The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1910-07-07
Local Happenings


Asher A. Getchell went to Boise, yes
terday, on short business trip.
Steam condenses into water. Hot air
often condenses into printed interviews.
Q. d. Brumbaugh went out to Boise,
yesterday, to get a haircut and shave.
Make your advertising worthy of your
store-and your store worthy of your ad-
vertising.
Dan Linehan, of Oreana, was here this
week calling on friends and acquaint-
ances and returning this morning.
We steal thought from the Denver
Post, "Our poverty is more likely to be
due to the good we asiss than to the good
we lose
Born; ITO Mr. and Mrs Robert Fl .
Leonard, Jr., Tuesday morning, July 9th,
a daughter Mother and child are both
getting on nicely.
A baby boy was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Elisha Lewis, last Saturday, but we are
sorry to learn that the child died soon
afterward Nugget extends sympathy.
Monday was the one hundred and thir-
ty-fourth anniversary since Benjamin
Franklin remarked that ''if we don't
hang together we will hang separately, =
so let's hang.
Although the primary election is draw
ing little closer, we are as yet unable to
make public any candidates for county
offices, even though we have an idea of
who the candidates will be for the respec-
tive offices.
We were told this morning that Mr..
Phillip, Fritz Schleifers foreman at the
brewery, made a cleanup Of the FOUNDERS
yesterday, taking one in particular and
mopping the floor with him. We see
where he is right in doing this, and we
hope that it will teach this man lesson.
Tom Harland and Chas. Harrison re-
turned from Castle Creek, the first of the
week where they have put in the past six
weeks working on the Golden Crown
mine. They left here again this morning
for Flint, where they will in all probabil-
ity remain for the balance of the summer.
They report our old friends Tom Miller
and Frank Durham still working on the
Golden Crown property at Castle Creek.
Theo. H. Philip is notifying the public
that he has decided to close out his stock
consisting of hardware, stoves, tinware,
crockery, glass, paints and oils, waterpipe
and fittings, and kindred lines, at cost for
cash, and some of the heavy goods below
cost. Prospective buyers will please call
early as he is to leave very soon. At the
same time lie would be pleased to receive
all outstanding accounts due him before
leaving.
Fourth OF July passed off very quietly
here and had it not been for an occas-
sional report of firecracker and flags
hoisted, one would hardly know that it
was national holiday. A good many of
our citizens went down to DeLamar to
help celebrate, where they had fine pro-
gram of sports of different kinds and a
grand ball at the school house in the
evening. Reports have it that all present
had very enjoyable time.
"Jefries but a Shell, the Snap of Youth
Gone, No Match for the Black" reads
headline in one of our exchanges regard
ing the Jeffries-Johnson championship
prizefght, and goes on to say, 'There
was assembled the largest crowd ever seen
in the west and it paid twice the money
ever taken in for any boxing contest.
Yet it was one Of the poorest fights ever
seen. Jefries faded, faded, faded, and
was knocked clean out at the end of the
fifteenth round" The largest portion of
the money at stake being in Mr.. Jeffries's