Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-04-16
BUILDING RUSHING AT JEROME
Hotel Idaho Making Good Progress
and Other Werk Booming

Seed grain of all kinds is advancing
in price in sympathy with the Chicago
market.
P B. Shafer has entered the employ
of Noble Bros, so rapidly has then
business grown
A. w. Arps, of Morrison, ILL.,, has
built and opened tin shop on Ave. B,
near the North Side livery barn.
S. Foster has built residence which
can afterward be changed into an office
and store room just next to his sale and
feed barn on Ave. B.
Rev. W. A. Bowler and Rev. T. M.
Patterson of Shoshone were in jerome
Tuesday and Wednesday in the interest
of the Baptist church.
Mr.. Woodcock, over near Skeleton
Butte, is putting out So acres of apple
trees this week. He has an ideal loca-
ton for an apple orchard.
Poe and Stransbaugh have opened
up in the McClareo block on W. Main
street very finely equipped cafe to
which they have given the name College
Inn Cafe.
The jerome Milling and Elevator Co.,
w. B. Geese manager. have just COM
pleted their big warehouse and have on
display several carloads of seed. They
will soon build an elevator on an adj
joining lot.
Henry Garner has bought five lots
west of the depot and is building upon
them. His father-in-law, ]. w. Law
renee, has three lots in the same part
of the city and will build home there
on at once.
Rev. C. A. Varnum visited the Devils
Corral last Tuesday at the invitation of
Mr.. and Mrs. Alpha Kinsey and greatly
enjoyed this marvellous gorge and the
made by its present
DIR. Hermiston the well known Chapel
Car Evangelist was in town Sunday and
spoke to crowded house in the morn
ng. 1t is expected that he will soon
bring in his car and conduct service
If special meetings.
Five cases of horses lost have been
-epor, ed to the local newspaper in the
asst week. New corners cannot be too
careful about letting their stock wander
Unsecured upon the desert. Old work
lorses seem to be even more apt to be-
ONE lost than range stock.
The Christian denomination have a [
cry neat chapel enclosed and will be /
eady for religions services under their
'own vine and fig tree" in the very near
uture. Later it is proposed to use the
hapel as parsonage and build a more
ommodious church.
w. S. Guilford, director of the North
ide experimental farms at Jerome and
Wendell, has issued bulletin No. !
.rongly urging farmers to follow plow-
lg at once by narrowing in order to
,nserye the natural moisture of the
,il. He quotes E. H. Grubb and others
) advising the narrowing of each days
lowing before quitting work at night.
Sunday and Monday it again blew
some'' but when we picked up our
apers and read of winds in the east
ewing "a miles an hour in some places
I'd causing the loss of mary lives and
1ndreds of thousands of dollars dam
re. we concluded that Sunny Southern
aho, even with its present accompani-
ent of dust and wind, is to be pre-
rred, and when the country is in Gull
walton. seeded and with trees. even
e dust will become matter of history.
The Hotel Idaho under construction
the North Side Construction Co.,
sephson and Anderson, is gradually
airing completion. AS the finer work
finishing is entered upon jerome h
aiizes more and more the value of 4
CHI a building in the center of the r
Y. At present the interior plaster r
: is completed and the walls in the .