Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-04-02


Remember the baseball meeting and
be there.
w. Hail Horne and wife We're visiting
in Haley the last of the week.
Harry Summers of Salt Lake City,
General Supt, of the Rocky Mountain
Bell Telephone Co., and G. R. Arm
strong of Pocatello, Division Supt. of
the Eastern Idaho division, were in the
city on business the first of the week.
Charley King returned from Med
bury last Saturday where he was en-
gagged as engineer for several weeks on
an irrigation project covering about
IL, 900 acres. He will go to Boise in a
few days to work on the field notes
which will require weeks time, or
perhaps more.
The number of instruments filed for
record in the Office of Harry w. Ander-
son, county recorder for the month of
March equals 47S. A great number of
these were deeds, mortgages and water
contracts given or received by the
Twin Falls North Side Investment
company Many were Instruments
filed by the Idaho Irrigation company.
Peoples Baptist church regular SER
vices next Sunday preaching by the
pastor at II a. m. and p. m. Summary
school at noon. B. Y. P. U. society at
7:15 o. m. A sacred poem written by
a local poet, will be set to music and
rendered as a solo Sunday evening.
You are always welcome at the
Peoples church.
The Polmatier Sisters Orchestry and
Concert Company will appear agaiu in
Shoshone, Thursday, April 18th. This
company of artists entertained at the
opera house two years ago and made
host of friends. This season they
have an entire new and up to date pro-
gram and they never fail to please
every one in their audience.
0. J. Brennan has started the cement
sidewalk movem66a again this year by
having a cement walk laid around his
residence. Now that the contractors
are on the ground others can take adj
vantage of their presence and have
sidewalks laid along their premises and
thus keep the work going till the main
portion of the city is supplied with
cement walks.
A small s from Roehest-
err, Indiana, is to arrive here
about the first Of May to make their
future home in Shoshone. Among the
number are ]. D Babcock and wife
who are both practicing dentists. A
lady dentist will be novelty in this
part of the country. An experienced
is also expecting to be in
tine party r. T. M. Patterson is large
Iy responsible for these people select
ing this point for their new location.
Another central school district is be-
ng talked of, to be formed by the con-
;oldation of the Comes and Peck dis
riots the boundaries to include the con-
.iguous territory that will be watered
,y the Idaho Irrigation company. This
dea of school Capitalization is getting
common in Lincoln county as the farm
,rs begin to realize that by this means
heir children can have all the benefits
# graded school, the same AS the
hildren of the city districts, ard that
he cost to them would be no greater
han the present system; the term OF
chool would be heightened by several
months each year, higher grade of
eachers would be employed, better
chool room equipment provided and
he intellectual standard of the school
,oSad be raised 1t is to be hoped that
hese districts will take an early action
or consolidation and realize thei
reams of central school district.