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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1931
Page
4
Short classifieds note a furnished four room apartment with bath for rent. Apply to this office. Multiple holiday social updates follow with name checks and travel by residents and staff in Salt Lake City Paris Rexburg and Montpelier.
The infant child of Mr and Mrs Joseph Collings shows improvement after pneumonia. Mrs Harry Athay visited her critically ill son Elzo in Smithfield and reports his condition encouraging. Wendell Stucki and wife, wintering in Logan, visit Paris over holidays. F J Foulger cashier Bear Lake State Bank and wife return from Ogden after a pleasant Christmas. A load of lumber and culverts arrives for Sidderlin Burns to build the Paris St Charles highway, to start in spring when weather allows.
Friends in Paris of Miss Clara Partridge formerly of Bast Lake City learn she will marry Robert Marion Clawson of Reno Nevada in Washington D C early next year. Clawson works at the U S Department of Agriculture and Miss Partridge has been teaching in the capital for three years. Elmo and Everett Humphreys, sons of Mrs George Humphreys, have been employed by Pacific Fruit Express Co in Sparks Nevada and returned home for the holidays.
The item notes former President Benjamin Harrison died peacefully at his Indianapolis home on a Wednesday. It recounts local elections discussions in Paris and Logan, discuss roads, telecommunication visits, a local lawyer's move, and upcoming stage performances with community planning for a choir and seating improvements at the Stake Tabernacle.
From Montpelier Idaho reports the 25 per cent National Forest receipts apportionment was distributed to Bear Lake Caribou and Bonneville counties. Caribou District crews felled about 1000 beetle infested trees in Smokey Canyon Draney Creek and McCoy Creek. Additional trees were removed at Della's Basin and Home Canyon amid rising fuel and timber demand due to hard times. Trespass cases involve Free Use timber sales with settlement offers or court action pending. Snow depths are noted from several sites and the Grays Lake Cattlemen’s Association met December 22.
Bern notices list Alvin N Kunz R H Kunz and Bishop Robert Schmid visiting in Paris Wednesday. Miss Alice Schmid marks her fifth birthday last Friday. Merrill Reese and Mrs Smith A Kunz attended a Bennington teachers convention last Friday. Families including Mr and Mrs David Kunz and Miss Maxine Kane of Logs, Willard Kunz of Montpelier, and Arvilla Westover of Los Angeles visit Bern for holidays. A Christmas party organized by Merrill Reese and Mrs Smith A Kunz and school children is noted.
A comically battered Ford listing notes missing engine and fenders, carburetor split, leaking tank and oil, bent radius rods, twisted wheels, and a nude body. It boasts a loud horn and a hard to beat steering wheel despite severe mechanical failures.
A playful reminiscence recalls a quirky inventor who used a waffle to press sounds on a phonograph and reportedly consumed the record in a whimsical experiment.
A Glib house shifts its staff from black-coated servitors to a younger, prettier waitress corps. One longtime member, who opposed the change, visits for lunch and spars with a waitress about his questionably polite greeting.
John Cooper Hoskins of Ogden Utah marries Sarah Hill of Fish Haven Utah. Paul Edmund Trapier of Culver City Gal wed Myrtle Brown of Montpelier. W Smith Hoge officiated the ceremonies.
The old Burghead custom Burning the Clavie aims to ward off witches for another year. Blazing embers are carried through the town and flung into doorways and vases to burn away the witches, as noted in Tit-Bits.
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