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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1931
Page
8
Notices advertise local jobs and services while social notes mix travel visits and host town events. LaMont Passey managed sign and painting services. other items mention interior decorating and a hotel eye specialist event in Paris. Local residents share weekends in Paris and moves to new apartments.
An advertisement seeks a clean man to haul and store ice behind a local drug store. It notes the position is not for snow removal and mentions the Drug Store back area, Hotel Paris, and local contact details.
The section notes the birth of a third daughter to Principle and Mrs. Spencer Griffin, praises community figures like Lucille Johnson and the North Rich High School play The Patsy, and reports on local travel, missionary visits, a dance farewell for Elder Stanley Mattson, and regional agriculture and entertainment updates including the Irwin brothers movie shows and Hyrum Nebeker’s cattle shipment. It includes a brief Idaho poem by Henry Catmull and a Minidoka County News feature.
Coles Andrus of Challis named state land commissioner by the state land board to replace I H Nash who resigned. Andrus, a former Custer county representative, ex serviceman from World War I, rancher and livestock man with engineering and aviation experience, is a Republican.
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph starts installing an underground wire system in Caldwell's business district, with Kimball Avenue as the route. The project covers about 2,250 feet and costs an estimated 30,000 dollars.
Harold Anderson of the National Milling Company in Toledo says the firm will overhaul its wheat purchases and pricing. The company will source all privately owned grain in its tanks and hedges from the federal farm board, basing flour prices on farm board wheat until the 1931 crop arrives in July or August.
Public health brief in Miam Daily News notes Berlin experts recommend a large noon meal followed by a nap. The column humorously questions funding if a boss catches workers napping.
Bannock and Benewah lawmakers push increases in workmen's compensation death and total disability rates. A bill would shift powers from the state superintendent to the state board of education, prompting debate over duties and authority amid a dispute between the education chief and the commissioner.
The Director of the U S Veterans Bureau in Washington approves a new 1931 dividend schedule for United States Government Converted Life Insurance. Boise Veterans Administration Manager C H Hudelson reports about $8.2 million in dividends, up over $900,000 from 1930, with the highest rate ever authorized.
Salt Lake City February 3 fish totaling 31 400 pounds were distributed to the needy. The carp were seived from Utah lake at county expense under an appropriation by the Salt Lake County Commission. Distribution was led by the Family Service Society the Latter Day Saints Relief Society and the Salt Lake County Department of Charities.
A fertilizer plant banquet and meeting occurred Saturday with numerous attendees from Utah and Idaho towns. Notable participants include Fred Hamerick Paris Ralph Lewis Paris C C Stock Fish Haven Milford Loveland Garden City Utah Clarence Cook Garden City Utah F S Beck Paris and many others from Paris St Charles Liberty Fish Haven Laketown Huntington Beach Calif.
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