Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-10-05
DIETRICH DOINGs

John Lingelbach's location of tenant
farmers on the Dietrich tract has not
been a bowling success for the farmers
here who leased their farms to them.
These tenants are not all bad. but e.
nough bad ones are among them to
cause distrust of all. Last Saturday
Zorah Beck who had a lease with Geo
rye Reid sold his crop grown on the
place and started off for new fields
without paying his bills He had not
the good manners to say goodbye to
Dietrich people. but undertook to come
a sneak on it by taking the train at
Beslen Number four was thirty min
utes late and this gave KSrshner time
to intercept the young man and get his
pay for supporting Beck and his fam
| lily all summer.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. s. A. Washburn have
sold their dairy COWS and young cattle
to Frank Eckert of Twin Falls who is
now in possession thereof at that place.
Washburn has advisedly come to the
painful conclusion that for man and
woman to have all the care of twenty
head of dairy cows. and carry on an
extensive farm, do all the work in pro-
viding feed for the cattle. besides Civ
ing attention to the necessary efforts
for food production for themselves, is
too big a job with no help Of children
or hired men. And so he will take
things rather more comfortable as he
devotes a few years to the improvement
Of his farm. and prospers off the high
prices of farm products.
The school children together with a
large crowd of citizens in and about
Dietrich assembled at the depot to say
word of farewell to Ollie ard John
Bate and Fred Leitheiser who are three
ef our bright young men enlisted for the
navy. They left on 1s Wednesday, to
unite with others bound for military
training at Salt Lake City.
Mr.. and Mrs Clasphill are now the
occupants OF the NJ. E. parsonage for
merly occupied by Rev. and Mrs. Mel
son A. Pierce.
Some folks have an idea that melons
and tomatoes cannot be successfully
grown. Mrs. o. E. Borden has nutmegs
that would make Rocky Ford fear for
its future, while Mrs. John Matson's
tomatoes are as fine as ever shown.
H. e. Cornell, Charles Albers and |
Charles Matson and Harry Nelson were |
auto travellers last Monday. the first |
named looking after some engineering |
business and the others looking for |
winter pastureage on some of the Gov |
ernment reservations. which they fail
ed to find.
George Sewers. being through with /
his ditch riding business for the Idaho |
Irrigation Company has become the
efficient assistant for ]. E. Houston in
the post Office and mercantile business.
This Friday, too late TO advertise and
too early to report it. our school child
rem are having fair at the school
building principally of farm and gar
den products, while the men are en-
gagged in showing some fine livestock
at the Company farm adjoining the
townsite.
Mrs. J. W. Snow has returned from
a weeks visit to her brother at Ontario
Oregon.
Ollie Bates enlistment has called to
his former position of water superin-
tendent of the Dietrich tract the eff
cient services of Vance Shellman who
is now in charge of that work.
A large number of the young people
Of this vicinity made a surprise party
on Grace Rinehart last Wednesday ev-
ening. Miss Grace goes to Goodine
next Monday to engage in study at the
Gooding College.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Segraves were
shoshone visitors on business yester-
day.
The water is out of the canals and
aterals Of the Idaho Irrigation Com
pany one month in advance of the us
lal time for shutting off. so as to give {
he company an opportunity for clean
ng and repairing the bitches. The {
is paying 371k cents per hour
,or men or 1915 per ten hour day. If s
such a thing as an idle man exists a {
-ound these parts. here's a chance for t
lin. {