Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-12-06
DIETRICH.

0tE hIO6s
Paul Jones is back home again after
a weeks attendance at Zeller's tospi-
tai In Shoshone. wrestling with a FIRST
class case of the iu.
Court Kershner has finished the nnal
artistic touches to s. E. Kikers new
house, and made II one OF the fine
places on the Dietrich tract.
School commenced again last Mon
day with the usual attendance OF
bright pupils. From the Btill large num-
ber Of fu victims among the farmers
Of the tract, 1t Is questionable whether
or not the school should have been
opened 30 soon
Mr.. and Mrs. N. W.. Sine have re-
turned from protracted visit to the
Yakima country. where they took part
ia helping to harvest the crop or rruIr
there
Louis Nelson and ]. p Kelly. each
with car of cat11R. went to Denver
this week Louis feil by the waysids
with lard case of fiu and was COM
peilel to lay up at Laramie, but joined
Kelly on the return trip and is safe
home again.
The Grange here is composed OF a large
again and viii hold It's first meeting
after the suspension this Friday even
ing, to clear up accumulated business
The range here iscomposed Of a large
membership and is in prosperous
condition.
The o. s. l. railroad is building
commodious ice house in Dietrich and
will thus be all the better prepared to
take care of Clark whenhe comes down
with the flu next summer.
The Woman's Committee of the Ma
tional Defense League, is out collecting
material for a history of our boys who
won glory in France, and will probably
put forth their researches in book form
with as many pictures of the boys as
they can get.
The O. +. Borden family is an af-
icted one just now. Miss Myrtle. who
is taking training for professional
nurse, is at the hospital in Pocateilo,
having pneumonia. Tuesday of this
week Mr.. Borden was taken with a Sc
we're case of illness, so far unnamed by
the doctors, and is now in bed. This
has called Rupert home from the Idaho
Technical School which he is attend
ing, to look after the Borden business.
Garrett Zimmerman. who has beena
regular writer from France to his fam
lily, has not been heard from for many
weeks causing much uneasiness by the
silence A comrade writing from there
says his information is that he was Sc
verely wounded recently and died of
his wounds. The wires are now il use
trying to get the facts.
Mrs Clark yesterday attended a
meeting in Shoshone Of the Home Ser
vice Division of the Red Cross. 1t
was a largely attended meeting of the
ladies' of this association. Mss Hunter
of Seattle, one of the well known work
ers in this great field of humanity, was
present and addressed the meeting in
most interesting and pleasing terms.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank J. B, King. on
their way from southeastern Kansas
for awinter's sojourn In Southern Call
fornia, visited their brother and sister,
Mr.. and Mrs. S. g. King here this
week Frank halls from Eldorado.
Butler county, Kansas. long and a1ec-
tionately known as the Kingdom OF
Butler, The Kilgdom lf Butelr struck
oil about two years ago fhe county
seat town of about 5000 people has
grown to 10000, with thriving towns all
over the county The writer remem-
bers the days in early Kansas when
the settlers of the kingdom OF Butler
lwere so poor they couldn't walk. Now
the owners of those Kaffir corn fields
are in hard luck if they don't get $1,000
an acre for their lands. Even the au-
tomobiIes are getting too slow for the
kingdom of Butler. They are buying
FLYING machines and are seriously con-
templating a trip to the moon for
summer residence next summer
Henceforth their country is to be called
the Empire of Butler, or would be only
for the bad character the kaiser has
given to empires: E