Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1915-09-17
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

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Fourth annual Clearwater county
fair will be held at Orofino September
30-October ~.
Recently a Grangeville firm shipped
II 900 pounds of merchandise to Elk
City by parcels post.
Council is to have a new, modern
creamery, equipped with the latest
butter making machinery.
Inspectors for the French govern
ment recently purchased seven car
loads of horses at Caldwell.
The funeral If Judge James w. Poe
was held Saturday at Lewiston, under
the auspices of the Nez Perez County
Pioneer association.
Rupert farmers are assured steady
market for their surplus alfalfa by the
establishment of an extensive alfalfa
meal mill at that point.
Samples of Sudan grass raised in
Canyon county this year show that the
crop attains a height of five or six
| feet quite readily in Idaho.
Active construction of the highway
leading from Wallace, Ida, to Thomp-
son Falls, Mont, by way of the Gid
den pass, commenced Monday
One of the most enthusiastic live
stock organizations in Idaho is the
Central Idaho Cattle and Horse Grow
ers' association, Scott Vaught, secre-
tary, Mackay, Idaho.
An ordinance was recently introduce
ed at meeting of the council at Occur
d'Alene city, requiring all poolhalls to
close at IL p. m Heretofore they have
remained open until -.
Six hundred and twenty acres of
white pine timber in section Is, town
ship 40, Latah county, recently was
sold to the Potlatch Lumber company
for $4,000 at public auction recently.
The recapitulation statement issued
by the state treasurer showing the
balances on hand in the several funds
carried at the end of August, gives a
grand total balance of 1921, 454.70 in
the treasury.
Weiser and Payette have organized
join in the Southern Idaho Motor as
sociation. which expects to assist in
the union of all southern towns to in
duce tourists from Yellowstone Ma
tional park to come through Idaho.
The Hecla first aid squad won the
Occur d'Alene first aid contest silver
trophy cup at Wallace Sunday with 6
score of 99%. Nine teams were en-
tered. The manner in which the un
foreground workers bandaged imagin
airy wounds, made temporary stretch
ers and otherwise attended injured
workmen bespoke the thoroughness o
instruction.
Above Arrowrock dam, in the bash
of the Boise river, it is estimated tina
there are 60O0,0OO.0O0 feet of mer
7 charitable timber. Sawed into lumbe
worth, say, $12 thousand. this woul'
represent a value of $36,000,000 1t i
owned by the United States govern
ment, the Boise Payette Lumber com
: pany and a number of others witt
smaller holdings. This timber is L
be cut in the immediate future, driver
I down the Boise river and converte
l. into lumber at the mills IA miles be
: low the Arrowrock dam, and just Out
side the city of Boise.
\ The county attorney at Moscow ha
filed suit in the district court agains
County Commissioner John l.. Wood
!. of Kendrick and A. B. Mcintyre c
Princeton, Deputy Sheriff j. e. Hal
K a former county commissioner; CouI
ty Auditor H. e. Estes and Treasure
/ Ruth w. Broman for alleged wrongfl
@ appropriation and payment of publ
o funds to the Latah County Fair ass
J. citation and the Children's Home Fin,
s ing and Aid society of Idaho, at Lev
/ iston, both during 1911, amounting
d about $3.50. The action was started &
) the request of A. A. Anderson, res
2 dent taxpayer of Latah county.
e Idaho's amendatory local option Law
l. the United States, operative now
prohibition counties, and which wi
L apply to this state as a whole on an
g after January 1, 1916, is constitution
e in every form. This is the sweepir
y ruling of the state supreme court
an opinion handed down at Boise, Sa
u urday. 1t is held to be not In contr
q. vention Of section one of the fou
teenth amendment of United States
b, its title is not defective; each al
N every part of 1t comes within the su
lie ject of general legislation; 1t does n
N prohibit surgeons. physicians, DENTS
lie or hospitals from using pure alcoh
ID for medicinal purposes as contendt
" and prohibition districts do not no
n have to vote on the adoption, says Il
lie court.
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