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Newspaper
The Silver Messenger
Location
Challis, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1903
Page
1
The New Challis House is a first class hotel with superior meals and accommodations in the county. Stages stop here and drivers board at this convenient location one door west of the telephone office. Meals on time with best market fare. Board and lodging at reasonable rates and good sample rooms for traveling and commercial men.
Board and lodging offered by Mrs M Jose northwest of R N Hull Co store Challis Idaho. Meals and lodging described as first class with fine large rooms good beds and table supplied with the best. Rates available by day week or month.
Bascom House advertised as the last stopping place before mountain passes from Mackay to the Sal ton River Valleys. The establishment pledges to spare no pains to be the best travelers home in Central Idaho with reasonable terms. E W Bascom proprietor.
The report covers the Challis Fourth of July celebration finances. It itemizes receipts and expenditures for the event held on July 4, detailing funds raised from sponsors and community donations and payments for parade floats, fireworks, permits, and meals. It notes surplus or deficit and outlines allocations for next year.
A reflective essay contrasts theory and practice in economics, tracing how scientific insight becomes usable progress through society. It weighs the shift from capital dominance to labor influence, warns against forgetting practical needs, and cites strikes, unions, and moral questions about wealth, power, and survival under natural laws.
Custer July notes visitors from Evanston and Challis while local mining activity expands with new ore strikes at the Charles Dickens mine and plans for mill arrivals from Los Angeles. Town chatter covers legal cases, cattle theft, hotel work, and community events amid weather and development in the Challis area.
J C Fox and Bill Flenniken traveled to Loon Creek while Miss Shanafelt and Miss Ringle visit Challis. Columbia Mining Co at Yellow Jacket plans to start operations soon. a 312 page fiction book is noted. LOD F officers installed. wagon road to Horn to link with state road will finish in days, linking Challis Mackay Boise and west, east rail towns with big milling potential. A local mining man hails the Idaho belt as the greatest in America, set to surpass others with rapid development and new mills.
Arrivals listed for the week ending July 18 at the New Challis House include E. B. Curtis Goldburg Ida Geo Hosford Clayton Frank Uehren Dickey Ida Cla Vance Elk Horn Ranch Ida V Hanson Mackay Ida R Macbeth Custer Ida B A Rendickee Blackfoot Ida John Treland Blackfoot Ida Bo Ireland Blackfoot Ida Walker Mackay Ida D and wife Blackfoot Ida Hibbs and wife Salny Grace Hibbs Sal Wm 8 Cox Omaha T Barbeau Clayton Hewitson Custer J Roberts May Kuhn Ogden U0 ner Denver Col liams Stanley 7 joy and family.
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