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Newspaper
The Blackfoot Optimist
Location
Blackfoot, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1916
Page
5
Blackfoot Real Estate and Auction Co lists great bargains in farms and city property in the Stoke River valley. Items include work harness buggies horses cows ponies and a piano plus rooming house and pool hall for sale. Local notices mention trading farms for city property and vice versa, with various residents and services advertised.
Inquire at Commercial Hotel 11 Barley at the Blackfoot Grain and Produce Elevator. Phone 204.
Local notices include candy and salted peanuts at the RACKET STORE. Town updates mention Miss Retta Good of Blackfoot, Mrs Claire James traveling to Spokane, and various residents moving or visiting relatives. Farm land options advertised, police shift changes noted, and people traveling to Fort Douglas and Los Angeles for training or leisure.
School supplies for boys and girls are noted at Racket Store in town. Miss Olivia Chapin visiting friends here travels to Tolaho Pally Mini day to stay with Miss Murill Burktin for the week.
The item notes a large collection of school supplies at the RACKET STORE. It also mentions people such as Mar catello and Mrs. N D Neelam visiting friends, Turok Warkinson from Salt Lake on business, and a single Mexican prisoner in the county jail awaiting deportation, with officers involved.
J B Beguin, the county bridge builder, was in Blackfoot Monday. He was working on bridging the Blackfoot near Beck and is said to be doing a good job.
Section details compulsory education for ages eight to eighteen with exemptions for completed eighth grade or high school entry, disability relief, and specific procedural steps. It notes appeals to probate court, fees, and limits on renewals. Also reports a parish First Ward Mormon church primary group picnic with eight children and listed teachers.
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