The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-11-11


Plans have been secured for the
erection of small Catholic church
at Parma.
]. T. Midday has secured per init to
build a garage at his home 400 So.
18th which will cost SIPS.
The State Livestock Sanitary board
is to hold meeting in the office OF
the State Veterinarian Friday.
Russia is reported is preparing for
FIVE year war She can mobilize H.
100000 men OF fighting ability.
o. w. Allen has received the con-
tract to build fine residence at nine
reenth and Sherman streets or Louis
Stephen.
Hosea B. Eastman suffered stroke
of paralysis Tuesday and while it
was quite severe he is reported some
what improved.
Some 500 of Villas troops have de-
serted and joined the Carranza forces,
but Villa is reported to have several
thousand men still under arms.
The first SHOWS of the season are
reported in eastern Oregon and
Washington; eight inches falling at
Baker during Monday night.
Friday night the High school stu
dents are preparing big bonfire rally
and parade with all kinds of noise, :
music, fireworks and speeches to
arouse public enthusiasm for the
Boise-Ogden foot ball game to be
played on Saturday.
By action of Mayor Robinson, APP
proved by the city council, A. j.
Chambers has been succeeded as mo-
torcycle police officer by John H.
Ross, while Patrolman Thomas Jolly
has been succeeded by Robert w.
Adams.
The Serbians are retreating into the
mountains Businesses before the on
slaught of Bulgarian and Austro-Ger-
man forces. Reinforcements are be-
ing rushed to their assistance by
France and England. Thirty thousand
? English troops are reported now at or
near the scenes of activities, while the
French force is considered larger
Greece still maintains a neutrality
friendly to the alliees
On Tuesday Frank R. Coffin. presi-
dent of the Boise City National Bank,
celebrated the Sind anniversary of his
arrival in Boise He went to work as
a timer for George H. Twitchell in
a building on the corner of Eighth
and Main street, buying the business
from his employer a few years later
and in 1894 erected the Pioneer build
ing now occupied by Carlson-Lusk
company, where he remained in bust
ness for SO years. making A years of
his active business life spent on the
Hold corner" Mr. Coffin is receiving
the congratulations of his friends.
Twenty-one school children lost
their lives in a fire in a parochial
school at Peabody, Massachusetts,. on
October %.
The city budget of New York City
for 1916 will be $214,OO00OO or about
$l5,0OO,OO0 increase over the present
year
The report of the British prison
commission shows that in 1914 SEN
fences were imposed on 114,283 per-
sons in the United Kingdom, a de-
crease from the previous year of 81
coo.
November IA will be anti-saloon
day in the churches Of Cook county
outside of Chicago. The plan is that
on that day every church will call on
the mayor of its locality to close Sun
day saloons.
Report of the naval board detailed
to investigate the sinking OF the Unit
ed States submarine IA, March rs
last at Honolulu. when twenty-one
members of the crew were lost. to
Secretary of the Navy says:
The primary cause Of the disaster
was the corroded condition Of the lead
lining, and in consequence of certain
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