The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-02-10

In season at Busters.
An infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Smiths died at Clayton recently.
What relief it will be to the
people of Idaho when the legis-
lature adjourns.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Wood and
child departed from Challis one
day last week for visit to Salt
Lake and Ogden.
Matt Womacks, who has been
spending the winter with rela-
tives in Missouri, returned to
Challis last Thursday.
DR.. F. S. Wright arrived in
Challis last Thursday morning
from Salmon in response to a
telephone message announcing
the serious illness Of Mrs. Ida
Blume. He found the patient
dead on his arrival.
The Appeal says a good-loOk-
ing, well-to-do bachelor of Car
son who was being teased by the
young women of the club for not
marrying, offered to make the
girl whom the club should elect
his wife just to show them that
he was not adverse to matri-
mOny. Each girl went to a cor
ner and wrote her choice on a
piece of paper. Disgusting her
hand writing. There were nine
members of the club and the re-
suit. showed one vote for each.
The young man is still a bach
elor, but the club is broken up
and its members are all mad at
each other.
A man in Mascotah. Kansas.
who chewed 20 cents worth of
plug tobacco a week decided TO
try a tobacco cure. The Record
of that place informs US that at
the end of two weeks he had
eaten $3.50 worth of cure, and for
the next two weeks used 10 cents
worth of chewing gum, 5 cents
worth of candy. > cents worth of
peanuts and ) cents worth of
cough drops day. During these
two weeks he also consumed two
large rubber eraSers. ate the
rubber tips from fourteen lead
pencils, chewed up dozen pen
holders and browsed off his
mOustache as high as he could
reach. He is now chewing tob-
acco in the interest of economy.
The initial lot Of high-grade
gold bearing ore, with which the
management of the Lost Packer
mine of Loon creek, Idaho. re-
Gently appeared on the market,
was sold yesterday on controls
showing a valuation of nearly
S160 gold per ton. The consign-
ment, although a small one in
that the weather made it impos-
Sible to get out more, affords fine
evidence of the merits of the
property, which has done so
much to attract the attention of
the miner to the locality and will
do much to stimulate the growth
of a boom that had started when
the heavy SHOWS began. No at
tempt will be made, of course. to
repeat the shipment in the face
of the hardshipS that now be-
strew the trail. but steady de-
velopment will continue through
out the winter.-Salt Lake Trib-
une.
As everybody knows there are
good seeds and bad seeds. seeds
that grow and seeds that don't
grow. seeds that yield and seeds
that don't yield. and little
thought given now TO the Selec-
tiou of the seed you'll need, will
be found at harvest time to have
been we'll spent if you select the
world famed Ferry's seeds-the
kind that always yields. For
nearly half a century Ferry'S
seeds have been known ard Sown
wherever good crops are grown.
until farmer and gardner alike.
have learned 10 depend upon
their wonderfully reliable grow
/ ing and yielding qualities. year
after year, TO the exclusion of all
others. Unfortunately the seed
business seems TO afford means
for many unscrupulous people.
who aim to blind the unwary to
quality, through littleness of
price and boastful claims. who in
reality have nothing to substan-
tiate their claims. no reputation
at stake, no past record as proof.
1t is better to pay little more
for the seed and be assured of a
great deal more at harvest by
/ sowing Ferry'S seeds. The Seed