Local Notes and Holiday Goods in Challis News
Ghallis locals report Mrs Milhoan back from California last Saturday eve ning. Christmas calendar pads now on sale at the office six for 25 cents. They feature a three color top sheet with embossed holly. Also notes on railroad projects between Armstead and Sere ae and the Northern Pacific main line hopes. Los of local arrivals, bank moves, balls, and a lunar eclipse with Halley comet sightings. community news from Challis and Salmon Recorder.
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Challis
Geo. H. Monk
Monk
Prof
Lowell
California Observatory
Mars
Col. Goethals
Salt Lake Tribune
Custer County
Stephens
Fremont County
Bear Lake
Joseph H. Horton
Indaho
Rod
Salmon River railroad boom fuels real estate surge
Boise area interview cites rapid railroad progress in the Salmon River country. Armstead to Junction track completed with 90 pound rails drafted by The Western Construction company. Vision of a through line to the Pacific coast, possibly Coos Bay or San Francisco, with hearings of surveys toward Salmon City Grangeville and Boise valley. About 30 workers, Italian laborers arrive, canal completion aimed by May 15 next year. Also notes Pittsburg & Gilmore Railroad as coast terminal project and a Boise convention notice for county commissioners on December 13.
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Northern| Pacific
Pittsburg & Gilmore
Armstead
Sere Ae
Northern Pacific
Chicago
Idaho
Jim Hill
Montana
Pacific Coast
White
First National Bank of
Dillon
Engineering Corps
Pittsburg
Beaverhead County
Burlington
Union Pacific
Denver
Capital News
E. F. van Valkenberg
Salmon River
Salmon City
Junction
Armsted
Hill
Coos Bay
San Francisco
van Valkenberg
Western Construction Company
Grangeville
Sawtooth Range
Boise Valley
Statesman
Pittsburg & Gilmore Railroad
Chicago, Northwestern
Nick Johnson
Boise City
Speedy feet and runaway race end in turkey bet
In Challis last Wednesday afternoon a 100 yard dash between Alex Burnett and Earl K Dodge ended with both running in opposite directions after the pistol. Alex claimed victory by “running away” from his opponent and received the turkeys. The article notes ongoing canal work in Round Valley and plans to avoid further foot races.
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Challis
Alex. Burnett
Earl K. Dodge
Alex
Earl
Round Valley
Death in School Drinking Cups pamphlet urged by board
The Massachusetts state board of health plans to send an illustrated pamphlet titled Death in School Drinking Cups to all school boards. Authored by Alvin Davison of Lafayette College, the essay explains how germs from grippe pneumonia diphtheria tonsillitis tuberculosis and other diseases can spread via shared cups and argues for individual cups or sanitary drinking fountains.
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Boston
State Board of Health
Alvin Davison
M. S
Lafayette College
Technical Word Magazine
Davison
Lemhi County Goes Dry By Narrow Margin In Idaho
The Salmon Recorder reports Lemhi county tilting dry by over a hundred votes after precinct tallies show Patterson and May dry by small majorities in several areas while Iron Creek and Blackbird vote wet by small margins. Some see nearby Custer county as potential future dry territory with local option waves spreading across Idaho. Local option totals list 11 dry counties and 2 wet counties including Bannock Bear Lake and Kootenai.
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Salmon Recorder
Salmon
Brooklyn
Ft. Lemhi
Yeariauville
Junction
Gilmore
Spring Mountain
Carmen
Noble
Ulysses
Gibbonsville
Leesburg
Yellow Jacket
Arnett Creek
Queen
Baker
Drys
Challis
Lemhi County
May
Patterson
Custer County
Idaho
Bannock
Bear Lake
Bingham
Canyon
Fremont
Lincoln
Twin Falls
Washington
Kootenai
Lemhi
Wet
Ada
Elmore
Dramatic Musicale at Opera House Draws 250
A Dramatic Musicale by the C. E. Society in the city opera house last Wednesday drew a large audience despite rain, with about 250 attendees. Proceeds topped $40 as every number earned hearty applause and stage encores. The program featured Awakenings of Spring, Leila Buster, recitations, songs by Harry Nickjets, Boogie Boo by Rita Wilson, Advice to Girls by Mollie Drake and others, a select reading by Mrs Waters, and a pantomime Old Sweethearts of Mine.
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C. E. Society
Lucile Smutz
M. M. Sweet
Leila Buster
Miss Smuts
Harry Nickjets
Ritta Wilson
Mollie Drake
Hazel Brown
Nellie Fisher
Lillie Johnson
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Dragp
ATS
Ar Factory
B. Vandervort
Havana
Amestic Cigars
Allis
Ty Drug Store
Save the Agency For
L W. Lynn
RUG Store
W, Meitzier & Co
Salmon, Idaho
Ghallis
John S. Altham
Stanley
George L. McGowan
Attorney Brown
Geo. W. Emery
Zion
Matt Womacks
Stanley Basin
Jess Hawley
Boise
Clyde Wilkinson
Wood River
Thomas Ennis
Bayhorse
First National
R. W. Philps
Idaho Falls
M. Henderson
Presley Horne
Register
U. S. Land Office
Hailey
Frank Coleman
Lillian Sullivan
Ivers
This Valley
W. J. Bowen
Mrs. McGuire
Pahsamaroi Valley
Mr. McGuire
McGovern Cattle and Ranch
P. & G. Railroad
Salmon River Land & Iruication Company
D. W. Truitt
Boards of County Commissioners
State of
House of Representatives
State Capitol
Jas. H. Brady
Ambhi
Dramatic Musicale
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