Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-03-12
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY



chosen county clerk In Salt Lake conn
ty. Utah, this year on the Republican
ticket.
The handkerchief of the French sol
der has printed on 1t certain sanitary
rules desirable to observe during
campaign.
The following is the shortest sentence
containing all the letters OF the alpha
bet: Pack my box with ave dozen liQ-
uor jugs. Home Notes.
South Dakota is congratulating her
self on the greatest gold year In her
history. The report Of the state mine
inspector, fled with the governor,
shows the states gold production for
the last year to have been $7,460,O00,
Missouri is the greatest tobacco pro
ducing state. The quantity OF the weed
produced during the fiscal year which
ended June 80 last was 71,212,212
pounds, 100000 pounds more than
was produced by North Carolina, which
comes next.
There are now 667 women students
in the University of Glasgow. This is
said to be the largest number on rec
ord. Queen Margaret College is the
women's hall, which Is presided over
by Miss Galloway, LID, and Janet
Spens, NJ. A.
| About 10000 fox skins are sold out OF
Maine every year. Very few Of the sly
animals are shot Many are killed by
the use of poisoned bait, while hum
dreds OF others are killed In drives,
known as the New Hampshire meth
od.'-Fur News.
A New York woman shopper who ID
fond of figures has estimated that the
time lost by customers each day in one
of the large department stores in wait
ing for their change Is equal to the
for seventy days.
This year 1854 women registered In
Boston to vote for school committee
Twenty-nine years ago, when the priv>
ilege Of voting at these elections was
first granted to women, only 600 regis
tered, and for the following nine years
the average was only little over 1000
Motorists who suffer with cold hands
while driving their cars may have re-.
lief by using a steering wheel provided
with electric heat. An English inven-
ton describes a steering wheel with q
core that carries TIVE electrically
ed coils insulated one from the other
: and from the outer rim.
Sir william Wallace, the British resi-
. dent-general Of northern Nigeria, has
I reported to the henIe government that
J. cannibal tribes owning hundreds Of
! thousands Of herses in Nigeria are be-
ing subdued by peaceful means, and
I that their country contains perhaps the
: : richest tin and copper fields in the-
world.
Booker 4. Washington was born near
E Hale's Ford, VA, about 1859. His
mother was a slave In the Burroughs
q family, where she was known as Jane
Burroughs. Her husband lived on q
" neIghboring plantation. Booker Wash
% ington was educated at Hampton Insti--
n tute, Virginia, where he graduated In
y 1875 He taught there until he was se-
N lected head Of Tuskegee Institute,
a. which he organized.
rs Miss Harriet S. Hayward, Of Brock
t. ton, Mass, is the first woman to be
u elected by a county IN Massachusetts
N to preside at county teachers assocla-
- ton. she is the primary supervisor Of
"a schools in Brockton, and the Plymouth
h. County Teachers Association, over
1s which she was selected to preside, IL
one of the largest in the state. The
meeting is said to have been the best
g. ever held.
When the Cloughey County Down.
~ Ireland) lifehoat went TO the assistance
4. Of the French bark Croisette, which
&c had been driven ashore on a submerged
lie reef, the men refused to leave the yes
sci without little half-breed fox ter
NJ rier. The animal was eventually found
and rescued amid the cheers Of the
~, ~ barks crew, who were then brought
n ashore in the lifebOat and Hospitality
IN housed by the villagers
The Ligue Rationale Aerienne re-
70 Gently received from COmmandant Dol
10 fuss the offer of prize Of f40O for the
"A first kite of French construction capa-
to Bile of lifting n man to the height Of
ey 200 meters, and Of maintaining him in
m the air for a period Of at least one
hour. 1t is interesting to see that at
TO tention is thus again directed to the
:: use of kites, which would appear to
. have been somewhat neglected owing to
e. the success of the apparatus Of the aer-
on oplane type.
A Daniel has come to judgment In
~ the Vermont Legislature with bill in.
- tended to guard newspapers against
40 takers" 1t makes the giving Of false
st news to a newspaper with intent to de
he ceive punishable by fine ranging from
re IS to $50 for each offense. 1--WE hope
that the Vermont lawmakers will lose
IN no time in making the bill a statute, y
~ says the Boston Transcript ats en-
~ actment viii I'LL a long felt want OF
re Vermont editors and blaze the way tC
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