The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-02-28
THE WEEKLY COURIER.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY %, 1902.

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Reno proposes to hold street car
nival next Summer.
Sol. Briggs of Placerville is visiting
his brother in Carson.
The snow is seven feet deep on the
summit west of Truckee.
Joe Josephs and Andy Todd of Car
son were in town Friday.
Big invoices of goods arriving every
, day at Carson for F. w. Day.
Lyon county's tax rate for this year
is $3.50 on each 500 valuation.
A good well has been obtained for
the smelter. It is 100 feet deep.
Thos. Barber and o. Benefit of Alpine
county were in town yesterday.
For floor oilcloth, linoleum and mat
ting, try Henry Tucke at Sheridan.
If you can't be good, be as good as
you can. 1t will be great improve
ment.
John Ulhorn, President of the
Smelter Co., has returned from San
Francisco.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robt. Wilkerson and
Mr.. and Mrs. w. N. Merrill have
moved to town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Howell and
Miss Katie Schulz of Carson visited
Genoa Sunday.
The recent rain and snowfall has in
creased the flow of the Carson river to
that of miniature Mississippi.
Will Ritchford has purchased the
residence he occupies on Minnie street
from his uncle, Albert Dickson.
Joseph and Ollie Ward departed
Monday for Sodaville. .Tob Ward
leaves to- day for the same place.
Sam Longabaugh will return to
Carson next week. His eyes are bet
ter, although not entirely cured.
The Board of County Commissioners
meet next Wednesday to consider the
question of opening new streets in
Gardnerville.
Robt. Ward is agent for the Reno
steam laundry and will take collars
and cuffs and have them washed and
ironed in good shape.
Will Ritchford will start the dancing
school tomorrow evening March 1st
and give the two-step. Chas. Thorn
ton will furnish the music.
The storm still continues and the
farmers are happy. The snow is piling
up on the Carson river water shed at
the rate of three feet day.
A number of the members of the
Masonic Lodge of Carson visited Genoa
Saturday evening, to be present at the
initiation of several new members into
Douglas Lodge No. II.
One ounce cream of tartar dissolved
in pint of boiling water, to be drank
when cold, at intervals, is said to be
an infallible cure for smallpox in the
early stages of that disease.
When you go to Carson to buy dry
goods or furnishing goods give the
little store, two blocks back of Ormsby
House a call. You will find a nice
assortment of goods and prices to suit
the times.
This is the way good woman of
Reno tells about her troubles with the
smallpox. She says: "First we were
all assasslnated, next the house was
guaranteed and we only had the eel
luoid.''
Send your children to the Nevada
Business College. Keep your money
in circulation at home and build up the
State. The new management is deter
mined to make the college the equal of
any in the west.
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.
The six-year-old daughter Of Mrs.
Henry Rhue of Sacramento recently
lost an eye in a peculiar manner. The
child was handling common table
fork when, by some mishap or other,
the fork struck her in the eye. Mrs.
Rhue was formerly Miss Eta Holdings
worth and is well-known here.
lessen Bros. are developing prom
Using claim near their copper mine in
Smith Valley. They left here Monday
to do some work on the new find The
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