Women Camp at Fish Haven Claims State Record
A three day statewide women’s vacation camp at Fish Haven Bear Lake concluded with the largest enrollment in Idaho history. Participants from Bear Lake, Carldon, Franklin, Oneida and Bingham counties and from Utah Wyoming and California joined the University of Idaho extension program led by Miss Marion Hepsworth and Miss Sara Sumsion. The event combined educational talks on food and clothing, inspirational addresses, and recreational activities including boat rides and dances.
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Fish Haven
Beautiful Bear Lake
Idaho
Bear Lake
Carldon
Franklin
Oneida
Bngham
Dish
Wyoming
California
University of
Ella Woods
University of Idaho
Marjorie Eastman
Permeal J. French
J. W. Sessions
L. D. B. Institute
George Sloan
Pocatello
Lottie Paul Baxter
General Board
L C
Dean French
W. H. Richards
Malad
Eldon Session
Sugar City
T. R. Neilson
All Neilson
Mabel Athay
Evelyn Cole
Paris
St. Charles
Emerson School
Ruby Bolton
Fielding High School
Chase Kears
Word
Local Contractors Awarded Contracts for Two Buildings
H R Shepherd & Son awarded the Fielding High School frame building contract in Paris Idaho for 2654 dollars the lowest bid next at 2665. A second contract to erect a brick and plate glass front store for Thor Q Nielsen in Montpelier next to Nielsen Jones Furniture Co. Work to start next week as crews expand for three projects.
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H.R. Shepherd & Son
Fielding High School
Paris
Idaho
Bage
Wye
Operaéfice
Thor QO
Nielson
Montpelier
Nielson Jones Furniture Co
Slight frosts damage Star Valley crops
Last Sunday and Monday nights the valley crops suffered slight frost damage. Irrigation shortfalls worsened the impact on some fields. A number of potato patches appeared to be affected, with owners finding blackened areas Monday morning.
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Star Valley
Afton Independent
Big strike of high grade oil in Spring Valley Wyoming
The Kemmerer Gazette reports a large high grade oil discovery in Spring Valley field about fifty miles south of Kemmerer. The Holbrook Peterson interests drilled into sands 259 feet, oil rising rapidly with about 10 barrels per hour initially, though final output and sand thickness are not yet estimable. Oscar Peterson, formerly of Kemmerer and Cokeville, is among the partners in the well now located in Uintah county.
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Wyoming
Spring Valley
Kemmerer
Kemmerer Gazette
Taylor
San Francisco
Fontenelle
Baxter Basin
Rock Springs
Holbrook Peterson
North America Consolidated Oil Co
Salt Lake Q City
Mr. Taylor
Rispin
Holbrook- Peterson
Schedule of Idaho teacher examinations in August 1929
The Idaho Department of Education lists the August 8 to 10 1929 teacher exam schedule. Timings cover Grammar and Elementary Composition Orthography Geography Educational Psychology Modern Europe Sociology American History Government School Administration Civil Government and School Law plus courses in Arithmetic Penmanship Reading History of Education Curriculum Construction and Psychology of the Exceptional Individual. Examinations apply to all certificate classes with specific course study paths for elementary and high school certificates and specialists certificates.
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Georgraphy
Idaho
Europe
Civi
Rip Gledhill To Assist Ed Godfrey At Pocatello High
Rip Gledhill will assist Ed Godfrey the physical director of Pocatello high school in athletic instruction as the new school year begins. He signed a contract this week to succeed D H Beary who resigned. Gledhill, BYU graduate, has coached athletics and produced winning teams, and will move to Pocatello with his wife and child.
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Pocatello Tribune
Gledhill
Ed. Godfrey
Pocatello High School
D. H. Beary
Paris
Fielding
Pocatello
Provo
Colege
Columbia Stees Company
Romneys
Miss Ruby Doris Weds Physician In Chicago Ceremony
Miss Ruby Doris Dorius wed Dr Russell B Clark in Chicago on June 28 at 6 p m in the home of Nogh S Pond. The bride wore white chiffon with rhinestones and a white picture hat. Best man was Dr Harold L Snow. After a dinner at the Stevens hotel the couple left for a Great Lakes cruise. Both are Utah university graduates with Phi Chi and Phi Kappa Phi affiliations. Clark is son of Mr and Mrs W W Clark of Georgetown.
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J. N. Dorius
Ruby
Russell B Clark
Chicago
Nogh 8. Pond
Northern States Mission
Leora Clark
Harold L. Snow
Stevens Hotel
Great Lakes
University of Utah
Gamma Sigma
Phi Kappa Phi
Clark
Phi Chi Medical Fraternity
Northwestern
Cook County Hospital
W W Clark
Georgetown
Doctor Fined Twenty Five Dollars for Sarcasm
In Chicago a doctor, Val Freeman, was fined $25 in Judge George's court for sarcasm after a motorcycle officer, Franklin Martyn, halted him while rushing to a patient. The officer delayed him 25 minutes. the patient died the next day. The doctor sent a note inviting the officer to the funeral.
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Chicago
Val Freeman
Judge George’s Court
Freeman
Franklin Martyn
Martyn
Dr. Freeman
George
Wyoming Chicken Season Opens Sunday August 11
Wyoming governors announce a wild chicken season from August 11 to August 18 with opening Sunday and closing Sunday evening. The season aims to regulate counts amid a lighter chicken crop this year in the state.
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Wyoming
District Court in Brief Session Here
District court convened Monday with Judge R. M. Terrell presiding and court staff in Idaho. Decrees granted including divorce for Nathell Martin and restoration of maiden name. quiet title granted to Anna Page. Rose vs. Sunderlin dismissed at plaintiff’s request. Thirty one jurors drawn for a case. three criminal charges in State vs. Miller. Colorado case continued.
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R. M. Terrell
Pocatello
Bistline
John A. Bagley
Salt Lake
D. P. Evans
Preston
D. E. Haddock
Paris
Chas. E. Ee
Geraint Humphreys
Montpelier
Nathell Martin
David Leland Martin
Kelsey
Anna Page Rich
Lars P. Nielsen
Rose Vs. Sunderlin
Robert Kunz
Bern
Frank Brown
Liberty
Charles Sorenson
Georgetown
Wm. A. C. Keetch
St. Charles
Oscar Arnell
Dingle
L. J. Shurtliff
Ovid
Ernest Scofield
Fish Haven
Chris Sorenson
Chris Carlson
Sharon
Rayford Stevens
Bloomington
Walter Bird
Dow ‘Williamson
Miller
Colorado
Experts to Give Interior Decorating Classes Here
A class in interior decorating will be held at the stake tabernacle building Sunday at 2 o clock. Miss Sara Sumsion and Miss Eastman from the University of Idaho Extension department direct the sessions. An invitation is extended to all interested to attend as the classes run through the winter months.
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Stake Tabernacle
Sara Sumsion
Eastman
University of Idaho
Hand Cart Pioneer Honored By Family
A reunion for Mr. and Mrs. 8. B. Ludlum of this city was held July 10 at Lakota Resort. A program featured welcome by Bishop R. B. Sterrett, songs, readings, and experiences crossing the plains with hand carts. Mrs. Ludlum, age 76, crossed the plains in 1856 at age four. she is mother of 12 children, 9 living, with 51 grandchildren.
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B. Ludlum
Lakota Resort
Shady Grove
Bishop R. 8. Sterrett
Josephine Davis
W. B. Stucki
Albert Humburg
Elaine
Billa Humburg
Carlyle Hymas
R. S. Sterrett
Geneil Bird
Walter Bird
Ludlum
Steret
Conda
T. A Steret
Ten Mile
Welter-Harris Kogan
Utah
Dingle
Orson Hymas
Liberty
R. Humberg
W B. Stucks
Paris
Bertha Perry
Salt Lake
Walter Squires
Logan
Tremonton
Anona Rooker
Kansas City
Will Wixom
William Sparks
Ray Humberg
Portland
Plains
Rain Brings Relief to South Eden Farmers
A rain fell Wednesday afternoon across South Eden and surrounding areas providing relief to farmers as both spring and fall grain were dying from a drought.
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South Eden
Sweepings from Jewelry Floor Yield Hidden Gold
Cincinnati officials plan to recover hundreds to thousands of dollars in gold and precious metals believed trapped under the floor of a jewelry firm over 25 years. The firm will move soon and workers will remove all belongings including tiny metal bits. About $1,000 yearly is recovered from sink washings and roughly $200 in floor sweepings each month.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
New Currency In Circulation At Local Bank
The Bear Lake State Bank held a supply of the new U S currency last week on July 10 and many locals exchanged old bills for new. Government experts say the new paper money lasts longer than old notes with the $1 bill having the shortest life and $20 bills lasting longer than $10. The rise of automobiles is said to cut the life of paper money to about a quarter, due to grease and gasoline shortening its condition.
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Bear Lake
Unlawful to Throw Cigarettes in Brush in Idaho
Idaho Falls Times-Register reports a law condemning discarded lighted cigarettes and flames. Fire losses in national forests and irrigation damage threaten wildlife, timber and livestock industries worth billions annually.
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Forest Service Department
National Forest
Idaho
United States
Idaho Falls
Married at Paris
The county clerk issued licenses this week for Albert Christian Jacob and Margaret Adeline Hirschi of Montpelier, George H. Tittenson and Sarah Walton of Thayne, and Dean Thurman of Grover with Edna Stock of Afton. Deputy Clerk W Smith Hoge officiated.
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Albert Christian Jacobson
Margaret Adeline Hirschi
Montpelier
George H. Tittenson
Sarah Walton
Thayne
Wyoming
Dean Thurman
Grover
Wyo
Edna Stock
Afton
W. Smith Hoge
Robin Nest Report on Paris Montpelier Train
Story says a robin built a nest under a passenger coach on the Paris to Montpelier branch. Two young robins grew until boys fed them wheat. mother left during runs and returned at Paris. E N Scofield of Fish Haven visited the county seat Monday.
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Paris
Pearce
Montpelier
Logan Canyon Road to Receive Federal Aid
Congressman Colton informs Logan city officials that Logan Canyon likely becomes Utah’s next federal aid road project. Engineer English will survey the canyon with work to be completed by fall, creating a 20 foot wide all‑weather route from Logan to Bear Lake and relocating unsatisfactory canyon segments as needed.
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Logan Canyon Road
Logan
Utah
Don B. Colton
William Peterson
Logan Canyon
Colton
State Road Commission
English
Heber-Fruitland
Peterson
Bear Lake
Chamber of Commerce
Divorce Filed After Wife Refuses to Cross Atlantic
Victor Twiggs of Frontier filed for divorce from Mrs Gladys Twiggs after she refused to leave England. Twiggs said he came to America in 1923 and lived in Rock Springs before moving to Frontier. Mrs Twiggs is listed as a resident of London Kemmerer Gazette.
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Atlantic
England
America
Victor Twiggs
Frontier
Gladys Twiggs
Rock Springs
Yellowstone Park Government Lots Put Up For Sale
On August 1 a sale of West Yellowstone government lots will occur at West Yellowstone. Lot sizes 2 000 to 15 000 sq ft, appraised from 20 to 150 dollars. Near park entrance and Oregon Short Line Depot. Bids by person or agent only, not by mail. Sale by W. B. Wade, ongoing until all lots sell. For details contact Wade Box 238 Helens Mont.
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West Yellowstone
Park
Oregon Short Line
Wade
W. 8
Helens
Mont
Lightning Hits Camp Lifton Road Injuring Two Walkers
A bolt of lightning struck near the State Highway at St Charles on Monday around 2 PM, toppling three telephone poles. Pedestrians Esther Barker 45 and Frank Hemmert 27 were knocked down. Barker suffered severe facial burns.
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Camp Lifton
St. Charles
Esther Barker
Frank Hemmert
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State OF Idaho Department OF Education
Rip’ Gledhill
Ed Godfrey
Ruby Doris
Durith
Western Newspaper Union
Amy D. Kelsey
E. N. Scofield
Yellowstone Park
Clive Brook
Mary Brian
Wm. Powell
George Bancroft
Bancroft
Fuly
Hoot Gibson
Hoot
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