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Newspaper
Shoshone Journal
Location
Shoshone, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1905
Page
4
Linting garbled text from a post office item in Idaho appears unreadable, with likely remnants of a notice or machine transcription error, lacking clear names, dates, or actions to accurately identify the event or instruction.
Amnon announces sale of The Shoshone Journal to W. C. Murphy after last week’s issue. He thanks Sho shone merchants for support and notes subscriptions due to him now payable to his successor, with intent to build a modern Republican weekly serving Lincoln County and southern Idaho.
The Lincoln County Idaho Board of Commissioners met on September 11 12 and 13 1905 to fix the state and county tax levy for the year 1905. They ordered detailed levies for state general expense wagon road bond fund ind school bond fund and other funds and fixed the road poll tax at 3.00. The board adjourned sine die. A separate note reports a boy named Harry Herbert aged fourteen who ran away from home and was found and sent home by police after a telegram from Boise.
W G Filer, manager of Twin Falls Land & Water, announced that gates controlling the overflow were submerged to test for seepage and found none. Minor leakage occurred through a tunnel, expected due to partial gate closure, while the dam’s toe remained dry. The forebay will be filled before final closure as testing continues. The new Twin Falls to Pocatello train service, begun Sunday, offers faster travel, replacing the slow construction train.
Limited offer for feeding horses at 25 cents per head or 50 cents per span at Keefer Livery Barn. Advertising ink promises no run or injury to butter. Write to Will D. Candee in Weiser Idaho for rubber stamps and ink. 28 words.
Superintendent Alex McPherson of Twin Falls Land & Water co plans to collect exhibit samples from Twin Falls district farmers for the Idaho State Fair opening September 25. He will retain exhibits for post fair display by the Twin Falls company and believes strong farmer participation can win first prize. The plan includes agricultural teaching in public schools and a practical farm course to attract youth to farming as a profession. The Twin Falls Times endorses the idea as highly beneficial for districts forming soon.
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