Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1908-05-01


Ward Meyer, Of Wellington Kansas.
has purchased lot on Main street
where he is planning to erect building
in which he will conduct a first class
hardware store.
The Nsmpa Lumber Company has its
concrete plant installed and is turning
/ out a superior quality of cement blocks
which find a market greater that the
present ability of the plant to supply.
Last night the board of trustees held
another meeting at which village seal
was adopted and several ordinances plac-
ed on first reading. Walter Sutherland
was appointed marshal and Paul Had
dock was appointed village attorney
The toothaching public of Gooding will
be pleased to learn that DR.. w. E. Dubes
will bein Gooding Wednesday and Thurs
day of next week, May and 7 to at
tend to all who may be in need of his
services.
VIM. Raef. the gentleman who drill
ed the city well has moved his machin-
cry down near Wendell, along the line
of the electric railway where he is put
ting in well to supply water for the
construction company.
A. F. Wohlenberg of Seattle, Wash
ington, has just bought eighty acres of
Carey Act land near Gooding and has
also bought business lot in Gooding,
on which he will at once proceed to
erect a building. Mr. Wohlenberg is
an experienced druggist and he intends
to put stock of drugs in the building
to be erected on his Gooding lot. The
Haddock Land company, of Shoshone,
handled the Carey claim sale.
The county commissioners at their
recent session granted the petition ask
ing for the Incorporation of Gooding as
a village and appointed w. E. Gardner,
F. T. Furcht, Robert Pruitt, E. c. Eye
lus and w. j. Gooding as the first board
of village trustees. The new board
met last Saturday night and organized
by electing w. J. Gooding as chairman
and A. J. Shubert as village clerk.
Alex Mcpherson with a force of thir-
ty or forty men is at work setting out
the shade trees recently purchased by
the townsite company to decorate the
townsite. A fine tree will be set op-
posite each lot line except on Main
street, throughout the entire town.
The trees will be set feet from the
lot line, which will be just outside the
curb.
The base ball enthusiasts of Gooding
will meet Thursday evening to organize
team for the season. They have
some good material, and promise to put
out an even better team than last sea-
son. Gooding is dry" but that doesn't
hurt the chances for base ball; and
then, the town is going to have water
in short time. The probabilities are
that Gooding will win the county
championship this year, in the great
game.
The fifteen hundred trees recently
orderd by the townsite company have
arrived and will be set out at once.
Alex Mcpherson, the superintendent of
the North Side Twin Falls experiment
farm will have charge of the setting
of these trees. In order to protect the
trees from loose cattle and other stock
the village trustees passed herd ordi-
nance under the emergency provision
which by proclamation of the Chairman
Of the village board will go into mined
ate effect.
The townsite company has its city
veil completed. There are 81 feet of
he purest of mountain water at
lepth of POP feet. A complete modern
iystem of city water works will be in
tailed at once. A steel tower 100 feet
high and so, 900 gallon tank have been
,rdered. A twenty horse power gaso-
inc engine has been purchased which
will be used to pump water to the tank
md also to run a dynamo which will :.
supply electricity for lighting purposes
until the wires can bring in the JUICE
rom the plant now under construction
It Salmon Falls. r
That the incentive to action determin- f
s mans ability to large extent was b
Illustrated here last week when two t
men were held up by tramp negro. b
he first man in the game had not .
'eenin long enough to fully comprehend
he wishes of the negro when man d
70 2 came along and the niger told p
i'm to hold up his hands. This gave s
he first man a chance to run and he c.
it the trail for the hotel. Man No 2 n
yas close enough to the niger to see
] the dark that the negro held knife Il
,stead of gun. He at once concluded 7
nat he could out run a knife and ne W
Iso started towards the hotel. Think a
,g he was pursued by the niger ne h
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