Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-11-13

Ed Schroeder of Hepburn has been
doing some very fine sighn painting on
Trails new building on Lincoln ave.
and for the Haddock Lumber Co., the
North Side News, A. &. Barclay and
others.
W. C. Stark OF Miner expert account
ant for Twin Falls North Side is in
town this week on business.
The concrete abutments for the new
water tower are being built.
The Land and Water Co. had built for
them recently by the Jerome Concrete
and Brick CO.. large and well-furnish-
ed fire proof vault, This will offer a
secure place of deposit for the many
valuable papers which the company in
its various branches is continually max
ing.
R. H. Trail has recently received
notice of his official appointment as
local agent for the New Yoak Life ms.
Co., the American Surety Co., The Roy
al, The North British and Mercantile,
the Hartford, and the Phoenix fire in
surance companies, and the Continental
Casualty Co. Anyone desiring anything
in this line are invited to call and in
vestigate.
A. B. Stevens is at work on a survey
ing contract for Hausman and Frost,
about six miles northwest.
Mrs. R. H. Trail has an electric mo-
tor washing machine which is the envy
of all the ladies'.
Mr.. Mckay has furnished all the
sleeping rooms in his lodging house
with electric heaters which will be
great boon to the travelling public.
r. H. Schoenthal has returned from
Boise where he secured fine line to
Christmas goods.
Allen and Reynolds, grubbing con-
tractors, having just finished a grub
bing contract for one of J n. Hale's
clients and last.week moved camp and
were in town purchasing large line of
supplies for man and horse. They are
fully prepared to do work in their line
at reasonable cost.
The Ladies Union Aid met with Mrs
w. D. Baker op Thursday
Many observers enjoyed view of a
most beautiful mirage Thursday morn
ing which seemed to lift the bluffs of
the Snake river opposite the Hagerman
valley several hundred feet.
R. N. Lyons blacksm tn business has
so increased of late that he has taken a
partner, Dennie Cavanaugh, formerly
from Illinois They are equiping their
shop with a full line of tools and ma
chinery.
The jerome Livery Co., Piper and
Bloom, proprietors. have built an Office
building connecting with their barn on
the east and on Monday will begin the
erection of large extension 16xS0 ft-
to their barns. They will also put a
high fence around their corral and win
have then stable room for Sc horses.
H. E. Guudelfnger of Pittsburg, Pa,
arrived in Jerome this week and ex
poets to remain permanently as cashier
of the Jerome Mercantile Co.
The Nibley-Channel Lumber. Co..
begun the erection of their officers
warehouses and sheds next Monday Oh
their yards on Lincoln are just north
of the Jerome restaurant, Bickford
and Tennent. two hustling young con-
tractors from Portland who have just
located here are doing the work.
H. NJ. Hall of Twin Fall formerly
from North Dakota has effected a part
nership with A. B. Barclay in the real
estate law insurance and loan business
William Wagner has laid the found
alton to his warehouse and wren COM
pIeted will deal in all kinds of supplies
and buy and sell all kinds of produce.
0. c. Peterson has bought through
j. N. Hales real estate agency the
Newman Bros lots just west of the
hotel Idaho and viii erect "a concrete
building thereon at once.
There is a good opening for laundry
right now in Jerome.
Tom Robinson of Saltwater, Okla,
has bought lots on Main street and will I
at once erect a building thereon to be /
occupied by him self with complete
line of furniture with undertaking
parlors in connection.
A number of ranchers are building .
cisterns. A cistern six feet in diameter
and 10 feet deep holds So barrels of 50 +
gallons each. These are filled from !
water wagons from one Of the several I
wells now in operation on the North 4
Side and furnish an ample supplyof the
best water for domestic and stock use.
The cisterns should be dug egg-shared
20 that if there is any sediment it viii
sink into the center, and thus they can +