The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-08-26
Weather Forecast
LEWISTON, Aug. 26.-Fore-
cast till p. M Sunday: Prob
ably fair tonight and Sunday,
continued warm.
City News In Brief

The Mothers club will meet wit
Mrs. Osterhout on Deakin avenue
Tuesday, August 80.
F. B. Bawden of Spokane, distric
manager of the Overland automobile
is in the city on business.
Mrs. Charles French and brother
Willis EARL, of Colfax are visiting a
the home of J. B. Gilchrist
H. A. Axtell and family returned yes
terday afternoon from Spokane, where
they spent several weeks on vaca
tion.
Money on farm security. Thomp
son-Mickey Realty Co. M13t1
w. J. Jordan, general agent of the
Northern Pacific railway, was an ar
rival in Moscow today on a brief bus
mess visit.
Mrs. Geo. Loomis, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
Fl. Bratton and r. C. Stillinger made
a trip to Genesee Friday and visited
at the Loomis threshing outfit.
Thomas F. Wren, the Spokane cap
italist, who owns large farm in Ida
no county, was in Moscow this morn
ing on his way to Spokane from his
farm property.
Harvey Smith, county surveyor left
this morning for Bovill to survey the
Latah county section of the new road
connecting Bovill with Elk River, in
Clearwater county.
There will be regular business
session of the Moscow lodge of Elks
tonight and all members are requested
to be present. Following the business
session, refreshments will be served
The funeral of Charles S. Taylor,
who died Thursday night after several
weeks illness of typhoid, was held at
the Methodist church this afternoon at
1880, Rev. Robert Warner officiating.
A large body of friends accompanied
where interment was made.
Miss Precious Ross left today for
southern Idaho on her way to Bellevue
where she has been elected as prim-
airy teacher for the ensuing year. On
iting friends and will attend the teach
ers' institute which opens there Sep
TENDER 5th. Miss Ross is a graduate
of the normal school at Lewiston and
has been teaching in schools of La
tab county.
The first threshing machine explos-
ion in the Viola section this season is
reported to have occurred at the Albert
Platz farm yesterday afternoon when
the William Harrison machine was de-
stroyed The machine had been in OPP
Grafton only 10 minutes, when the ex-
plosion took place and a blaze was
started that consumed the thresher.
Harrison was thrown to the ground by
the force of the explosion.
G. E. Frevert formerly a popular
faculty member of the agricultural |
college, but lately with the U. S. de- |
partment of agriculture, has resigned |
his position to accept the management |
of the Oregon Cooperative Dairy Ex-
change with headquarters at Port
land, Or Mr. Frevert receives an in
crease of salary over his old position
and writes that he will assume his
duties at once. He is now stationed I
at Salt Lake.
Ora E. Mcbride filed suit for di
vorce in the district court today
against Frank E. Mcbride to whom
she was welded in 1899, alleging his
failure to keep the marriage compact
She asks that a property division
agreed upon two years ago when she
and her husband separated by mutual
agreement, be ratified, and asks the
custody of two minor children, Oressa,
aged Is, and Mabel, age 10. The cou-
pie were welded in Leland, Idaho, II
Years ago.
Fire, originating in hardware store
It Main and Alder streets in Pullman
ate last night, caused $4,000 dam
lge, according to reports brought to
MOSCOW today. Stores damaged by the
lanes were the Lee Allen hardware,
where the fire is supposed to have
tarted, and the Anderson Mercantile
ompany The Mercantile company
arried $4,000 insurance on their
took which was damaged. William
xloasmer, Pullman fire chief, was cut
bout the neck and head by falling
lass
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