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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1920
Page
8
Paris news notes visitors and locals from Brigham City Utah to Logan Utah with remarks on weather and daily life. Mentions include Abel G Rich George Dunford Mercy Price Alfred Shepherd Lovell Rich Ed Duffin and other residents. Small items cover lost watch, coat sales and community events.
The Paris Brass Band furnished music for the Montpelier Stake Mutual outing on the lakeshore Wednesday afternoon. Over 300 people were present.
Mr Wallace Wallantine and his sister Mrs Eva Passey departed Sunday evening for New Mexico to spend the winter there for the benefit of Wallace's health.
County Auditor Standley Rich and President Ola Transtrum served as delegates to the state Democratic convention held in Idaho Falls last Tuesday, representing local interests at the gathering.
Call at the F T Shepherd & Sons store to see new ladies and misses coats, described as the best yet brought into the valley. The interior of the Chris Wallentine residence on Main Street is being remodeled with new brick chimneys. Mrs Francis Bowen returns from Paris Idaho where she visited friends. Emma Olson daughter of Orson Olsen of Ovid improves after recent appendicitis surgery.
Gov W Davis honors Assessor James Dunn with appointment to attend the Thirteenth Annual conference of national tax assessors in Salt Lake City Utah from September 6 to 11 Dunn will represent local interests and participate in discussions on tax administration and policy.
Miss Gladys Rich of Ogden Utah daughter of Dr and Mrs Ezra Rich is visiting after spending several months in France doing reconstruction work since the European war begun.
Clifford Collings and two Passey children had their adenoids and tonsils removed at Paris Emergency Hospital this week. N C Hanks the blind and handless orator lectured in the tabernacle on democracy expansion and optimism. Mrs Attie Filer moves millinery stock to W Findlay Auto showroom as remodels complete. Nine wagonloads of gypsies pass through Paris en route to California and nine were fined $200 for in-fighting in Justice Court.
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Pres Josh Shepherd of Logan Utah and his son Harold on a short Stanford study break arrived Wednesday. Harold, on vacation, attends to business matters in Boise Valley where wheat is king with 50 to 80 bushels per acre and a total yield around 4,000,000 bushels. Doctors Stauffer and Hampton of Salt Lake evaluate Don Hadock’s shotgun injury to his eyes. Hampton says a possible chance of regaining sight.
The upcoming Idaho legislature will have 44 senators and 54 representatives, a ratio seen as the most equal in the nation. All 44 counties receive one senator, while seven counties have more than one representative, led by Ada with four, Twin Falls with three, and Bannock Canyon Kootenai Latah and Shoshone with two each.
In New York two large sugar refiners cut granulated sugar to 17.10 cents a pound for recent output, with one firm further dropping to 17 cents in late trading. Raw Cuba centrifugal sugar remained at 12.04 in duty-paid terms.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hancock and Myra Cozzens of New York with Mrs. Dr. Edw. Rich of Ogden Utah spent a vacation in Yellowstone and halted briefly here on their return to Utah. Mrs. Cozzens and Mrs. Hancock are well known in this vicinity, having once resided in Montpelier.
The Alumni Booster explains advantages of the home school through the Fielding Academy. If a copy isn’t received by September, request one from Earl Shepherd, President of the Alumni Association in Paris.
Sidney Sorenson of Ovid died Monday morning at 1 o clock aged 69 after a paralytic stroke last December from Nevada residence eight months in Ovid. He was unmarried and a brother of Chris Sorenson. Funeral held in Ovid Tuesday afternoon.
The article urges students to consider two factors for choosing a high school and future path attitude and selecting the right school. It advises waiting for the F Alumni Booster to aid in reaching the correct solution.
The passage reflects on the Great War as a terrible event yet potentially a blessing to restore virtue in a selfish America. It argues greed is eroding national sensibilities and that crisis may redeem public spirit through self sacrifice and generosity.
Mr George M Bateman of International Harvester visits his parents A J and Mrs Bateman. He studies at the Agricultural College of Logan Utah and Fielding Academy graduate. He manages AG debating team and toured California this spring where they debated leading schools. He notes Harvester plans to deploy several combines in the area, one owned by Frank Nye.
The Sunday School outing at Lakota was free for grounds boats and dance hall. Mutulas of Garden City organize Y M M L A officers Gladys Pope presiding and Lazette Sims as counselor. Lectures by N C Hanks and Apostle Melvin J Ballard draw interest. Rathburn players wrap up season with final dance at Ideal Beach.
Roy Balmer, newly appointed district manager for Utah Power and Light and successor to W. B. Trowbridge, visited Paris Tuesday to learn his new field. He has a decade with the company and recent Logan assignment, with extensive electrical experience and a sociable, capable reputation.
The piece debunks the myth that heat drives dogs mad and explains the origin of dog days. It notes dogs pant and sweat less in heat, cites animal doctors, and traces the term to Sirius rising with the sun during the hottest period of ancient times.
Wille Galbreath pleads guilty in February 1920 to assault with a deadly weapon in the District Court of the Fifth Judicial District Bear Lake County Idaho. He faces a term of two and one half to fourteen years in the Boise Penitentiary and will apply to the State Board of Pardons at their next regular meeting after publication for an absolute pardon. Signed Wille Galbreath Box 658 Boise Idaho.
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