Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-12-22
OF C. INTEREST

Sheriff Robert Shirley is absented
from his official duties and confined to
his room with a severe attack OF tonsili- ,
tbs, to which disease he is more or less
subject.
The Ladies' Aid Society will meet
with Mrs. G. NJ. Gardner january 3td.
All are requested to be present, rs I'M
portant business will come before the
meeting.
Mrs. y. A. Cornish, vile of tie newly
elected LASER county, California assem-
blyman, is visiting this week with Mrs.
G. w. Black ard family at their home
south of town.
The Churchill Standard has entered
upon the foarth year OF its existence.
The STANDARD is a good paper and de
serves the success that has attended its
publication Nevada State Journal.
W. C. Grimes and i. NJ. Wightman
passed through Fallon Thursday on their
way home from Mason valley, where
they went last week with about seven
hundred head OF feeding cattle, which
will consume the Mason valley hay re-
Gently purchased by Messrs. Wightman
4 Grimes.
A well known Fallon young man made
a tour OF the stores of the town last
Monday in n frantic endeavor to secure
apairof pajamas. Some m was unkind
enough to suggest that he wanted them
for the dress parade affair of Wednes.
day evening, but this the young man
strenuously denies.
Fred Small, formerly aChurchiil coun-
ty commissioner, spent Monday and
Tuesday in Fallon attending to business
matters. Mr.. Small now lives in Reno
He has heavy Goldfeld and Bullfrog
mining interests and he believes Gold
field TO be the greatest mining camp on
the face of the earth.
The /. H. Kent Company commenced
this week on IL warehouse in the John
Oats addition tifty-two feet by seventy
six feet in dimensions. Tie carpenters
in charge OF the work are making all
possible haste and the building will be
completed one day next week and made
ready for the reception OF freight.
The little ones OF Fallon viii he favor
I'd with two Christmas trees this year
One will be given jointly ~ 'hc Sunda,
schools of the town nest MONDAY even
ing, while the Isathbone Sisters are pre- !
pairing a program and tree ortomorron
evening. The former will he held At
the Baptist church, while the lodge tree
will be at New River Hall.
R. L. Douglass, he capitalist, left
last Monday for Stockton, California, |
where he wen. to purchase neW stage
coaches for the Fallon, Fairyicw and
Wonder Stage Company. lie will come
home by way Of Oakland, where Mrs.
Douglass and little daughter, Marie, are
now visiting Mrs. Douglass parents,
Mr. and Mrs. George Ernst
c. C.. Emerson, the Fairyiew News
man, passed through Fallon Thursday
on his way home from o trip 10 Reno.
Mr.. Emerson informed rs that he had
ordered a linotype machine Tor his paper
at Fairyiew and that it would be Install
ed within the next few days. Ills OPP
orator is already in Fairyiew, and upon
the receipt and installation OF the limo
type, his paper will be enlarged to an
eight-page six-column sheet.
o. J. Leete, of Lectyille, returned
lone last week from Nebraska, where
he visited friends and relatives. He
brought home with HIM a carload OF
chickens, fifteen hundred in all and he
intends to engage in the poultry business
on a Wholesale plan. There certainly Is
an opening for an enterprise such as MIR.
L. ete has started, and he cannot fail Of
success. With fresh ranch eggs selling
ut sixtv-fivc cents a dozen, and few iof
sale at thai price, it certainly is time
that some ehterpYisinr rancher, such as
Mr.. Leete, filled what one might call a
long felt want.
George Saunders, a jaunty young man
who worked at various saloonsin Fal'on,
and recently embarked in business for
Himself in the DR.. G.. NJ. Gardner BALD
ing, folded his tent Tuesday evening and
stole away under cover of darkness, after
having disposed, so it is alleged, d his
stock to innocent parties. The innocent
party racket would not work with D. }.
Kennedy, the rustling agent and man
a1ar nj tho Nevada Brewers and Dis