The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-08-17
SHELLEY

A. w. Perrenoud and family, Of
! Dubois, spent Sunday with his par.
ents in Shelley. Mr.. Perrenoud is
the manager of the National Park
Lumber company at Dubois and re.
ports times booming in that little
town.
The Second word reunion which
was held at Reno Park at Idaho
Falls, Thursday, was not very largely
attended, but those who went from
Shelley had a good time.
Next Sunday the annual confer
ence of the Shelley STAKE will be held
at the Second ward tabernacle and a
number of apostles from Salt Lake
will be present.
Randall Anderson, living three
miles east of Shelley, paid $1,000 to
Robert Parks for 80 acres of his
farm. Bennett & Edwards engineer
ed the deal.
Then Thomas SteeFe's sold his
place to Mr.. Larsen last week, he
thought he would move to Moreland.
He changed his mind, bought an
other lot and started to build ST.
900 house on it.
Seeing so many new faces in Shell
ley the old timers are wondering who
they are and where they came from.
To relieve their minds we will state
they are prospectors with money
looking for something good. They
have the money and will buy any
thing but a gold brick, but Shelley
residents are too honest to know
what that is.
Talk about good grain, Bennett &
Edwards have a sample OF wheat and
oats taken from the Just, Pugmire
& Rich farm northwest of Shelley
worth looking at. 1t was raised on
new ground broken this year. The
oats will go 80 bushels to the acre
and the wheat will run 40 bushels or
better.
The party of capitalists which
Moore & Jones took up to st. An
thony last Sunday to look over the
light and power plant where so we'll
pleased that all of them took the
stock which was offered them. 1T
has 5000 horse power capacity ana
is looked upon as one or the pest
propositions in the state.
Miss Eleanor Griffiths, who has
been visiting with her sister, Mrs. l..
Ivan Jensen, in Shelley for the past
ten days, returned to her nome at
Frisco, Utah, Friday.
B. c. Kicks, representing the Ma
tional Park Lumber company, with
headquarters at St. Anthony, was in
Shelley last week. He looks after
for the company and re-
ports them good.
Mrs. L. B. Tackett, of Ogden, Is
visiting with Mrs. DR.. Packard. she
expects to stay month or two. d
Mrs. DR.. Packard was operated
,lpon last week at the Idaho Fails
hospital for tonsilectomy, by DIS.
Cline and Roberts. She only remain
ed at the hospital two days when
she returned home and is now get
ting along very nicely.
Mrs. M. Bonner, Of Wasatch, Utah'
who has been visiting her mother
and sister, Mrs. Fannie Clyde ana
Mrs. Kimble for some time, returned
home Saturday.
Irwin Bair, of Goshen, purchased
4 new Overland 80 car from Roy
Clifford, Saturday.
Ernst Balmforth, of Woodville'
who was operated on at the Cutler
hospital for appendicitis last week
Is doing nicely.
! An appraiser of the Oregon Short
line accompanied by government
official was in Shelley, Friday plac-
ng a valuation on all property ad-
oining the company's right-of-way.
mis- work has been ordered done by
he government and they are going
,ver the entire Union Pacific system.
they had finished the Portland d.
Vision and are now going over the
Butte division.