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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1915
Page
8
Local brief items describe residents spending holidays in Salt Lake City Downey Evanston and Clearfield Utah. Notes include dances in the pavilion, a leap year event, a Christmas tree at Bloomington and a marriage in Salt Lake temple. Also mentions a life insurance agency opening and shop offerings in Paris Idaho with several notices and advertisements.
Provide for the future of your family by taking out a policy with us today. Accidents are prone to happen to those whose families are without protection. James L. Dunford, Agent, Beneficial Life.
Lawrence Innes returns to Butte Montana for holidays to visit parents and old friends. Local ads promote OUR TURKEY RED HARD WHEAT FLOUR from Montpelier Milling Co. and a sheriff’s action dumping whiskey and beer near the courthouse. Notices cover a Y M I A report card tip, Frank Beck’s Roller Mill services, Christmas tree exercises, Smedley family travel, Holton instruments, and Wilford Tueller as musical instrument agent in Paris Idaho.
Utah Power and Light projects advance across Oneida on Bear River with a 16 foot diameter 2 600 foot pipe from intake to the new power house. Bear Lake will receive flood water from Bear River and canals are widened for irrigation. Materials, pumps, and large crews prepare for emergency pumping to irrigate Idaho and Utah valleys.
The article urges tasteful gift giving focused on the moment and setting rather than mere wrapping. It advises presenting gifts within family on Christmas day, avoiding in-person delivery when possible, and describes delicate methods for money gifts such as tiny umbrella purses or booklets with a bookmark that reveals the money, emphasizing thoughtful presentation.
A column explains the origin of Christmas stockings from St Nicholas of Padua who used knitted purses with money hung at windows for the poor. The custom evolved into stockings hung inside windows then by the fireplace to be filled from the chimney in northern Italy.
A car load of machinery has arrived for the Mutual Creamery and will be installed immediately. The new cheese factory and creamery will soon be ready for business, expected to greatly benefit this side of the valley.
In Bear Lake County Idaho the fifth judicial district court issues an alias summons to John J. Hays in a case brought by Sophia Hays. The notice warns appearance within twenty days of service in district or forty days elsewhere, with judgment by default if unanswered. Also mentions Utah Power and Light project funding in Bear Lake and a dog licensing ordinance effective January 1 1916 plus a call to obtain licenses from the city clerk.
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