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Newspaper
The Pocatello Tribune
Location
Pocatello, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1908
Page
6
The article notes rising participation in YMCA gym classes with dumbbell drills, apparatus work, and amateur tumbling. Indoor baseball and volleyball gain popularity, with basketball teams expected. business men show little interest, though two weekly hours could boost productivity. It likens gym activity to a modern fountain of youth.
The Pocatello Trades and Labor council hosted a benefit musicale at the Auditorium theater. A large audience applauded a program including Mandolin Club selections, vocal solos by Miss McGonigle and Miss Downing, violin and piano solos, recitations, comic song, viola and violincello pieces, and performances by the Superba Quartette.
County Treasurer Juan Sullivan announces that Current Expense Fund warrants numbers 8Z to 102, inclusive, dated July 16, 1908, with interest to September 16, 1908, will be paid upon presentation at his office. This is a formal financial notice from Bannock County.
Local Trib une office advertises typewriter papers ribbons and car bonuses as the best there is for readers and staff.
After the Orpheum fire, Mayor Loux ordered the Lyric Theatre closed for safety upgrades. New exits added on both sides of the curtain with stairs to the stage, rear-wall doors, and front doors fixed to swing open. Machine room renovated and cleaned. tonight the playhouse resumes business.
A Japanese welcome for Admiral Sperry and the American fleet includes free transit and park receptions in Tokio and Yokohama. The week features official visits, dinners, audience with the emperor, and Kabuki performances with extensive entertainments arranged by the Japanese navy and local authorities.
A Wade's Bakery ad promotes a five cent loaf claimed to be full weight, contrasting it with local grocers selling a three cent loaf for five cents and urging customers to switch for better value.
A Wisconsin man claims Foley's Ortno Laxative saved his three year old son. The father states he treated severe constipation and fever with two doses, and the next morning the boy was well and fever-free. Temple Pharmacy in Casimer is mentioned.
Warning readers to avoid neglecting coughs as they may develop into pneumonia or consumption. Recommends Ballard's Horehound Syrup as a cure and preventive for lung diseases, claiming it is harmless and standard in America. Mentions price 60c and 1.00 per bottle. Mrs. A. L.
A Montpelier based report details a vast Bear Lake water storage scheme tied to the Telluride Power Co. plans. Engineers estimate the project would be one third Panama Canal scale, with initial work to start soon after site inspections in Montpelier and Dingle. The plan includes damming between Bear Lake and Mud Lakes, pumping to Mud Lake, enlarging the Bear Lake outlet, and expanding the power plant from 40 000 horsepower to double capacity within two years.
Hon James H Brady travels via train through Pocatello bound for Montpelier to address county residents. He returns to Pocatello in the morning and spends the day with friends before a campaign swing to Mackay Challis Salmon City Marysville and St Anthony with confidence in the Republican ticket’s victory.
The Congregational Church invites all to Sunday school at 10 a.m. with sermons on Christ Within You the Hope of Glory and Why We Believe in Prayer. Junior E. at 5:30 p.m. All are welcome. Pastor W. S. Hunt.
Bible school at 10 a m. Preaching at 11 a m. and 7 30 p m. B Y P U at 6 30 p m. Pastor F H Lawrence leads the church affair with regular weekly services.
Trainmaster C L Eldred of the Idaho division asks freight conductors and brakemen for suggestions on evolving the common caboose. Preferences include side doors, end platforms, windows at ends, desk placement, wide or narrow platforms, cupola extent, lockers, and optional bunks. Letters should be sent to Eldred.
Time card No. 41 effective tomorrow morning provides for two daily passenger trips on the Wood River branch. Northbound No. 157 leaves Shoshone at 11 00 a m Bellevue at 1 10 p m and reaches Ketchum at 2 00 p m. Return No. 158 departs Ketchum at 4 45 p m Bellevue at 5 30 p m and arrives Shoshone at 7 45 p m in time for No. 6 east and No. 1 west connections.
Morning sermon The Seven Signs in John at 10 45 and evening sermon The Final Test at 7 30 with Sunday school at noon Junior League at 4 30 and Epworth League at 6 45 W S Woodhull pastor leads the service and activities.
Services at 11:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. morning topic A Word From the Workers. Evening topic The Model Mixer. Sunday school at 10:00 a.m. Y P S C E at 6:30 with Commending Our Society by Systematic Generous Giving led by Ray Bistline. Offering for Board of Education. Minister Henry A. Mullen extends welcome.
Christian Science services are held at Main and Lewis on Sundays at 11 a m and Wednesdays at 8 p m. The Sunday subject on October 18 is Doctrine of Atonement. Sunday school begins at 10:15 a m. The reading room is open daily from 2:30 to 4:30 with literature for free use and sale.
Seattle report says railroads hauling lumber to Montana Idaho and via Silver Bow gateway to Utah will not apply the maximum differential from the interstate commerce commission. The new tariff received recently preserves existing rates instead of the 10 cent differential on cedar shingles and long timbers.
Division Superintendent Olmstead and his wife returned from Lava Hot Springs after a week away. F C Gillenbeck assistant superintendent of the hotel and dining car service on the Short Line meets with Olmstead and Station Agent Brooks to discuss Pacific hotel improvements. Superintendent W H Jones of the Montana division traveled north in his service car with No 7 to Butte. B R Hunt Denver & Rio Grande general agent at Butte itinerated through the city en route to Salt Lake on business.
Chicago market report shows December wheat finishing at about 99 1/8 to 1/4 cent, reflecting modest weakness. market activity centered on futures pricing with traders watching supply outlook and demand signals.
State Treasurer Hastings released two years of office totals after extensive checks by experts. He cites 626 trial balances and 50 000 transfers, with receipts $4 691648 13 and a starting balance of 466180 40, plus end balance around 592000 deposits and 65028 26 in various banks.
Classified brief seeking used lumber for purchase. Inquiries directed to Perkins with contact details not shown in the fragment.
A monthly advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional ailment. Proponents offer $100 to any case it cannot cure, claiming internal action on blood and mucous surfaces strengthens the constitution and aids nature. Also promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Frank T. Bailey of the Montana Film Exchange and Manager Candy plan to reopen the Orpheum in this city after an investigation confirms the Thursday night fire started in the ticket office. Witnesses Chase and Parsons testified the blaze began there before reaching the steel-lined machine booth. Bailey aims to move the ticket office to the sidewalk and remodel the front with swinging doors while repairs continue, with operator Chase recovering in hospital.
City treasurer Goldie McCallister announces that Current Expense Fund Warrants Nos 705 to 762 dated Aug 6 1908 and Nos 763 to 775 dated Aug 8 1908 will be paid with interest to the date of call upon presentation at Bannock National Bank.
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