The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-07-05
The town is decorated.

oOlOn CLARK and Phil Mccall
lum are up from Mackay.
Carl Pyette arrived Saturda,
from Boise to spend the 4th.
For binder twine and all kind.
of farm machinery and repair.
call on VIM. Buster.
Mr.. Horne, who has the Chal
lis -Gibbonsville mail contrs q
was in town last week.
Jack Black and family, Floyd
Goodell, and others, from Sal
mon are in town for the 4th.
Mrs. Mabel Lane and son from
Park City, Utah, arrived Tues
day on a visit with her mother.
Mr.. Hanson commenced on his
Challis- Custer mail contract last
Friday morning. The contract
price is $, 25O per year.
Last week E. G.. Dodge sold
his 555 acre ranch in this valley,
we are informed, to Indiana par
ties for SIG, ZOO, and received a
cash payment on same of 81, 900.
At this rate the entire ranch sold
for tritle less than 500 per acre.
c. E. Eddy and wife arrived
Saturday from New York and
Spokane. and they will spend the
summer at Loon creek, where
MIR. Eddy will develop his min
ing claims and prospect for more.
From all appearance last winter
on Wall Street evidently agreed
with Mr.. Eddy.
Talk about rapid mail service
into Stanley. Last week we re-
ceived a letter post-marked at
Pierson June 8, and it arrived
IN Challis June 2S--twenty days
via. ketchum from Stanley to
Challis. The Salmon river route
our mail could come from Stan
ley to Challis in one day.
A. D. Sargent was down from
BayhOrse Friday. In the ac-
count given in last weeks issue
relative to the death of H. D.
Jaquish, we omitted that Mr..
Sargent was partner with f.
j. Michael in the general mer-
chandise business at Bayhorse,
they having purchased the bust
ness of Mr.. JaQuish.
Next week the MESSENGER
will enter upon it's 3Oth year of
publication. During all these %
years not single issued has ev-
er been omitted, nor over a day
late in its publication, except !
when the office was completely |
destroyed by the Challis House
fire on April 25, 1894. The Mes
SENGER was esta ablished May 2l,
1881, at the time of the county |
seat fight. There was one paper
older in the county-the Yankee
Fork Herald-which was first
published at Bonanza in 1879 or
1880. The MESSENGER is one
of the Oldest newspapers in the
State, and only the Idaho World
and Boise Statesman, now in ex-
istence. being older. A period
of 90 years is a long time. Dur
ing all these years this paper has
endeavOred to promote the in
terests of Custer county, and at
this time our hopes are still firm
that we have the best county on
the globe, and when the rairoad-
is built up and down Salmon riv-
er this fact will be shown.
A Mr.. Mcdonald was in town
last week taking orders for gro
ceries from the Brown Grocery
Co. of Omaha. Possibly the
Brown Grocery Co. can sell their
goods cheaper than our local ;
because they do a
strictly cash business. But ask
them, as you do your home gro
ceries for credit, and see how |
quick they will turn you down. !
Or ask them TO buy your butter, G
eggs, grain or potatoes, for cash
or in trade, and see how quick !
they will refuse. Another thing ,
how much taxes does the Brown ,
Grocery Co. pay to Custer coun- t
ty to support the county govern
ment and our schools How !
much does this firm donate to
charity in Custer county ? All 4
these are things to take into
Suppose we all
sent outside for things we could
buy here what would be result i
No business could live. We all t
must patronize one another to a
get along in business-no matter t
what kind of business it is-be S
the merchant, the druggist, the a