The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-11-10

Rev. and Mrs. o. Ostrom will leave
mex Monday for Boulder to attend dis
trict conference meetings.
The choir OF the sunny side Lutheran
church will give q concert on the evening
of Thanksgiving Day in the cnurch
The ladies of the 5 v,d >h Lutheran
u4i Cnris mas sale on S turday evening
December frs.
| Carl G. Peterspn expects to remove
with family to Cal,foruia about Christ
mas t. engage IN fruit farming. We
shall be sorry TO see such a good citizen
leave our community.
A marriage lice Sc was issued in Der
yer thursday to Ed Worth and Mrs. c.
Jane Johnson both of this city. The
couple will make their fu uure home on
Spanish Bar Mr. Worth is we'll known
CONT actor and builder.
The ladies Aid Society of ihe Sunny
sid Lutheran church will give box
soc lal in the social rooms Of the church
next Saturday evening. This takes
tt- place Of the regular social generally y
held on THURSDAY
The Martelhu vi ing company, with
capital of $4,000 was incorporated
this week by B II J. Mart-lon sWa,er R.
Crlpp,n and Rohert J. Jeff. The com
panv will operate in this county, and
will have its Office in Denver.
The lateral beng driven west on the
Hoosac vein from the point it was re-
Gently intersected. this week opened in
to au elegant streak OF ore clinglng to
the foot wa of por nyhry dyke, The
streak i. from IS inches VIDE al the bot
tom OF the drift to three feet wide at tho
top, and as soon as practicable stope
will he started. A large sack sample of
the ore taken out without sorting gave
assay returns OF E 8 ounces gold ard
1880 ounces silver per ton and carried
4 10 per cent. copper, gross value of $3.50
per ton.
Manager Dickinson yesterday billed
out carload OF ore from the Rising Sun
stope to the Afgo smelter the lot weigh
ing IS tons. Returns will be received in
ABOUT ten days.
Now that th- cooperative ASSOCIATE on
known AS the "Pikers' Roost" has be-
come firmly esta blisbed 1usti ution iu
! this city, the members have recently de
cded to incorporate their organic ,tIon
to better carry out the business and to
have a legal standing. The roost will
hereafter be KIN ,wn under more dgni-
fed name, which has been borro wed from
the Indians ard signifies peace aud hos
pitality. 1t will be known as The Calu
met Club of Idaho Springs.
The membership of the association is
com posed wholly of men who have
highly cultivated epicureau tastes. All
are connoiseurs in the art Of assuaging
tn craving of the inner man for meat
and drink, aud such luxuries as lettuce
on Christmas and celery and oy sters on
the Fourth of July are so common as to
excite no comment. Salads, pate de fois
gras, anchoves, caviar, truffl IS and other
expensive delicacies are purchased in
wholesale Quantities for the larder, and
the members expect to have watermelon
for Thanksgiving day dinner
None of the members of the club drink
anything stronger than ice water and a
recent canvas disclosed the fact that not
member knows how to play poker or
billiards. Checkers, casino and domi.
noes constitute the principal form Of
amusement, while the library contains
such literary works as are produced by
Ouida, Zola and Marie Corelli. Not a
mem Der of the club smokes cigarettes or
swears, and all the members retire at 10
and rise at 5, except when these hours
are sometimes reversed. The club has a
large phouograph, which plays records
back wards and forwards, aud at dinuer
hour one may hear the sweet strains of
Maggie Murphy's Home" waited
| through the windows.