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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1903
Page
3
The yard tracks at the Northern Pacific were completed today enabling the Stites crew to start building the new freight depot. The west end house track was removed and laid along the south side to serve as the freight depot track with no interference to city traffic.
N C Mec Kenney sues Lewiston Engineering & Ironworks for 660 dollars claiming he was hired from Rock Falls Tl as plant foreman at 3 50 per day and discharged Sept 19 without cause. Defendants absent statement before hearing. Also reports Grangeville to cremate all dead animals at new crematory near municipal garbage ground with self supplied urns and per animal cremation rules. Grace Warren visits county institute. A J Showalter of Tom Beal region visits town.
Lewiston market rates list Wheat at 59 cents a bushel for club quality, flax at 75 cents F.O.B., oats and barley priced, fat hogs at 64 cents per pound, stall fed cattle and cows per pound, mutton and veal prices per pound, butter at 22 to 24 cents, eggs at 30 to 35 cents per dozen, ducks and chickens priced with old at 300 to 350, spring at 450 per dozen.
Lewiston welcomes J B Pollard a noted cornetist to lead the Lewiston band after Prof Austin resigns The change is hailed as a step up for Pacific northwest music with the band regarded as among the region’s best An eight month school term begins with Geo Oyler principal and Clara Walker as assistant in Leland Mary Johnson a eight year old injured in a wagon accident is under care of Dr Stoneburner while trustees consider adding a third teacher and extending grades to six and sixteen in the district Other notes cover local travel school enrollment and farming activity in the area
A series of land transfers recorded in Nez Perce County and Lewiston includes N. W. Waide and wife selling lot 17 in block 18 of Nezperce for 175 dollars to J. M. Nelson. Harriet F. Morris et al. administrators convey to Ralph Chapman lots 1 and 2 in block 11 Park addition Lewiston for 550 dollars. Fred Westendahl sells 75 by 150 feet in lot 18 of Acres Lewiston for 1 dollar. Nicholas H. Carter and wife sell lot 5 in block 35 Nezperce for 100 dollars. Shelton Bechtel sells to Mabel Johnson part described as shalf southwest quarter and other segments for 1000 dollars. Sarah C. Thompson sells section 19 block 16 Thompson's addition Lewiston to Peter Deschamp for 450 dollars and transfers to Wm. J. Doyle, Kate F. Clark and Margaret C. Clark in various lots for 100, 425 and 500 dollars respectively. Vermont Loan and Trust Co. sells shall near lots 1 and 2 section 2 to 37 in 3 west BMi for 4800 dollars. same company sells to Jennie M. Hunter and Katherine Hunter specific tracts for 1 dollar. P. W. Hilton and wife sell 2 acres in southeast corner of northeast quarter section to 37 near 2 west Bm for 800 dollars.
Baker City attorney A L Currey endorses the Trib as effective, claiming it replaced liquor and improved sleep appetite and self reliance. He states he chose Trib over alcohol and urges others to consider it. Price per treatment listed as $12.50, available from druggists.
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