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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1929
Page
5
A读 diary style entry recounts a week of small misadventures and miscommunications. Jotted scenes include spelling struggles, parental reactions to attitudes, a failed trip to a pitcher show, a crusty encounter with a tramp, a flirtatious moment with Ant Emmy, a lipstick joke, and a distant relative’s windfall claim.
The notice records an election for a trustee seat with a three year term. It mentions Tver Price’s recovery from a foot injury two weeks prior and lists local residents visiting, moving, and working on Canyon Street. Guests from Georgetown and St Charles, relief society activities, and school building progress at Paris are also noted.
Local residents return from Utah wintering in Provo and Salt Lake. visits from John Kunz and Minnie Jarvis travelers to Oakley and Brigham City. Mrs. Thornock and Miss Jarvis hosted in Utah. play Eyes of Love staged in St. Charles. several townsfolk travel for dental work in Logan and Smithfield. many leave for Opal Wyoming for work. school election held April 20.
Word was received by Mrs. Robert Schmid of the death of Mrs. Edwin Parker of Salt Lake City last Monday morning. Funeral services will be held in Newton Utah Wednesday May 1. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Benson of Newton. Various Kunz and related families are listed as visitors and movers in the area with notes on sales and relocations.
Spotted items from Rich County Reaper describe Randolph routes as open but rough. Oscar Kennedy and Elisabeth Kennedy connected families, with James Hayward and Saul Sheridan noted in local government circles. Charlie Hendes drives his route, reporting fair road conditions while T Alexander, a singer, returns to Woodruff after a Randolph visit.
An organized gang on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation centered at a hog ranch near Dupres used a novel method to rustle horses. They fattened stolen horses on hog flesh, skinned them, and sold hides while searching for the leader who vanished after bonding for a preliminary hearing. Authorities linked Tinsley to the ring as arrests followed and stock clubs pledged action.
The grand national assembly studies a motion to tax bachelors aged twenty five to thirty five at the rate of direct taxes they pay already. Working girls aged twenty to thirty five and widows without children must help fill state revenues or marry.
Workmen carting sand near the Ornalh river at Bar Le-Duc discover a remarkable collection of archaeological objects ranging from Stone Age tools to Gallo-Roman fragments. The finds include reindeer bone harpoons, fishing net weights, Bronze Age pottery, an axe and hatchet from the Marmian epoch, Gallo-Roman pottery fragments, and a Middle Ages iron sword.
County Furniture Co. returned Tuesday after a Salt Lake City stay. Willard Peart bought a pony in Ogden for local children. Engineer Hall of Salt Lake City surveyed Randolph for a proposed piped water system last week. Dave Smith opened a barber shop Thursday and invites patrons, planning improvements. Smith's Department Store shipment returned to Evanston. a new Will concern plans a department store at the same location with up-to-date goods.
The estate of Fred Borchert, who died at eighty one, will fund Milwaukee county orphans asylums after he died in seclusion. About eighty thousand dollars from his forty thousand dollar estate will go to the Orphans Board, created to dispose of intestate estates with no relatives. Neele B. Neelen asked to be appointed administrator. Seven orphan asylums benefit from the fund, now about one hundred twenty thousand dollars, administered by nineteen county judges without charge. Borchert served time for a murder decades ago and redeemed himself after parole.
A young man from Ol entki, Nitikin, killed Anna Koroykina after she refused marriage. He was released pending trial, then jailed for killing a cow, with officials and village power cited as influencing his case. The sequence sparked press attention from Tula to Moscow questioning local corruption.
Oliver Deardorff a New York taxi driver disarmed a holdup incident and turned the captured firearm to police but was arrested for illegal possession of firearms.
Woodie Gibbs claimed a wild cat weighing 55 pounds and measuring almost six feet from front paws to the tip of the tall in Wise County.
Gertrude Ederle explains her deafness makes hearing compliments in privacy hard. She plans to avoid swimming and try airplane flights to pursue a cure.
In coastal New Jersey, swamp miners dig through brackish pools to locate cedar logs buried for centuries. They work in cold water using long spades to pry logs from ooze, retrieving only alive trees for shingles chests and other cedar products.
Dr Eoward O Hilfott of Purdue told the North Central Association that dancing twice weekly or more may cause mental deficiency and nervousness. He warned moderation is best and noted increased restlessness among youth in recent years.
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