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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-30
Important Business
Transaction Is Closed

A business deal Of considerable
Importance was transacted last We'd
nesday and Thursday when Mr.. and
Mrs. V. f. Kuehn leased the Inter-
national hotel to Mr.. and Mrs. Thorn
as Hooker. The Kuehns in turn
leased the store room in the Casey
hotel building, formerly occupied by
the Bonners Ferry Meat Market, and
have announced their intention of
opening a restaurant. The dining
room at the International hotel is to
be discontinued and the space oc-
cupied by it and the kitchen will be
converted into sleeping rooms. The
room leased in the Casey hotel is
being remodeied. 1t will be fitted
with many new fixtures while part
of the furnishings will be taken
from the hotel International. Mr..
and Mrs. Kuehn hope to be ready
for business in the new location
by next Wednesday. The new res
taurant will be under the manage
ment of Mrs. Kuehn and Mrs. Muir
ply, the latter being a sister of
Mrs. Kuehn who recently came here
from Bremerton, Wash.
The Kuehns have been very sue
cessful in their management of the
International hotel since they bought
the place several months ago. Upon
! taking possession they began the
work of renovating the place. New
furniture and bedding was placed in
the sleeping rooms, ventilators were
put in each room, the walls were
papered and the woodwork through
out newly painted and considerable
remodeling was done. In all the
Kuehns spent several thousand dol
lars in converting the international
into a first-class hotel where they
could accommodate a liberal share
of the local and travelling public
The management of the hotel, how
ever, interfered to a large extent
with Mr.. Kuehn's business as a con
ductor OF the Spokane international
Railway company and it is on this
account largely that the place was
leased.
Mr. and Mrs. Hooker had the man
agement of the International priol
to the time the place was purchased
by the Kuehns. They are expert
enced hotel people, have large ac
quaintance with local people ant
commercial travellers and are sur
to retain the liberal patronage thu
hotel has enjoyed under the regim
of Mr.. and Mrs. Kuehn. The Hook
ers will take charge as soon as tn
Mrs. Kuehn and Mrs. Murphy car
move the restaurant to the Case.
block.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-30
Plans For Local Plant
Will Soon Be Ready

J. W. Reid, one of the village
board of directors, is in receipt of
a letter from c. H. Green, the Spo-
kane engineer who has in charge the
making of plans and specifications
for the proposed city water and light
plant. Mr.. Green states that the
plans have been completed for about
week with the exception of GER
tain floor settings for Pelton wheel
and generator, and that he expected
to have information in regard to
these settings so that he could meet
with the town board within a few
days. Mr.. Reid states that very
probably Mr.. Green will be here sc
as to meet with the board at Their
next regular meeting on the night
of February 6.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-30
Man Takes Tumble;
Delirious Two Days

Ole Iverson, a resident of this
city who has been working during
the winter for the Meadow Creek
Lumber company, of Meadow Creek,
Idaho, was on last Wednesday, a
living exponent that snuff, taken in
a sufficient quantity will produce
a life-size imitation of a rank viola
ton of the Idaho prohibition laws.
The demonstration began shortly
after Ole borrowed a pinch of snuff
from fellow workman. This story
might not have been written but for
the fact that Ole wanted to indulge
In a little horse-play and instead of
taking a mans size pinch of the
"snoose" he calmly deposited at
least half of box in the little
cavity between ones lower lip and
teeth. For this Ole was roundly
berated by his accommodating COM
rade.
| But the joke was on Ole a few
minutes later and it turned out to
be a pretty serious one Engaged
in his work of skidding logs, Ole
was suddenly tripped up by cable
and was thrown violently to the
ground striking on his head and
shoulders. The jar of the fall was
sufficient to daze the man and il
also resulted in the dislodging of the
chew of "snoose." In his dazed con.
dition Ole swallowed the entire hall
box of snuff
Now, snuff is all right to chew
after you get used to it, but the
man who can swallow it and get by
: has yet to be found. The amount
of snuff which Iverson swallowed
is said to have been enough to xii
an ordinary man. Iverson happens
to be a healthy specimen of man
: hood but with the odds in his favor
he suffered a good many hours Of
terrible torture. The snuff actec
upon him in the same manner a.
an over-supply of intoxicating Liquor
might have. He appeared to be il
sort of stupor, staggered abou
when he tried to walk and mutteret
and gargled to himself in an in
coherent manner. His friends force,
him to keep walking about in hope
of working off the effects of tn
poison and all the simple remedie
were tried to give him relief Blu
of no avail. Iverson was final,
t brought to Boomers Ferry by ]. ]
Archer, proprietor of the meadow
: Creek Lumber company, and wa
:. placed in the care of Drs. Fry an,
!. Faucet.
Now, there are two explanation
!. for Iverson's condition, one, that tn
!. snuff was the father of all tn
:. trouble and the other to the eff
!. feet that the man suffered from
!. concussion at the back of the head
!. which, the doctors say, was obatine
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-30

his huller to Bonners Ferry for
local use. On account of the limited
acreage here that is producing
either clover or alfalfa seed, the local
men have agreed to pay the freight
on the machine to and from Bonners
Ferry and also Mr.. Peck's railroad
fare. 1t is planned to have the
threshing done here the last of the
season and the huller kept here until
the fall Of the following year when
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-30
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MAHONEY MAY LEAVE

w. P. Mahoney, vice presi-
dent of the First State bank
of Bonners Ferry, has been
rendered the management and
elected a director of the First
National Bank of Heppner,
Oregon.
Mr.. Mahoney will leave
soon to look over the field
thoroughly and to definitely
decide whether or not he will
accept the proposition.
Regardless of what decision
he makes he will hold his
interests in the First State
bank but the active manage
ment of the institution will
be handled by w. D. Baxter,
the present cashier.
Mr.. Mahoney came to Bon
ners Ferry in 1896 and with
w. D. Baxter and ]. l. Monks
organized the First State
bank. If Mr.. Mahoney goes
to Heppner he will have the
management of one of the
leading banking institutions
; of Eastern Oregon. Mr.. Ma
honey's younger brother is
now cashier of the Heppner
bank but contemplates NOV
ing to Portland where he has
been offered a responsible po-
sition with one of the leading
northwestern financial COM
panies.
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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-30
ANOTHER Step is TAKEN TO
INCREASE strawberry ACREAGE
Report on Drainage Of Kootsnai GALLEY
lJiII Be Given to The Public next Month

received Congressman
Washington D. c. relative to the report of the en
who made months careful
feasibility of draining the Kooenai valley The department of
agriculture reports that the engineers working their
and that will probably be ready submit
month Delay has arisen because has been wait
for that it obtain from Canadian
relative to conditions o. their side of the boundary
valley who received this
ing it portends favorable report by the engineers their
report be unfavorable drainage
wait information
but wouldn't the United States submitted
findings They realize there may nothing sup
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: KEPT WEDDING SECRET

Mr.. and Mrs, Herbert
Shoot left Monday morning
for DEBORAH, Iowa, where
they will make their home
in the future.
Mrs. Shoot is better known
to the people of this vicinity
as Miss Josephine Skaurud,
who, it will be remembered,
at one time was an employee
of the Herald.
Mr.. and Mrs. Shoot were
married about two weeks ago
at Standpoint but kept the
wedding a secret until yester-
; day morning. Mrs. Shoot has
; lived here about seven years
; and is the daughter of Mr..
; and Mrs. C. ]. Skaurud. She
is we'll known here and very
popular in a large circle Of
friends. The groom is
young business man of Deco
rah, Iowa.
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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-30
Will Have Clover Huler at Bonners Ferry to
Thresh Kootena Valleys 1917 Crop of Seed

Those in the vicinity of Bonners
Ferry who are growing clover and
alfalfa seed will have a huller to
thresh their crops next fall. This
is the announcement made by G. w.
Spoerry, manager of the Northern
Idaho Seed Growers association, and
who has 10 acres seeded to white
clover. Arrangements are practi-
cally completed with Charles Coon,
of Peck, Idaho, whereby he will ship
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-30
TO FORM BOYS
and GIRLS CLUB
Cash Prizes Will Be Offered to Those
Who Grow the Largest Yield Of
Strawberries per Acre
PLAN NOW BEING WORKED OUT
Will Follow Outlines Of Agricultural
Clubs in Other Communities

An attempt undoubtedly will be
made this season to form a boys
and girls club among the school
children of the county, the members
of the club contracting to grow
Strawberries on a competitive basis.
The formation of such a club was
proposed the first of the week at
meeting of the directors of the
fruit growers association, and it met
with instant and enthusiastic ap-
proval. So well pleased were those
present with the suggestion that $50
was at once pledged for prizes. G.
w. Spoerry and j. r. Wiley prom
ised to donate $40 each and E. L.
Little $500 for a first prize of s25,
and Henry Driscoll promised $500
to start second prize. 1t is hoped
to be able to offer a number of
prizes to the boys and girls who will
enter the contest.
The club will be conducted along
the plans generally used by various
agricultural clubs over the country,
which have proved so exceptionally
successful in accomplishing a good
work. The local plan contemplates
enlisting the older school children,
possibly from the sixth or seventh
grades up through the high schools.
They will agree to grow a certain
tract-large or small-of berries and
make careful records of every item
of expense entering into the growing
of the crop. These items will in
clude cost of fertilizer, blowing, har-
rowing, ETC., cost of plants and num-
Der of hours of labor expended.
Likewise the record must show the
number of quarts Of berries grown,
the price received and the profit
made. 1t will not be necessary to
sell the berries but if they are used,
on the home table, the parents must
certify to the number of quarts so
used. The idea is to keep a careful
and correct account of all items
entering into producing the crop
from financial standpoint. At the
end of the season the members
growing the greatest number of
quarts will be awarded the prizes.
The idea behind these agricultural
clubs is to stimulate the interest
of school children in agriculture.
Some remarkable records have been
made by club members. 1t is be-
heved this plan can be worked Just
as advantageously here in growing
Strawberries, and aside from arous-
ing the interest of the children, it
will be a means of education for the
entire community. Often after such
clubs have been started elsewhere the
parents evince a greater interest
than the children.
To those who enter the club plants
will be furnished by the local as
ISOLATION and those receiving them
will be required to give notes to
cover the cost of the plants out of
, the first crop. 1t is desired that
the commercial club endorse these
notes. These are the plans for the
, club as now outlined. Changes may
be made in some of the details. 1t
will afford one of the topics of dis
cussion at the meeting next Satur-
day of those interested in straw
berry growing.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-30
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!: TAKE OVER LIBBY HOTEL !

Walter King, until recently
proprietor of the Commercial
hotel, and John Jarvis, left
Sunday for Libby, Mont,
where they will engage in
the hotel and restaurant bust
ness as partners, having pur-
chased the furnishings of the
Richards hotel and having ia
ken a lease on the building,
which is a brick and modern
in every respect. They will
take over the management of
the Richards hotel the first of
February.
Messrs. King and Jarvis
are both thoroughly expert
enced in the hotel business
and it is needless to antici-
pate for them that they will
succeed in the new field.
Their friends all wish for
them little greater success
than they themselves are ex-
pecting.
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Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-30

OR is IT LEGAL
More or Less Discussion Is Heard Gov
eripg Status of Rock Crusher
Agreement
GOOD ARGUMENT ON BOTH SIDES
Brief Resume Of Statements Advanced
Pro and Con of the Subject

The action taken by 10 Boundary
county taxpayers in taking an APP
peal to the district court against
the action Of the former county COM
missioners in entering into a con-
tract whereby the village of Bonners
Ferry and the county were each to
pay half the cost of a rock crusher,
will result in having the whole mat
ter threshed out in court. The APP
peal was filed last Wednesday by
Isadore Lefebvre, ]. F. McGlocl5lin,
c. C. Howard, A. C. Roberts, J. w.
Turner, VIM. Carlock, F. w. An
drews, L. j. johnson, Geo. H. Kind
schulz and A. E. Lunden. Boiled
down to its briefest expression the
contention of the appellants is that
the purchase of the rock crusher was
poor business and a needless extrav-
agance at this time.
A brief history of the transac-
ton is to the effect that the con-
tract was enteerd into by the coun-
ty and village on September 28,
1916, the amount to be paid for the
crusher being $2546.00, to be divi-
ded equally between the county and
the village. The sum of approx
mately $850.00 has alreday been
paid by the county in freight on the
machine and in building rock bins,
etc. The county's half of the con-
tract price would be $12730O and
the first payment of $4,000 is now
due. The appeal of the taxpayers
is to prevent payments on the con-
tract.
Naturally this action of the tax
payers is causing more or less dis
cussion and the legality or illegality
of the contract is receiving consid-
cradle attention. In considering this
question several interesting points
have arisen. Without attempting
any conclusive determination of the
dispute, the Herald gives herewith
the meat of the matter as it has
heard it argued back and forth the
past week or two.
The contention has been made that
one board of county commissioners
has no power to bind later board
with payments on a contract in
which the later board had no part
1t is admitted there is considerable
conflict of legal authority covering
this point, but the preponderance OF
authority is held by some to be tc
the effect that one board does have
power to bind it's successors.
1t has also been held by some
that the county has no authority tc
enter into a contract with the vii.
lage. They say suppose, for exam
pie, the village might fail to meet its
obligation. 1t would then devolv,
upon the county to pay the entir,
amount, for if it did not the ma
chine would be taken back and tn,
county would lose what had beer
paid. This, they consider, woulc
make the contract illegal.
The right of county commissioner
to enter into contracts with village
or other corporations is very plainl,
set forth in the Idaho statutes. Sec
ton 1872 B, Session Laws of 1911
: states:
1.-THE board of county commits
sioners have power to &C
quire, either by purchase or othe
legal means, all lands and othe
property necessary for the construc
ton, use, maintenance, repair AM
CONTINUED on mace fourl
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-30

that seasons crop will be threshed
first, the machine then being shipped
back to Peck in time for the years
work there. In this way the local
men will get the use of the huller
for two crops.
1t is very much desired that every
one in the community who has a
clover field will plan to save the
second cutting for seed, as it will
bring extremely higher returns than
cutting it for hay.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-30

Word was received here last week
of the death of Mrs. L. DAILY, at her
home at Tofield, Alberta, on JAN
uary Is. The funeral was held the
following day.
The deceased is the mother of
Mrs. Addie Miller and Mrs. E. H.
Wells, both well known residents of
this community. She spent the
greater part of her last year here
visiting at the homes of her daugh-
ters and was taken to Tofield last
November by her youngest son.
The deceased is survived by five
children, three sons, and two daugh-
ters. She was nearly 76 years old.
She had been sick for nearly three
years and most of this time was
a helpless invalid.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-30
aho-Continental Stock Listed

The listing of 10 additional stocks
on the Spokane stock exchange has
been approved by the executive
board. and hereafter those stocks will
be called on the floor of the ex-
change, the first call being made
today. Among the ten is the stock
of the Idaho-Continental mine at
Klockmann.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1917-01-30

Herb Dale, former resident Of
Bonners Ferry, was tried by a jury
in the district court at Libby, Mont,
yesterday on charge of having
committed statutory offense. Late
last evening the jury brought in a
verdict of not guilty. Dale's case
was handled by S. E. Henry of this
city.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-10-05
GOVERNMENT WILL NOT
CONFISCATE FOODSTUFFS
story Circulated that Government
Expects TO Take Home Canned
Products Untrue

One of the most pernicious false
hoods being circulated throughout
the country by enemies of the Gov
eminent, is that the United States is
urging wholesale canning of fruits,
vegetables and meats with view of
confiscating all over one hundred
quarts caned by any one family.
Special advices to the Utah Agricul-
tural College from Washington, ID. c.
brand this story as faleshood. The
government will not confiscate one
quart of foodstuffs caned by its citiZ-
ems. 1t most earnestly urges that ev-
citizen can or dry all food material
available because this will release
cry citizen can or dry all food mater
ial available, because this will release
larger portion of the factory canned
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-10-05
CARE OF COWS IN
FALL is IMPORTANT

Farmers should not let duties of
harvest cause them to neglect their
dairy cattle, says Associate Professor
George B. Game Of the Utah Agricul-
tural College. 1t is particularly i'm
portant in the fall that the milk pro-
duction of the COW be kept up. If it
is allowed to decrease it will be al
most impossible later when the ami
mails are housed in barns and on dry
feed, to bring it up to the former
amount. Hence it is very important
just now that a sufficient feed be Civ
en- to keep the milk supply from de
creasing, Along with sufficient good
feed, good care should also be given
the dairy cow.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-10-05
WHY NOT MAKE VINEGAR
BY 4. II. Abel, Assistant Horticul-
turist, Utah Agricultural College.

The fruit growers of Utah who
have more fruit than they can dispose
of will find satisfactory and profit
able outlet in the manufacture of vim
egar. Gull fruit should also be made
into vinegar Poor vinegar is hard
thing to sell, but there is always a
market for good vinegar, and anyone
can make good vinegar if he uses cor
rect methods. Vinegar may be made
from many fruits including apples,
grapes, prunes and peaches; however,
only sound ripe fruit free from worms
should be used.
Anyone wishing information on the
correct methods of making vinegar
may secure it of the Department Of
Horticulture, Agricultural College,
Logan, Utah.
Vinegar making is prohibited by
law, except by permission which may
be secured for $500 from the Prohi-
biton Bureau of the Attorney Gener-
ais Office, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-10-05
STORE VEGETABLES
FOR WINTER USE
Experts Advise Storage From Stand
point of Health as Well as
Conservation.

Store vegetables for winter use,
advises the Extenention Division of
the Utah Agricultural College. Farm
ers and Housewives cnnot take this
advice too seriously, say experts at the
College. Not only will the storage of
vegetables for winter use save much
food material from waste, but it will
provide better balanced ration for
winter meals. Most important of all
just at present is the fact that an in
rease in the amounts Of vegetables
used will bring about a decrease in the
amount Of wheat needed.
Sand is being fond to be one
of the most practical materials
in which to store vegetables and
even the hard fruits. Some of the
vegetables thus stored are carrots,
turnips, beets, radishes, cabbage and
beets.; while among fruits apples are
kept particularly well. Matured wee
tables can of course be kept with less
danger of bacteria action than the
young, though many prefer to pre-
serve the young vegetables on the ac-
count of it's palatability. Carrots not
smaller than q inches in diameter,
and beets not smaller than inches
in diameter, and other vegetables of
corresponding size can be kept salts
factorily in sand if sufficiently low
temperature is maintained.
For the use of sand for storage
have large box or bin in a cold cell
lar. Place layer of practically dry
sand in the bottom. On this place a
layer of root vegetables so as not to
touch or they will deteriorate. Use
alternating layers of vegetables and
sand, fill the receptacle, covering all
with a generous layer of sand.
To can vegetables which can be
stored is a waste of bottles and ener-
gy. 1t is often desirable to have few
bottles of vegetables on hand for cas-
es of emergency. The canning of
such is best done when some of the
bottles are being emptied in late fall
when the heat has subsidized and the
housewives rush Of summer work is
over.
Raw vegetables should be used 20
a greater extent than they are used at
present, since the nutrients are to
some extent destroyed or wasted in
cookery. Raw cabbage is really more
easily digested than when cooked.
The grated root vegetables such as
carrots, turnips, asd finely SHREDDED
cabbage are excellent served in sal
ads.