Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-08-24
DIETRICH NOTES.

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Mr.. j. E. Houston is now the happy
possessor of the Clarence Anderson
automobile. AS Clarence could not use
1t very wellwhereto he has gone in the
army. Jack has not has a great ex-
perience yet in operating it, but Is
learning fast. AS he lives on same
street as his business house there are
no turns to make. A bee line from the
front of his store going forward brings
him to the front of his house, and a
bee line back going backward brings
him to the store front again. No won
der that strangers in town mistake him
for Barney Oldfield.
Mr.. and Mrs Ed Dooley and the
baby went out to his fathers place and
made three hands in the hay field, in
the absence of other help that w. c.
Dooley was unable to get.
The NJ. E. social and ice cream festi-
val was well patronized, yielding not
only a good social time, but an abund-
ance of shekcls for the exchequer of
the Ladies Aid.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Snodgrass is reported to be danger
ously i'll at their home southwest Of
town.
Mr. Lowell Fender of Pegari spent
Sunday with his sister. Mrs. Mustard
Messrs. o. E. Borden. N. A. Pierce
and Mrs. Kershner were Shoshone Wis
itors last Wednesday.
A prettier case of reprisal than a
warning nation ever dreamed of was
practiced in Dietrich Precinct the past
week. Doe took up Roe's tresspassing
swine and demanded the payment of
ten dollars for their release which was
paid. A day or two after Roe took up
Does trespassing swine and demanded
ten dollars for their release which was
paid. The one pretty feature about the
business is that there were no costs
and apparently no loss to either party
Dietrich precinct organized itself in
to loyal and patriotic society for the
protection of this community from the
red eye and bloody hand of all hoodlum
traitors who may chance to come this
way with their disloyal schemes. Mon
day evening the people of the precinct
met in the school auditorium and nam
ed the men who will have authority to
arrest all evil doers found lurking in
our bailiwick. The following men were
appointed captains: Dan Hunt, Ed
Gage. Claude Myers, James Mcclure
and o. W. Bate. Sherif's Dputies
with authority to arrest all suspicious
characters: Besslen, Fred Rutherford,
Louis Nelson, Ansel Carnegie, Joseph
Culbertson, and N. w. Sine; Southeast
corner of precinct, Charles Matson,
]. W. Patterson and Rufus Anderson;
South Central part, R. ]. Hill, c. A
Johnson, S. A. Bate, Jr., and B. H.
Lewis; Southwest Corner, S. A. Wash
burn, Percy Smith, Joe John, Frank
Rinehart and F. ]. Mathes; Northeast
corner, W. ]. Morrow, H. W. Beach,
William Brooks. George Myers and
S. S. King; Dietrich. ]. A. Bailey, J. D.
Turner, H. E. Cornell. Fred Leitheiser
John Bate, L. P. Mustard, E. Crist, W.
T. Patterson, John Matson, Court Ker-
sinner, o. E. Borden, ]. E. Houston.
s. o. Donovan, ]. NJ. Clark. F. c.
Smith.
Last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. John L.
Berg and daughter, Mrs. Bargewell.
left by automobile for the long trip |
between here and Tacoma, Wishing |
ton. A long priod Of i'll health rather
convinces Mrs. Berg that she must live
in lower altitude. and thus it may be
that the family will reside in Washing
ton henceforth.
Last Tuesday Mr.. and Mrs. Emil
Rud and family of three children left
for Tacoma, Washington, their former
home. During the present summer the
Rud family have occupied the residence
Of C. A. johnson the father assisting
in the work of the farm and the mother
having charge Of the household affairs
Harvey Beach has sold his farm
about midway between Shoshone and
Dietrich to w D. Garlock of Gooding.
Rev. and Mrs. N. A. Pierce will leave
Monday travelling by automobile to
where they win attend the
coming session of the NJ. e. Conference.
John Cariin who bought the Nc
Dougall ranch out near Star Lake
lied recently at Bellingham. Wash.
Mr. and Mrs. John Grewell were
shoshone visitors last Wednesday,
rouse hunting. Having made a good {
-ecord over in Cassia County John t
will be one of the Shoshone teachers c
he coming year. '
Samuel Shidelman of Mt. Vernon, t
is here looking after his h