Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-06-19
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

H IDAHO NEWS NOTES
Seeding is about finished on Cam
as prairie. Weather conditions are
unsettled.
The telephone strike situation in
Wardned and Kellogg is unchanged.
The local office is closed and the OPP
orators on strike have little informa-
ton on the situation.
Idaho registered for military ser
vice young men between the ages of
81 and 80 inclusive as called for UNI
der the terms of the draft law, a
grand total of ALSO, which is 10,S80
below the estimates of the census
bureau, but far above the estimates
of either military or state officials.
A total of 26,046 claim exemptions
under the terms of the law either be-
cause of marriage, dependents, alien
birth, physical disability or because of
public office they hold , leaving cred
tied to this state a total of 1904 i'm
mediatly available to be drawn upon
for actual military service under the
terms of the new act.
The next step to follow registra-
ton is to apprehend the eligibles
who failed to register after which
the exemption class will be closely
scrutinized and each individual case
passed upon by exemption boards
This will be followed by the drawing
the quota of available men for mill
tary service for the first contingent
of 100000 men to make up the first
unit in the army of several million
men.
total of 36,S69 whites registered,
PIT colored people, 1888 aliens and
1S1 alien enemy OF these totals 21,-
1884 whites claim exemptions and SO
colored
Adjutant General Moody has re-
quested all newspapers to publish
complete lists of those registered
so that the work of locating the non
registering eligibles may be simpli-
fled
! Exemptions claimed by colored
: people ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10
T. Total colored registered .......... 217
4 Total aliens registered ...-...... 1888
Enemy aliens registered. 1871
Grand total registration. $50
) Total exemptions claimed. 046
Approximately $1,OOO,OOt will be
spent on highways in Idaho during
the present year. The state high
l. way commission has decided the road
X work for this year will be done Oh
If highways used and traversed in the
> movement of crops and contractors
d working on the highways have prom
Used the commission to lend their as
sistance to crop movement during the
season of the year it is in progress
Those highways worked on will b'
.. completed in sections as the work pro
. crosses and paid for as they are built
- This will result in complete roads
that can be traversed without tn,
lie tearing up of large. sections owe
is which it would be difficult to trave
n for year or so.
ID The highway commission decided Il
al spend approximately a quarter of
re million dollars in state money whicl
will be drawn from the highway bon'
fund. This is one-third of the amour
that will be spent providing the sea
i son for construction is favorable an
long. The other two-thirds will b
raised by the counties. Added t
the total will be post road and othe
b. federal funds.
60 The general policy agreed upon Wi
be to go ahead slowly with construC
20 ton work leaving the highways i
q shape to travel Maintenance o
n highways will be done largely. GRAY
N ell surfacing will be done on the sam
M highways. Arrangements were mad
81 with the Burley highway district t
10 gravel surface it's highway with thi
idea in view.
Work on the North and South higf
way will proceed in Washingto
~ county without further delay. but
~ will not be completed this year. Stew
!. Comerford secured the contract 70
this work. Some of the more heav
construction work on the same higf
way will be attended to in Adam
county so that the roads may b
lg travelled. The county commissioner
1t in both Adams and Washington cour
es ties will do most of their work o
ne the roads feeding to and into tn
u state highway. A similar plan wi
Sc be followed on the state highwa
he which passes through the Mountai
Home highway district, the most in
is portant stretches being complete
~ first.
ne
On Expending Federal Funds.
es The government is now workin
ed out plans with the state highway ell
ID. gineers department for the expend
e. ture of federal funds in this state du
cy ing the next five years. The govern
Is. ment work in the state will procee
n on highways this year, the state al
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