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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1909
Page
5
A detailed harvest of local happenings in Jerome and Gooding area life. snippets include new hotel clerks, hospital operations, depot incidents, railroad work, visiting professionals, real estate moves, bank openings, and fast growth with eighteen new business ventures under construction signaling Jerome’s rise.
Jerome E. Bennett advertises two houses for rent on Third avenue while a new school opens with Mrs Dorothy Crawford as teacher. Nearby, Tillman and Huntington build cottages on north town and Second avenue respectively. Contractor Kartzke and Rev C A Varnum work near townsite. Diffendaffer returns to teach, Miss Frieda Kellar becomes stenographer at Farmers and Merchants Bank. A warehouse 24 by 40 feet is completed by Jerome Mercantile Co on First Avenue behind their store.
Explorers report a vast lava cave with vaulted chambers and deep passages near Devil's Corral. Names of local entrants appear among North Life lands filings as surveys and land boundaries shift. The Stockgrowers' embroidery sale will run the first four days next week due to bad weather.
In Clear Lake, the first winter storm brought rain on the sixth and near record. Ralph Smakes suffered a dangerous accident while roping a wild steer, nearly breaking his eye and ending in a close call as the steer twisted in the field.
Fragmented local items report Ralph injured when his horse bolted and crushed his leg between fence posts. Other notes mention Marsh Montgomery, Kestergh and Roy Marsh starting North Side rustling chores, Mrs Maddia improving health, Ray Banbury visiting Grace Idaho for Christmas, and plans to install a private 100 horsepower power unit at Great Heart River property.
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