The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1915-06-17
BRFVTIES OF CITY, STAT
AND NATION
STATE


The Royal Neighbors Of America
will meet in regular session Thursday
evening at G. A. r. Hall. at which
time number of new members will
be initiated. All out of town mem
bers are cordially invited to attend
these meetings.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. B. Ross are here
from Washington visiting Mrs. Ross
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Converse
and enjoying the fine weather of
Idaho.
w. A. Bloom, who was painfully
injured at the Barber Lumber Co.
plant and who underwent an opera
ton at a local hospital has recover
ed sufficiently to. return to his home
| at Baker, Oregon He expects to be
able to take up his work again soon.
Next Tuesday evening Boise Lodge
No. OF will vote on consolidating with
the other local lodge, All members
are urged to be present to vote for
a greater X. P. Lodge"
Otto Johnson will go to the camp
ing grounds next week as is his an
nual custom. and expects to lIunt,
fish and get back to nature until Sep
TENDER.
If the boxing promoters of this
city who. believe in good, clean
boxing by clean boxers" and who
want to secure live one would write
to Box 6o6, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, they
can secure good man.
Frank Dudacek, who has been
laid up with rheumatism for the past
four weeks, is able to be up and about
Don't fail to see Capital VS.. Labor"
at the Majestic Theatre today, to-
morrow and Saturday.
Volunteer recruiting of the British
army has practically ceased with the
raising of 100000 men, which dem
onstrates that there are several mil
lion "Missourians" in Great Britain,
who must be shown" what the war
is about before they enlist.
Capital VS.. Labor" at the Majestic
Theatre Thursday, Friday and Satur-
day.
Dr. Price, city physician of Detroit,
asserts that tuberculosis should be
entirely stamped out in that city with
in ten years. 1t seems too good to be
true to think that the great white
plague can be eradicated i'll such a
short space of time.
Charles Z. Sebastian was elected
mayor of Los Angeles on June 2 by
5000 majority over Frederick J. Whit
fen.
A one cent street railway fare was
instituted in Cleveland on June for
distance OF one lnile between the
public square and the new municipal
docks.
At the judicial election in Chicago
on June l. fourteen Republican and six
Democratic judges were elected.
Judge Edward Osgood Brown failed
of reelection by few hundred votes
owing principally to confusion result
ing from placing of partisan tickets
in the field.
Nine deputy sheriffs convicted of
manslaughter i'll connection with
shooting of strikers at Roosevelt, N.
J., in January were sentenced on June
at New Brunswick to serve not less
than two years nor more than ten
years in the penitentiary Sixteen
other deputies are awaiting trial.
The Public Utilities Commission of
Illinois decided on June 2 that jitneys
may be operated along streets where
they may create parallel competition
to a street railway. 1t further held
that before operating at all the owners
must incorporate and seek permission
from the Commission, in which case
they must show that there exists a
public necessity for them.
Loewe and Company of Danbury
Connecticut, who obtained judgment
for 100000 under the antitrust law
against the Danburry Hatters' Union,
have attached the savings accounts of
$50 union members and obtained $780,
600 of the judgment thereby. Walter
G. Merritt, attorney for Loewe and
Company, has announced that about
$4,000 more will be secured in the
same way. Attachment proceedings
against homes owned by the members
have also been begun.
A marked increase in the rate Of
pay in the iron and steel industries
was made in 1913. according to re-
part bulletin 16S) of the United
States Department of Labor. In three
departments, blast furnaces. Bessemer
converters, and bar mills, full time
weekly earnings in 1918 exceeded
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