Challis News Highlights Local Life and Mining Outlook
Report from Challis covers arrivals and departures, a freak mare and colt, Sunday closing laws, medical treatments, a child's arm injury, and a curfew device ad. It also recalls a mother’s devotion, Decoration Day, local travel to Salt Lake and Mackay, school plans, a death by morphine, and mining prospects at Goldfield and Jordan Creek with talks of an electric plant and a Webb City deposition in a miners' case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Murrey
Caste
Murray
Loon Creek
Mackay
Final Reports Promoted Pupils In Idaho Grammar Dept
A 1907 Challis report lists pupils promoted to various grades. Names include Nettie Hanna Ruth Dorgan Joseph Rodgers Arthur Baxter Nellie Fisher Hazel Brown John Pushaw Floyd Bradbury Edith Frost Rosena Zilkey Kate Nickerson Lillie Johnson Franklin Christian Mary Kirk John Adams Walter Klug William Treloar Mollie Drake Florence Nickerson Gertrude Nickerson Julius Zilkey Edward O’Neal Eunice Kirk Herschel McLerran Vivian McLerran Frank Drake Lee Baxter Edwin Christian plus top honorees Nettie Hanna Edith Frost Edna Hoar and teachers Grace Anderson and details on tardy absence rates. Also cites Idaho Game and Fish law penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grammar
Nettie Hanna
Ruth Dorgan
Joseph Rodgers
Arthur Baxter
Nellie Fisher
Hazel Brown
John Pushaw
Floyd Bradbury
Edith Frost
Rosena Zilkey
Kate Nickerson
Lillie Johnson
Franklin Christian
Mary Kirk
John Adams
Walter Klug
William Treloar
Mollie Drake
Florence Nickerson
Gertrude Nickerson
Julius Zilkey
Edward O'Neal
Eunice Kirk
Herschel McLerran
Vivian McLerran
Frank Drake
Lee Baxter
Edwin Christian
Cliff Womacks Found Dead in Seattle Bay Mystery
The body of Cliff Womacks, a Stanley Basin dredge operator aged about 30, was found in Elliott Bay near Jackson Street Seattle on a Saturday in April. Officials suspect foul play though details are unclear due to decomposition. Relatives in Dungeness collected the remains and interred him there. friends recall his last Seattle trip and his life in Cus ter and Lembi counties and on Wood River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cliff Womacks
Stanley Basin
Jackson Street
Seattle
Clifton Womacks
Cliff
Custer County
Custer
Lembi
Wood River
Cozy
Matt Womacks
Stanley
Bay
H. C. Lewis
Boiser Statesman
Dungeness
Mr. Lewis
Wood cutting bids for 1500 cords near Custer Idaho
Bids will be received at the office of Milton A Brown, Challis Idaho, up to May 24, 1907, for cutting and banking out 1500 cords of wood on the undersigned company's property near Custer, Custer County Idaho. Right reserved to reject any and all bids. Oxarxa Gold Minine Co Ltd dated April 30, 1907.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton A. Brown
Challis
Idaho
Custer
Custer County
Oxarxa Gold Minine Co.Ltd
Teachers Examination Dates Set for Challis Idaho
Examinations for all grades of teachers certificates occur in Challis Idaho on May 23 24 and 25. Final examinations for Eighth Grade pupils held May 14 15 16 and 17. Martha Keenan County Clerk dated May 6 2007.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Challis
Idaho
Martha Keenan
County
Reverent Bible Teaching Versus Lesson Leaves Controversy
A letter from Challis Idaho dated May 8 1507 critiques Rev Hoars timely sermon in the Messenger praising morning services while lamenting low church attendance. The writer condemns lesson leaves for Bible study citing diminished reverence in children and argues that enduring memory comes from Bible verses learned in childhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eorror Messenger
Hoar
the Messenger
Kennan
Withl Lwckessin
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W. H. Leaton
D. W. Shanafelt
Watchmaker & Jeweler
Messengre
TpaHo
Oregon Short Line
Union Pacific
Ry’s
Meia
Erland
D. E. Burley
Oregon
R v
Salt Lake City
Utah
G. W. Meitzler
C. Whitwell Drug CO
Salmon, Idaho
J. P. Spalding Challis
Mark Kuhn
Joe Cohn
Frank Tolman
Grace Anderson
Gibbonsville
Cotter
John Hammond
Philip Halloran
Pahsamaroi
Chas. Waddleton
Salt Lake
Fred Weinhart
Ivers
Buster's
Emmett Hosford
Pocatello
Wm. T. Oster
Goldfield
Nevada
Mr. Oster
Mr.Oster
Oster
C. E. Gable
Golden Sunbeam Mining Co
Jordan Creek
Robinson Bar
Webb City
Robert Hulser
Moyer-Haywood
Cresswell
Cornish
Victor
Colo
Adjutant General of
Colorado
Moyer
Hulser
Travell
Edna Hoar
Department of the Challis
Nenwasssags Thesveses
Ritta Wilson
Esther Eddy
George Keyes
Edna Morrison
Mary Adams
Frank Brown
Lisle Ivie
Delvier Ivie
Fay Larter
Millie Brown
Asice
Billy Dunn
Bonanza
Chris Morler
Wilkin
Owen Long
Bayhorse
James Cothrell
James Wilkinson
Chas. Randall
William Waters
Mart Newcowhb
Skylark
Omaha
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