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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1922
Page
5
Fragmentary items reference parceling clothes to Wenstrom Tailor for cleaning pressing and repair returning within due time. Court convenes Monday with May jury called for May. Various local names and visits noted including Coates, Anderson, Carey, and Gooding residents with appointments and social calls.
Mrs Gotfreid Gherry died of spotted fever at Dill hospital on Tuesday April 24 1922. Funeral was from Jacob Ktoessler home on April 28 led by Rev R S Withrow and burial in Shoshone cemetery. Born February 12 1866 in Switzerland Rosa Strachen, came to the U S at age ten. Married Gotfreid Cherig March 9 1896 in Shoshone. Lived on ranch north of Shoshone. Mother of four children, Clarence and John survive. Matilda and Frederick deceased. Devout Lutheran, well regarded in the community. Funeral services announced for Sunday April 30 1922 with Sunday school at 10 am and services in the evening by the pastor.
We thank friends and neighbors for sympathy and assistance after the passing of wife and mother Rose Gherig. Goffrety Gherig and family express gratitude. There is a Lincoln County chapter meeting of the OF on Tuesday May ona. Weather notes mention sprinkling began Tuesday April and a December feel in the air as citizens look toward the election.
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A Lewiston Banner letter argues for personal liberty in the face of prohibition. It contends that even opposed by opponents, prohibition cannot erase freedom of expression and that enforcing the law may hasten its overthrow.
Ed Holden, manager of the Hay Spur hatchery, traveled through Shoshone on Wednesday toward Weiser with forty thousand brook trout in his car. The fish are to be planted in the Weiser River and tributary streams.
At a Monday meeting the Oddfellows began organizing the Rebekah degree with 95 attendees. Rev Withrow opened, Rev Duinvill spoke, and music by the McFlyson orchestra accompanied the event. Mrs B Bowlby led the principal talk, and petition signatures followed for installing the Rebeckah degree with numerous named members listed.
The American Legion plans the First Conference of the Fourth District in Shoshone on May 5 with Lester F. Albert and Lee Fick representing Dept Headquarters. Weeks-Vaden Port will arrange delegate entertainment, and local posts include Ferry Hagerman Gooding Wendell Jerome Dietrich Richfield Carey Halley Pairfield and Shoshone.
A vintage ad copy touts four tablets to improve appetite, cleanse and invigorate the stem, regulate bowels, and cure biliousness and indigestion. It claims effects when liver is torpid, after meals, or when headaches or dullness occur, describing users as feeling fine as a fiddle.
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