Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-04-10
TOWN TALK

MS people,
Frank Hoy, OF the Williams inter
ests in this county. is here on a bust !
ness trip.
Joe Hennen was in from his La.
noble ranch yesterday and left for
home this afternoon with his wife
and baby.
District Attorney carville is in Car
son City attending the meeting of dis
trict attorneys who are gathered to-
gether for discussion OF the Wells
Fargo tax situation.
An order was filed late yesterday
afternoon appointing Emmett Bach
man as game warden for Elko county.
Mr.. Bachman will assume his new
duties at once and should make an
excellent official.
Raymond Harris, the little son OF
Sheriff Harris is very seriously i'll at
his home with measles in their most
malignant form. The little fellow
was considerably run down in health
as we'll before the attack. which
makes his recovery slower than ordi-
narily.
Jacob Clark, of Tuscarora, returned !
last night from Salt Lake City where |
he took his little son Herbie to be |
operated on for throat trouble. The |
little fellow had his tonsils taken out |
and except for very sore throat is /
doing excellently. He was sent home |
this morning. his father remaining |
here for a few days to attend TO bus
mess matters.
An action for divorce was filed in /
the district court today by Mrs. Iona /
Baker asking for a decree from her
husband, Madison NJ. Baker. The
complaint alleges extreme cruelty,
averring that the defendant was Of
quarrelsome disposition, frequently
striking the plaintiff and kicking her.
There are two children belonging TO
the parties. the plaintiff requesting
their custody. Carey Van Fleet rep
resents Mrs. Baker.
At the Bradley Opera House this
evening, in addition to the regular
program there will be shown under
the auspices of the Overland Trail |
club two reels of pictures descriptive
of the latest road building methods
employed in California and other
states. These pictures are both in.
structive and entertaining and should 1
particularly appeal to all citizens OF /
cities on the Overland Trail, all of /
whom are giving their best efforts to /
make the Overland Trail an important !
part of the great national highway |
The road pictures are contributed by /
the San Francisco branch OF the |
White company.
Here is a piece of modern mining |
camp musical criticism directed at !
Mrs. Geo. Lindsay, formerly a well !
known resident of this city. The crit !
icism itself would seem to have been |
written by gang of female bo-hunks. !
Mrs. Lindsay's reply is perhaps Il
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her Round Mountain friends, but it
seems to fill the bill as a very thor
ough and Caustic answer to an unjust
fault-finding. The clipping Is from the
Manhattan Magnet:
Mrs. Lindsay, Manhattan. New:
The most OF us here anticipated
most enjoyable time and dance on
the 18th, and thought we were going
to have such good music when we
agreed to have you play for us, but
We were sorely disappointed and
certainly are disguised with your
bum and hOrrid playing. We should
have known better TO get rotten Man
haitian music in the first place, as
we have better musicians here.
Must say you have an awful crust
to play in public. Some nerve we
think. We never had such miser-
able player as you in this town before.
Take this as you like it. as we are Ger.
tainly Disguised with you.
The Women of Round Mountain.
To the writer of above anonymous
letter:
II am publishing this literary
GEM SO that all the ladies OF
Round Mountain may read II. 1t will
also be interesting reading to those
who attended the dance and listened
to me struggling with that old
rattle trap they cali piano. q
want to state here that refused to
play after tried the piano Mr.. Will
Jams tried to get some one else, but IL
seems the better musicians declined
to play also. So 1t was UP TO me to do
the best I could, or break up the
dance.
Il agree with you that the music
was rotten. II made my head ache.
IL made my heart ache. and shattered