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

Or. Arthur Hood has been confined
TO his bed with an attack of La
Grippe for the past two days.
Mrs. Bertha Hale is now well on
the way to recovery and will leave
the hospital on Sunday or Monday.
The divorce case of May Hanson
VS.. Chas. Stanier Hanson is called for
hearing this afternoon Attorney
Walter S. Vane represents the plain.
tiff.
Jim Gheen is strutting some today.
This is Jim's sixty-ninth birthday
He came to the state of Nevada in
the year 1872, and has only been out
OF the state once since that time. He
has only one enemy and that is the
Kaiser. Guess Jim has a right to
strut, Ell?
Sheriff Harris and District Attor.
-N- vi '4aAN 4AA'N EO4AN ~ JdA DlNSf
to investigate the killing of the man
Mccullough that occurred there the
other day. They went by way of
Twin Falls and will arrive in Three
Greek late this evening, making the
balance, of the trip tomorrow.
Lee MeNew is in from Lamoille to-
day arranging for a dance at his
summer resort for the goth of this
month. All the proceeds of the af-
fair will be turned over to the Red
Cross and il is hoped that a large
crowd will go out from here. Lee
says the roads are in fine shape.
Tom Middleton Is now thoroughly
recovered from his siege of scarlet
fever and the quarantine has been
removed from the Middleton home.
Frank is the happiest man in town
today. for he says he has been like
man without a country ever since
he had the front door locked on him.
WITS. bradley announces that in
the Hearst-Pathe News which will
be shown at the Opera House tonight
there are official scenes of the bonn
bardment of Paris by the German
long range guns. This item in the
News should be enough to take every
one out to see this interesting film OF
current weekly events. The balance
of the program Is equally good, pre-
sentlng William Duncan in an ex-
cellent picture, Dead Shot Baker"
lnndian Charlie Joe made pill
grimage to Mecca yesterday, starting
at Lamoille and winding up in the
hooze-gow here with n roaring snoot
full. Charlie was a tough Indian as
long as he had the courage of the
stuff that cheers and when he was
arrested by Constable Cotant he on
tered many objections 20 the proce-
dure. But by moral suasion and n
little physical exertion the officer
landed him in the Turkish bath. When
Charlie discovered where he was he
Immediately became wildly inccnscd
and announced to the world that II
they would bring on Officer Cotant he
would clean house with him. During
the night, however. be came consid.
erably calmer and when he sized III
the constable's wCllknit form this
morning he forgot his belllgcrent
spirit and took his jolt on the chain
gang with a grunt of Indifference
The class in wireless tclegraphy
recently organized by Mr.. Schwartz,
dispatcher of the w p. Railway. Is
nightly finding the work more inter
esting There are eight in all taking
the course. Meetings are held at the
old high school building. The men
are supposed to take two hundred
nights OF the instruction; when a
pupil is able to send and receive ten
words he Is taken in hand by the
government and sent to tho govern.
ment wireless school for instruction
in the technical part OF the work MS
well as In sending and receiving.
When he Is able 20 take twenty words
and send the same number he Is Civ
en- n non commissioned officers berth
in the army and put to work. A great
many young mon would find this
course greatly TO their advantage and
undoubtedly more will take UP the
work before long.
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