Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-06-15
DIETRICH NOTES.

hero OF this true story stopped his CA
in front of Houston's store. Durinl
the day. while the hero was away
Houston had installed a gasoline pumI
in front Of the store. In the gloamine
it looked very like a man. Hero, tax.
ing the object to be a neighbor. ad-
dressed it with want to ride home
with me?" No answer. SAY. what
ails you? Are you too full to talk:
Been to Shoshone. have you? Come
out to church tomorrow and Wen dc
you good. Good by" Hero is a modest
man who shuns publicity, hence the
suppression of the name On an ap-
plicatien to the writer the name will
be given under pledge of secrecy.
Ed Dooley and family are to move
from the village out onto the former
King ranch now part of the big farm
the Idaho Irrigation Company is max
ing out there.
Thomas Anderson and family are to
occupy the residence in Dietrich to be
vacated by Ed Dooley.
George SEWERS is on the sick list
threatened with some kind of a full
grown fever.
J. NJ. Clark is the first Dietrichite
to open his patriotic heart to seductive
charms of liberty loan bond He in
vested fifty thousand dollars in the
loan. I think it was There was fifty
about it somewhere. Maybe it was
just fifty.
S. A. Washburn is one of the most
busy men on the Dietrich tract. Be
sides his big dairy business. and his
work on his own eighty acre farm, he
has rented another place three miles
away for grain crops. He has no time
for rest and but little for sleep. He
never would get through only for the
able assistance of Mrs. Washburn. In
reply to my query the other day as to
how he did so much work
o. tempt me not to boast
The farmer said. Thou little knowst
What he can brave who born and
nursed
In Labors cause has dared her worst;
Upon whose ear the signal word
OF food supply is hourly breaking;
Who Steps with head upon the plow Z
His fevered hand must grasp in waking.
Ollie Bates new Ford came in con-
tact with Fred Rutherford's new horse
the other night. The horse was not
working. sort O. running wild. The
Ford was working and not running
wild. only about ten miles an hour. The
horse had an automobile education,
was not afraid of any Ford he ever
came to. He tried to jump the Ford
and the Ford wouldn't be jumped. No
person hurt but the horse.
A Dietrich tract genius who has a
remarkably we'll -matured brain for one
so young proposed the following conun-
drum to the correspondent. "It is re-
ported that the State Engineer, after
careful survey of the plant of the
Idaho Irrigation Company, has made
his ndings and reported them to the
Governor, in which it is shown that the
Company has sold water rights for
90, 900 acres Of land and have a reser-
voir capacity for water enough for
only 10000 acres. This being the case
why does not the State Land Board
compel the Company to make fair re-
bates to the settlers for honorable
land which they are not using and
never can use FOR agricultural purpos-
es. Yet these settlers are paying for
water rights for water they are not
using and never can put to bnefcial
use. If the number Of shares in each
forty was reduced to the actual num-
ber of arabic and irrigable acres there
in. then the total acreage would be re-
duced to 10000 or less, the water be
sufficient and the settlers relieved from
paying for an excess of water they
never can use" 1t seems to your cor
respondent that there is method in
this boys madness.
Mrs. Lehman, a s'ster-in-law and
Miss Regina Mel daughter of Mrs.
Barbara Med returned last Monday to
Salt Lake City, after attending the
funeral Of their brother and father
here, Mr.. Fred Med.
S. S. King wants the people of Diet
rich and vicinity to understand that he
is in his Office at Dietrich afternoons
from 2 to o'clock. the remainder of
the day being devoted to very feeble
efforts at food production and vigor-
Gus efforts at its consumption