Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-07-31
Major Fred Reed and DC. MacWat-

D. H. Buckley, the capitalist, and a
friend of his from Springfield Mass.
have gone on a thirty days outing trip
q up Haley way
Mr.. and Mrs. Thompson have brand
new girl baby at their home. N.Y. but
Gooding is increasing in size and popu-
lation very fast
John Muir returned to Cooling, Tues
day from a business trip to Boise in the
interest of the Donald Grant Company.
He reports fine trip.
Mr.. C. S. Tool has leased the Monroe
Restaurant and is doing a good bust
cess. His family arrived Sunday from
Payette and will make Cooling their
futnre home.
Nothing draws crowd in Gooding
like dog fight. The fight, Tuesday
evening between Zent and Egelus dogs
drew larger crowd in shorter time
than did the Human Volcano last week,
when ne ate fire by the peck.
Miss Ellen Whitney daughter of
Warden Whitney of the state peniten-
tiary, came down to Gooding this week
to visit with Miss Louise Gooding, and
te make one of the party to go camping
to Ketchum.
Geoding lost four very popular young
men last week Ed Beach going to
New York and Heber Sorenson, Dave
Downing and Robt. Beach going to Al
aska. May they meet with all hegood
luck possible
j. A. Fennel of the firm Wayland &
Fennell, Architects of Boise, came to
Gooding, Wednesday morning with Gov
Gooding, to inspect the new hotel Mr.
Uriah Seaman of Boise is superintend-
ing the building of the hotel.
Mrs. Geo. P. Dawson has closed her
boarding house, to the sorrow of her
many boarders Mrs. Dawson set up
the best of everything and had the
cream of the trade, but her health fail
ed her consequently the sorrow among
the ex-boarders.
The Jap Restaurant in the new Buck
ley building opened up for business on
Sunday noon with good dinner. They
will no doubt do well here in Cooling
Their room is large and we'll lighted
and all furniture and fixtures are brand
new and their prices are right.
Major Reed wishes to announce
through the columns of the paper that
the house Of his at Wendell which the
Journal correspondent reported as hav-
ing been blown away was neither
dwelling, a business house, a barn or
coal house.
Evans Wood, of the Golden Rule
store, reports fine trade in furniture,
and in the line of fresh groceries which
he carries. Because of his low prices
and good goods, he is receiving orders
from many other towns, and his patrons
are loud in their commentator of his
way of doing business on live-and-let-
live basis of prices.
Joe Stanwood has the contract for
the brick work on the new Lincoln Ho
tel. He began Tuesday noon with a
force of eight brick layers and IN a
short time will have things looking diff
ferent. The facing brick are the white
sand-line brick from Boise and are laid
in buff colored mortar which makes
very pretty combination. The Lincoln
Hotel will be second to none when com
pleted.
VIM. RATE, the pump and well man of
Shoshone, has the pUmpin the City well
and Wednesday evening the 20 h. p. I
gasoline engine was hitched up to the +
pumping jack and Goodiug now has city
water. The big fifty thousand gallon {
steel tank is completed and we expect c
it will be filed Thursday to test it. c
The boys who have erected it surely q
understand their business. They are t
luiet gentlemanly gentlemen and viii T
be missed by many friends when they g
cave G0oding next week. The tank IS
about one hundred and twenty feet high s
and there has been no serious accident I,
turing the erecting Of it, which speaks 3
we'll for the artists who put it up. a
A. Williamson, of Paullina, Iowa,
las purchased the southeast corner lots n
# the hotel block of AL. Griffith, for t
i00Obonus. Mr.. Williamson viii proceed a
it once to erect a fine two story brick I
business building covering the entire Il
wo lots. Mr.. Williamson has taken a
rip this week to Soldier, Haley, Belle a
ne. and back by way Of the Maiade k
ot springs, traversing the entire length tt
f the Idaho Irrigation company's res 81
rvoir site aud inspected the reservoir el
am site and the diversion dam, which N
completed along with 20 miles Of the fc
il ditch and is satisfied that the water W
ned and the entire Idaho Irrigation to
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