The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-02-11

Auditor Keyes is sick with
tonsilitiS.
The ice harvest has commenc-
ed in Challis.
Apparently Spring has come
in Challis.
Have you been vaccinated =? 1t
is all the rage in Challis.
DR.. Philips departed for Mac
kay this week on professional
trip.
Mr.. G. V. Hanson is to receive
$4,000 per year for the Challis-
Custer Star Route mail contract.
There will be a thank Offering
meeting at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Howell Wednesday evening.
A special program has been pre-
pared and splendid social time
is anticipated.
A Junior Christian Endeavor
Society was organized last
Thursday at 4 O'Clock at the
Church. Mrs. r. S. Nickerson
is the Superintendent and will be
assisted by Mrs. Chamberlain
and Miss Keener.
The party of Oregon Short
Line surveyors engaged in locat-
ling the extension of the Mackay
branch have crossed the divide
from Willow creek into Salmon
river valley. The party is some
what hampered by the snow, but
it is making fair progress.
The program of the 1nstar
Literary Society next Friday
night will be public. A small
admission fee of 10 cents will be
charged to defray expenses to
all except members and those
on the program. Exercises to
commence at 7:30 p. m.
There is a movement on foot
to start young mems and boys
club with the object of not only
being a place where the mental
but the physical as we'll can be
developed. The plan is to rent
building and fit it up as gym
nasium and reading room. 1t is
to be hoped that this plan will
prove successful.
All those that are wishing to
take lessons in drawing and oil
and water color painting will
have the opportunity of entering
a class. Mrs. R. S. Nickerson
who has had several years Of ex-
perience as a teacher, will start
a class next Saturday afternoon
at 9 O'Clock at her home at the
parsonge, provided a sufficient
number can be secured to form
; a class.
l A dispatch dated at Washing
ton, Pa, Jan. 81, says 1T has
; just become known here that the
teachers in the Second ward pub
' lie school made written request
to VIM. J. Bryan, who lectured
here tonight to be allowed to kiss
him. Mr.. Bryan spoke to the
! school children in the morning,
l and as he entered the building a
S note signed by the school teach
: ers was presented to him. Mr..
: Bryan read theenote, and inform
ed the bearer, a pretty primary
: teacher, that he was extremely
: surprised, but was compelled to
2 refuse their request. He said
q his wife read the papers and
= that for this reason he was com
= PEELED to refuse their request.
Il An effort was made by the teach
: :, ers to keep the affair quiet when
their request was denied"
Nobody abuses small talk un'
! less he be a stranger to it's con
= venience. Small talk is the small
= change of life; there is no get
: : ting on without it. There are
:, times when tits folly to be
!" WISE" when little nonsense is
% !, very palatable, and when gravity
~ and sedateness ought to bt
= knocked down stairs. A philos
opher cuts poor figure in a ball
room, unless he leaves his phil
to osophy at home. Metaphysic:
n are as intrusive in the midst o
a agreeable prattle, as death
1t head On festal board. We have
l. met with men who were too loft,
at for small talk-who would never
lie indulge in complaints nor discus
d the state of the weather. The,
y were above such trifiing; in 9th
IN er words, they were above max
a ing themselves agreeable, abov'
b. pleasing, and above being pleas
n ed. They were all wisdom, al
c. gravity, all dignity, and all tedi
er lOusneSs and seriousness which