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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1902
Page
3
Rates listed for advertisements and legal notices including twenty cents per line first insertion and fifteen cents per inch for subsequent insertions. Obituary and thanks notices priced per line, with subscription label dates indicating paid status and warnings to monitor changes.
Weiser items report Frank Harris leaving for Boise and various residents visiting, moving, teaching, or working in town. Notes cover train departures, local elections, school staffing, business openings, roadwork, and social events with several named individuals and nearby towns.
Ferguson, the two handed store man, sells everything at second hand prices. Weiser Retail Market features new potatoes at 8 cents per pound eggs 20 cents per dozen butter 25 cents per pound cheese 20 cents cherries 26 cents per gallon currante 25 cents per gallon sugar 6.30 to 5.60 bacon 17 cents per pound salt 14 cents per pound floor 1.00 to 1.10 per sack rice 8 cents per pound.
A vintage advertisement claims Twentieth Century Medicine and Cascarets Candy Cathartic outpace ancient pills and liquids, likening progress to the electric light replacing a tallow candle. Mentions genuine stamped 1C.C.C. and cautions against bulk sales to druggists in ROC.
The marriage of David P. Logan and Gertie D. Connell was solemnized July 5 at Hotel Weiser parlors with Judge D. Sanders officiating. Logan, a Willow Creek stockman, is well regarded. Connell is a Weiser girl. They will reside at the groom’s Willow Creek ranch.
The Weiser Signal item reported Michael Lannan cut alfalfa five feet high. W Vankirk of Nampa sent in a six foot seven inch bunch to compare, challenging Weiser to beat the height. Also notes on children hats, Mrs Miller Summer camp, and quick bicycle repairs by N J Sheffield.
Stock man Mr. Morgan of the Oregon side of the Snake River visited Weiser to confer with Sheriff Gray about a horse theft scheme. About a hundred head were seized between Ontario and Yale, intended for night shipment. Morgan waited at Ontario but the plan was dropped and he recovered about seventy five head. Reports say livestock thefts are active across the area. Also Ferguson's second-hand store advertises new tent and wagon sheets at 2nd and 8th prices.
The notice records a July 5 1902 marriage in Weiser between Samuel Sloper and Nancy E Stone with Judge C D Sand era officiating. It includes a for sale listing for a plastered room house and lot plus additional Weiser lots with cash price. It ends with a note of gratitude from Willam Hamilton and family for sympathetic kindness. Also contains an unrelated ad line about kidney area information.
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