Gooding News Highlights Local Business and Cemetery Plans
Gooding reports visitors from Hailey and routine business updates. W B Kelly installs a feed grinder, plans home-made dope, and completes Palace stables with a new paint job. Ayer Higga returns from Salt Lake to prepare for a local hospital venture. Dwyer adds a refrigerator at his meat market. Jones, Kelly coordinate cemetery deeds and announce upcoming Ladies Aid supper at the school with an auction and a free exchange night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pressley Horn
Fred W. Jordan
W. 5. McDougal
Hailey
Gooding
W. B. Kelly
Palace
A. Ayer Higga
Salt Lake
Chas, Jones and
Ladies’ Aid Society
The
Presbyterian Church
Early 1908 Idaho items include lumber car for camps and new drug store planned
Wight unseen trade wrangling precedes wrap removal with no kicking after. Donald Grant Co ships lumber for camps while electric road work continues. Penk Morrison of Shoshone work on first company warehouse. Grant party expects 600 workers in a week. W 8 McDougall and Fred W Jordan form a partnership to open a drug store in Gooding, renting the Vogt building’s north side and aiming to stock within ten days and build a concrete storefront. Obituary notes Lafayette Stiles dies near Gooding. born 1840 in New York, served in Brackett’s Minnesota volunteers, married in 1864, ten children, funeral attended by eight children and many neighbors. Stiles had lived in several states before settling in Idaho.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Grant Company
Penk and Morrison
Shoshone
Grant
W. 8. McDougall
Fred W. Jordan
Hailey
Gooding
Vogt
Mr. Stiles
Woodhull
Steuben County
New York
Brackett
Batallion of
Minnesota Volunteers
Mary M. Smith
Rochester
Minn
Indiana
Wisconsin
Minnesota
South
Noted Men Fond of Cats and Other Snippets
A miscellany drawing on obituary tone and light essays. Notes mention Dakota Washington and Idaho, a widow recovering from pneumonia, a child’s heavens modeled as an all outdoors inner room, jokes about currents and fish, famed cat lovers like Cardinal Richelieu and Chateaubriand, and a critique of handicapped femininity from Ladies' Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardinal Richeliew
Chateaubriand
Wealth Comparisons and Snippets of Satire
The piece blends a global wealth tally with miscellany from fiction and commentary. It cites $23,000,000,000 in Western states versus $80,100,000,000 east of the Mississippi, then shifts to character sketches and quips about marriage, optimism, neck stiffness, and a Balzac quote on aristocracy and vice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Mrs. Smiley
Also Mentioned on This Page
Nampa Lumber CO
Miracle Cement
E. W. Gardner
Gooding, Idaho
Kelly
Idaho
J. W. Dwyer
Mr. Dwyer
Lafayette Stiles
Dakota
Washington
Jack
Papa
Lisle & Barber
Rich
Patrick
Warrak
Polger McKinsey
Earth
Balzac
Main Street
J.W. Monroe’s
Second Avenue
Montana Ste
Evans Wood, Proprietor
L. Moyer & CO
Covur
Palace Livery Stable
2Nd Ave
Washington St
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