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Newspaper
The Blackfoot Optimist
Location
Blackfoot, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
8
From today the price of feed at Mowreys feed yard in Ye per head overnight. Fred Hesne, Lessee, offers prompt delivery at reasonable rates. For sale inquiries apply to Elias Kowry, Blackfoot, phone 4023. 6-20-11 Optimist subscriber.
A mixed run of classified items from Blackfoot includes wanted help for a cooking position, secondhand refrigerants, sale of an electric washer, purebred eggs, winter layers, rent and lease notices, a lost horse, street improvements, social event invitations, and a local visit by a hotel hostess.
Kansas City stock yards show mixed cattle prices with prime grades steady and grass fat down. Hogs rebound slightly after a week of declines, cows and veal modest, lambs weak as market slack season persists amid liberal receipts and ongoing wheat harvest in Kansas. A lecture note praises Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a trusted preventive and cure.
The city of Blackfoot enacts an ordinance making it unlawful to shoot discharge or set off fireworks firecrackers torpedoes or similar devices within city streets walks alleys or parks and on streets between Court and Francis streets within the city limits. The measure outlines publication provisions and enforcement details.
Legal notice outlines permissible fireworks under a proper committee during public holiday celebrations. Violations carry a fine not exceeding 100 Bec. The ordinance repeals prior laws and takes effect upon approval and publication. City Clerk directed to publish. Dated June 27, 1916. First publication June 29, 1916. last publication July 6, 1916.
Multiple notices from Blackfoot Idaho in 1916. Probate court assigns Saturday July 15 for proving the will of Joseph Geoghegan with letters testamentary to Elizabeth Geoghegan. Also entries for Desert Land claim by Fred C. West and a Parker, Ltd. stockholder meeting, city sidewalk bid in Local Improvement District No. 17, and other public notices.
Legal advertising for a construction project on Stout abutting Lots 4 and 5, Block 63 Danil addition Blackfoot. Estimated cost 50 cents per linear foot. Bids sealed with City Clerk by 3 o'clock. City reserves right to accept or reject bids. T Peck Mayor. Attest Roy T. FDR. First publication June. Dated June.
Department of the Interior Blackfoot Idaho announces the following settlers have filed for final proof before the local land office on the specified date. Witnesses named: John A Wheeler Jacob A Wheeler Lewis Wells and John W Pingree. The filings concern entries under the 1910 act including Lots 3 and 4, BW NW Section 5 and Township boundaries in the Boixe Meridian. The notice sets the proof date as the 19th day of [month unclear] and references prior homestead activity on July 11, 1911.
In the Probate Court of Bingham County Idaho Josiah Gough Sr estate administrator John Gough petitions for an order to sell all real property to pay debts and expenses of administration. The court orders interested parties to show cause July 10 1916 why the administrator should be granted authority to sell the whole estate by private or public sale. A description of Lot Two includes southeast quarter of the northwest quarter section 7 township 5 south range 2 east Boise meridian totaling 117 74 acres with water rights. Publication details set for four weeks starting June 15 1916 with final notice July 6 1916.
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