The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1910-03-03
WEEKS LOCAL
HAPPENINGS

Louis Franklin came in from Jordan
Valley, Tuesday.
James Torrance, Of Oreana, was Wis
itor here the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Startling, of Dewey,
are visitors here today.
Frank Nees, of Oreana, was visitor
here Sunday and part of Monday.
O. H. Shoemaker and wife, of Cannon
City, Colo, came in here the first of the
week.
]. L. Wees, of Oreana, was iii town
over Sunday, and was looking as hale and
hearty as ever.
Ernest Willenegger, of DeLamar, made
a apleasant call at the Nugget Office last
Saturday.
W. c. Grant, of Spokane, Wash. is
up here looking over the camp, and is
registered at the Idaho.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Wennersten and
little daughter, Svea, left here Tuesday
morning for short visit to Boise.
AL Martz, for long time shift boss for
the Trade Dollar company at the Blaine
mine, left here last Saturday morning for
an extended visit in the east.
]. B. Mcclure, L. G. King and ].
Hatch, all Of DeLamar, were up here
Monday evening and registered at the
Idaho hotel.
N. Eugene Brasie, an attorney from
Boise, was here on matters of business in
the probate court last week. He return
ed Saturday.
John G. Rails, who has been working
at the Black Jack mine for several months
as mule skinner, left here on last Satur-
day mornings stage.
One swallow does not make a summer,
but a dozen or so in black bottle are
sufficient to produce great change in
temperature.
Barney Matteson, mine superintendent
for the Trade Dollar, has gone to Boise
to visit with his family who are spending
the winter months there
She didn't think how it would sound.
A widow erected monument to her hus-
band, with the inscription, ''Rest in
peace until we meet again"
Abel Berg, the prominent, prosperous
and well known mine owner of our camp,
left here yesterday morning for trip to
Nampa and Boise, to visit with friends.
This is the kind of weather that makes
a person feel like singing that well known
and famous old song: ''Oh, the birds and
the bees and the cigarette trees, and the
old Rock Candy mountain" etc.
Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Hans are the
proud parents of a baby boy born to them
at Boise, the first part of last week.
Andy went to Boise yesterday to make
himself acquainted with the newcomer.
We have been informed that L. G.
Eisenhart, our city blacksmith, is con-
templating moving part of his black
smithing outfit to Jordan Valley and will
open shop there in the near future
The warm weather and bright sunshine
we have been having for the last day or
two has caused the snow to settle and
melt rapidly. The creeks are running
bank full and the roads are almost inn
passible.
The stage drivers are having hard
time of it these days, owing to the bad
condition of the roads between here and
DeLamar and Murphy. 1t took yester-
day mornings stage 10 hours to come in
here from Murphy, the stage arriving
here at $3.50 this morning.
The Wheeler-Motter dry goods store on
Main street, Boise, was destroyed by fire
last Friday evening. Loss of stock be-
tween 100000 and 500, 900; insurance,
$4,000. Damage to building, owned by
Mrs. Alice Tyner, somewhere between
s75, 900 and 100000.
Peter Connors, father of ]. G. Connors,
our hotel man, has been under the weather
during the past few days and is confined
to his room. We hope, however, soon to
see the venerable old gentleman out and
about again and occupy his same chair
near the stove in the hotel lobby.
Carl Johnson, the genial and iovial fell
low who has worked for the Trade Dollar