The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-02-08

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to Idaho on business matters, bun
will return to his work in a few
days.
| Mrs. w. G. Johnson is home from
Boise, where she has been for some
time visiting her daughter, Mrs.
Martin.
| j. w. Hutchinson Jr. has been
spending the winter at Logan, but
returned to Sterling this week to
see the folks and try to decide what
he will do next year.
A. Hackman was down from ASH
ton Thursday and reports that his
daughter, Mrs. Perkins, lives at
Jerome, Ariz. now. Mr.. Hickman
was encouraging people to go up to
witness the dog races at Ashton on
February %. He says there is al
ways big crowd, but that they man
age to feed and shelter them In some
way and show them a corking good
time. He says those that go are
glad they went and those that do not
go never seem to get the vision of
what they miss.
Charles LaFever passed thru
Blackfoot Thursday morning return
ing from trip to Salt Lake. He
says he has seen hard times in re-
cent years and became very much
discouraged, but that things are
looking up now, and he thinks he
will come out on top. He is feeding
5000 ewes and Is giving them the
best care he can to get good lamb
crop and a good wool clip. He
bought hay at Sc ton and thinks
he will get SO cents a pound for
wool, so he is keeping those ewes
out of the brush in the effort to save |
the wool. He used to let them out |
on the range and lose lot of it by |
the combing process running thru
the brush. He is feeding 200 head
of stock cattle.
Clay Vance of Mackay was in
Blackfoot Thursday morning and
said things are looking prosperous
on Lost river in regard to livestock
and mines. He says they have ship
ped 200 cars of ore lately and it is
bringing in some money and support
ing quite a payroll.
B.. Y. Nelson's mother, Mrs. w. G.
Nelson, of Preston, Idaho, has been
visiting at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Nelson for some time. Mrs. Nelson
is eighty-fOur years old and is we'll
and hardy. She is visiting among
her children. She came from Bur-
ley to BlackfOOt and she will go from
here to Soda Springs, where she will
visit with her daughter Mrs. w. j.
Davis and son G C. Nelson. Mrs
Nelson will go to her home in Pres
ton from Soda Springs.
Rev. ]. d. Gillian went to Mid
dleton, in western Idaho, Tuesday,
to officiate at a wedding of some
prominent people there.
Mrs. B. c. Boone of Rexburg was
in town between trains Monday
Mrs. George Dore and her sister,
Mrs. Ernest Brown of Idaho Falls
have gone to California for a visit
with their mother
Mrs. Martha Alfred, who has been
aking course in nursing at the L.
D. S. hospital at Salt Lake, has fin /
shed the course and visited at PO- ,
,atello and Blackfoot Wednesday
Ind Thursday on her way to Rexburg
where she expects to remain for the
present.
On Monday evening at the home of
Miss Amelia Kirkpatrick on route
!, a dozen people assembled by in
7itation and spent a jolly evening
n games, jokes and song. H. G.
'avey and daughter were among
he jolliest of the jolly and won
rizes while showing the others how
o play little better than most peo-
lie do. The party began and ended
With a sleighing party from town
nd back. J
Mr.. Dickinson's stenographer,
fiss Clark, is back at work after a c
ouble siege of humps and chicken b
OK that came one at time. +
Willard Gibbs of Burley and j. M.
ibbs Of Bull are visiting this week
t the parental home after long =
bsence. They report that while .
heir towns have been awfully hard I
it by the panic, yet they are getting
ack to where they were before the o
DOM. Each of the Gibbs brothers a
perates a cigar store in his town. 6
F. E. Seeger has gone to New ~
ork to buy goods. His advertise ;,
lent in this issue carries something
ut of the ordinary and may inter- Z
It you. y
Miss Ellen Sundquist is recovering c.
ON a surgical operation at Idaho
alls. c
The Misses Thelma and Grace
icks of Pocatello were guests of
ISIS Lena Babcock the last of the o
eek.