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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1903
Page
4
About one hundred Bakers City residents gathered at the Court House to organize the Citizens Home Protective Association. The group resolved to aid peace officers in driving out gamblers and houses of ill repute, offering services to the city and county authorities with orderly, purposeful action.
A special teachers examination for second and third grade certificates will be held at Council on September 3 and 6, 1908. Questions will cover school law from the chapter on School District Organization and Powers in the state Constitution Article 7 Finance and Revenue.
A sparse classified fragment seeks a manager for a stamps shop in Canbn s. The note is incomplete but indicates employment interest and location ambiguity.
A Portland dispatch reports Ladd Metals bought and started converting the Oswego iron amelter into a copper ore refinery. It will handle northwest copper output and be the only facility of its kind west of Argentine Kansas. The Oswego plant, idle in recent years, will refine copper from Ladd Metals operations at Homestead Oregon and Mineral.
Real estate offers include two lots and a six room house for 450 dollars and 520 acres of land under Payette with 10 000 dollars credit. Also listed are eight depot stations at 50 dollars each and Burzenpine Equals Bucklen's Arnica Salve famed for cures. The salve is advertised as superior for cuts corns burns boils sores felons ulcers tetter boils fevers and chapped hands with a 25 cent guaranteed price at druggists.
A list of names and places appears to document arrivals of fine writing papers at Candeb's Vendome, including KS White, Meadows, Wm Hogodone, Sam Hopper, Cambridge, and many others across Omaha, Portland, Walla Walla, Seattle, Boise, and beyond. The fragmentary roster mentions residents, merchants, and travelers such as Mrs Bagley, Abe Jones, Mr Davis, H W Love land, J F Cook, and Geo W Row among numerous entries.
A gravel haul rate of five dollars per car of ten yards is set for gravel hauled from Concrete station twenty miles from Weiser. The plan includes loading the car and building tracks to deliver the gravel to Main Street.
Fragmentary OCR text discusses delivery of fish with unclear phrases about free offers and outcomes. No identifiable people, organizations, or places are readable.
Next Sunday evening at the Congregational church the Rev. R W Rogers will preach on money its true value as the first of a series of Practical talks on everyday life to be delivered Sunday evenings at 8. The singing will be led by Milton Davenport the new academy president. The Congregational choir will sing next Sunday morning under Miss Marianna Jones with a strong roster including Mr and Mrs L Churchill Mrs J A Smith Miss Phelps and others. Grace Lindsay will play the organ and Charles Luck is chairman of the musical committee. The morning sermon will be The Blazing Hearts of the Prophets.
The second Weiser Outlook Club meeting was held Wednesday afternoon September 16 with unusually large attendance. The business session ran long and the paper on Domestic Science was deferred. Delegates and alternates were chosen: Miss Slocum, alternate Mrs Fosselman, Mrs A Smith, alternate Mrs Waterhouse, and Mrs Feltham. Arrangements for the entertainment course were completed, opening with the Knox Kantner Concert Co. Many new names were proposed for membership. Meeting closed after an enjoyable afternoon.
Telegraph from Ogden dated September 17 1908 says Idaho won the prize for fruit exhibit and gives all credit to the Payette fruiters. It criticizes Washington county fruit growers for not taking interest to secure proper representation.
The Lewiston Teller will be issued as an afternoon daily starting around October first. C. L. Day from Lincoln, Nebraska, an experienced newspaper man, is hired as managing editor of the new daily.
Advertises Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for indigestion and dyspepsia. Claims the remedy digests what you eat and sweetens the stomach improving taste and nutrition assimilation. Sold by all druggists.
Fragmented ad style notes a bargain in Stock Ranch with mentions of improved water supply, 400 units of something and favorable prospects. References to Meadowe and Idedio hint at local entities or sellers. Mentionsит of 800 pony of PAP and Adah appear as unclear items in the listing.
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