The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1915-01-22

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This part of Idaho has kept its
automobiles on the move all the
winter.
The twelve inch ice on the Boise
river is rapidly wearing away, the
channel being more than half open at
this writing-ThurSday
The Short Line adds little every
year to its yard improvement in the
city and is getting it in pretty good
shape.
Last winter ten thousand crows
and halt as many magpies roasted on
the island north of town This winter
there's nary a one. Nearly everything
III the county went Democratic this
time.
Reports say that hardly quail is
all the winter the electric cars have
been sprinkled with Boise hunters and
their dogs, and the poor bird has gone
down under the merciIess fire.
One of the elitest young ladies in
the city says our Caldwell merchants
know how to put up attractive win
dows. She thinks that little evening
jaunt UP and down main street will
prove this to anybody.
An old man with an empty bucket
on his arm and serious look on his
face, one morning this week, remarked
on the streets: Strange that eggs
have come down and that -four has
gone up. | can't account for it."
The seventeen-year-oid girl who
won't giggle once in a while, and the
boy who will not want to show off at
eighteen or grow mustach at sixteen
are just as disappointing as this sweet
butter milk they are putting off on
us.
The almanacs say cheer up the
worst is yet to come. The middle of
February we are to have it consider
ably below zero. The fur on the
muskrat tells the same story and the
beaver corroborates it and your coal
pile points to it.
By standing out in the yard any
perfectly bright clear day and looking
westward, little west of southwest
to the hills in Owyhee county, you
will see several fiat table lands. Each
of these is a good dry farm and is
open for the claiming.
The dog that can lie quietly in his
yard and see an electric car whiz by
without chasing it, is on an equal
with the girl who can see young man
drive by in an auto dressed in a
loud green or bright red coat, and
not wink at him, that's cinch.
There is quite a complaint being
made that Nimrods are killing the
Chinese pheasants in this section. The
| hunters who come down along the
valley from Boise are doing the same
thing. The farmers don't care care
much for this same pheasant is GER
tainly destructive to grain shocks.
Some of the electric car conductors
are on the lookout for the flood of
bogus nickles that are coming this
way. 1t is the buffalo design put on
the bogus article the word cents is
raised instead of sunk as on the good
coin. 1t is reported that towns along
the Short Line are being filled up with
this counterfeit.
The city has been helping with char
ity this winter and has put one humid
red dollars worth of fuel and food
into the hands of worthy families who
were up against it. The clothing
question was solved by the constant
supply at the city hall The county
has also come to the rescue of several
The need has been so light this winter
that it has hardly been public qucs
ton at all.
One of the ministers of town while
calling one recent night upon what
he took TO be a home in which was :
sick friend, stepped up on porch ant
waited answer to his knock. 1t was
nearly bed time and he did not make ;
serious alarm While waiting he hearC
a mans voice in a front bed room say
in emphatic tone; you don't need tc
come to bed until you put anothe'
quilt on. told you last night | near
ly froze and l am going to see to i
that | don't freeze tonight
A thousand dollars worth of pain
on buildings, ten dollars worth o
new gates hinges installed, sixty dol
lars worth of work hauling manure on
to the fields, forty dollars expended
cutting down ragged old trees, seven
ty-6ve dollars worth of new gate
and five hundred dollars worth o
fence posts and few hundred dol
lars worth of fence wire, would max
strangers thing a hundred THOUSAND
dollars more of Boise valley along til
electric line on the north side of tn
Boise river.
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