The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-07-13
BREVTIES OF CITY,
AND NATION
STATE

NATION
I'M The funeral Of Bentley L. Kerr in
r. charge of the Masonic bodies of Boise
was held Saturday morning and he
was inferred at Elks Rest, Morris
of Hill
on
The state highway commission has
appointed E. M. Booth as state high
r. way engineer to succeed himself in
an that position. His term of office will
run for two years from the first Of
last January.
& At a meeting of the Commercial
!. Club Monday it was decided to make
vigorous move for the establishment
of wooden mill in Boise and COM
mittee was appointed to push the mat
ter as fast as possible.
- Judge McCarty handed down a de-
cision Friday in which he gave the
state judgment for the full amount
k claimed, $l54,0oo, against the National
or Surety Co., on the bond of o. V. AL
III len the defaulting state treasurer.
A great number of deaths are re-
ed ported from New York city from in
he fantile paralysis. 1t is a disease which
i'll is liable to attack children in isolated
cases but rarely becomes epidemic.
One case is reported at present in
Sc Boise.
l. The county commissioners have
under consideration the building of a
water grade road from Boise to Ar
G. row Rock dam and it is expected with
tie the help of the state, the government
Or and Boise city to raise fund for that
G. purpose.
Mt Father Roger Malloy of the Catho-
It. Tic Church was seriously injured in a
lg collision of his automobile with an
10 other car on his return from the Ba-
sin Saturday night The reports from
the hospital say that he is rapidly
h improving.
10
re For the first time in history large
& submarine freight boat has crossed
the ocean on its way from Germany
and landed its cargo of dye stuffs and
y drugs at Baltimore. Boats of this
-e kind will go far towards breaking the
d English blockade on German COM
d merce.
Last Saturday an organization was
d formed to be known as ''the Boise
l. Realty Board" its main object being
IS to adopt uniform rates of commission
At and to put the real estate business of
y the valley on higher plane generally
by eliminating the so-called Curb
stone" dealers.
er ]. A. Sheehan and Mack Gillum
4 have been placed under $500 bonds to
1T appear before the district court on a
II charge of arson in which they are ac-
cused of burning a dwelling in the
north part of the city some time ago
sc The case against Sheehan for setting
m fire in Levy alley has been dismiss
lie sed.
10 The published reports of the nation
al banks of Idaho show more
healthy condition in the money mar
Or ket than they have for some time
It. They show less congestion of money
III tied up in reserve banks and would
at indicate that it was more freely used
ID in business enterprises and that times
It. were greatly improved.
+ A material advance in the price of
TX hay is looked for by the farmers this
tie season This is caused by the great
ID increase in the dairy herds which are
y being brought into the state and
is shows that the farmers are on the
k right track for money making. Idaho
is destined to become the great dairy
state of the union
V. We are informed that work viii
IN soon be resumed on the tropoii mines
ly two miles east of Boise in which the
ut American Beet Sugar company is in
es terested. A test car load of the ma
is terial was shipped to the factories
n last Fall and was found to be as good
10 III not better quality than the Cali
ID fornia product for their purposes in
which they use it as a filter.
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