The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1907-11-22
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Once your tailor always, Geo. r.
Sweeney.
Masks and Dominos in great variety
at Rowetts Jewelry and Notion store.
Cali and make your selections early for
the Thanksgiving Masquerade Ball.
The valley ranchers say that there
will be an abundance of turkeys on
hand for Thanksgiving, but we have not
seen anyone around yet engaging to
supply them.
Charles Rogers, recently off a pair of
crntches after an attack of rheumatism,
had the misfortune to have horse fall
upon his foot and leg while riding along
hillside, and he is now again laid up
with very lame foot aud ankle.
Charles F. Simmons has procured so.
turkeys, a dozen geese and any number
of chickens, and proposes to have q
grand shooting match at his Bonneville
roadhouse Thanksgiving day. big
dinner will be served that day Every
body can have chance to get turkey
-or at least feast.
County commissioners Brumbaugh
and Brunzell met last Monday to open
and consider bids for work to be done
on county roads. The bid for filling in
with gravel and building walls near the
Stone House lane in Pleasant Valley
was rejected. The bid for building a
new piece of the Oreana- Murphy road
where the same crosses the Joyce ranch
on Sinker was awarded to Frank Davis
at 1915.
Joe Imperator, a Swiss Italian, a
former partner of John Pinana, deceas-
ed, in the wood business here, struck
out for his former Swiss home yester-
day. He says he will spend the winter
in the land of VIM. Tell and Alps gla-
ciers, but will probably return here
next summer Joe took away with him
a considerable amount in drafts and
currency to show his Swiss friends that
he had not been living here exclusively
for his health
County Auditor, John s. St Clair, has
been putting in the present week at
tending The State Convention of Au-
ditors being held to devise and adopt
uniform system of keeping county ac-
counts. Whether Mr.. St Clair will be
able to convince all the other auditors
that the system he has followed is Just
little the best, the most clear and con-
else, or whether some other auditor will
do this, remains to be seen. Certainly
system adopted, to be uniform in all
the counties, is much to be desiaed, and
the convention will be worth while if it
succeeds in agreeing upon a right one.
The funeral Of Mrs. Millie Crocheron,
which took place at Reynolds last Sat
urday, was very largely attended. Her
brother, Leland Stanford, and his two
boys, came all the way from Saskatche-
wan, Canada, to be present. Mrs. Stan
ford was in Nampa visiting her sister
in-aw when she was taken ill. Mrs.
Mary Crocheron and Mr.. and Mrs. d. B.
Hyde were there from Bruneau. Quite
a number of ladies, among them Mes
danes McCabe, Weston, Drolinger,
Connors and Rogers aud the Misses
Hastings and Mrs Hall drove down from
Silver City. Nearly everyone residing
on the creek or in that vicinity was
present, There was profusion of
choice flowers on the burial casket, con-
tributed ny loving friends.
Mr.. Joseph Babington of Reynolds,
was in town Wednesday, transacting
business, and he and Mrs. Darlington
are almost eart-broken over the loss of