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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1929
Page
4
Local residents report a flurry of trips and welcomes through Paris and nearby towns. Mrs. E T Budge and Mrs F J Foulger returned from Gooding and Ogden, while merchants and officials such as John Cleveland and Bishop O O Shirley conducted business in Paris.
Family of Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis extends thanks to friends and acquaintances for the many kind deeds before and after the death of their beloved mother.
Mrs James T Dunn aged 4 of Georgetown died this morning from spinal meningitis. She leaves a husband and three children and was aunt to two children who died last week from the same illness.
Chas. E. Harris of Montpelier, noted figure in Bear Lake county, was appointed by the board to serve as county attorney.
The Paris Utah American Legion plans an elaborate Armistice Day program with a dawn ceremony at Tabernacle Park including a rifle volley at 11 00 am to mark the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month since 1918. Committees are busy coordinating events and a full morning program will be published next week. A birthday dinner in honor of Ezra Allred’s husband was held with friends and family attending. W E Allred and Wendell Stucki drove to Preston and found snow on the hills above Emigration Canyon.
The Bear Lake county commissioners convened Friday to appoint a new county attorney after the resignation of Atty. Ger aint Humphreys who becomes special U S attorney in charge of water litigation for Indians. His district covers Idaho Utah Nevada and parts of Arizona with office in Blackfoot. Humphreys previously served multiple terms as Bear Lake county prosecuting attorney and Atty Harris brings years of experience in the same office.
Fielding High School building nears completion with finishing touches like auditorium lights and seating. The rural district school houses modern laboratories for cooking sewing typing chemistry botany and zoology on the upper floor while auditorium gymnasium classrooms and offices occupy the main level. Enrollment exceeds last year with over 260 students and growing.
Fielding highlights unity as it rolls into fall and winter activities. The opera based on the Maid of Niagara, with Cadman music, aims for a distinctive Indian setting. Senior Ruff details forthcoming as committees work. Freshman initiation and a clean up day social are scheduled with a Get Acquainted event in the gymnasium after a daytime cleanup.
A reminiscence on a father who never forbade novels and urged reading as a path to character. The author recalls sneaking stories as a child, cites Dickens to Hugo, and credits fiction with sustaining life’s interest and teaching through parables. Published 1939 by Western Newspaper Union.
Mr and Mrs Sol Conley and daughter of Randolph Utah were Paris visitors briefly Friday while en route home from Star Valley where they had been visiting friends. Conley is a Randolph merchant and proprietor of a confectionery store and a hotel there.
Mr. and Mrs. George L. Gygie of McGrath Alberta Canada spent several days in Paris with relatives and friends last week and early this week. Gygie left the area 27 years ago for Canada and Mrs. Gygie is the daughter of Mrs. Anna Yardy of this city. John A. Sutton of Fish Haven was in Paris on business Thursday.
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