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Newspaper
Twin Falls Chronicle
Location
Twin Falls, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1920
Page
2
July 22 report from Buhl states high school construction is well underway with forms for cement set and planned Saturday pouring. Heating boiler installed, brickwork around boiler to finish. material shipments and steel girders arriving. carpenters ready to produce many window frames. water main installation begun to increase supply.
July notes report Army strong for tomorrow as Armstrong fears for home in Oklahoma after two weeks visiting family. Helen Holman of Twin Falls visits friends in town. Jack Carr travels to Sheldon North Dakota for months. Police Judge Washburn buys Buhlebakery and plans August start. Prichards of Masha Iowa visit with Glenn Thomas and Mrs Mays, wheat crop praised. Nazarene church minister new parsonage under construction. Sybil Hall of Salt Lake visiting. Elva Wilkinson of Boise also in town.
Frends gather as Mr and Mrs Rube Brown recently left to spend some time at Lavi Hot Springs. Mrs J A Lyle of Wir Jal and W Boyd of Boise are in the district visiting sheepmen here.
A public meeting is called by the Chamber of Commerce civil bureau for Friday at 5 p m in the Chamber rooms to decide on changing local time to Rocky Mountain Time. Petitions with hundreds of signatures urge the change. if no legal obstacles arise, action may be taken to implement the shift within days, moving clocks ahead one hour except for railroads and Western Union.
Majella Rogers, daughter of Mrs George Rogers of Sacramento, visits Mr Kennedy Packard to see a cradle her family has used for over 130 years. The cradle and linen were crafted by ancestors in New York and remain well preserved. Mrs Packard also displays a reel, spinning wheel, linen tablecloth and woven jewels from the old home. The historic property stayed in the family for more than a century before recently selling.
Two building permits were granted yesterday. EB Hutt was approved to construct a one story residence on Lots 5 and 9, Second Avenue North, 14 by 24 feet with porch, estimated at 800 dollars. Moe W Perkin of 260 Alexander Street received a permit for a one-story 9 by 24 foot addition to a house at the location, estimated at 250 dollars.
In New York the Manufacturers' Aircraft association released a report on national aviation growth. The study highlights regional adoption trends, new distributing agencies, and planned intercity networks from California to the Pacific coast, Texas oil regions, and the Great Lakes. It notes passenger and express services, ongoing seaplane routes, and the expansion of air transport in cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and New York with numerous aircraft and accessory manufacturers expanding capacity.
Two people were cited to appear before Police Judge Minnick yesterday. Jane Morgan daughter of Dr and Mrs J A Morgan faces speeding charges while Oliver Kunkle is charged with willfully and unlawfully tampering with a muffler cut-out open.
Local fans can watch Twins Falls players in action next Sunday as Wendell King’s Wood River league champions invade Twin Falls. Speed Oliver will perform from the mound for the Twin Falls Independents, who practice diligently to challenge the Wendell aggregation and add another scalp to their string.
Prague Czecho-Slovakia. President Thomas Masaryk told American correspondents he regrets Americans no longer take part in European affairs. He said U S withdrawal weakens the entente's hand in Polish Czech disputes.
WARSAW July 22 The menace to the Polish capital grows as the left wing of the Polish army is defeated. In three weeks the Poles have retreated from the Beresina to the Niemen covering over 180 miles and the Niemen to the Vistula distance to Warsaw is about 150 miles indicating advancing threat.
Americans led Belgium by 27 targets after the opening day of the Olympic trapshooting team match in Antwerp. With 180 targets remaining of 620, the standings showed America 988, Belgium 961, Sweden 355, Canada 360, Great Britain 343.
Jefferson City July 23 The farm labor ticket nominating P. P. Christensen of Utah for president in Chicago last week cannot appear on Missouri official ballots this November, Secretary of State Sullivan announced today.
A promotion promises freckles can be removed with Othine double strength. Buy an ounce from any druggist, apply a few times, and pay nothing if it does not remove freckles. If it clears the skin the cost is small. The double strength formula is guaranteed money back if ineffective.
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