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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1924
Page
1
A weather summary notes low snowfall across Hailey and Summit, with late season precipitation well below normal. Depths at Halley show sparse snowpack, runoff projected under half the average, and cautious optimism that future storms may boost totals.
Journal reports the Kimnama highway dispute will be argued in the applelate court in San Francisco this week. Assistant Attorney General Mpson plans to depart for the Federal court for the momentous case. The piece notes opposing sides in a taxable farm dispute amid alkali dust and breathing struggles as commissioners eye a $99,000 highway issue and potential legal action.
The Idaho Supreme Court upholds a $6600 verdict against a short line railroad in a death caused by a westbound train. August Schuppenies, a section hand, was killed December 24, 1920, while cleaning switches in the Shoshone yards during heavy snow. He had not worked in those yards before and was unfamiliar with train movements.
Local notes from Richfield include A J Lindemer visiting the County Seat, several Shoshone and Boise trips for visitors, and Mr and Mrs Murray Brookman attending Shrine Ball in Twin Falls. Lothrop Crosby takes an engineer post at Tacoma Water Works. family to join after school. Gooding College Banquet at Church Basement hosted by Ladies Aid with 126 covers. students from Gooding College presented remarks, songs, and readings amid warm community reception.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions names and events with unclear context. It includes scattered terms like demonstration, alums, Sant, Ubu, and Boing but lacks coherent actions or identifiable entities to form a clear news item. The readable bits do not establish a date, place, or outcome.
TM S H Chapman was reelected watermaster of the Wood River at the Grange Hall north of Shoshone with no opposition. Salary set at 4000 dollars annually plus expenses. Gooding section requests James Devaney be appointed deputy watermaster at five dollars per day plus expenses.
The program at the Baugh theater Friday and Saturday features Priscilla Dean in The White Tiger adapted from the Saturday Evening Post story. Jawn the clever canine appears in The Go Getter Sunday, with cast members T Roy Barnes Leena Owen William Norris Tom Lewis and Louis Wolheim. St Elmo segments plus The Jungle Goddess episode roll in from Monday through Tuesday under William Fox. The courtroom drama The Acquittal returns Wednesday and Thursday with new directorial techniques by Clarence Brown.
John Badiey of the Big Wood Canal company orders 20 000 pounds of cullem arsenate poison for alfalfa weevil. Shoshone will be the distribution point and a carload of sprayers is also planned. Farmers near Shoshone urged to see Mr Budiey immediately to fill the order and reduce freight costs.
Rural teachers from the county attended a full day demonstration at Darrah school under County Superintendent Mrs. Leah M Burnside and State Rural Supervisor Misa Burggraf. Sessions ran from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. with classes shown, lunch prepared by teachers, and round table discussions until 5 p.m. adjournment.
At a special meeting of the village trustees the water ordinance was repealed and a new levy set on Blue clan property. The minutes note changes to water charges, including payment timelines and affected properties, with several residents impacted by the revised rate structure and fees.
The Methodist Episcopal Church invites all to morning worship at 11 with a talk on the Oberammergau Passion Play by Miss Henrietta Gunderson, professor of English at Gooding College. Additional events include Sunday school at 10, young peoples at 6:20, evening service at 7:30 led by Charles Wesley Tenney, and a church family dinner at 7.15 with social time and a choir rehearsal at 6 and chair rehearsal at 9.
A partial OCR capture mentions miners and names with garbled words. Readers cannot extract a clear event or date but hints at local mining activity and a list of people. The fragmentary source provides limited readable nouns and phrases without a cohesive narrative or verifiable details.
The Department of Commerce and Bounces Idaho reports preliminary 1923 wealth estimates showing total wealth at 1.523 billion dollars, up from 1912, with per capita values increasing from 41577 to 2201 dollars and broad gains across property classes. Exempt real property and rail data show sharp increases, while some private transportation enterprises decline.
Leonard Way of Boise presented an Interstate Commerce Commission cost study to Senator Gooding’s committee showing railroads charging identical rates for long and short hauls. The example from Chicago to Portland and to Idaho illustrates proposed reductions and the debate over prohibiting short haul penalties.
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