The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-03-01

last week.
| Jap-a-lac for making old furniture
new, at Reillys.
Whitman for Plumbing and Til
work. Phone 46-J.
Della Sessions has been quite il
for the past two weeks.
Leonard Northcott will soon move
to his new home west of Emmett.
w. D. Howell and wife were Boise
visitors the fore part of the week.
The Yeoman lodge gave very en-
joyable dance Tuesday evening in
their hall.
Twenty weeks of thrills in the
great serial Liberty" every Tuesday
at the Ideal Theatre.
J. B. Johnson has moved his family
to their new home recently purchased
from Bismark Youstler.
Don't miss the basketball game on
Friday, March q E. P. C. hall. Boise
High VS. Emmett High.
For Sale-Seed oats, 800 bushels,
regenerated, Swedish Select. Also
100 bushels seed barley. F. H. Sher-
wood. 23-4.
w. B. Bakerwas called to Boise
on Friday by the illness of his sister.
He returned Monday, leaving the sick
one much improved.
A. j. Harris, of the Gem restaurant,
returned Saturday from Boise, where
he had been taking treatment in a
hospital for several weeks for stom-
ach trouble. He is feeling better.
Elmer C. Cone, who with his sons
conduct the Red Basin ranch in the
Pearl district, was in town Monday.
Mr.. Cone is a progressive rancher
and is making a success of dry farm
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Parrish, who
came here several weeks ago from
Ellensburg, Wash, to visit their
daughter, Mrs. Carl Lane, have de-
cided to stay and have moved onto the
farm at the head of Main street, for
merly owned by W. B. Baker.
w. E. Fisher, who sold his present
home and 20 acres of his farm south
west of town to Frank Tabor of South
Dakota, is remodeling the house on his
other 20 acres and will move into it
next week. Mr.. Tabor will arrive
next week to take possession of his
new home.
Well Well How times do change!
Here's the mayoralty of Cripple Creek
going begging. There's nobody to
aspire to the honor of being the exec
utive of the capital of Teller county,
''the greatest gold camp on earth"
True, the job pays only twenty-five
cents a year, but then that wasn't |
any objection to the job in the good
old days. Back in the late '90s, when
Cripple Creek was wide open all night |
and seven days week, they had to
rope 'em and tie 'em to keep 'em from
for mayor. Every other
building downtown sheltered saloon
and a gambling house and Myers
Avenue resounded from dark to day
light with the blare of honkatonk
,ands and shrill voices. The mayor
atty then was better than a free
ease on the Portland mine. Big Tom,
With his dented Stetson sombrero
md tawny mustache, with his dia-
nond studded star pinned to his coat
md two AS strapped to his waist,
ould walk down Bennett Avenue any
morning from Johnny Nolan's to the
Palace Hotel and back by way of the
Branch and Wacher's and head into
he mayors office with roll that
would choke horse and show nothing
ess than Hundreds" Maybe Tom /
ever did that and maybe NOBODY
lse ever did, but there certainly used :
0 be some hot contests for the mayor :
lty in those days and nobody ever
yas hog enough to want a second
erm. And then Cripple Creek got
he reform bug. No longer did the
ght hearted miner come down from
ne hills and play the high card from
oda to hook; the click of the roulette
all as it dropped into double OO IN
,e green was heard no more, the BLAIR
,y hands were silenced and the UNI
erworld departed for greener fields.
nd now they can't even get man
run for mayor!
The Majestic, the range with a