Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-07-19


Mr.. and Mrs. G.. B. Novinger ane
} family left this week for two month.
camping trip in the mountains above
Ketchum. They will do real housekeep
ing in the piney hills.
The work now being done on the
streets Of Shoshone will soon put those
on the south side in fine condition. II
is understood that the city council will
order work begun on the north side,
draining and filling lake McFall, the
vredenburgh pond, and the Mcmahon
bayou as soon as the work now under
way is finished. When that is done
Shoshone will have as fine streets as
any city in the state where no paving
has been done.
w. ID. Vredenburgh and family re-
turned Saturday night from visit of
six weeks to western Iowa, his old
home, and where he has many friends
and relatives. They visited dozen or
more points in the Hawkeye state. Mrs.
Vredenburgh was well enough pleased
with the state in general, but the vici-
GUS thunder storms were one serious
drawback, and one terrible hail storm
that devastated several miles of the
great apple belt of southwestern Iowa
was enough to make her wish herself
back in Idaha.
Business has been pouring into the
county recorders Office the past few
days One hundred and twenty-one
water contracts from the Twin Falls
North Side opening at Miner in Febru-
airy were sent in to be yecorded. and
the work will be finished the last Of
this week There are others to follow,
while the Big Wood river irrigation pro-
ject contracts will be coming in within
few days from the Alberta opening.
But, of course, the two big openings
this fall are the ones that will bring in
the real job, as there will be so many
more contracts filed.
What promises to be most enjoya-
bic musical evening is advertised for
next Wednesday night when the Me-
neley quartette will appear in the Sho-
shone Methodist church for one of it's
well known concerts. 1t is mixed
quartette, giving a repertoire of the
choicest concert music, interspersed
with dramatic readings from Chester
t,lr Of hn fnff 70 'ho
company has given over 300 concerts in
the past year, and comes with the best
of recommendations. 1t is promised
that this will be one of the best, if not
the very best, musical entertainments
given in Shoshone this year, if not for
a. number of yeors. The concert is
under the auspices of the ladies of the
Methodist church.
Postmaster Brown is now weighing
all the mail that goes outfIom the local
office, and by orders from the postal
department will continue to do so for
the next six months Every mail for
every train viii go on the scales, and
he is to make daily report of what he
sends out. The old practice of weigh
ing the mails for one month, beginning
with the first of the year, and then
basing all mail carrying contracts on
that schedule, is to be abandoned 1t
was base imitation of an honest prac-
tice, as the weighing was done on the
trains, and the gentlemen interested in
padding the mails were powerful busy
in the month. As an illustration, the
Encouragement of IDAHO who had
ordered a lot of supplies for his Office
including a lot of three pound lead pa
per weights, received these by mail
during the weighing season, while his
bulkiest supplies came several months
later by freight Apparently the con-
tractor stood next to the weighing de-
partment, and was ready to rush few
tons of lead through at letter rate for
the benefit of his corporate friends.
To spread this weight through six
months, instead of one month, and so
average the fat months with the lean, |
will lower the cost of carrying the /
mails very materially.