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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1931
Page
8
A London Times reprint describes Saltair on the Great Salt Lake near Salt Lake City. The author recalls swimming in eighty three degree water, noting the high salt content and the dance pavilion built on 10 000 piles.
A wandering reporter visits Salt Lake City noting Mormon hospitality among leaders such as Heber J Grant and George Albert Smith. He describes the city’s mixed population, the church dole and job exchanges assisting over 10 000 people, and the unusual social scene with tobacco and alcohol bans and milk as the popular drink.
Georges-Marie Haardt leads a National Geographic tractor party through Central Asia to map a 13 500 mile route from Afghanistan toward Kashgar Peiping and beyond. The mission relies on Mobdil motor oil deposits and aims to test lubricants under extreme conditions.
The county fair board selects committees on advertising with three citizens per precinct. Two racing days are set, exhibits open for inspection with free admission. New buildings rise, old structures repair, track improvement underway, a new dancing floor installed with weekly dances. Premium lists are on press and the 1931 fair is anticipated as the best yet.
The August 10 1931 commissioners meeting records votes and actions including a 15.47 payment to Hart & Hart for groceries advanced to insane Geo Parts, a Hart Willard right of way and fencing agreement near Geneva, warrant draws, phone service changes, protests over banking property valuations, cancellation of an 8.10 penalty, pension list review, a 70 postage warrant, and water installation arrangements with Paris for Hemmert property. Bills from Broad & Bridge Thiel & Olsen Bros and others approved.
An 1931 financial ledger lists current expenses for Montpelier and Pembroke County items including hotels meals jailer services supplies and car expenses. It ends with a notice to creditors for the estate of Emmett J Howell in Bear Lake Idaho and a concluding opinion on honest dealings.
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