The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1905-06-02

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Bingham, Utah, was published in last
weeks Nugget, arrived here with his
bride, Tuesday, and they have taken
rooms at the Royal hotel, he receiving
warm congratulations and she the good
wishes of his many friends.
A telephone message to Undertaken
Crete, this morning, ordering burial
case sent to Jurdan Valley, announced
the death of Joseph Maher, an old
timer, well known by all the older resi-
dents of Silver City. He died at his
ranch on Cow creek. No further par
ticulars have been learned here. de
was single man, quite well up in
years.
r. R. Kuss, the blacksmith, one of
the locators of the Lucky Friday mine,
came over Tuesday, from Boise, to re-
sumo his old position in the DeI.amar
mine shop, He said the manager had
told him he couldn't very we'll get
along without him, and it was a stand
off, for he had discovered he couldn't
very we'll get along without Mr.. Or
ford's check The owners have sold
the Lucky Friday mine to Arthur
Buckbee.
L. w. Walker, Silver City's barber
capitalist, OWNS ranch property adj
joining HALEY, besides other property
| s.,t ho kor NJo lwr
River Times that he has proffered he
HALEY people the use of grove on his
ranch for their use for picnics and
Fourth of July celebrations, and gen
erously offered to contribute $50 to $75
toward building platform, arranging
seats, etc. He'll be there on the Fourth
and contribute something for fire.
works, too.
The Silver City public schools will
close one week from today, with an in
teresting program of exercises, to
which the public as we'll as parents and
patrons, are all earnestly invited. 1t
has been a very successful and salts
factory school year; the teachers all
being earnest, jealous and competent,
and nearly every pupil in all the grades
making excellent progress. Two pupils,
Matte Heer and Carrie Hastings, have
been passed to the eleventh grade, with
high percentages on their examina
tions.
Tho xo,,nr, ATieeao Estharapd ;l;ov,
Evans, and Ethel Gaylord, "unbe-
knownst" to their friend Carrie Hast
ings, invited some twenty of their girl
and boy friends to meet them at the
home of the latter's parents, Wednes
day evening, for surprise party. The
three conspiratresses we're considerate
enough to provide refreshments.
Twenty girls and boys were there on
time. They had jolly tine-playing
all sorts of games and pranks. Two
prizes we're given for something or
other, one of them was taken home by
Mary Hicks and the other by Jimmy
Brown. Someone told us what the
prizes we're, bnt we have forgotten.
The Ladies' Whist Club met at Mrs
Hastings this week, in honor of Mrs
"Hettiel' Mcdonald, Mrs. HIS guest
for The week, and as the members are
always striving to do something novel
at their meetings, to make the men en-
vious of these exclusively chen par.
ties,", their hostess invited them all &c
come as school girls, and they did
with short dress and hair in braids, and
simpered and giggled and chpwed gum
as charmingly as lot of girls in their
teens. OF course school girls are moi
: supposed to be adopts at whist, but
they played it, talked and found fault
with their partners, just as their elders
would have done; and when the series
of games had been played, Miss keenan,
was awarded the prize-a small GOLD
J spoon. Then recitations from schoo
; girls was proposed and Mrs. G. H
Crete was voted the nearest perfect
and got prize-a comic picture. Fol
lowing this, the impersonation of birds
and animals was suggested, and Mrs
NJ. M. Getchel initiated turkey COB
bier so comically that the prize was
unanimously voted her-a birds nest
in fancy basket. Then the luncheon
was as unique as the games. Bread
butter aud sugar sandwiches, cut il
the shape of rabbits, bears, tigers
sheep, ETC.; coffee, pink ice cream anc
cake, with favors fashioned from lem
ons to represent pigs, the pulp removed
and the bodies filed with candy mot