Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-01-05
LOCAL AND PERSONAL NEWS

/ Hr Na7h CiOSeiy STORE apples
1925 per box and up.-Adv.
Rev. Barger is confined TO his bed
with a severe attack Of grippe.
w. E. Keefer made a business trip
to Salt Lake the first OF the week.
Mrs. Pierce of Dietrich. was a bust
ness visitor in Shoshone this week.
The Ladies Mission Circle. Of the
Baptist church, met Thursday at the
home of Mrs. Fred Hill
F. A. Donovan, a former resident Of
Shoshone. but now yard master for
the Short Line at Nampa, was trans
acting business in Shoshone last week
Postmaster Noble has returned from
his eastern trip where he was called
just before the holidays on account Of
the illness and death of his sister.
Chas. J. Lisle. former editor Of the
Journal. and his family, passed thru
Shoshone Saturday on their way to
Gooding. Boise and other points. Mr..
Isle is now in the employ Of the ID
aho Irrigation company and is locat-
ed at the Magic dam and this is the
first vacation for himself and family
for nearly two years.
II. 3. Jones was down from the Hay |
Spur hatchery last Saturday to re- |
ceive a consignment Of 300, 900 east
ern brook trout eggs shipped from
Pennsylvania. Ar. Jones says that I.
within the next two weeks the hatch |
cry will have one million trout eggs
ready to hatch. That ought to furn- |
ish few fries in due time.
Owing to the fact that some to /
whom circular letters and stamps 1
were sent have not reported at time
of going to press the committee in
charge OF Red Cross Christmas seal
sales is unable to make a complete
return but at the present writing they
have s91.es reported. A complete re-
port will be ready by next week.
F. r. Hills and family. together with
his mother. were in Shoshone We'd
nesday from their home near Jerome I
They made a filing on a $40 acre
homestead under the new law which
provides for such homesteads on
grazing lands unsuited to agriculture.
This is the first entry at Shoshone
lnder that law. which was signed by
he president only last week.
The machinery and printing mater
al which constituted the Southern ID
-ho Democrat printing office were
moved this week to c. F Borden's
warehouse and stored for future use.
Miss Guymon has returned from I
Ter visit to Salt Lake. She reports {
hat Salt Lake has more snow than
'hoshone and that street traffic was
topped for some time. She says that
I Bigam City the snow was so heavy
$ to crush in the roofs of the houses. >
Mr.. and Mrs. T. II. Cooling. with
1r. and Mrs. J. L. Beckett. entertain
d dinner party at the McFau hotel g.,
lew Years evening. The invited =,
uests were Mr.. and Mrs. Deabender- .,
sr. Mr.. and Mrs. Bles, Mr. and Mrs. j,
Walter Gwin. Mr. and Mrs. John Hell :,
ian, Mrs. lehman Misses Martha 3,
ooding and Grace Beckett: Messrs. :
H. GOOding. Jr.. John Elliott, Earl :
wope. and Masters William Beckett.
on Deabenderfer and Max lehman -.
fter dinner the guests were escorted
the picture show TO complete the
-enings entertainment
H. s. Green. manager of the High oil
inc Seed farm near Filler was a bus s.
ess visitor in Shoshone last Friday. W
e reports that his company has dis al
'sed of its six thousand acre seed is
rm there having sold it in small al
acts to a colony of Germans. That IT.
'ty families are now on the land pc
ID by spring there will be ten more or
miles. These are all people in good N
and many of them have w
ected buildings that are a credit to 20
y farm community. Mr.. Green says en-
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