18 Jul 1911
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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1911
Page
1
A brief notice lists price points for services with 26 cent shares to Fein and 50 cent air-cut charges. The fragment suggests a small business ad or price schedule without additional context.
A brief notice from No 2 reports on the Smoke Eagle Club Cigars and Challis Cigar Factory. Details indicate production or membership notes tied to local cigar enterprises and associated groups.
Local items report haying starting in fall, fair crop, and good weather. Notes on Commissioner Campbell and Burnett families visiting from Clayton and Mackay. Sage chicken seasons and fishery rules explained for Salmon river area. Walters Stock Co. to perform in Challis all week with a new slate of plays. County Board schedules meetings for tax reviews and jail provision, with bridge funding and project details. Local business notes, postmaster travel, and courthouse updates wrap the week.
Public notices announce Challis Independent School District No 1 in Custer county Idaho will hold the Annual School Meeting and Election on the Tuesday Sunday of September 1911 with polling from 2 PM to 6 PM at the school house. Two trustees will be elected for three years in place of Thomas Jose sod and Itoo A. Brown whose terms expire. Also notices of estate claims for John W Faulkner and a Desers Land Entry final proof for Alex King, with witnesses named and dates set in Challis Idaho.
A lively Ivers Fourth of July event resumed after three years of inactivity. Morning children races and an afternoon revolver match highlighted the program won by Big Joe. Slim Williams won the fat woman race, Mrs. J. P. Boyle took featherweight money, and Paddy Brown won the pie-eating contest. Crowds from Salmon, Clayton, Middle Fork and Sunbeam joined about 75 couples at the hall for an evening ball, with a safe, sober celebration and no incidents beyond a dropped phonograph.
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