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Newspaper
The Blackfoot Optimist
Location
Blackfoot, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
4
The notice shows subscription rates published by Optimist Publishing Company Ltd with W M Dooley serving as manager. It notes pricing details for mailing and service terms as part of a local public notice.
A discussion on how gossip harms individuals and the press’s duty to report facts. The piece critiques reckless rumors, contrasts crowd gossip with printed records, and notes forest homestead listings in Idaho, detailing two applicants Raymond Davis of Gilmore and Hiram Spurlin of Small with land near Birch Creek and Crooked Creek in the Lemhi National Forest, Dubois as the rail point.
Royal A. Palmer announces his bid for Sheriff of Bingham County. He pledges prompt, efficient service, impartial law enforcement, and adherence to the oath. He believes the Republican platform convention will endorse a course aligned with public interests.
Idaho Sunday School work shows strong progress after three regional conventions in Weiser Twin Falls and Blackfoot enlisting over 300 delegates General Secretary E C Knapp and workers praised the efforts with out of state speakers C A Phipps John L Alexander and Mr and Mrs E Knapp Boise is set for an U S Council meeting to discuss permanent Idaho S S Association officers. If county groups rally support the next year could be the greatest in Idaho Sunday School history.
A county editor argues high taxes stem from road and school bond costs, not graft. He cites the road and bridge fund growth, state demands, and expanded school infrastructure as key drivers, urging spending cuts, shorter terms, fewer teachers, and restored poll taxes to ease the burden.
A column argues against tax cuts tied to trimming county salaries and graft. It contends that reducing school and city levies by small amounts yields minimal gains while resisting genuine reform. The author urges lowering deputy salaries and stopping graft to genuinely ease tax burdens.
A reader, 8. N. Galloway of Stewart South Carolina, reports tried remedies but Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy fully satisfied and cured him. He recommends it to friends. For sale by all dealers and advertised in The Optimist.
The speaker laments county officers now earn less than Bear Lake’s officers twenty years ago. He argues the trimming has made the county’s pay the poorest in the state, warns further reductions amount to penury and danger to services.
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