Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-06-01
IDAHO NEWS NOTES

Forty-one graduates of the Moscow
high school were given diplomas.
Mrs. Adelaide Sischo, age "A, VIII,
| died Friday afternoon, was buried Sun
day at Occur d'Alene City.
Frank J. Davies, secretary of tn,
Edward Rutledge Timber company o
Occur d'Alene, died recently at Roch
ester, MINI.
John M. Nelson, age SO, who for
number of years was engaged in farm
ing in Tammany, but for several year!
has been mining in Alaska, at Lewis
ton Sunday.
The G. w. Beardsmore sawmill al
Priest River, Idaho, has put on dou
BILE shift-day and night On one
shift this plant cuts from $4,000 tt
$4,000 feet daily. So this means in
creasing the capacity to about 10000
feet.
Jack O'Neill, an inmate of the NORTH
Idaho sanitarium ever since it was
located at Orofino, died Saturday. He
was a well-known and successful min
ing man in the Occur dAlenes some
years ago.
Twenty-Five applicants at Wallace
for citizenship appeared before Judge
Woods of the district court and d. w
Thomas, Special examiner for the nat
uralization department, Saturday, IA
being admitted.
The Clearwater company is
erecting a 100,OO0-bushel elevator OF
concrete at Kendrick. The flour mill
and warehouses will be moved to the
same site. The Kendrick-Roch
company is also erecting an exact du.
plicate of the one erected last year
The 4-year-old son of Corbin Feely
was killed recently by horse kick
ing him in the abdomen on the farm
of an uncle few miles from
Rathdrum, where the child was being
cared for by his grandmother, Mrs
Alice Feely, a pioneer of Rathdrum
prairie. The boys father is in Mon.
tana.
George l.. Bruun, an old resident,
was drowned at st. Joe Saturday He
attempted to save drowning child
and both persisted. Bruun leaves his
widow and five children, all residents
of st. Maries. The body was recov-
cred and will be buried there. Bruun
was well-to-do farmer and leaves
a large estate.
Superintendent Of Water Lines E.
R. Budd of the O.-W. R. & N. re-
ports that within IS days the ware.
houses will be cleared, as the river
steamers are averaging $4,000 sacks a
day. Some trouble has been encount-
cred by the company in retaining eff
ficient crews on the boats, on &C
count Of high wages offered by farm.
ers for labor at this period.
The Idaho Congress of Mothers and
the State Parent-Tteachers' associa.
tion, in session at Boise last week,
adopted resolutions, on the sugges.
ton of O. o. Haga, chairman of the
Boise board of education, calling for
an investigation into the causes that
lead up to the resignation of DIR. E.
0. Sisson as commissioner of edu-
cation and DR.. Melvin A. Brannon
as president Of the University of
Idaho.
The work Of cross-sectioning the
survey of the Kamiah- Glenwood high
way has been completed. and the
blueprints are ready and the contract
for building the new road will be let
this week. 1t will cost $4,000. Not
only will the distance between Ka-
miah and the prosperous Glenwood
section be shortened by several
miles, but the grade will be less than
per cent.
Commencement exercises of Lewis.
ton State Normal school opened with
the baccalaureate sermon last Sunday
by DIR. Lawrence Southwick, president
of Emerson College of Oratory OF Bos-
ton.
Commencement exercises proper
will take place in the auditorium at
1920 o'clock Friday morning. Dr.
Lindley OF the University of Indiana
will deliver the address.
Seyenty-two members of the gradu-
ating class will be awarded diplomas.
or this number SO are residents of Ida
no, IL are residents of Washington
and one comes from Nebraska.
This years graduating class in the
University Of Idaho, Moscow, num-
bers 70. an increase of nine over the
1916 class. Commencement exercises
will be held June 8. Two advanced