Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1914-02-20
LOCAL BREVITIES.
Fred W. Gooding was at Bellevue
on Monday.

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on Monday
Duet Johnson was in town yesterday
from his ranch above Richfeld.
Mrs. J. w. Newman was ill for a
few days, but has now recovered.
Victor o. johnson was called to
Gooding yesterday on legal business.
dock was a business visitor in town
yesterday.
Mrs. w. T. Stafford of Gooding We
in town yesterday. the guest of Mrs,
J. A. Dygart.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glenn Massey drove
up from Jerome yesterday on business
at Shoshone.
r. G. Proctor, a business man OF
Bellevue, was transacting business in
town on Wednesday.
Frank Blazer. who is extensively
engaged in gardening near Gooding
spent yesterday in Shoshone.
James H. Wise, an attorney of Twin
Falls, was looking after legal matters
in town the first of the week.
Mr. and Mrs Harlan D. Hest went
TO Jerome on last Saturday and re-
turned home Tuesday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. w H. Murphy enter
tanned several of their friends at
small party few evenings ago.
Walter Stdvens of Marley. who
bought the NJ. p. Johnson ranch at
that place last summer, was in town
Wednesday.
Gilbert Brinton, formerly deputy
County Clerk and now in the abstract
business in Gooding, was business
visitor in town yesterday.
Mrs. Joe Keefer and son Norval have
returned to Shoshone after spending
the fall and winter at Salt Lake City,
Utah and Hot Sprinks, Arkansas.
Jesse Christman has returned to his
run as engineer on the HALEY Branch
passenger train after a lay off of sew
eral weeks on account of i'll health.
A part of the money taken from the
safe of the Gem meat market, being
a check for 1915, was found in the
doorway of the Shoshone hardware
store.
Among the pleasant social events
of the season was the card party Civ
en- yesterday afternoon by Mrs. John
H. Dygart, to twenty -four of her lady
friends. Bridge Whist was the game
played.
A number of repairs and improve
ments have been made at the Oregon
Short Line warehouse. A new room
has been made for storing the mails,
and doors have been cut in different
places.
r. B. Warren has returned home
from Boise where he took his wife for
an operation at the hospital. Mrs.
Warren came through the operation
nicely and her early recovery is now
expected.
John B. Johnston came from Had
dock yesterday and spent the day with
his father, Martin Johnston. The ED
er Mr.. Johnston has lost his sight en-
tirely, and his health has been very
poor all winter.
J. D. Furcht of Gooding was in town
several days this week exhibiting his
nineteen fourteen Ford car to pros
pective purchasers. 1t is reported
that he has made several sales, and
the cars viii be delivered within the
next few weeks.
George Roessler and Jacob Roessler
came home last Saturday from Die
trich. They have drilled a number of
wells in that locality since last sum-
mer and have worked steadily on
them during the entire winter in spite
of the severe storms and cold wealth
er.
J. L. Needles has moved his bakery
from it's former location in the R. J.
McMahon building on North Rail
street TO the Higgins building on the
corner of South Rail and Greenwood
street. He has also opened first
class restaurant in connection with the
bakery, managed by Mrs. Howser.
E.G. Merrifield, in charge of the
work being done on the roads by the
Shoshone Highway Commission, has
been busy the past several days haul
ing rock in sleds to strengthen the
abuttments upon the new bridge over
Little Wood river just west of town.
He wants to get it in such shape that
the highwater that is expected will
come this spring viii not do injury
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Matt McFall, proprietor of the no.
tel here that bears his name, is ex-
pected home from the south by the
end of this week. Mrs. McFall will
remain at Berkeley with the McFall
young ladies, who are attending school
there, and return with them at the end
of the school sessions of the year. Mr.. !
McFall has been amongst familiar
scenes while away. for in his youth he
lived in San Francisco where he was