Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-02-27
LOCAL BREVITIES.

/ snOne visitor on Monday.
Mrs. Landsborough can take one or
two more table boarders.-Adv.
Mrs. S. s. Champlain of Boise has
been visiting with Mrs. r. G. Mcmahon
and other relatives for several days
! Eight per cent money on improved
farms.-Lyman c. Taylor, Goodins,
Idaho.
Henry Winters was in from his
ranch at Haddock on Saturday and
spent the day.
County Clerk f. L. Bower of Good
ing was in town on county. business
Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. G. b. Keefer entertained the
Catholic ladies' society at her home
Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. w. J. Weber and daughter of
Boise were visiting with friends in
! Shoshone the middle of this week.
C. w. Wilson, cashier of the Belle
vue State Bank, was in Shoshone yes
terday on business in connection with
| the bank.
Probate Judge H. B. Jones left on
the HALEY branch this morning for
Pagari where he goes to look after a
truancy case.
II. ]. Plumhoff, the assistant divis-
ion superintendent of the Oregon
Short Line was looking after business
interests in Shoshone the first of the
week.
County Superintendent Miss Stella
Cook is conducting the regular quar-
terly teachers examination the last
three days of this week with three
candidates present, two from Sho-
shone and one from Richfied.
Matt McFall, who was expected
home from the south last week, did
not arrive for the reason that he was
caught in the Los sAngeles storm. 1t is
now expected that he will reach Sho-
shone not later than Sunday next.
Albert Gridley of Hagerman was in
town Tuesday and spent the day look
ing after bushes matters He has
been in business at Hagerman for sew
eral years but was recently burned out
with a loss of several thousand dollars.
w. H. Maunders has returned from
| Chicago where he went about a month
ago with a shipment Of several cars Of
fat sheep. While in the east he went
to Ontario, Canada, his former home,
and wished with friends and relatives
for several days.
The locomotive that jumped the
track at Bellevue a few weeks ago,
and was reported fit for nothing but
the scrap pile, looks as though it
wasn't crippled so badly after all as
il passed over the branch again last
week and looked to be in fairly good
condition.
Frank E. Eckert, an upper Wood
| river rancher, who also owns farm
on the Twin Falls tract, has arranged
a dairy cattle sale at Shoshone on
Thursday, the 18th of March. The
stock includes Holsteins, Jerseys, and
! Durhams, all acclimated here, having
been raised in Idaho.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Dygert will re-
move in a short time to Blackfoot
and make it their home. Mr.. Dygert
for sometime past has been in charge
of the Gem State Lumber Company
yards at Shoshone. but has been
transferred to Blackfoot, and will
take charge of the companys interests
at that place.
Judge Walters returned home Sat
| urday night from Haley where he had
been holding court. The term was
not concluded but was adjourned for
the present on account of the deep
snow and the difficulty of getting wit
nesses to town, and also to permit the
new county attorney to get more IA
miliar with the criminal cases that are
on the calendar for him to prosecute.
The Safety First Educational car OF
the Oregon Short Line has been In
Shoshone for the past four days.
Lectures illustrated by moving pic
lures have been given twice daily, the
car being filled each time to its full
capacity. The lectures are both IN
terestfng and instructive and should
do great good in preventing accidents
| that so commonly occur about rail-
roads.
The most pathetic feature of the
funeral on Sundey afternoon of Uncle
Charley Haines was the sight OF MS
old stage coach that he had owned
for many years drawn by four horses
and containing the pail bearers. 1t
had been the custom of Mr.. Haynes
on all public occasions and at many
other times to drive his stage through
the streets of Shoshone and give
pleasure rides to his many friends
and especially the ladies and children.
The homestead proof Of Loren W.
Walker, who has completed the re-
ouired residence on his land adjacent
to Shoshone, is to be made, according
to notice published in the Journal to-
,day. on the 2eth OF April before United
States Commissioner Frank T. Disney.
Mr.. Walker took the land in 1911, and
has greatly improved 1t with commo-
dious buildings, well from when
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