The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1906-04-13
LOCAL.
Fine Stationery at Rowett's.


in Silver City Tuesday and Wednes-
day.
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The official paper Of Owyhee county.
Bright, brief and newsy.
Mrs. A. A. GetcbeIl and child went to
Murphy yesterday, for visit with her
parents.
North East Tacoma offers most ex-
celIent opportunities for investment
See J +. Dickens for particulars, prices
etc.
How ard Shaffer, u S. postofiice in
spector for this district, has been max
ing the rounds of the offices in this
portion of Owyhee, checking them up
during the week.
Remember when starting house
cleaning that you will need Jap Lac,
or Liquid Veneer for renovating your
furniture and paint for your house,
which is always kept in stock at Phillips
Hardware store
The Ladies of st. James Episcopal
Guild are today stocking up the Lip
pencot building with dainty stuff, pre-
pairing to hold an Easter sale tomor-
row. Luncheon will be served after.
noon and evening and cooked food
will be sold.
Mrs. w. R. Hamilton and children
left Tuesday for Payette, expecting to
be away until about the first of June,
visiting the lady's parents and other
friends, in the valley of fruits and can
taloupes. What the doctor viii do dur
ing the ensuing long six weeks remains
to be seen.
The DeLamar Company on account
of an over supply Of ore, laid off 10
miners Monday evening, but as the
mill is now running steadily and salts
factorily they we're all put TO work
again this morning. This promises to
be great year for that old camp, with
more miners working than ever before.
J. O. Thomas, an old time DeLamar
miner, has returned to that camp after
an absence of four years, during which
he has been employed in Mexico, Ari-
zona, Nevada, Utah. Montana and Brit
ish Columbia. Great travellers are
many Of these Cornish miners. All the
old fellows are glad to see Jack again
A telephone station was put in at the
Mercantile Company's store at Dewey
this week, by Lineman Colder Here
tofore the only public phone down
there was in the hotel aud was con
stant annoyance to Mr.. Colborn. Now
the public can be accommodated with
out Inconvenience to him or to the
Trade Dollar office.
A. j. McSweeuey, who will boss the
road making in District No l, which
includes the Reynolds Creek route
from here to Murphy, got the contract
fer the next two years, not because be
was the lowest bidder, which he was
not, but because he was wanted by al
the big freighters on that road. Andy
understands what the freighters wan
done and will come little nearer do
ing it than any one else.
MARRIED AT Siver City, Idaho, Apri
9, 1906, Mr. Walter S. Cook and Mrs
Minnie Cook, Judge r. II. Leonard
officiating. The lady was born in Sill
yer City as Minnie Hoffer, daughter o
Mrs. Hoffer and the late Fred Hoffer
we'll and favorably known in Owyhee
twenty years ago, before they removed
to ranch near Caldwell Mr.. Cook is
we'll known mining aud mill man il
this district.
William Thomas, the Trade Dollar
engineer and "Uncle Billy" to host Of
girls and boys hereabout returned yes
terday from several months visit t
his former English home where he re
ports having had royal visit with sis
ters and boyhood friends in LondoI
and Cornwall, but glad to get back Ida
no all the same. He is looking muci
improved and says he is feeling al
right. OF course everybody here gay
him hearty welcome.
Mrs. Mills, last week, held Easte
displays of ladies' and children's finer,
here, in Dewey and DeLamar on differ
ent days, and the weather now promis
ing to be fine next Sunday, it is to b
expected that the ladies in these town