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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1921
Page
8
The item catalog mixes small town happenings from dances and socials to lost stock and local fittings. It mentions shoppers stocktaking for the new year, farm for sale terms, visits from relatives, visitors to Montpelier, and Bear Lake as a scenic waterway. It also notes a sale of an organ and a physician’s optical visit. Bear Lake region features prominently as a fishing and tourist spot.
Garden City and surrounding towns see visitors from Paris Logan and Salt Lake City. Forest Ranger Smith notes 4.5 feet of snow at Pecks Springs with deep drifts. green quakenasp road work blocked. Local dances thrive, new residents Mr and Mrs Rna Kunz plan to settle here while Wilford Wilcox and Ezra Kunz head to Montpelier to work on ice for the railroad.
Mr and Mrs Boon Bunderson were called to Logan Utah last week for the death of J 8 Perhen father of Mrs Bundersons son. Funeral services were held in Logan Monday. The deceased was 77 and respected by everyone. The Bundersons expect to return home Wednesday. New Years events were quiet with no dance. Students have returned to school. Mrs Thomas Pugmire and daughter Carrie will visit Salt Lake and Delbert on a mission in the east. Mrs John Rich recovering well after Ogden hospital operation. Men are hauling rock to improve the road in the south field next spring.
The Watch Party at Main Street home hosted by Mr and Mrs W Smith Hoge featured festive decor and progressive games with prizes for top and lowest scores. Guests included multiple Pendreys Grimmetts Rich Shepherd Straw Howell and others as the evening concluded with a midnight meal and kewpie doll place cards. Deputy Forest Supervisor E B Spencer stayed overnight in Paris before continuing to Laketown Utah to meet livestock associations.
A proposed Idaho remedy for alfalfa weevil embargoes centers on three airtight fumigation plants in Pocatello Payette and the northern Snake river valley to treat hay shipments. A. R. Hitt of Boise, returning from Salem, endorses the plan which could lift Oregon and possibly Montana limits, allowing influx of millions in revenue as markets open.
Department of the Interior notices Charles G. Longhurst of Border Wyoming files to prove up a homestead claim for land in Boise Meridian. Hearings set before United States Commissioner W. Smith Hoge at Paris Idaho February 10, 1921. Witnesses Eldon W. Cook J William Fisher Joseph W. Cook Erma C. Stuck.
Chief Justice William M. Morgan ended a six year term and will practice law in Boise with J B Dildridge. He thanked Idaho citizens for electing him and cited his public service. He will be succeeded by Judge Robert N Dunn of Coeur d Alene, elected to a six year term.
E Forrest Taylor Miss Ada Daniels and the Rotation Stock Co present Cappy Ricks at the Paris Opera House Friday January 14. Following a year at Morosco New York and five months at Cort Chicago the play tours with strong box office and wide acclaim from the Peter B Kyne stories in the Saturday Evening Post.
A Paris piece urges resilience and steady work during adversity. It argues that speaking of hardship motivates effort, and that taking available work builds toward better times. The column stresses perseverance, joining the flow, and avoiding idle complaining.
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