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Newspaper

Elko Independent

Location

Elko, Nevada, United States of America

Date

Jun 14, 1917

Page

4

Local items mix with notices from Elko district

Divorce suits filed by Martha Wise against Leslie W Wise for extreme cruelty and by Lizzie Irene Yates against Adna Yates with one child. A sheep shearer died near Charleston area. interment planned in Elko. Draft registration in Elko county shows 1443 enrollees with 50 cards outstanding. Overland Trail club to meet in Lovejoy with Elko representatives. County bids for Elko County High School open next Saturday with modifications to plans. Screenings and events include Sessue Hayakawa in The Honorable Friend at Bradley. dance at Mayer Hotel. Lost blue skirt on Fourth Street. Elko Twentieth Century club meeting. St Elizabeth's Guild fundraiser.

Lizzie Irene Yates Adna Yates Yale Oregon O. T. Williams Elko County High School County Board of Education Independent

State Board urges boards to hire Nevada trained teachers

At a Saturday meeting the State Board of Education reviewed 118 teacher certificate applications, including 67 graduates from state university normal courses. It marks the largest group prepared by Nevada institutions to date. Officials urge boards to favor state trained teachers for next year, with records and qualifications available through superintendents, the university, and normal schools.

State Board of Education The Carson News

One Clearing Sale on Straw and Hemp Materials

A clearance sale offers straw and hemp millinery materials at very low prices. Shoppers are urged to buy now before next year’s prices rise, highlighting as is ere milan and fine quality hemp.

Isere Milan

Ten Rustic Lots Near Railroad Include Cabin and Barn

All but very small part of ten parcels south of the railroad tracks with a good loft and grain bin. The property features a high board fence with posts set three feet in concrete, a carpenter shop, wagon racks, a good cabin with electric lighting, and a well built chicken house for about 300 chickens with plastered walls concrete floors and removable roosts.

For Sale Cheap Gyp derrk and timber gear

Yard note lists a mast and boom timber in Oregon pine for sale at once. Items include mast rounds 13 and 10 inches, 39 feet long, boom 8 by 10 inches, 36 feet six inches, used for Russell mausoleum, at cemetery. Also selling Amber separately. Contact G P Griffith Elko Marble and Granite House. Also one Singer sewing machine offered at Mayer Hotel.

Guy Derrk Sige Russell Mausoleum G. P. Griffith Elko Marble & Granit House Singer Mayer Hotel

Recruiting drive details and age limits in San Francisco district

The article lists numerous names and locales then outlines army enlistment rules. Corporals and other specialists across corps will receive pay raises of eight or six dollars. Despite draft passage recruiting efforts continue with plans for June campaigns led by local posts and postmasters to enlist men 18 to 40, including aliens, with English language ability and Bike Nevada as headquarters.

Ordnance Signal Corps Quartermaster Corps Medical Department Coastartillery Field Artillery Cavalry Artillery Engineers United States Army War Department

Pay Increase for U S Soldiers Under New Army Bill

The June 1 pay raise for enlisted troops raises the lowest wage to 20 dollars a month double the former rate. Privates and buglers receive 30 dollars, with higher grades earning 33 or 36 dollars depending on branch and rank, marking a substantial recruiting incentive.

United States Army Congress Cavalry Artillery Infantry Engineers Signal Corps Ordnance Quartermaster Corps Medical Department Field Artillery

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Martha Wise Leslie W. ‘Wise Thomas Parks Pete Etchina Charleston Deeth Elko Harris Sullivan Overland Trail Club Love Jock Robert W. Hesson Morley Griswold Elko County Better Dentistry Whitesides Dental Co Adv Sessue Hayakaia the Bradley St. Elizabeth’s Guild Fourth Street Reinhart Co Elko Twentieth Century Club M. H. Green St. Elizabeth's Guild Nevada ATS Florin Willinery Glearange Sale Simon Quality Lingirie Rainie Fiore Liberty United First National Bank of J. C. Harris Elko Co Hl. S. Taber G. S. Garcia New Franklin Inquire E Reinhart Company Winsemucca N. W. Parker Railroad 5Th St Ballou MAYER Harry D. Evans Reno E. G. Sadler Chicago E. L. Williams J. M. Berry San Francisco C. H. Daniels Sacramento H. Eisner Wyne Fund Frank A. Ricky Spanish Ranch Vernon E. Ennor Tuscarora W. EB. Otto Berkeley G. Bruce McKee Salt Lake R. F. Roseberry E. A. Roseberry John B. Geo. W. Garat White Rock Pearl Town Jos. Lindsey C. E. Hyner Lee R. C. Pierce Bullion J. B. Reiter Alameda Cal L. R. Bleuett H. E. Cassidy E. R. Peace Winnemucca J. B. Newman H. Gray Reed Bike Ottee M. Blair John Deere Geo. Russell Co Elko, Nevada Richara Bolat Silver Street Western Pacific Ed Carville Leo NEVAD E. Dotta W. B. Griffith W. L. Paul Elko Transfer Company Parker & Paul Ation Owl Bar Elko Hotel Closs A. Puccinelli & CO First National Bank Elro, Nevada J. A. Sewell F. Williams A. E. Kimball E. EB. Ensier Carload
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