Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-07-24

escent and has been able to be taken
home from the hospital this week
Bids are asked for the construc-
ton of bank building to be erected on
lot block 20, directly across the street
from the new hotel.
There seems to be some sort of a
hitch in getting the street sprinkler
! started, and the town is still in the
midst of deep, deep dust.
DR.. Dill, of Shoshone, was a profess
sional visitor to Gooding Wednesday.
He came to assist Dr. Higgs in an OPP
Grafton at the Woodlawn Sanitarium.
The Golden Rule store of Evans:Wood
is deserving of its name. His furniture
prices have been attracting purchasers
from Shoshone and surrounding towns.
The plate glass front has been placed
this week in the Chaplin building and
the Jordan-M Dougall drug company is
planning to move into the building in a
few days.
The Jap restaurant viii be open for
business in the new brick building Of
D. H. Buckley within few days. The
Jap boys are fixing things in fine shape
to entertain the public.
]. T. Lenker has erected a neat cot
tage on his lots recently purchased on
Nevada street. Mr.. Lenker has already
built one frst-class dwelling here and
sold it before he had it quite completed.
The walls of the Hotel Lincoln are
up to the place where brick work is to
begin. A large force Of men is en-
ployed and soon Gooding will rejoice in
having one Of the best hotels n ne
state.
The amount of freight brought to
Cooling has increased so much that the
company has allowed pay for ware
houseman and Lester Schooler has been
installed as Mr.. Alleys relief man in
the ware room.
Notices have been posted calling for
a bond election to issue bonds to the
amount of $40, $4,000 for the purpose of
erecting a school house in Gooding.
This is a question of vital Importance
and there is but little doubt of the bond
issue carrying at the election.
Geo. w. Buck who has been a citizen
of our village the past few months has
moved to Salt Lake where he has a
position with the engineering depart
ment of the Short Line. Mr.. and Mrs.
Buck leave a host of friends here who
wish them we'll in their new home.
A contract has been let for city Jail
to be built on the city lots. The floor
is to be of concrete and the balance of
the structure of wood. 1t is designed {
merely as sort of holdover to relieve
the city marshal of the task of stand /
ing guard over DRINKS and dsorderlies |
who drift in from our neighboring burgs. ;
George P. Dawson has been awarded ;
the contract for the erection of the ;
concrete work on the Isle & Barber
and E. E. Meade has the con
tract for the rest of the building. The
Matloclz brothers have the contract for l
excavating the basement. Work has l
begun on the building and will be rushed {
as rapidly as possible. The walls of I
this building will be of solid concrete. q
"Roast beef am good to eat, and
chicken it am fine, but of all meats |
likes to eat bear meat am most divine. "
This is the refrain of the song that has
,een sung this week by a number of Il
Recently word was re- ID
eived from the sheep camps along
Warm Springs creek in Blaine county Il
hat bear was killing sheep in that u
icinity. So D. L. Pruitt and Ernest "
'ruitt, of Gooding, took their pack of "
ounds up there for bear chase. They
Tere joined by Frank Houseman, of 81
older and Ralph Frame. The party q
OF the trail of the bear soon after ar III
wing on the scene of his operations az
nd the hounds were turned loose. The
ounds held the trail well from the ID
art and in about two hours had Mr.. '"
ear up a tree where he was killed by III
rank Houseman. The body was ID
fought to Gooding and distributed PC
nong the lovers of true game meat. I'll
Gooding, July 20.