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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1917
Page
8
Paris items report court and ward events, school visits, social happenings, and local enterprise. Mentions JHC Denie speaker, alumni ball May 18, Boy Scouts work, Hubschmidt moves to Rupert, marriages Ernest Hubschmidt and Lois Linvall, and service news with Daniel and Dan Rich connections.
A fragmentary Utah city notes visiting Bear Lake figures include Bishop roles for Jacobson Palmer and Welker with others from Beonington Montpelier Layton and Wardboro. Local leadership names appear alongside county police and public groups. Agricultural note mentions barley headed, wheat in boot, alfalfa cutting set for May 10. Home guard formations planned for Mexican frontier protection amid late season concerns.
On Wednesday May 9 Fielding Academy hosts a piano recital by its students with solos duets and eight hand pieces. The program includes selections from the wasters and easier pieces, and admission is invited. At 8 pm in the academy auditorium President Jos R Shepherd delivers a discourse on Destiny of United States in World War.
Elza Humpherys writes she is alone as Abe and Clarence left for California. She plans housekeeping training at the hospital and expects changes at their post. She asks to tell everyone hello and thanks readers for the paper.
Louis Bowen son of 2 H Bowen progresses to corporal and guards a tunnel in Kootenai County with ten guardsmen from Company B of the Idaho National Guard. His brother Earl accompanies him as part of the security detail. The fragment then shifts to an old-time sales pitch for shoes corsets and hosiery with assorted prices and brands.
Local retailer H. B. Whitman advertises ladies house dresses from 96 cents, plus a summer line of children’s dresses and boys’ waist suits. Slippers and shoes offered to please customers.
Thomas Steight of Paris is investigating the matter to establish evidence for those entitled under the act passed March 4, 1917. It covers surviving officers and enlisted men who served in Utah campaigns from 1865 to 186? inclusive, with monthly amounts of 20 for officers and 12 for widows.
A reader notes that worrying shortens no man’s days but adds a new burden to life. The remark frames worry as a mental burden rather than a physical risk.
For sale twenty acres of farming land near Paris fair grounds on the south. The land was wasp-maried summersalowed and plowed last fall and is ready to seed. Price seventy five dollars per acre with good terms to a reliable party. See Russell Shepherd at the Bear Lake State Bank quickly before it is gone.
A domestic exchange features a husband asking what to do with green-stuff and a wife replying she wants something green in the house. The editor notes the banter and adds a quip about the spouse being absent.
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