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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1931
Page
2
The Paris Post lists its mailing as second class matter at Paris Idaho under the 1878 act. John A Wallis serves as Editor and Publisher. Subscriptions are two dollars per year in advance or one dollar per three months and one dollar fifty for six months in advance.
A quotation honoring fallen heroes and urging future generations to keep their memory alive. It invokes independence, the beacon of liberty, and the duty of sons to learn from great names and keep the theme of freedom forever young.
The Western Mineral Survey reports Thomas A. Edison criticizing the global financial system. He argues the gold standard should end and no commodity should be king, urging metals to be sold at intrinsic values and opposing gold monopolies.
Mrs 8 H Wells and Edwin Wells with daughters Helen Kathryn and Mary Low of Logandale Nevada visited the Pugmire home in Stanford. Miss Helen Wells and Stanford Pugmire wed in the Logan temple on Saturday. The couple drove to Nevada for a reception then headed to California while relatives returned home. E V Mattson stopped here en route to his home.
California bound families travel with relatives in Salt Lake and Pocatello. Residents host and visit kin, with Logan and Bear Lake area residents making short trips for weekends and business. Many names appear in the travel and visiting lists, including Pugmire Peterson Wursten and Clark families along with several others.
State game warden M. P. Bailey closed Buffalo River in Fremont County from the Yellowstone Highway east along with all tributaries and Targhee Creek from the road to Henry’s Lake including 300 feet each side where it enters Henry’s Lake. The conservation order lasts until May 30, 1933.
Dr. A W Rosenbach of Philadelphia acquires a 62 volume Washingtoniana collection with about 20 000 manuscripts. Collected by Sir Guy Carleton later Lord Dorchester who led the British army in America 1782 to 1788 include 69 Washington letters to Clinton and Howe and correspondence of Howe Barrington North Germaine Shelburne Burgoyne Andre Franklin Cornwallis Amherst and Wright. The set is touted as the finest collection ever brought to this country and will be kept together due to its historical value with Loyalist papers and the New York evacuation and capture materials highlighted.
Henry Knox of Boston built a book store and commanded American artillery from Dorchester Heights in the Revolution to Yorktown. He later became major general and the first secretary of war and navy. Knox College bears his name and some graduates claim descent from John Knox.
Mrs George A Smith and daughter Shirley return from a three week visit in Rock Springs Wyoming. A baby boy was born June 8. Allen Harris visits from Montpelier and returns home. Notes on Sols Place relocation, local residents Elmer Pead visit, Audrey Kennedy nursing in Ogden, and other short remarks about Barker injury, Gray family travels, Loran Jackson electric water system, Prudence Weston temple work in Logan, and Charles Rex family trip to Salt Lake with Mae Brough.
Notice invites sealed bids from bidders for water works materials to be delivered in whole or part by 8 p.m. July 6 1931. Materials include 2200 feet of 4 inch fir wood pipe with galvanized collar bands, 250 head in feet wrapped with No 8 wire, staves 1 1/8 inches thick asphalt treated, one cast iron tee 4x4x4 for wood pipe, and a hardwood iron banded 4 inch driving plug. Bids to be marked Proposal for water works material and delivered to City Clerk by the deadline.
City of Paris Idaho advertises a procurement or inventory listing including galvanized iron pipe 1000 feet 2 inches 50 feet 1 inch and 260 feet 12 inch along with service boxes and galvanized tees. It includes underground T-handle istop and waste cocks and identifies W Smith Hoge city clerk.
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