The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1908-04-03
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at Cooper & McCray's.
Bananas received regularly every week
at Cooper & McCray's.
House and family paints, oils and
brushes, glass and putty at Philipp's.
Ed Paul, who has been driving one Of
D. D. McDonald's big freight teams, is
again at his home on sinker.
A fresh lot of candies just received at
Cooper & McCray's fruit and confection-
cry store.
Mrs. Minnie Paul, who has been visit
ing her mother and sister, at their home
on sinker creek, has returned to Boise.
Today we are enjoying more like real
spring weather than any day we have
seen in along time. The snow is going very
rapidly and our streets are slushy.
The road over the Reynolds summit
and from Bonneville to DeLamar is be-
coming fairly passable, and freight from
Murphy is coming into Dewey and De-
Lamar on wheels quite promptly.
Chris Conway has opened harness
and saddlery shop in the house on the
east side of the gulch, opposite Gardner
Bros. livery barn, where he is prepared
to do all work in the line of repairing
harness, saddles etc.
Attorneys John F. Nugent and S. E.
Blaine, the latter of the law firm Of Perky
4 Blaine have been here from Boise for
the past few days, representing the di-
verse interests in the settling the affairs
Of the estate of James Henderson, de-
ceased.
Three trustees for Silver City District to
be elected tomorrow The positions have
generally proved to be thankless ones,
but three public spirited residents ought
to be willing to accept them, for the
benefit Of the children. Whom shall we
impose the duty upon?
Robert G. Grant, who sold his teams
and big freight outfits to Jim Goble early
in the winter and went with his family to
try ranching in Utah, is reported to have
come back again and to be now in Boise.
We would all like to see Bob back here
again at his old business. Itmay be that
we will.
Harry Palmer and Tom Winchester,
who were put in quarantine several days
since, as smallpox patients, were fumi-
gated, declared well and turned loose yes
terday. They both declare they were
very sick for short time, but both came
out without a mark Of the disease upon
them. There are no cases of smallpox in
the county now.
The people in the valleys look up at
our mountains, see the snow disappearing
without the streams rising much, and
wonder what they will do for water when
they will need it for their crops. The
fact is that the winds are taking the snow
off and it disappears by evaporation.
The grass is not growing as usual on the
plains, and unless we have an unusual
rainfall during the spring, the grazing
will not be good during the coming sum
mer, and the hay crops will be light.
The ranchers are already beginning to
predict such a state Of affairs.
Market Days. in Idaho agricultural
towns, for which Caldwell first started
the pace about three months ago, and
Nampa straightway followed, have be-
come so popular that nearly every rural
town in Southern Idaho has adopted them.
Special advertising is done for these oc-
casions an auctioneer is on hand and peo-
pie wishing to buy or sell anything from
a stallion to some fancy poultry assemble
there on the sales days. It is a help to
the merchants and business men of the
towns.