Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-04-19
DIET RICH

WIS.,

moved into the kayS farm out south =
west which Mr.. Meservy bought Fe-
Gently. The purchaser has a good
enough place to assure him success on
the Dietrich tract.
j. w. Patterson has sold his fine
farm out Star Lakeward to his brother
in-Iaw, Orin Palmer Mr.. Palmer will
probably occupy the farm from the
first Of May, while it is not definately
settled just what Jims movements will
be.
J.. j. Murphy was in Shoshone the
first Of the yeek and bought the best
butt he could find in a. a-carload shipped
in there for sale. He tells us that oy
of this class of stock he was obliged to
pay four hundred dollars for. the ami
NAL.
A.C. Kershner is now doing the. work
of two men-one at the store and one
on the farm, where he is making the
old Wadsworth place prepare itself TO
feed good portion of the earth next
winter.
This Friday night the young people
Of this illage are going out to the
Company camp to pay their respects
to Dwight and Mrs. LaGrange who
were recently married.
Mrs. Ed Carothers is very seriously
and dangerously sick at her home near
Besslen station.
E. r. Gage went to Filler last Monday
to bring home fine bull he bought
there last week. He is said to be re-
markably fine specimen of the Durham
breed Of the milk strain type.
Florine Grewen spent the week end
with her brother and wife at Shoshone. |
Harry Beach and J. w. Satory while
out hunting dropped onto a coyote
den. They sent the dog down the hole
and discovered that the old ones were
absent. Then they got busy and cap |
tured the entire litter of ten young |
ones
W. o. Hamilton was doing business
in Shoshone last Tuesday.
Joe Culbertson was at Shoshone do
ing business last Tuesday.
Last week we mentioned that R. ].
Hill had lost a good horse and had
others sick supposedly from forage
poisoning. 1t appears now that he has
lost three valuable animals from the
same trouble.
Ira Town, John seagraves and Gland
Myers have all been selling hay this
week to George Gillesby of Jerome.
A large shipment of nursery stock
was received this week from the Mil
ton. Oregon. nurseries. consisting of
fruit trees, shrubs, vines, etc. Many
purchasers over the tract are making
an effort to start something in the fruit
line.
J. W. Patterson and Bruce Walker
were at Rupert Sunday. They brought
home. Monday, a good team which
Bruce gought down there. ,
Dick Mustard is now observable on
pleasant days driving Buick. He had
been cultivating a Mitchell for some
time but it got sick. Dick has per-
formed many surgical operations upon
it, and has found several organic dis
eases. He hopes to cure it in time but
until then has fallen back on his Buick
BY the way. is it not safest to keep two.
r. Cantrell is at Vale. Oregon, for
a short period looking after his home s
stead entry in that country. C
The Catholic Church in Dietrich a
which had started and made very COM a
mendable progress in building has met e
with trouble. It has reached as far as c
the plastering part of construction. The o
we're for it in that condition. and have
it very considerably. driving
it very perceptsbIy over to the South.
Mrs. R. ]. Hill who has been residing fl
In Shoshone for some months is now f,
Dut home on the farm visiting. p
W. II. Austin has got his fifteen
machine sheep sheering plant ready for s;
business and is only waiting for sea- ii
sonable weather. C;
Mrs. Leitheiser and daughter Tinella CT
md Myrtle Borden motored to Sho- al
'hone. Tuesday. under the protecting Sc
are OF Rupert Borden. al
An old timer who came onto the es
ract in 1909 or 1910 who knows a few et
hings of the happenings here. writes tt
is this pertinent query: &c
Those who attended the great meet to
ng at Baughs Opera House monrn si
go to confer with the state land board pr
S to the rights Of the settlers with the b
irrigation Company will remember that
he main question was: Is the Com si
any still selling land In excess of its 81
Tater supply, and has it been selling pa
, defiance with the former order of We
he land board? wi