The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-04-03

The number of harmless pranks played
by the staid and sober people Of the
camp on All Fools Day were almost count
less. A favorite amusement perpetrated
very frequently was that Of neatly tying
packages of sawdust with name marked
on each one and dropping it where some
one would pick it up and carry it to the
owner" Thepolite and obliging banker
of this place kindly brought one OF these
packages addressed to Nugget shop, to
the old man, who opened it and thanked
him. The doctor answered several emer-
gency calls and said few words which
we will not print. This is the sort Of
jokes which were sprung, but there were
enough Of them to indicate that we men
were not idle
Mrs. Myrtle Hastings Shea, left the
early crocuses in bloom, and her husband
cleaning up ground, building fences and
preparing to plant crops on their Trout
Creek ranch, the beginning of the week,
while she came up here to attend to her
official duties as county school superin-
tendent. She arrived at her parents just
in time to give her many friends an op-
portunity to call upon her the evening Of
"All Fools Day." and pay her off for
stealing march on them all and quietly
getting married one Sunday morning in
midwinter and slipping out OF town with
her husband, "unbeknownst to them all. .
A lot of her friends called upon her in the
evening and gave her a agraceful serenade.
What won't they do for her husband
when he ventures back to town? Mrs.
Shea says she enjoys ranch life very well.
Mr.. G. H. Durgin, of Bangor, Maine,
who after an extended tour Of the Pacific
Coast, arrived here late in the fall to visit
his nephew, Judge r. H. Leonard Jr.,
expecting to remain only a few days, but
liked these mountains and country so
well that he has spent the entire winter
with his nephew, at his mine on War
Eagle, is today visiting some Of the mines
about town, intending to start for home
in the morning. He purposes stopping
off to visit on the Twin Falls tract, seeing
the great dam at Miner and some of the
wonders which irrigation has done for
that country, and seeing Shoshone Falls
and Blue Lakes and perhaps return
through Jerome and the North side tract.
We only wish he had time to look over
all the reclamation projects now under
way in Southern Idaho. He would have
wonders to tell of when he got home
which would make New England people
stare at him and accuse him of having
acquired what they call the western habit
Of telling whoppers." Mr.. Durgin is a
pleasant and well informed gentleman,
whom the people in this vicinity would
be pleased to welcome back again.
Mrs. Minnie Weston returned the early
part Of the week from her trip to Port
land, whittier she had gone fortnight
ago to select stock OF goods to open a
millinery store here On her way home
she came by way Of Moscow, where she
stopped to visit her son Clifford and the
other young men from here who are at
tending the University of Idaho, where
she says she had very pleasant visit
She met all the boys from here, and
brought home very pleasing reports of
their progress and standing in that fine
institution, and good impression of the
university, town and its people. The
goods she purchased for her new store,
which she has opened in the pleasant
rooms Of the Lippincott building, began
to arrive about the time she got home,
and she and several of her lady friends
have been busy putting them inshape for
display, and her stock was opened for the
inspection of the public today. As we
write this, the ladies of Silver City may