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Show BRIDEGROOM IS GIVEN ID HOT REGEFTIOH Egg Shower Tendered to W. Earl Smith at Blackfoot, Idaho. Special to Tho Tribune . BLACKFOOT, Ida., July 22-W. Earl Smith, editor and proprietor of the Southern Idaho Mail, Justice of tho Peace and erstwhile manager of tho defunct de-funct Smith & Maxwell Mercantile company of Blackfoot, received tho warmest and loudest smelling recoption here Saturday night ever tendered to a bridegroom in this section. m To bo oxplicit, Mr. Smith was the recipient of ns choice a selection of souvenir eggs as over escapod hatching. hatch-ing. There wero turkey eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs and hen eggs, and, 1 odor could bo taken as a criterion, there were eggs which had" long ago reached their majority, all donated with a gratuitj' and accuracy that left no doubt as to tho intent of tho donors. Smith recently sued his wife a most estimable and popular woman for divorce. di-vorce. Firm in her bolisf that hor friends would stand by hor, she re-fusod re-fusod to contest tho action and tho decree de-cree was granted. Smith thou hastonod awav and returned Saturday with YfU'e No. "2. It was then that the women of Black-foot Black-foot assorted themselves. Arming themselves with eggs, as aforesaid, they desoendod upon the domicile of tho luckless Smith and spattered him and his place of abode most liberally. Notice also was served on Smith, it is snid. that he must dopart from Blackfoot at once or suffer dire consequences. |