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Show Rexburg Ravelings. Rcxburg Idaho, Mar. 4, 1003. Sleighing Sleigh-ing is nearly gone. , Sheep-men are feeding considerable hay, and the farmers have now decided not to plow up their alfalfa for another year. Mr. Champ was In town this week on business. Ho thinks Rcxburg has a good future. A local company and a company from American Falls arc both trying to get a franchise from Rexburg for the purpose of Installing electric lights. Dr. O. C. Ormsby paid us a visit last week. He expects to locate hero as ho thinks the prospects arc good for building up a good practice. The John S. Lindsay Dramatic Company Is paying us Its yearly visit. John M. Wilson has left for Twin Falls. Others arc thinking of going thero soon. James Ricks and Ocorgo Colo have both received calls to perform foreign missions. Local men sent a man up to Teton Basin to discover what truth thero Is In the report that gold had been found there. Ho returned with some samples. sam-ples. Ono samplo assayed 80c In gold. Reports on tho other samples have hot yet been received. Nathan Ricks left today for Rolse City In tho Interest of the sheep business. busi-ness. Tho machinery for boring oil-wells was taken Into Teton Uasln last week. It Is thought oil will bo found up there. Some coal from up there has been sold hero this winter. |