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Newspaper
The Blackfoot Optimist
Location
Blackfoot, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1913
Page
1
After a nine day search Charles D Chandler foreman at Short Line machine shop disappeared July 13 and was found at 8 45 am Tuesday by D T Quigley near a rocky cliff four miles northwest of Pocatello. Decomposition prevents detection of violence. County Coroner Dr Steely suspects the body lay in place at least six days.
A group led by Dib Farmer and Benny Steven son fished the Blackfoot region last Saturday night and Sunday. They reportedly shot Plymouth rock ecion kens near a farmyard, claimed sage hens were in season, and felt their hunting licenses unjustly denied them fish. No fish were caught and they contest the licenses’ validity.
W A McVicar machine operator in this office is confined at home by sickness. The edition is a combination of hand and machine composition and smaller than usual. Judge Cowan of Salmon joined his wife here this week and visited with Mr. and Mrs. Charles A Hart.
The Idaho Republican discusses a Popular Ladies' Contest with multiple prizes. Editor Byrd Trego is under conviction for criminal assault on Nellie Ray. The piece urges Bing ham County voters to award all prizes to Nellie Ray and donate the winnings to the orphan girl.
Last March the Duckworth family celebrated the birthdays of little Misses Rocksie and Murial and their bout with measles. Last Saturday afternoon the Duckworth home hosted a charming child party for about fifty friends, with refreshments served and flower-decked tables on the lawn, a scene like a flower garden.
160 acres offered at 50 dollars per acre located five miles from Pocatello and three miles from Tyhee. Eighty acres are fenced and broken with good water rights. Cash price 1000 dollars, remaining on easy terms at six and eight percent. Inquire Karl P. Brown Optimist office Blackfoot Idaho. ady tf.
Money to loan. We have some of that good Salisbury Company money to loan. The only real options given to the borrower. No other company will treat you as this company will. When in need of money call and see me adj. C. F. Molden.
Walter A Totty born Kern County California 42 years ago died after battling La Grippe six months prior at Porterville. He married Lilly Coumerilh Feb 2 1910 and had daughter Robinette now two and a half. Funeral at Los Angeles home of his father J8 Totty 120 North Hancock Ave conducted by Rev J J Brown with pallbearers Newcomb Bliss Lorenz Quinn MeCutcheon Breslin. Burial at Rosedale Cemetery. Floral offerings signal deep community respect.
Dr. Tipcomb proprietor of the Fifth East Hotel in Salt Lake, with his wife, visited Pingree townsite on Saturday night and Sunday to inspect a potential purchase. Arrangements are not final but a transfer is likely. If bought, Tipcomb plans to revive Pingree by attracting landholders and offering affordable lots. Pingree boasts a fine hotel building.
Roadmaster McDonigal and crew altered Mackay track in Blackfoot yards Sunday as the Short Line plans major city work. A five stall round house will be built, yard tracks expanded, and right of way parking added as part of the new project.
Notice seeks skilled office assistant for front desk and filing duties at Opti Mist. Candidate should have strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage correspondence. Prior office experience preferred. Apply by request.
Mrs N A Just and her daughter Mrs Reid will host Max Bower author of Chip of the Flying U at Lone Pine ranch. Bower is actually Mrs B M Sinclair who will arrive this week and stay with Mr and Mrs Karl P Brown before heading to Presto and the Lone Pine ranch to gather material for another western story. A Grass Dance at the Bennetts new bungalow is planned during her visit with old time dry land pirates from the Snake headwaters expected to attend.
Frank W. Beane and Sadie Webster Hosford were married June 20 in South Bend Indiana. Beane, former land office registrar under Cleveland and a Democratic National Committeeman from Idaho, has long been active in politics and later served as a Cleveland administration special agent. He is well known in Idaho's Southeast.
The Optimist's manager reshuffled staff with EE J Potter leaving after two years to join the Idaho Republican. R A Walsh takes over as makeup and job printer, praised as one of southeastern Idaho's best printers.
A. D. Quantrell and wife with daughter Miss Lydia plan a year in California. They rent their home to Atley DeKay who will move in September 1. Miss Pearl Quantrell will attend Rowland Hall School in Salt Lake City for the winter.
Number Four is a boy. Sugar beets alfalafa and bonda grow wild at the Hiawatha ranch at Presto. Frank Just sits at home trying to sing bewitching nursery rhymes. Number 4, a boy, arrived Sunday evening. The old man wiggles around and grin.
A shower Tuesday afternoon honored bride-to-be Miss Lara Curtis at the Brown residence. Miss Curtis is set to wed Wednesday, September 3, to Mr. Ernest Brown of the firm W. I. Brown & Sons.
Shelley Pioneer changes hands as RK 8 Macguire the Shelley druggist buys the paper from stockholders. Joe Adams former editor of the Sugar City Times is installed as manager.
The day old baby of Mr and Mrs W A Clarke died at the ranch home between the forks of the rivers Saturday evening. This is the second child the couple have lost.
T S Dibble delivered a Ford car to H W Morrison, agent for Oregon Short Line at Stirling, last Friday. Morrison is described as a good sport who believes in enjoying life to the fullest.
Attorney W A Lee spent Sunday attending to his farming interests at Aberdeen. He devoted the day to examining fields, crops, and property tied to his agricultural holdings in the district.
Mr and Mrs Er M Kennedy set a high bar for future entertainments at their Blackfoot lawn party last Thursday. The remodeled home and grounds glowed with electric lights, a large dancing platform, and refreshments from a bevy of hosts, while the McTeague brothers provided entrancing music. About two hundred guests enjoyed an elegant, weather-driven evening as Terpsichore presided over hours of dancing in a scene described as the social event of the season. The Kennedy family, with three sons and a daughter, enhances a home long envisioned on a sagebrush hill now a center of gaiety.
Rhoda J. Mutehingen died at her Kimball home last Thursday afternoon from pneumonia and complications. A longtime valley resident, she was a daughter of Lot Smith of Mamamington Utah and mother of nine children, six surviving: Joseph of Denver Cole William Geve and Dewey of Kimball and Stella and Iela who came from Provo to be with her. Funeral held Saturday at Kimball drew a large crowd.
The community of Blackfoot mourns the death of Mrs. Ellen Laughlin who died at 12 16 after a heart attack. Born in Brizington England she was 7 when she died and had lived in Blackfoot twenty years. She was beloved in church work and helped the less fortunate. After a short service her body was sent to Butte for interment with her brother James Peacock and Mrs Martin Jacobson accompanying them. Surviving relatives include Pat Byrne a nephew and Mrs Maggie Byrne of England.
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