cents will be
charged to cover expenses. School
children will be admitted free.
A lady once employed girl to as
sist her in her homework. One day
the mistress wanted to make plum
pudding, and, having bought some
plums, she explained to the girl how
to stone them. She picked up a plum
and took out the stone; then, thinking
the girl knew how to do them, she put
the plum in her mouth and left the
kitchen. The servant came into the
drawing room half an hour later and
said, "Please mum, Ive finished" The
hostess departed for the kitchen and
heheld a plate full of stones only.
"Where are the plums, Jane? she
asked. ''Pve eaten 'em mum, as you
showed mei'' was the maids reply.
Next week will be Thanksgiving
week and the public schools of the
State will take a vacation. All, or
nearly all the teachers in Douglas
county will attend the second annual
meeting of the Western Nevada Teach
ers' Association in Reno on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday next. Prof
Heaton of the University of California