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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
3
The notice states the office as Weiser now holds second class matter designation with BOT entering the post. Riese LOU capiuses is referenced in the fragment but its role remains unclear. The readable portion confirms postal status update and location specific to Weiser.
Local items from Weiser include taxes due in Boise, moving church services, and social notes. Residents attend meetings, visits from Pullman and Boise, and plans for a city park. The Outlook Club discusses a park. plans for a New Year dance and a twentieth century masquerade are announced along with a roller rink opening at the opera house and various travels and family visits.
The article outlines impending Rural Free Delivery box placements at Fosselman, Watson, a school house, Industrial Institute, and the Academy with five iron boxes, plus penalties for mail tampering under Postmaster General Emory S. The carrier will begin route delivery around January 15 with new drop letter rules effective August 1 1900 and no rate change for second class matter. Outlook Club sets January events including a pantomime and new subscriber notices list residents and renewals.
A festive Christmas ball drew a happy crowd last night with Garr's orchestra delivering fine music and the ladles guild serving a fine supper on stage. The Royal Cafe's upcoming New Year's dinner is expected to surpass the Christmas feast. A church member expresses thanks for an 80 gift, while editorials joke about wealth and rural life as lawyers celebrate a $700,000 thief caught and to be tried.
Sale and Want column notes 120 tons of hay for sale usable for horses or cattle at $2.50 per month at the seller's place near the mouth of Weiser Canyon nine miles from Lee Opp & Davis for any union. Also want ad for a bright man with a high team to work in Washington, and several rental and property notices including a six room house with orchard and a five room house with garden, both marketed to stock men. Old papers also offered at 25 cents per hundred.
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