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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1917
Page
8
Local and personal notices list visitors in Paris from Montpelier Garfield Utah and Salt Lake City plus local engagements. Readers are urged to buy season tickets for Montpelier Chautauqua Week August 27 to September 1 and notes on National Guard enlistments and Red Cross work updates.
Mrs J G Anderson and daughter Florence of Salt Lake City visit Paris as guests of Mr and Mrs Joel H Rich. Salt Lake City couple Mr and Mrs George Cole visit Paris, Cole a Utah Power and Light sales agent. Nels E Peterson and Parley Buehler from Bern enlist in Salt Lake City in the medical department. Dr Fletcher of Boise and Rev C F Wheeler of Montpelier tour Paris. Richard Duffin and family of Pocatello camp at the lake. Duffin is James W Duffin's brother. Delbert Rich and wife of Canada visit relatives. Rich plans to move to Centerville Utah. Mrs J H Holmes of Montpelier visits Boise to see her son James Holmes with Idaho regiment based at St Maries Idaho. Mr and Mrs G Tueller of Smithfield arrive en route to Geneva for a bay crop venture. plan to return to Smithfield after haying. The new city sprinkler, a Studebaker 600 gallon tank, arrives. Marshal Athay operates water wagon and all systems perform well.
A Paris property listing offers a six room home on Main Street with pasture land for two cows at a reasonable price and good terms to a responsible party. Also notes local movement of Lifton station soldiers delayed departure and a new Wardboro bishopric install with J A Berry as bishop and Peter Mourtigen and J P Nelson as counselors.
A garbled summary notes Blooming ai native Rae Dunford and A W Shepherd enlisted in the army and moving toward Salt Lake City. Jim Duffin, a salesman, has resided in Salt Lake City for several weeks with a recent delivery to Stafford Cleveland.
Funeral services were held for Ann Christina Mortensen at 11 o'clock in St Charles with J A Hunt presiding. Speakers included H B Rich J C Stewart J A Sutton E M Allred and J A Hunt. She was born in Denmark August 29 1858 and married Niels Mortensen in 1878. She died after hospitalization in Logan leaving a husband six children and 23 grandchildren. Mrs Bunderson hospitalized in Logan shows signs of recovery and may soon return home.
D L Hays and wife were in a Studebaker along Parley's canyon when a Buick collided. Hays seeks 750 damages. attorneys Armstrong Rydalch and McGurrin handle the case on commission. Hays left for Salt Lake City to retrieve the car.
Mrs Apollo Hansen once Annie Shepherd and Miss May Shepherd returned from Salt Lake City. Irwin Hansen and Mr Hanson arrived from Berkeley California. Annie Shepherd and Mr Hanson obtained a marriage license and wed at the courthouse with President Shepherd officiating. The couple then traveled to Salt Lake City with May Shepherd to meet Arwin Hensen.
Ringling Bros announces an all new program for an August 15 afternoon show in Pocatello. The tour features the fairyland spectacle enone llg with 300 dancing girls and over 1000 performers. Also included are 400 artists in Cinderella, a trained-animal display with 1009 wild animals, 41 elephants led by Big Bingo, and about 800 horses. A three mile street parade will precede the event.
Ovid Idaho news describes nervous excitement over the draft and a sense of duty for military service. It highlights hay harvest, disappointing grain yields, drought impact, promising potatoes, and local building activity including new cement walks and a looming schoolhouse. The piece praises civic harmony and absence of vice.
J. H. Denio ranked high among 500 Weston Union Life Insurance agents with strong numbers in July. He placed ninth on July 5, second on July 12, and third on July 19 as policies sold surged, showing him ahead of most peers.
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