The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1912-11-18
BLACKFOOT'
Little events in the whirl
Of current topics. :: ::


Seator Macbeth was business visit
to- last week on the head of Little
Lest River looking after mining claims
Of George Houston.
Miss harrington, who was operated
upon few weeks ago at the hospital
is now up and around and performing
her duties as nurse.
Miss Pearl Parker. of Moore, was or
Grated upon last Monday in the Black
foot hospital for appendicitis and is
improving very rapidly.
The Lost River Mining company is
making preparations to conduct war
house at Arco in order to accommodate
the trade of that locality.
DR.. w. F. Mitchell, DIR. Poole and
DR.. Matthias, of Arco, went down to
Pocatello in DR.. Mitchell's car Friday
to attend the Pocatello medical meet
ing.
Mrs. Coulter, of Springfield, was op-
Grated upon last Wednesday for a
goiter and is doing nicely. The oper-
alton was performed at the Blackfoot
hospital
L. R. Aldrich received an Auburn
roadster last Thursday which will. be
used in connection with the lumber
company in collecting and running to
the branch houses.
The Brown-Hart Co. did not open
their store until $3.50 this morning.
Too busy arranging for their big
Thanksgiving sale Their ad on the
fourth page will telp more about it.
! Work on the new depot is progress.
ing nicely and II the present good
spell of weather keeps up it will not
be long before the fine structure to be
will begin to loom up In its splendor.
Last Friday evening there was an
unusual number of drunks in the city
which must have been caused by the
slight change in the weather. Wet
weather seems to bring out the
wet men.
The Maude Henderson Company wa
in the city Saturday evening. coming
down from Mackay, where they filled
five night bill They played 1.-THE
Reckoning" here Saturday night to a
we'll filled house.
Jack Hurley and a fellow by the
name of Antepalm, who landed in
the city last Wednesday evening from
Mackay, and who were in an intoxi-
Gated condition, were fined thirty dol
lars or fifteen days.
The threshing machines throuehor
the country are now working again
during the good spell of weather and
are clearing up the remaining grain
left in the fields during the past
month of rainy weather
The chicken dinner served at the
:, city hall Saturday by the v. l. s. la
dies, was great success and a good
~ number was present throughout the
afternoon. The receipts from the
rummage sale were good.
i The motion pictures taken this fall
OF the Bonneville Round Up were at
Pocatello last week and showed to two
large houses each of the two nights
they were in the city. They will be
in our city in the near future.
Mr.. Weaver, stenographer at the
U. s. Land Office. left Sunday morn.
J ing for Ashton, from which point he
} will hit the trail into the timber in
quest Of some big game, intending to
be gone about week or ten days.
The ladies of the St. Paurs Guild
will give silver tea at the home Of
Mrs. Blanche Eldredge. Saturday. Nov
%. from 4 until Z. for the purpose OF
raising money for a furnace in the
} church. Everyone cordi9ly invited.
The court house business was yer,
quiet Saturday as there was no CASE
on. the calendar for that day. Th<
limerick case was set for next Wed
nesday. Mr. limerick asked for 9
change of venue which was granted
and win be heard on said date before
Judge Stockslager Of Twin Falls.