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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1925
Page
2
In Rome at the Strozzi palace a remarkable book is noted for its warble binding and leaves of extraordinary thinness, attracting curiosity about its craftsmanship and origin.
The Nevada State Highway Department will participate in the 1926 Transcontinental Highway exposition at Reno despite no direct appropriation. Governor Scruggs and other officials will attend, with Nevada funding a state building and exhibit totaling 260000 dollars. California and local entities have also allocated substantial sums. Idaho may join via Idaho Home Industries and chamber of commerce efforts.
Director of Highways H. W. Gregory and Commissioner of Public Works William Hall say several important links will be completed this year to put the area in excellent condition for the next summer season.
Idaho Falls adds a new industry with a silver fox farm planned near the city. George Morrison of Milligan and Morrison aims to purchase a suburban home for the venture and expects start of operations by September 1 with about twenty five pairs of fox. Roy Bennett of Lincoln already runs a nearby fox farm and is reported to be successful.
The Blackfoot Tribune special reports widespread road mud across Clark County. Roads from Dubois to Mo Wtida and Spencer east to Trade’s ranch are very muddy with risk of vehicles getting stuck. Several creeks run high and muddy while fishing remains poor or limited due to continued rain.
President Maude B Margarelige of the Rebecca Assembly of Idaho spoke to Progress Rebecca lodge in Blackfoot on June 2. She discussed the order’s work and joined a regular business session followed by dinner and a social hour. A note recalls Pennsylvania’s first American hospital in 1751.
Notables from Grace Soda Springs Shelley Presto Burley Idaho Falls and American Falls visit Blackfoot for business matters with the Eastern Idaho Grazing association and legal affairs. Attendees discuss highway progress and future prosperity while local officials and chambers coordinate events.
Abe Whitehead assistant fish commissioner arrived from Ashton with 8000 rainbow trout fry to plant in the Springfield lakes. He left in the afternoon to fetch another shipment of fry for the Aberdeen lakes.
Blackfoot June 5. Bingham county commissioners have postponed their regular meeting for a week. They will meet on June 16 instead of June 8. June 15 is a state holiday Pioneer Day.
Word reached Blackfoot of the May 28 Chehalis Washington marriage of Miss Anna Burgerat and Walter Lanlota. They will make their future home in Chehalis.
A chorus of fifteen Blackfoot stake girls left by car for Salt Lake City to attend the Jubilee celebration and sing in the singing contest. Trained by Mrs Wv Beck, they have sung for church functions recently and impressed audiences. Members include Adrienne Miller Nora Smith Mary Hesse Gladys Murdock Sorena Sorrensen Margaret Carter Edith Haws Virginia Williams Nora Morrow Maereet Partinson Lara Whittie Lucy Turner Lillian Sedgwick Norma Seamans Vessa Williams with Mrs Frank Parkinson at the piano.
Funeral services were held today for Mrs Elizabeth Bird who died at her Osgood home June 2. Rev Horace Turner conducted the service at McHan funeral home. Interment will be at Clay Center Kansas, with son James Bird accompanying. Born in Tennessee she was 67. Survived by husband Winfield Bird seven sons and three daughters.
Mount Edith Cavell Peak in Jasper national park Alberta has been named to honor the memory of Edith Cavell the British nurse executed by German forces during World War I.
Oscar A. Johansen spoke at the Idaho Falls Kiwanis luncheon on service club ideals and eradicating criticism. Kenneth Rose of Rozers Bros Seed Co. discussed east coast business conditions with an optimistic view. The club announced a future intercity meeting to be hosted by the Blackfoot Kiwanis Club in the coming week as part of a summer series.
Sallie Green widow of Will Green and editor of the Colusa Daily Sun died at her Colusa home. Born in Clinton Mississippi in 1833 she was known as the father of irrigation. The report also mentions a Transvaal woman named Swanepoel who has slept for fifteen years and remains unconscious after her lover's death.
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