The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-08-11

Mr.. and Mrs. Clark went to Idaho
Falls Tuesday last on visit.
Owen McGinty returned Wednesday
from flying trip to Salt Lake and Den
YER.
Mr.. E. E. Slaughter went to Poca-
tello Thursday for weeks visit to his
brother
Anderson Cook and family left
Mackay last week to look up new
location.
Tom Holland was in from Moore
Wednesday and while here bought a
residence.
The Misses Mathews and Woodbury.
of Lower Lost River returned Wednes-
day from Blackfoot.
Messrs. Cready, Allen and Hartford
came back yesterday from their trip to
Idaho Falls to "see the elephant
DR.. Cue and wife attended a reunion
of Mrs. Cues relatives, the Harris
family, at HALEY, few days ago.
J. F. Hendricks leaves Monday next
for Denver, COL, where he goes as a
delegate to the Eagles big meeting.
Thos. Mcclure Of Boise is visiting his
sons and daughters on Lost River Mr..
Mcclure makes annual visit to this val
ley.
Chas. Huddell and Frank Stacy are
at Unitah and c. w. Bailey left Tues
day for that locality to register for the
opening.
Mr.. Babcock and wife, of Spanish
Fork have been visiting the Lemon
Brothers near Darlington, and may To-
cate there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Clark departed
Tuesday tor visit with their daughter
at Idaho Falls. Barzilla accompanied
them there.
Dan Gray and son left Saturday for
their home near Marysville, California,
after weeks visit with his mother,
Mrs. Thos. Ferguson:
Tourists and sportsmen are visiting
Lost River in the interest of trout which
are turning" and chickens which are
getting ripe and ready to pick.
Miss Annie Swanson of Lost River is
at Payette. Her sister Vina was mar
ried few weeks ago to a Mr.. Weaver
of Ogden, and they are living on her
homestead in Long Valley.
Last Friday night the lightning struck
the stovepipe Of the T. j! Wyley resi-
dence at Champagne Flat and scattered
cooking utensils all about among the oc-
cupants without hurting any one.
J.Z. Stewart, of the Blackfoot Real
Estate Company and his son, E. I. Stew
art, of the Zach Valley Real Estate
Company, spent several days on Lost
River recently showing prospective pur-
chasers over some farms which they
have listed for sale.
A party of four men came up to Arco
last Monday and went out to look at
mine near Era. The men are supposed
to be from Chicago, but registered from
Salt Lake, Goldfeld, Johannesburg and
Bombey respectively.
w. H. Pershell, of Arco, has just sold
100 acres to G. D. Martin of Idaho Falls,
and will remove to the state of Wash
jngton. The price paid for the land
with crop and some stock and farming
implements was $500 an acre.
Joseph Rabido, of Darlington, has As
acres of winter wheat wheat which he
sowed in the fall after the ground began
freezing at nights. 1t is good stand
and is from four and half to six feet
high, with heads large and well filed.
The wheat crop is perfectly clean and
free from weeds and other growth. Mr..
Rabido has lis acres of grain, 40 acres
of Alfalfa and nice garden on tract of
100 acres.
A. j. Sullivan brother of |. N. Sulli.
van of the supreme bench, is managing
the work on the Sullivan Ranch on Low
er Lost River. They cut and stacked
$40 acres of alfalfa in seventeen days,
covering a period of q days including
Sundays and bad weather. The hay all
went into stacks in fine condition, and
is estimated to be between 100 and SOOl
tons. They have just commenced cut
ting the grain crop of 12O acres, and are
to have a hundred acres
planted to beets next year.
Some excellent tracts of beets are
coming to notice on Lower Lost River,
and those near Darlington and Leslie
which were damaged by hail are recov-
ering. One of the worst features about
the seasons work is the scarcity of labor
at thinning time. Some tracts would