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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1906
Page
1
City measures set a ten mill tax rate on property within Paris Idaho for the year ending May 1907 based on Beste Lake county assessor valuations. Emergency clause keeps ordinance in effect after passage. repeals conflicting ordinances. Passed and approved May 19 1906. Clerk and mayor signatures.
Ordinance No 49 apportions city revenues for 1906 into three funds General Road and Bridge Sidewalk Improvement and Cemetery with specified sums and an emergency clause. Ordinance No 60 appropriates 1000 for city salaries and administration and 425 for road and sidewalk improvements with end of year fund transfers and warrant controls. Both ordinances enacted May 1906 by Mayor William L. Rice and Clerk L T Shepherd.
The Senate passed a sweeping amendment restricting free interstate travel passes to railroad employees and their immediate families, attorneys, ministers, old soldiers, hospital inmates, and charitable institution members with narrow exclusions for livestock shippers. Violations incur a misdemeanor charge and a penalty of 100 to 2000 dollars per offense. Soda water drinks are produced at Wear Lake Drug Co Ltd.
Trustees of the Agricultural College endorsed broader extension programs for industrial education. Plans include farmers institutes itinerant lectures and correspondence courses aided by railway partnerships with figures like Professor Holden. Iowa and Illinois cited as early adopters with funding increases and upcoming board presentations.
Senate amendment directs 16 percent of forest reserve revenues to state and county treasuries for school funding and road maintenance. Counties with limited taxable property will benefit most, easing public burdens where assessment bases are small.
A letter from G. W. Foutz of River ton Iowa claims a 20 year liver complaint and severe jaundice were cured by Electric Bitters. He says the remedy restored health for eleven years and praises it as a sure cure for biliousness neuralgia weakness and digestive disorders. Advertisement promoting Orson F Penney Bros Drug Co Montpelier Vermont.
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