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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-01
FRANK. c. BOWMAN,
Idaho Falls, Idaho-Who Most Likely
Preside atlThis Congress Owing to
Illness of President Mondell.


Professor w. S, Thornber of Wash
ington.
There viii be exhibits of grains,
grasses, vegetables and fruits from Mon
tana, Idaho, Washington, California,
Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado,
Nevada, Oklahoma, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Minnesota and other
states, and the provinces of Alberta
British Columbia, Saskatchewan and
Manitoba and Australia and Mexico.
The people of Spokane have made
elaborate preparations for the recep-
ton and entertainment of the officials
of the congress, the speakers and dele
gates and foreign representatives and
visitors to the exposition. The prin-
cipal business and office buildings in
the main thoroughfares will be gay with
banners and buntings and flags and
there will be scheme of illumination
eclipsing anything yet attempted in
Spokane. In addition to the banquets
and receptions in honor of the foreign
representatives, officials and speakers al
the congress, there will be series OF
smokers, theater parties, automobile
trips and game dinner at Hayden
Lake, Idaho, for the local and visiting
newspaper men. The Spokane chamber
of commerce, headed by Charles NJ
Fassett, will be host at the. latter
function.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-01
ALL ABOUT The congress

Everything is in readiness for the
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-01

foreign countries, officers of the United
States department of agriculture. farm
ers and members of commercial organ
izations. Besides the formal program
there will be series of institute meet
ings, addressed by prominent men, at
which questions will be answered.
The largest tent ever erected on this
continent will be used at the fair
grounds to house the exhibits of grains,
grasses, vegetables and fruits. Ten
thousand dollars in prizes and premiums
will be distributed in the various con
tests. Martin J. Vessels. superintend-
emf Of exhibits of the Spokane chamber
of commerce, has charge of the instalia-
tion of the exhibits, while w. H. Olin
of Colorado is superintendent of prizes
and premiums. Professor Coates Bull
of Minnesota is chief judge. His as
sistants are Professor o. B. Whipple of
Montana, Al G. Aicher of Idaho, and
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-01

Dry Farming congress, which will have
its fifth sessions in the state armory
in Spokane, October to 6, and its in
ternational exposition of dry farmed
products of the Spokane Interstate fair
grounds, October to 9. 1t is expected
theres will be 1850 delegates and be-
tween $500 and 5000 visitors from
various parts of the country. There
will also be AS representatives of for
eign countries.
President Taft win formally open the
congress by pressing a golden button
at O. CLOCK, Pacific time, the evening
of the first day, and after a medley of
international airs by a big military
band, Henry w. Newton of Spokane,
chairman of the state and local boards
of control, viii present the presiding
officer. If Congressman T. w. Mondell
of Wyoming, who is very sick at his
home in Newcastle, is unable to at
tend, it is likely that Frank W. Bow
man of Idaho, first vice president of
the organization, will have charge of
the convention.
The program, to be arranged this
week by the board of governors, headed
by Alfred Atkinson of Montana, con-
tains the names of so of the world S
foremost advocates of modern tillage.
Many of these are from the west, but
there are speakers from all parts of the
world, thus giving the congress an in
ternational aspect. This is also true
of the exposition of dry farmed
products, which is declared by experts
to be the most complete and compre-
hensive ever gathered together any
where in this or other countries.
Speakers named on the formal pro
gram at the congress viii deal with
many problems of dry farming, not only
in this country, but in all parts of the
world. Among the distinguished Wis
itors will be Colonel NJ. Malcor, repre-
sentative Of the French government
stationed in Algeria; DR.. Elwood Mead
of Australia, representatives of Great
Britain, Hungary, Germany and other
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-01
MONTANA NEWS NOTES

The first snow of the season fell IN
Kalispell Saturday.
Construction work has started on the
new home of the First National Banb
of Libby.
John F. Rodgers of Butte has been
charged with the murder of Mrs. Ida
Adams of that city.
1t is expected the rails viii be laid
between Three Forks and Bozeman
on the new Gallatin Valley railroad
this week.
The teachers of Lincoln county are
to hold three days session in Libby
beginning Monday, October 3.
c. Comerford, laborer, recently from
Deadwood, S. D., while working on the
new Missoula sewer, was caught in a
cavein Saturday afternoon and in
stantly killed.
Ed Smith, who has been in Jail at
Dillon for some time on the charge Of
attempting to rob the Dillon bank, has
again been positively identified as Fred
Taylor, who spent last winter in Dillon.
While passing behind horse in a
corral barn at Missoula Carl Jensen, a
1O-year-old lad, was kicked and fell be-
meath the animal which kicked him
in the head, crushing the skull across
the top.
Timothy E. Healy, Cascade county
pioneer, stanch and active democrat,
mayor Of Belt, prominent lumberman,
banker and manufacturer, died at the
hospital in Great Falls Saturday after
noon, after suffering with pneumonia
for only four days.
An unknown man who afterward fed
to the hills and has not been found
entered the store of Thomas Cussick,
at st. Regis, and after ordering the
proprietor of the place to throw up
his hands fred a shot, the bullet from
a 5000 revolver passing through Gus
sick s left breast.
At recent Gaelic meeting at Butte
motion carried to the effect that al
theaters staging characters or skits O.
plays in which the character of thu
Irshman is reviled, insulted or held VI
to ridicule be condemned and that al
ultimatum be issued to them to tax
notice that the Gaelic league will pre-
vent them from abusing the Iris
character
The DAILY Bank and Trust company
Anaconda, announces it will no longe
honor warrants drawn in payment o
city indebtedness. The bank allege
that the city has passed the legal linn
of indebtedness and is insolvent. Th
Anaconda National bank authoriti,
also state that they will not aeceI
city scrip. The banks allege that I'll
city is not saving any money and thel
is no chance for the council to wor
: Tout the problem.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-01

whom the success of such great under
takings is largely due, is that sched-
uled for Wednesday afternoon and even
ing when all of the typewriter manipu.
lators-who said pencil pushers will
be the guests of the Chamber of Com
meree at a game dinner at beautiful
Hayden lake, across the Idaho border,
about AS minutes from Riverside
avenue, by special Inland Empire
system electric flyer,
Interstate Fair opens Monday.
The seventeenth annual Spokane In
terstate fair, which is of worldwide
significance this year on account of
the Dry Farming exposition, which is
to be held in connection with it, will
open Monday, October 3, continuing
through the week to and inclusive of
Saturday, October 8. The fair this
year will be finished article in every
respect. To begin with it will take
precedence over all fairs in this part
of the country in this regard, that 1t
will 90 down in history as "the fair
that was ready" Just by way of pre-
venting tardy exhibitors or attractions
from delaying the program, the fair
management has ruled that all attrac-
tons and exhibits due on the grounds
Monday morning must be in ship-shape
by Saturday night before the fair
opens or else be barred out. The fair
this year represents an outlay of about
100000 In every department it viii
be in every way a record breaker over
all its predecessors. The fruit and
vegetable exhibits win be eye-openers,
even to the case-hardened fairgoer. Ben
Bergunder, the veteran, roper-in Of
everything in a horticultural or agri-
cultural line that's worth while, says
there win be no comparison between
this year s showing and past perform
ances. He ought to know, for he s ar
ranged all previous exhibits in these
divisions,
Great Collection of Live Stock.
John L. Smith, president of the fair
gives his word for it-and he's a big
stockman himself-that in every way
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-01

Great Collection of Live Stock.
John L. Smith, president of the fair,
gives his word for it-and he's a big
stockman himself-that in every way
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-01
IDAHO NEWS ITEMS

For the second time this season snow
appeared Sunday on the hilltops near
Standpoint.
r. Nothing definite has as yet been done
by the commission but it is planned to
meet again during the week of the
State fair.
The first car of lumber milled by the
Craig Mountain Lumber company at its
extensive plant at Winchester was
shipped out of that point last week.
Several commercial clubs of the state
have inaugurated a movement to have
counties place signposts at the inter
section of all the principal thorough
fares. .s
Captain H. H. Dennison, prominent
lumberman of Standpoint, who has been
missing from his home in that city
for three weeks, was found in Spokane
Saturday.
Searching parties from Wardner spent
Sunday locking for Leland Crocker, a
well known Twilight league baseball
player, believing that he has met with
foul play or has been lost.
Members of a handcar party of seven
riding from Mace to Wallace Saturday,
the majority being teachers of the can
yon high schools, were thrown from the
track and narrowly escaped serious in
jury.
A special car from Pleasant Hill,
county seat of Calhoun county, H.,
% people, the advance guard
of a colony of Illinois farmers, has
arrived at Kooskia, where they will
locate on farms.
Sam Cone, known throughout the
Nez Perez reservation country as a spe-
cial officer, is at the Indian agency
interviewing Nez Perces, arranging for
party of 100 Indians with their
squaws to attend the Interstate fair
at Spokane and participate in the re-
production of the battle of the Clear
water.
An unknown woman recently en-
deavored to raise morSy at Occur
'Alene city on the pretense that she
was a Wallace fire sufferer. 1t was
found she was depositing money at
bank. She approached the relief com
mittee of the commercial club. A mem
Der identified the woman as owner of
$500 bank account. He reported to
the county commissioner, and the
woman returned the s75 contributed
and left town.
Recently the Country Life Commits
sion, appointed by Governor Brady, at
the request of President Roosevelt
through the National Country Life
Commission, held a meeting at Boise,
when plans for work in Idaho were dis
cussed and partly formulated. The chief
work asked from this commission is to
arrange for the improvement of the
social life Of the people Of the rural
district through any channels thought
best by the commission.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-01
SPOKANE INTERSTATE FAIR
Everything Ready. for Opening Day
October 3---Dry Farming
Congress Also.

the finest collection of horses, cattle,
sheep and hogs ever seen in the Pa
cifc northwest, will answer the roll
call Monday morning.
Splendid Amusement Program.
So it is with regard to the amuse-
ment program. In addition to ten of
the biggest American and European
vaudeville acts to be staged afternoon
and evening in front of the grand
stand, fair visitors will see the great
est open air melodrama ever produced
in the west, "Chief Joseph and the
Battle of the Clearwater, - which will
be put on every night. 1t will occupy
the entire infeld of the race track.
Several hundred Indians and soldiers
will participate.
Then there's the flying machine dem
onstrations of j. C. Mars, one of the
world s greatest aviators, who will make
four sensational daily flights from in
front of the grandstand.
Reamer's and Bowen IS big bands Will
furnish splendid daily and nightly
musical program.
The Midway this year has an excep-
tionally fine list of attractions.
Taken by and large the fair will be
"humdinger' throughout and the
man or woman who misses it will make
decided mistake in so doing.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-01

The power of the press in disseminat
ing information regarding the Dry
Farming congress and the Spokane In
terstate fair or any other great en-
terprise is to be acknowledged by the
management of these enterprises in
something more than a perfunctory 81
Thank YOU this year.
Committees representative of the
newspapers of Spokane are already at
work on plans for the entertainment of
the editors from all parts of the United
States and Canada who will come to
this city during the week of October
to 8. Monday afternoon the moulders
of public opinion will be guests of the
Interstate fair. Special cars will take
the scribes to and from the far
grounds and a special committee will
see to it that the newspaper men are
given every possible facility for en-
joying the fourth greatest fair in the
United States. Tuesday night the In
terstate fair will again be host, whom
the visiting shapers of national desti-
MES will again be taken to the big ex-
position by special cars to see the big
vaudeville night show, the military In
dian battle spectacle, "Chief Joseph
and the Battle of the Clearwater, - and
Gregory's sensational fireworks display
with which the evenings great program
of entertainment will be rounded out
s,f
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-01

He Gmpecunious)-But you say your
self that your father is anxious to get
you off his hands. She-Yes; that s
why don't think he II listen to YOU.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-01
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM MOST ANY
PLACE ON The GLOBE.

A Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1910-10-01
The Chief Event.

The chief event of the entertainment
to be provided for the publishers, to
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-16
COTTON H|NGI}
ON TEXAS WEATHER
The Dr0uth Still Un5r,..
en- in That State
CROP LESS THAN 100000,
(By the Associated 0~.

New York, aug. io-U....
Review: Texas and its 6ra-.. 0'..
the chief topic in the c,--4r as aes
week. No rain worth r.r-.- -s
fallen In the sections uhar. i
needed the most. thar is IN ~. -
and Southern districts ami -. '-'-
general belief that further 49,.
Q IN the crop has taken ri.-
temperatures have been remove, A
at many stations Of from 166 -.
degrees. The effects of theeo
tons has been to cause aertye
and a further rise in the prize ~
new crop months. August has
Up in company with the Nov.
but interest in that month b.,
comparatively small. Cnfavorabl. 49,
ports T still being received -
some parts OF the Eastern belt i4z,,
the prevalence most of the t5ra ~.
a fortnight Of favorable weather I'm.
ditions. The crop in some sections !,
still said to be small ana late. Eepa-;
Of spotted condition Of the fields .-a
numerous. Some take the ground the,
over thTee-QuarJers Of Texas there has
been a considerable decline in tia
condition of the crop since the data
tor the last government reports Vera
gathered. The belief still exists anon,
many that the total yield is certain
to fall below 12.G9G, 900 bales unless
exceptionally favorable weather coal-
tons prevail during the remainder d.
the growing and the picking season. Al;
times reactions have occurred owing
to reports Of rains in Texas, The re-
ports Of precipitation caused active
selling for both sides Of the accom-.
It is q nervous weather market. 0vy'
the region east Of the Mississippi tie
weather during the week has been Il
the main favorable, and reports con-
tinue to be received from not q Nv
sections Of marked Improvement II
the crop outlook. The spot markets
at the South have been quiet. Liver
POOLS pit transactions on most DAYS
have been small. The tr>do news o.
late has been rather less enco91a21ng.
At times Of late the market has a.-@i
In q somewhat O~Vcr-hOught manner.
The speculation is mainly p~otess0a9-
The outside public give Il a vide o-r-l
owing to the nigh prices THE new
crop movement is in>re2SinT l@t
foreign and domestic, nave
bought freely during the W"es. tt".r7
with Southern and Western come
have made purchases ana l.r.s
has been active covering OF shHrs
Today the market was irregular
clining at one time on lower 1-.'~1
and liquidation, but rallying lal' "
hot, dry weather in Texas ana .e.7.,
Of shorts.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-16

Senator AIdrich recently sa'- .+"
the Federal government could b" .--
for yso0,ooo,000 less than it s NV
costing. Mr.. b. f. Yoahum. head "
the Frisco system, quotes that @-.--
ment and makes this "or-ne7.
Z can say as em2haa al. "a,
s3oo, 600, 600 annually ".. 4
this country 100, 900 mile ". ..
public highways d year
IF you take up your 49,.
ter roads, to be paid f.. ID.
reduction Of government ..
work viii be effective @-
general good OF all"
"On the basis of tn 9..... 4:
estimate Of the pres4--
Of fifteen cents d ton for
this country as compared ".-.
pean countries, improved i.-'~7
nave meant to the faTTs-.
years crop an additions.
600, thus increasing Their
coo crop to SIC, 00o, 190.2l..
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-16
E { =
HEALTH-OGRAMS.

(Chicago Health DEPARTMENT.
Dry-dusting moves dust but 1t
doesn't remove it.
Closed windows are open ave
nues to consumption.
Long hours of labor mean
short hours of life.
If your milk is not safe your
life is not safe.
so-called chests protectors
coughs.
Splitting in public places sows
disease and creates a harvest
for the grim reaper"
Dark, dii~ty-aired, Overcroyyd-
crowded t~ene1nents are the
charnei-houses OF the working
class.
Overwork and fatigue stunt
growth prevents function. in
vite disease; cause individual
and social degeneration.
The more you expand your
chest the less you will take
cold
Hygiene aims to make
growth more perfect, life more
vigorous. decay less rapid, death
more remote
The air in your home cannot
be better than the outdoor air
it is usually much worse. Open
your windows and give your
lungs q treat.
THE digestive tract is about
80 feet long. The combined
length OF the blood vessels OF
the vessels Of the body is many
miles. Ii you want your food to
go a long way chew it thor
OughIy.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-16
Fears Doctors WEI .>.ti t~...
Greensboro E@

t"fNCIoJUII :
The doctors are gol"~ ~,
Gaynor yet if they ar I
Too many of them arr f.
him. Dispatches to Il
terday said the publ p
fed with the sttuaJioE 5
the opinion that someta.1- a
condition was being on. - ..5
dispatches this mOTnlhE .
His physicians are d-isaEr. t:
cola va doct0red to deaf. 4
Mckinney. one good SUI g
not more than two GOOD
all that is necessary
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-08-16

There is no truth which personal
vice will not distort.-Timothy Tit
comb.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-20
THINGS NEW I'M GOTHAM
BY FRANKLIN FYLES.

| the boy to the man makes her demand
the truth of Charles; and he frankly
! cOnfesges his paternity. Things like
that happen TO many men. He is sorry,
! The incident is closed. The girl he led
astTay is dead. The new couple will
care lovingly for the child. Why not
be happy?
IF the boy were mine instead of
yours" says Mary, and you learned
that I was a parent out of wedloclx,
instead of you, would you marry me?'
Probably would not" says Charles;
but why butt against the standards
that demahd more of women than Of
men? I love you"
$50 do love you. No more than you
would wed fouled woman will 1 wed a
fouled man."
you mean that all is over between
us?"
IAN is over"
And the matter ended with that. The
first audience knew the nature Of "a
Mans World" beforehand; intellectual
people pTedOminated; and they were de-
lighted by the subject and its treat
ment; but with the general public the
play will have to take it's chances.
No stress of brain or strain of heart
comes of THE Yankee Girl" The girl
HASH 50 much as a Yankee tWengi
neither her character nor story Is worth
noting; and her personator, Blanche
Ring, isn't enough Of a dramatic actress
to tell my lady cOnvincingly that the
carriage waits. Oh, though, but how
Blanche Ring can sing you a song!
Footlights don't separate her from you.
New Workers at the first time Of the
new eXtrava ganza here had a Jolly
evening with her. After she had voiced
dozen fresh ditties, and the clocks had
struck twelve, the FOUNDERS Joined her
in the choruses Of several stale ones.
And who cares for the other things than
she in the show?
Most Of US did care, and hats the
fact; for the fifty young women who
sang and danced as North Americans
accompanying the Yankee on her trip
to a South American republic and as
Spanish residents there When thew
got near to firing US with Broadway
kinds of foolery, they relieved us with
change to a serenade or a fandango.
Very versatile, these ballet choruses.
From the sauntering misses Of the
north they shifted their demeanor with
their costumes to senoritas Of the south.