| Show idaho nets school has adjourned tor two weeks vacation and mr J A flack principal ha rone south to spend the holidays john likes mink creek all right but likes a lange all the fame this ia the way do it in idaho A certain person in this place whore taxes last year amounted to tea dollars this year was aa ceased seventeen dollars and roin my personal knowl edge 1 know that he has not as much property aliis year as he biad last the assessor came round w hen he waa not at home in the couise of time he sent tn dollars with a request to know how much waa ball due the reply that came back was in BUO bance about as follows yours enclosing tea dollars to hand you are still owing lour dollars and ninety cents tor expenses it this is not pud in lull by january ast 1st it will oat you something more than y ur taxes tola was after lie blaid of equalization had met the assessor added in bold letters and underlined 1 I think you ae a e a bilk how is his for office holders of the would be state of idaho there is to much banow here we cannot always get THE STAND KH regularly and we cannot sleep without it sunday morning wo were startled by a clap ul genuine thunder keul estate is more quiet than usual no doubt on account 01 baing so much mow we cannot see the nepa of the boil we leave so much snow we are afraid christinas will be two or three days late J FROM the mud of a period hick lias gone and left the reals ill a tearful state we havn had enow but the wind basw the snow in piles behind the fences leaving the centre of the road hare our town ia detill growing within the last five months there has been started up one livery and feed stable oue furniture store that ships in a carload of furniture a month and also a millinery store and a barber shop with another barber shop in course of erection are being taken for a daily mail instead of a tri weekly and a large mail station and a anery and feed elabe ajr dr amaie association will pre bent to us on ch istman a drama entitled TK anchor of hope and the ruo ru o boiu the health of the people is good excepting a few who have colds that were caught during the wet weather dec 21 |