The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-09-27

Emmett business visitor Saturday.
Clare Shane has gone to work as
mechanic for the Wilson garage.
Mrs. B. S. Wright returned Tues
day from an outing spent at Payette
Lake.
Plan to attend the free matinee al
the Ideal Theatre every Saturday al
3 p. m.
Ralph Robinson has taken the Pay
cite valley agency for the Hupmo-
bile.
C. C. Hall of Caldwell has accepted
position as clerk in the Cash Gro
Gerry.
If you never make any enemies
your friendship is hardly worth max
ing.
Mrs. Merton Cook left Monday for
LaJunta, Colo, to spend the winter
with a brother.
Ralph Crabtree arrived Monday
from Kansas to visit his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Crabtree.
F. ]. Nichols was in town Saturday.
He has moved to Cascade and is en-
gagged in the transfer business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Mclaughlin re-
turned last week from an absence of
several months at Payette and will re-
main here.
George Womack, who has spent the
past year at Cascade, passed through
town Tuesday on his way to Seattle,
to join his family.
Mrs. Barnum, who had been visiting
her son Harley and family on the
South Slope, returned yesterday to
her home at Wendell.
Sheriff Dave Nichols is busy sub
poenaing witnesses for the district
court. Yesterday he went to Payette
and today is at Gross.
Jack Irving and Walter Laidlaw re-
turned home Monday from vacation
spent inthe upper country. The latter
had been there since July.
Mrs. R. N. Cummings on Tuesday
received the sad news of the sudden
death of her mother in Illinois and left
that day to attend the funeral.
John and Will Obermeyer are new
owners of a Ford car, and Lloyd Cox
of Montouf has bought Dodge-all
purchased from the NJ. & NJ. Garage.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A Creswell went to
Payette Thursday of last week. The
former returned Friday, but Mrs.
Creswell remained to spend month
with her parents.
Miss Bessie Campbell, who has been
accepted as Red Cross nurse and
is waiting call to report for duty in
France, is spending a few days visit
ing the home folks.
w. H. Madden and B. o. Marrs were
in Cascade last week and let con-
tract for the construction of their
garage building. The building will
be of brick, 4Ox50 feet.
The Index is under obligations to
John Obermeyer for a sample of his
Honey Dew melons, of which he and
his brother Will have made speciality
his season. They are very fine and
nave been in great demand.
A mong those who went to Boise
% bid goodbye and God speed to the
Second Idaho regiment were: B. B.
Davis, John Mcconnell, George Haley |
and Frank S. Moore. G. B. Mains |
vas already there on official business
and added his presence to the others.
James Russell, who is working for |
lis brother Tom on the big ranch at
is attending the fair at
Boise and came to Emmett the first |
If the week to visit his mother. He |
lays that Frank is surely married now
md is also on the ranch at Kimberley |
Mr.. and Mrs. Everett Bucknum and
,aby arrived Monday from Los An
relies, Calf, to spend few days with
lis brother, c. d. They departed to-
lay. Mrs. Bucknum was formerly
Miss Rowena Nelson and they had
,een visiting her parents at Nampa
,efore coming here. Mr.. Bucknum
S employed on one of the railroads.
William Kilby returned Sunday
rom Omaha, where he accompanied
shipment of sheep for Walter Lit
lie. This was his second trip to that
ity within a month. He says labor
5 very scarce in Nebraska and farm
rs are offering Is cents bushels for
orn huskers. In the boyhood days of
rs are offering Is cents a bushel for
idered fabulous price.