Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-04-09
TOWN TALK
Jack Furlons has the measles.

J. w. Puett is a Carlin visitor here
today.
r. J. smyth is here from Carlin to-
day on business.
Jack Percy leaves today for his !
work with the heavy artillery.
The home OF ]. b. Fitzgerald has
been released from quarantine.
Buck SneIson writes from Camp
Lewis that all of the boys who de
parted in the last contingent have
passed the physical examination ex-
cept Bill Crane. who is being held up
for reasons unknown.
Father McMulIen, who Is here con
Quoting the Catholic Mission this
week, is a very able orator and his
sermons are truly an inspiration. He
should be heard by every person in
ElhO before MS departure
The Auction Block" Rex BeaCh's
great picture, which was to have been
shown week ago at the Opera House
is here tonight and is of such merit
as TO deserve large patronage. The
Hearst-Pathe News also will be part
OF the program. making up an excel
lent evenings entertainment. The
Auction Block is in seven reels.
Or. Stephen Loekett, of the State
University Control Service, was in
Lamoille over Sunday the 9TH. While
there he administered the tuberculin
test TO the dairy herd of Mr. II. G.
Bieglar and found all his herd free
of the disease and in good condition.
This is the second time that the herd
of Mr.. Bieglar has been tested for
tuberculosis and has passed a clean
test during the last eighteen months.
Luke Mullen had a Job last night.
One whole big job, but he couldn't
stand prosperity. Somebody creased
the water wagon seat and Luke fell
off. He lost his equilibrium, his
bank roll and his job and gained only
a seat before the bar of justice this
morning, when Judge Doughty gave
him ten days TO ruminate over the
ACCESSIBILITY of using H2O as a bev-
erage.
Clarence Eaton, formerly employ
ed by the Deeth Mercantile company,
affectionately known to his friends as
speed" paid us visit yesterday in
his new capacity as n sergeant in
the service of Uncle Sans armies
Sergeant Eaton looked as though ar
my life had agreed with him wonder
fully and he says there Is nothing
like it. He is home on a twenty-one
day furlough during which time many
of his old friends will be delighted TO
renew acquaintance with him.
Nora Street, descendant of Mime.
haha, and of the tribe Piute, thirty
times or more an occupant of the
booze cage, former ward at the
county hospital where she put on
three acts from the famous drama,
''Delirium Tremens," called on
Judge Doughty by request for the
thirty-first time this morning after a
complete recovery from an attack of
the jimmies from which she emerged
worse for wear but still with US
There is an old tradition among In.
dams that a child Is named after the
first thing its mother sees following
the baby's birth NOrn's mother, by
this process of reasoning, saw a
street, and Nora has had a propensity
for streets ever since for she is never
off of one unless forcibly removed
therefrom. Nora drew sixty days
during which time she says she will
write a discussion upon some old In
dian legends dealing with the origin
of earthquakes.
A letter received at this office yes
terday from Frank Hcalcy, datcC
Washington, April Sd. states, amone
other things that Lance Dcady ar
rived in Washington Monday. look
ing fine and husky. He IS not sur,
how long he will be in Washington
but is at present assigned to the en-
gineer barracks here.
IAN amusing incident occurred las
night. Senator Henderson got n biz
blue Limousine and took Lance for
drive around the city. On the triI
they met a jitney loaded with dough
boys" Lance had hts hat on TIA,
back OF his head and tilted 80 his ha
cord cor'd not be seen. 1he private
in the jitney spotted the big car ant
Lance, and must have taken him 10
q general or something or the sort. a
every last man OF them came to ga
lutte. Lance was Il sport, though. an,
gravely returned II. bur he says (
he ever meets any of them and the
recognize him for tho man I'm tho him