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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1930
Page
2
The Paris Post and The Paris Lions Club publish a 1930 editorial urging local pride. It recommends town photo surveys using a four by five camera to reveal how outsiders view Paris and to drive improvements yearly.
Ray Densley leads the Bear Lake Hampshire sheep 4-H club with Chase Kears as county agricultural agent. Officers elected include Delors Densley president Wesley Jensen vice president Mauric Beck secretary treasurer Del Mar Kearl reporter. Next meeting set for June 11 at Mr Densley’s to discuss sheep care.
Boise report notes many married women with children seek teaching positions to ease unemployment and support families. The item highlights growing interest among homemakers to join the teaching workforce and the community’s response to filling schooling needs.
Commissioner W D Vincent says Idaho districts favor teachers with large families to meet student numbers for schools. He notes many districts want married women and especially those with three or four children as applicants rise this year.
Phiel Johnson 17 son of Ike Johnson of Ovid suffered a broken arm last Monday. Dr Ashley attended and set the fracture with no complications expected, allowing use of the limb soon.
Mr and Mrs Guyon and their son have returned home from California where the doctor had been away for health reasons. They drove there briefly, visited, then came back with the physician.
Earnest J. Powell, famed as The Boy Lecturer since 1918, entertains and provokes with humor and earnestness. He questions postwar society, wealth concentration, and whether leadership can emerge from small town America or must come from big cities. He blends satire with optimism on how to address modern problems.
Aman ordered quinine at 15 cents in a Scotchman store. The clerk claimed the box contained strychnine and demanded 10 extra cents, saying it works fast. Separately, news from Salt Lake reports the arrival of a son to Dr. L. E. Hillyer and Mrs. Hillyer of Los Banos, California, with Mrs. Hillyer formerly Ruth M. Poynter of Salt Lake City.
Home economist Josephine B Gibson advises building an emergency shelf with packaged foods to enable quick elaborate meals. The guide lists quick appetizers, main courses including beans and pasta dishes, salads, and desserts, plus several simple recipes like Olive and Chicken on Toast and Corned Beef Hash with Tomato Sauce.
The American Legion New Jersey plans a non denominational Chapel of the Air at U S Naval Air Station Lakehurst as a memorial to airmen who died and those who serve. An interchurch effort led by Herbert Blizzard Gill Robb Wilson and William Edel funds the project with a Gothic design and forecourt memorials. A Shenandoah Memorial chapel honors the crew of the Shenandoah crash in 1925.
A reprinted piece asserts the local newspaper should feature business names in columns even brief two line mentions. It argues town advertising supports newspapers and the town, urging business and professional men to advertise to sustain the paper and community.
Bishop Robert Schmid and his wife and President Harold B Lee of Salt Lake City visited Paris last week. Numerous locals including Mrs Parley Kunz Mrs Orlando Kunz and others attended events or trips to Bern Soda Springs Wardboro Logan Laark and Paris with several funerals and a recital by Wanda Ashley at the University of Utah.
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