Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-02-12
JEROME

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ing cottage on Second avenue.
VIM A. Peters, of Sheldon, Iowa,
will open law Office here in few days.
Noble Bros have opened their groc-
cry store in the west end with fine
line of goods.
M. D. Hoffman, of Monroe, Wash.
has been looking over the Clover Creek
tract with view to investment.
B. A. Mcclellan has one of the neat
est room cottages in town all ready
for the plasterers. 1t is located on Sc
cond avenue.
At this writing the town is full of en-
thusiastic investors who are all expect
ing to be No l at the big drawing for
acreage property.
J. L. Napton was at Shoshone, Tues
day in attendance upon the meeting of
the Idaho Hardware and Implement
Dealers Association.
The Hart building on West Main
street which fell with a crash, last
Wednesday evening is up to the second
story again and will soon be completed.
Joe Krivanek has taken care of the
land Office during Mr. Hurlebaus' alb
sence at Gooding and to his encourage
ing smile is largely attributed the big
boom in real estate.
ALB. Stevens gave very interesting
and helpful lecture on proper methods
of ditching, at the meeting of the meet
ing of the Water Users Association,
Wednesday evening.
A big party of Chicago people passed
through town last Saturday enroute to
Gooding. They came via. Twin Falls
and the Blue Lakes where I. B. Perrine
presented them with samples of his far
famed apples.
The legend "Saloon Closed" has
appeared on the locked door of our
local dispenser of liquor refreshment
and report says that the genial Lyme
Higgins is wearied of the many brawls
incident to the business and will per-
manently retire.
H. w. Hurlebaus has been at Good
ing the past week supervising the Clover
Creek drawing. If there is another
man who can with as little apparent
effort manage the many details incident
to big land opening, he has not yet
put in an appearance about here.
E F. Reed, of Twin Falls, is one of
those who are building on Second ave.
He is putting up temporary domicile
on his lot and will bring his family at
once. Mr.. Reed is a contractor and
builder and will build his own home lat
er when there comes less demand for
work
The sale of town lots the last week /
has been phenomenal. While the trans
fer of property in Jerome has not ceased |
Wendell has suddenly awakened from a
winter of real estate lethargy and be- (
tween 200 and 300 lots have been sold
the past week. Hats off to our fair
sister to the west.
The Wilson Bros. living two miles
south east of town have been doing a .
lot of clearing this winter and will have .
their entire quarter into crop this sum-
mer. They brought two carloads with .
them from Walla Walla and expect
shortly to bring in a carload of Jersey
COWS and open a dairy This will be a
most welcome addition to the business
If the city.
F. H. Nichol, of Columbus, Ohio, has
bought two lots opposite Jerome Lodg-
ng House Mr.. Nichol is a large con-
ractor who has been in large business
or years in Columbus. Two years ago
lie took trip of 5000 miles through the
Estates, New Mexico, Arizona,
California, British Columbia and back
through Sunny Southern Idaho. Since
hen he has made large investments in
everal towns in this vicinity and has
eveloped into a genuine Idaho booster.
A large burn several years ago has
fectually cleared several thousand
cres of land south east of Jerome but
ne big stumps of sage brush still left
how the natural fertility of the soil.
he absence of the sheep from their
sual winter range has left great I
cal of last years grass and the heavy
aims and snow of this winter almost G
sure very heavy growth next spring. I
s consequence it is confidently pre- c
cted that next July and August will c
.e tens of thousands of acres of sage G
rush burned off in this section. c
Jerome, February H. b